Child Categories
Sentencing & Punishment
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Rights and Wrongs (book review)
September 10, 2025
John C.P. Goldberg, Rights and Wrongs, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1828 (1999) (reviewing Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (1999)).
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Misdemeanor Decriminalization
August 20, 2025
Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).
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Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Declination: A Theory of Internal Separation of Powers, 102 Texas L. Rev. 937 (2024).
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Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants
August 6, 2025
Alexandra Natapoff, Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005).
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Predictably Incoherent Judgments
August 2, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, David Schkade & Ilana Ritov, Predictably Incoherent Judgments, 54 Stan. L. Rev. 1153 (2002).
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Criminalization and the Criminal Process: Prudential Mercy as a Limit on Penal Sanctions in an Era of Mass Incarceration
July 24, 2025
Carol S. Steiker, Criminalization and the Criminal Process: Prudential Mercy as a Limit on Penal Sanctions in an Era of Mass Incarceration, in The Boundaries…
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Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Graham Lets the Sun Shine In: The Supreme Court Opens a Window between the Formerly Walled-Off Approaches to…
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Carol S. Steiker, Lessons from Two Failures: Sentencing for Cocaine and Child Pornography under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in the United States, 76 Law &…
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Carol S. Steiker, Justice vs. Mercy in the Law of Homicide: The Contest between Rule-of-Law Values and Discretionary Leniency from Common Law to Codification to…
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The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty
July 9, 2025
Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty, 41 American Journal…
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Criminal Law and the American Penal System
July 8, 2025
Andrew Manuel Crespo & John Rappaport, Criminal Law and the American Penal System (2025).
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Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017)
July 7, 2025
Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).
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Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime
July 2, 2025
Emma Harrington, William Murdock, III, & Hannah Shaffer, Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming).
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The Pendulum of Criminal Justice Since 1967
July 2, 2025
Patty B. Saris, The Pendulum of Criminal Justice Since 1967, 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1472 (2018).
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Patty B. Saris, So Much Accomplished, So Much Left to Do: A Retrospective on Six Years as a Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission,…
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent, The Burden of Proof in Wrongful Conviction Claims Under State Compensation Statutes
July 2, 2025
Daniel S. Kahn, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, The Burden of Proof in Wrongful Conviction Claims Under State Compensation Statutes, 44 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 123…
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Andrew S. Effron & Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Congress Reforms Military Sentencing, Creating an Opportunity for a Productive Sentencing Reform Dialogue Between the Military and Civilian…
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Marvin, through the Looking-Glass
July 2, 2025
Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Marvin, through the Looking-Glass, 35 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 304 (2023).