| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Rebecca Campbell , Giannina Fehler-Cabral |
Why Police "Couldn't or Wouldn't" Submit Sexual Assault Kits for Forensic Dna Testing: a Focal Concerns Theory Analysis of Untested Rape Kits |
52 Law and Society Review 73 (March, 2018) |
In jurisdictions throughout United States, thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs) (also termed rape kits) have not been submitted by the police for forensic DNA testing. DNA evidence may be helpful to sexual assault investigations and prosecutions by identifying offenders, revealing serial offenders through DNA matches across cases, and... |
2018 |
| Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
Why We Can't "Just All Get Along": Dysfunction in the Polity and Conflict Resolution and What We Might Do about it |
2018 Journal of Dispute Resolution 5 (Fall, 2018) |
These are very troubled times. The polity is seriously divided; people who march for white supremacy and hate are called nice and very good people by an unhinged, but Constitutionally elected, President; relations between citizens of color and police are at a high level of hostility and distrust; Congress is unable to pass virtually any; Search Snippet: ...practice in larger deliberative fora. [FN9] Now, as class, party, race, ethnic, religious, citizen and migrant, and urban-rural cleavages divide... |
2018 |
| Mikah K. Thompson |
A Culture of Silence: Exploring the Impact of the Historically Contentious Relationship Between African-americans and the Police |
85 UMKC Law Review 697 (Spring, 2017) |
A legacy of biased police discretionary decision-making persists beyond the demise of de jure racial discrimination, perpetuating a relationship between the police and racial minorities that is primarily authoritarian, regulatory, and punitive in character. Further, contemporary policy decisions at the federal, state, and local levels continue to... |
2017 |
| Ryan Geisser |
A Just War Inquiry of Police, Prosecutors & Deadly Force |
10 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 59 (2017) |
Law enforcement is authorized to use deadly force under limited circumstances in the United States. Most do not dispute that there are some clear cases when the use of deadly force is warranted, such as when a person runs at police with a knife and swears they intend to kill the officer. The more controversial issues arise when attempting to... |
2017 |
| Felicia A. Reid |
A Matter of Due Regard: Police Misconduct, the New York State Courts, and the Emptiness of Theoretical Justice |
80 Albany Law Review 1103 (2016-2017) |
Whether across front pages and television screens, or in conversations and confrontations, concerns about law enforcement's use of force are at the forefront of national consciousness. Anxieties about police authority and abuse are neither novel nor new. They trace to the Framers' unease toward standing armies in peacetime; the context giving rise... |
2017 |
| Marshall Heins II |
Absolutely Qualified: Supreme Court Transforms the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity into Absolute Immunity for Police Officers |
8 Houston Law Review: Off the Record 1 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Case Recitation. 3 A. Background. 3 1. Facts of the Case. 3 2. Procedural History. 4 B. The Supreme Court's Reasoning. 5 1. Per Curiam Opinion of Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito and Kagan. 5 2. Justice Scalia's Concurring Opinion. 7 3. Justice Sotomayor's Dissenting Opinion. 7 III. Brief History. 8; Search Snippet: ...TRANSFORMS THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY INTO ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR POLICE OFFICERS [FNa1] Marshall Heins II Copyright © 2017 by Houston Law... |
2017 |
| Aditi Juneja |
Accountability in Policing: How Complicity Perpetuates Institutional Injustice and Inequities in the United States and South Africa |
48 California Western International Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 2 I. Political Inequality and Citizens' Ability to Demand Change. 3 A. Voice. 4 B. Representation. 5 C. Influence. 7 1. Money as Influence. 7 2. Optimism and Belief in Agency. 9 3. Narratives Perpetuated by the Press. 10 II. Structural Barriers to Criminal Prosecutions as a Means of Accountability for Police... |
2017 |
| Aditi Juneja |
Accountability in Policing: How Complicity Perpetuates Institutional Injustice and Inequities in the United States and South Africa |
48 California Western International Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 2 I. Political Inequality and Citizens' Ability to Demand Change. 3 A. Voice. 4 B. Representation. 5 C. Influence. 7 1. Money as Influence. 7 2. Optimism and Belief in Agency. 9 3. Narratives Perpetuated by the Press. 10 II. Structural Barriers to Criminal Prosecutions as a Means of Accountability for Police; Search Snippet: ...California Western International Law Journal Fall, 2017 Article ACCOUNTABILITY IN POLICING: HOW COMPLICITY PERPETUATES INSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICE AND INEQUITIES IN THE UNITED... |
2017 |
| Derek A. Bisig |
All I Want to Say Is That They Don't Really Care about Us: Reducing Police Misconduct via Social Control Theory |
