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...
Andrew Sheeler | February 4, 2020 | Children and the Law, Sentencing
This article was originally published by The Sacramento Bee on Jan. 28, 2020. The following is an excerpt. A California lawmaker argues that 18- and 19-year-olds aren’t mature enough to do prison time if they break the law, and so she has submitted a bill that would...
The Third Circuit Task Force on Eyewitness Identifications | January 21, 2020 | Policing
The following is from The Introduction, Part A of the Identification Report. This Report was originally published by the Temple Law Review (citations omitted). I. INTRODUCTIONA. Preface: The Creation, Composition, and Purview of the Task Force The Third Circuit Task...
Margaret Love and David Schlussel | December 18, 2019 | Sentencing
In recent decades, criminal records have become widely available as a result of digitized records systems and a new commerce in background screening and data aggregation. Criminal records, even of an arrest or charge that does not result in conviction, can cost...
Jennifer H. Arlen and Samuel W. Buell | November 12, 2019 | Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations
ABSTRACTThe United States model of corporate crime control, developed over the last two decades, couples a broad rule of corporate criminal liability with a practice of reducing sanctions, and often withholding conviction, for firms that assist enforcement authorities...
