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...
Jenny E. Carroll | October 16, 2020 | Sentencing
Jenny E. Carroll of University of the University of Alabama School of Law has posted Beyond Bail (Florida Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: From the proliferation of community bail funds to the implementation of new risk assessment tools to the...
Student Training & Education in Public Service (STEPS) | October 6, 2020 | Sentencing
Facts:2.3 million prisoners: That is how many Americans are currently incarcerated, but that’s’ not the whole picture. Americans “go to jail” 10.6 million times a year.#1 in the world: With only 5% of the world’s population, America holds ¼ of the world’s incarcerated...
Calah Schlabach, José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez, Matthew Hendley and Layne Dowdall | September 10, 2020 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law
This article was originally published by “Kids Imprisoned,” a project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, on Aug. 21, 2020. View the original post here. On a morning he should have been in middle school, 12-year-old Isaac Durham collapsed on the sidewalk after...
Christopher Slobogin | August 14, 2020 | Sentencing
ABSTRACTThis article proposes the establishment of a federal criminal court system, comprised of separate criminal trial courts, circuit courts of appeal and a National Court of Criminal Appeals, with discretionary review by the Supreme Court. Compared to the 1970s,...