44 Southern University Law Review 344 (Spring, 2017) |
When all the facts come out, they did what they had to do. Please hurry! There is a man with the gun at the store . He, he pointed it toward me and told me to leave. At this moment, officers are responding to this plea for help from a 911 call. Meanwhile, CD Man is tending to his wares on his table; he does not know that he is about to be; Search Snippet: ...IS THAT THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT US: [FN1] REDUCING POLICE MISCONDUCT VIA SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY Derek A. Bisig [FN2] Copyright... |
2017 |
| R. Danielle Burnette |
American Hypocrisy: How the United States' System of Mass Incarceration and Police Brutality Fail to Comply with its Obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
45 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 571 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 573 II. The Shooting of Michael Brown and Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System. 575 A. Mike Brown + Police Brutality. 575 B. Racial Discrimination. 578 1. Racial Profiling. 578 2. Disparate Incarceration and Sentencing. 580 C. Failure to Indict Police. 582 III. International and Domestic Law.... |
2017 |
| Josh Bowers |
Annoy No Cop |
166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 129 (December, 2017) |
The objective of the legality principle is to promote autonomy by providing individuals with opportunities to plan courses of conduct free from state intrusion. If precise rules are not prescribed in advance, individuals may lack notice of what is prohibited and may be subjected to arbitrary treatment. Thus, the Constitution commands that legal; Search Snippet: ...University of Pennsylvania Law Review December, 2017 Article ANNOY NO COP Josh Bowers [FNd1] Copyright © 2017 by University of Pennsylvania Law... |
2017 |
| Paige Newman |
Arizona's Anti-immigration Law and the Pervasiveness of Racial Profiling |
31 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 611 (Spring, 2017) |
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070) was passed in 2010 as an anti-illegal immigration measure and subsequently became known as one of the broadest and strictest laws of its kind at the time it took effect. The law, entitled Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, requires police to determine the immigrant status of someone... |
2017 |
| Vida B. Johnson |
Bias in Blue: Instructing Jurors to Consider the Testimony of Police Officer Witnesses with Caution |
44 Pepperdine Law Review 245 (2017) |
Jurors in criminal trials are instructed by the judge that they are to treat the testimony of a police officer just like the testimony of any other witness. Fact-finders are told that they should not give police officer testimony greater or lesser weight than any other witness they will hear from at trial. Jurors are to accept that police are no... |
2017 |
| Raff Donelson |
Blacks, Cops, and the State of Nature |
15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 183 (Fall, 2017) |
Nasty, brutish, and short --these are the most famous words from Thomas Hobbes's masterwork in political philosophy, Leviathan. These words also aptly describe some of the deadly encounters between American police officers and Black arrestees. I have in mind Eric Garner who was choked to death on the streets of New York City and Walter Scott who; Search Snippet: ...Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law Fall, 2017 Commentary BLACKS, COPS, AND THE STATE OF NATURE Raff Donelson [FNa1] Copyright © 2017... |
2017 |
| Nirej Sekhon |
Blue on Black: an Empirical Assessment of Police Shootings |
54 American Criminal Law Review 189 (Winter, 2017) |
Michael Brown's 2014 death in Ferguson, Missouri, thrust police-officer-involved homicides into the popular consciousness. A series of subsequent officer-involved homicides has kept the issue politically and legally salient. Popular media have consistently covered the issue, and many efforts are under way to systematically document police killings.... |
2017 |
| Caren Myers Morrison |
Body Camera Obscura: the Semiotics of Police Video |
54 American Criminal Law Review 791 (Summer, 2017) |
Lethal police violence has always existed, but it has not always commanded sustained public attention. Video has changed that. To talk about police violence these days is to evoke a series of images--Eric Garner sagging in a police chokehold, Philando Castile expiring in the seat next to his girlfriend, Michael Brown's body lying in the street --... |
2017 |
| Jennifer Sellitti , New Jersey Public Defender's Office, Trenton, New Jersey, 609-292-7087, Email jennifer.sellitti@opd.nj.gov |
Breaking Blue: Challenging Police Officer Credibility at Motions to Suppress |
41-DEC Champion 16 (December, 2017) |
Every time a police officer puts his left hand on the Bible, raises his right hand in the air, and swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, he is inviting the factfinder to judge his credibility. For defense attorneys operating in a world in which blue lives matter and police officers are revered as inherently trustworthy, this creates... |
