Bonnie Serrano | March 16, 2021 | Children and the Law
Bonnie Serrano of Texas Tech University School of Law has written “Stuck Between Growing up and Grown up: Delaying the Sentencing Phase for Young Adults Facing Capital Punishment in Texas.” (Texas Tech Law Review, forthcoming). The following is the...
Lauren Klosinski | March 8, 2021 | Children and the Law
State lawmakers in Maine are looking at a bill that would ban the prosecution of young children. If the plan passes, Maine would be one of only three states to set a minimum age of 12 years old for people who can face criminal prosecution. As part of an ongoing effort...
Rachel Barkow | February 25, 2021 | Sentencing
Rachel E. Barkow of New York University School of Law has posted “Using the Corporate Prosecution and Sentencing Model for Individuals: The Case for a Unified Federal Approach” on SSRN (Law and Contemporary Problems, Forthcoming). The following is the...
Susan A. Bandes | January 8, 2021 | Sentencing
Susan A. Bandes of DePaul University College of Law authored “The Death Penalty and the Misleading Concept of ‘Closure’” published by The Crime Report on Jan 8. 2020. The following is an excerpt. When William Barr first served as U.S. Attorney General, in...
Lauren Klosinski | December 1, 2020 | Sentencing
On Nov. 9, Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill calling on New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal to set up a program to collect and record data on defendants age 18 or older, including their race, ethnicity, gender and age, and analyze what happens to their...
