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Reconciling Risk and Equality
(Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), 2020-07-02)
States have increasingly resorted to statistically-derived risk algorithms to determine when diversion from prison should occur, whether sentences should be enhanced, and the level of security and treatment a prisoner ...
Police as Community Caretakers: Caniglia v. Strom
(Cato Supreme Court Review, 2021)
What is the proper role of the police? That question has been at the forefront of debates about policing for quite some time, but especially in the past year. One answer, spurred by countless news stories about black people ...
A World of Difference? Law Enforcement, Genetic Data, and the Fourth Amendment
(Duke Law Journal, 2021)
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to genetic databases as a way of solving crime, either through requesting the DNA profile of an identified suspect from a database or, more commonly, by matching crime scene ...
The Case for a Federal Criminal Court System (and Sentencing Reform)
(California Law Review, 2020)
In their article in this issue, Professors Peter Menell and Ryan Vacca describe a federal court docket that is overloaded and unable to process cases efficiently. As they depict it, justice in the federal courts is either ...
The Case for a Federal Criminal Court System (and Sentencing Reform)
(California Law Review, 2020)
In their article in this issue, Professors Peter Menell and Ryan Vacca describe a federal court docket that is overloaded and unable to process cases efficiently. As they depict it, justice in the federal courts is either ...
Preventative Justice: How Algorithms, Parole Boards and Limiting Retributivism Could End Mass Incarceration
(Wake Forest Law Review, 2021)
A number of states use statistically derived algorithms to provide estimates of the risk of reoffending. In theory, these risk assessment instruments could bring significant benefits. Fewer people of all ethnicities would ...