2017 |
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Building Movement: Racial Injustice, Transformative Justice and Reimagined Policing |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 420 (Fall, 2017) |
TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS held at Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the 13th day of November, A.D. 2015, at 3:15 p.m. MODERATOR: MS. SHEILA BEDI, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law; Attorney at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice... |
2017 |
| Carolyn Calhoun |
Bullseye on Their Back: Police Profiling and Abuse of Trans and Gender Non-conforming Individuals and Solutions Beyond the Department of Justice Guidelines |
8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 127 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 127 II. Statistics and Axes of Oppression. 129 A. History/Level of Discrimination. 130 B. Profiling, DOJ Guidance, and Constitutional Doctrines at Play. 133 III. Solutions. 138 A. Sociological Measures. 138 B. Concrete Measures. 140 IV. Conclusion. 143 |
2017 |
| Tom R. Tyler |
Can the Police Enhance Their Popular Legitimacy Through Their Conduct?: Using Empirical Research to Inform Law |
2017 University of Illinois Law Review 1971 (2017) |
My goal is to demonstrate the value of evidence-informed law through an examination of its influence upon issues that have been central to recent discussions about the police. The first advantage of evidence-informed law is that it draws upon social science theories to suggest possible alternatives to traditional legal frameworks. The second... |
2017 |
| Devan Byrd |
Challenging Excessive Force: Why Police Officers Disproportionately Exercise Excessive Force Towards Blacks and Why this Systemic Problem must End |
8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 93 (2017) |
Because of the national attention on the Black Lives Matter movement, legal literature has focused on examining the absence of charges and the acquittals of police officers and vigilantes responsible for Black deaths. In particular, administrative agencies, academics, and courts are currently debating the sufficiency of the federal... |
2017 |
| Bryce Clayton Newell |
Collateral Visibility: a Socio-legal Study of Police Body-camera Adoption, Privacy, and Public Disclosure in Washington State |
92 Indiana Law Journal 1329 (Fall, 2017) |
Law enforcement use of body-worn cameras has become a subject of significant public and scholarly debate in recent years. This Article presents findings from a study of the legal and social implications of body-worn camera adoption by two police departments in Washington State. In particular, this study focuses on the public disclosure of body-worn... |
2017 |
| Sharad Goel, Maya Perelman, Ravi Shroff, David Alan Sklansky |
Combatting Police Discrimination in the Age of Big Data |
20 New Criminal Law Review 181 (Spring, 2017) |
The exponential growth of available information about routine police activities offers new opportunities to improve the fairness and effectiveness of police practices. We illustrate the point by showing how a particular kind of calculation made possible by modem, large-scale datasets--determining the likelihood that stopping and frisking a... |
2017 |
| Nora V. Demleitner |
Commodifying Policing: a Recipe for Community-police Tensions |
51 Georgia Law Review 1047 (Summer, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1048 II. Police Funding: The Impact of Neoliberalism. 1050 III. Alternative Revenue Sources for Police and Related Agencies. 1052 A. ASSET FORFEITURES. 1053 B. CITATIONS: FINES FOR TRAFFIC AND MUNICIPAL VIOLATIONS. 1057 C. COURT FEES. 1062 D. GOVERNMENT GRANTS AND EQUIPMENT FREEBIES. 1068 IV. Performance... |
2017 |
| Dr. Cedric L. Alexander |
Community Policing as a Counter to Bias in Policing: a Personal Perspective |
126 Yale Law Journal Forum 381 (January 31, 2017) |
Some forty years ago, I was a very young black man living in the Florida panhandle. My dream was to get into law enforcement, but I first needed to get into the state academy, which required the endorsement of a Florida police executive. The chief of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Police Department--a black chief in an... |
2017 |
| Grace E. Leeper |
Conditional Spending and the Need for Data on Lethal Use of Police Force |
92 New York University Law Review 2053 (December, 2017) |
When it wants to be, the federal government is good at counting things. It tracks average daily caffeine intake (300 milligrams per adult older than twenty-two in 2008), weekly instances of the flu (875 reported by public health laboratories in the week ending January 14, 2017), monthly production of hens' eggs (8.97 billion in December 2016), and; Search Snippet: ...SPENDING AND THE NEED FOR DATA ON LETHAL USE OF POLICE FORCE Grace E. Leeper [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by Grace E... |
2017 |
| Jonathan Abel |
Cops and Pleas: Police Officers' Influence on Plea Bargaining |
126 Yale Law Journal 1730 (April, 2017) |
