Deniz Ariturk, William E. Crozier and Brandon Garrett | January 13, 2021 | Sentencing
This article was originally published by the University of Chicago Law Review Online, as part of the series,COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. The following is the introduction. Criminal courtrooms are among many workplaces to shut down and adopt virtual operations in...
Brandon Garrett, Travis Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi and Kristen Renberg | November 12, 2020 | Sentencing
Brandon L. Garrett, Travis Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi, and Kristen Renberg of Duke University School of Law have posted “Life Without Parole Sentencing in North Carolina” (North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:What explains the...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Rachel A. Harmon, Christy E. Lopez, Tracey L. Meares, Maria Ponomarenko, Christopher Slobogin and Tom R. Tyler | June 10, 2020 | Policing
Several law school faculty, each of whom runs or is associated with a center devoted to the practice of policing and the criminal justice system, released the report “Changing the Law to Change Policing: First Steps” to address enduring problems in American...
Brandon Garrett | February 19, 2020 | Sentencing
This article was originally published in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Law Review. Risk assessments are a common feature of federal decisionmaking across a wide variety of areas of regulation. Perhaps the most widely used definition describes risk assessment as “the...
Anne Metz, John Monahan, Brandon Garrett and Luke Siebert | August 30, 2019 | Sentencing
ABSTRACTVirginia’s sentencing guidelines include alternative sanctions based on the use of a quantitative instrument called the Nonviolent Risk Assessment (NVRA) that identifies individuals convicted of drug and property crimes that are considered to be at lower...