Police officers play an important, though little-understood, role in plea bargaining. This Essay examines the many ways in which prosecutors and police officers consult, collaborate, and clash with each other over plea bargaining. Using original interviews with criminal justice officials from around the country, this Essay explores the mechanisms; Search Snippet: ...1532350 YALE LAW JOURNAL Yale Law Journal April, 2017 Essay COPS AND PLEAS: POLICE OFFICERS' INFLUENCE ON PLEA BARGAINING Jonathan Abel [FNa1] Copyright © 2017... |
2017 |
| Andrew Stokes |
Cops for Hire: Reforming Regulation of Private Police in Washington State |
16 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 561 (Fall, 2017) |
In late 2015, some residents of Seattle, Washington believed their neighborhoods were experiencing a crime epidemic. The Seattle Police Department was seen as slow to respond to some crimes, including property crimes and drug use. In response, residents pooled their resources to hire private police to patrol their neighborhoods. The private police... |
2017 |
| I. Glenn Cohen , Harry S. Graver |
Cops, Docs, and Code: a Dialogue Between Big Data in Health Care and Predictive Policing |
51 U.C. Davis Law Review 437 (December, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Everything Some Things You Wanted to Know About Predictive Analytics in Policing and Health Care in Fewer than 1700 Words. 440 A. Predictive Policing. 440 B. Predictive Analytics in Health Care. 445 II. What Can the Doc and Cop Teach Each Other?. 447 A. Big Data and Equality. 447 B. Role Disruption, Training Gaps, and... |
2017 |
| Thomas E. Reifer, University of San Diego |
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court. By Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 272 Pp. $24.00 Hardcover |
51 Law and Society Review 204 (March, 2017) |
Crook County is a powerful sociological exploration of the largest unified criminal courthouse in the United States--Cook County, Chicago--a telling excavation of America's separate and unequal system of racialized criminal (in)justice. Based on 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork, Van Cleve dramatically reveals the role of the courts, and what she... |
2017 |
| Elizabeth J. Andonova, J.D. |
Cycle of Misconduct: How Chicago Has Repeatedly Failed to Police its Police |
10 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2017) |
This article is being republished with the express consent of The National Lawyers Guild. This article was originally published in the National Lawyers Guild Summer 2016 Review, Volume 73, Number 2. That document can be found at: https://www.nlg.org/nlg-review/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/2016/11/NLGRev-73-2-final-digital.pdf. The DePaul Journal for; Search Snippet: ...Article CYCLE OF MISCONDUCT: HOW CHICAGO HAS REPEATEDLY FAILED TO POLICE ITS POLICE Elizabeth J. Andonova , J.D. [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by DePaul University... |
2017 |
| Taylor Pugliese |
Dangerous Intersection: Protecting People with Mental Disabilities from Police Brutality During Arrests Using the Americans with Disabilities Act |
46 Hofstra Law Review 765 (Winter 2017) |
He has a TBI .. He's not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine, are some of the last words that Rakeyia Scott shouted at police officers before they shot and killed her husband. Rakeyia's husband, Keith, suffered from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) he obtained in a motorcycle crash the previous year. Keith Scott's death... |
2017 |
| Cristal Harris |
Dark Innocence: Retraining Police with Mindfulness Practices to Aid in Squelching Implicit Bias |
51 University of San Francisco Law Review 103 (2017) |
I was suddenly woken to yells and screams. I shared a bunk bed with my cousin. I had not heard much except Leonard Brown! It ain't him! She ain't him! My eyes went ablaze searching around frantically. Dreams broken to reality. There were guns everywhere. Men like giants. Deadly black pieces of metal drawn, ready to shoot at whoever dared move... |
2017 |
| Blanche Bong Cook |
Death-dealing Imaginations: Racial Profiling, Criminality, and Black Innocence |
63 Wayne Law Review Rev. 9 (Spring, 2017) |
In 1988, the George H. W. Bush campaign saturated the media airways with images, ads, and commercials featuring nightmarish, boogieman-like, and dog-whistling images of Willie Horton. Horton had raped a white female while he was temporarily released from prison on a weekend furlough program, where he was already serving a life sentence for... |
2017 |
| Stephen Rushin, Griffin Edwards |
De-policing |
102 Cornell Law Review 721 (March, 2017) |
Critics have long claimed that when the law regulates police behavior it inadvertently reduces officer aggressiveness, thereby increasing crime. This hypothesis has taken on new significance in recent years as prominent politicians and law enforcement leaders have argued that increased oversight of police officers in the wake of the events in... |
2017 |
| Andrew S. Baer |
Dignity Restoration and the Chicago Police Torture Reparations Ordinance |
92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 769 (2017) |
Focusing on a high-profile police torture scandal from 1970s and 1980s Chicago, this essay expands on Bernadette Atuahene's theory of dignity takings and dignity restoration by foregrounding the agency of dignity takers and dignity restorers. Section II summarizes Atuahene's model and reviews how scholars have borrowed, applied, and extended her... |
2017 |
| Andrew D. Selbst |
Disparate Impact in Big Data Policing |
52 Georgia Law Review 109 (Fall, 2017) |
Data-driven decision systems are taking over. No institution in society seems immune from the enthusiasm that automated decision-making generates, including--and perhaps especially--the police. Police departments are increasingly deploying data mining techniques to predict, prevent, and investigate crime. But all data mining systems have the... |
2017 |
| Jennifer K. Wagner |
Dna, Racial Disparities, and Biases in Criminal Justice: Searching for Solutions |
27 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 95 (2017) |
[W]e remain imprisoned by the past as long as we deny its influence in the present. ~Justice Brennan The human genome underlies the fundamental unity of all members of the human family, as well as the recognition of their inherent dignity and diversity. ~Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights I. Maryland v. King. 99 Facts... |
2017 |
| Jackson Polansky , Henry F. Fradella |
Does "Precrime" Mesh with the Ideals of U.s. Justice?: Implications for the Future of Predictive Policing |
15 Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal 253 (Spring, 2017) |
254 Introduction. 254 A. Contemporary Predictive Policing. 256 B. From Predictive Policing to Precrime?. 258 I. Getting Ahead of Crime Using Technology. 260 A. Imperfect Databases and Probable Cause. 262 B. Other Imperfect Tools of Technology Used in Predictive Policing. 266 C. Imperfect Informants and Probable Cause. 268 II. Precrime and; Search Snippet: ...IDEALS OF U.S. JUSTICE?: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF PREDICTIVE POLICING Jackson Polansky [FNa1] Henry F. Fradella [FNaa1] Copyright © 2017 by... |
2017 |
| Shad E. Christman |
Excessive Force Cases and Incidents of Deadly Police Force Ignite Possibilities for Change in Eighth Circuit § 1983 Law |
62 South Dakota Law Review 418 (2017) |
Numerous recent instances of the use of deadly police force against members of minority communities has started a burning nationwide discussion about the criminal culpability of police officers. Closely related to this discussion is the civil liability of police officers who are accused of using excessive force. Several contentious cases in the... |
2017 |
| Kendal Harden |
Exposure to Police Brutality Allows for Transparency and Accountability of Law Enforcement |
33 John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law 75 (2017) |
In 2014, 23 years since a bystander filmed the beating of Rodney King, another filming of police brutality took place, this time captured with a personal cell phone, ending in tragedy. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner was approached by two plain clothed police officers regarding the sale of untaxed cigarettes. As the officers approached Mr. Garner,... |
2017 |
| Rinat Kitai-Sangero |
Extending Miranda: Prohibition on Police Lies Regarding the Incriminating Evidence |
54 San Diego Law Review 611 (Summer, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 612 II. Using Deceit and Lies During Interrogation and Its Justifications. 613 A. Using Deceit and Lies. 613 B. Lies Concerning the Incriminating Evidence. 619 III. Arguments Against Using Lies. 622 A. The Slippery Slope Argument and Legitimizing Lies. 623 B. Harm to the Relationship of Trust Between Citizens; Search Snippet: ...Diego Law Review Summer, 2017 Article EXTENDING MIRANDA: PROHIBITION ON POLICE LIES REGARDING THE INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE Rinat Kitai-Sangero [FNa1] Copyright... |
2017 |
| Peter J. Boettke, Liya Palagashvili, Ennio E. Piano |
Federalism and the Police: an Applied Theory of "Fiscal Attention" |
49 Arizona State Law Journal 907 (Fall, 2017) |
Policing in America has made a drastic transformation over the mid-twentieth century. Local police agencies today are more federally funded, they dress like the military, they police more federal initiatives, and the constitutional and fiscal boundaries between local police and the federal government have been blurred. At the same time, conflicts... |
2017 |
| Elizabeth E. Joh |
Feeding the Machine: Policing, Crime Data, & Algorithms |
26 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 287 (December, 2017) |
Police departments are increasingly turning to big data tools to answer some familiar questions. Where will the next crime occur? Which person is likely to commit that next crime, and who will be the victim? What threat does that driver sitting in his stopped car pose? Traditionally, the police have answered these questions with a mixture of... |
2017 |
| SpearIt |
Firepower to the People! Gun Rights & the Law of Self-defense to Curb Police Misconduct |
85 Tennessee Law Review 189 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction to an Ongoing Crisis in Criminal Justice. 190 I. Exercising Self-Defense Under Law of Color. 194 A. Race Matters to Everyone. 194 B. A Logical Absurdity. 199 II. Gun Rights Logic. 201 A. Legislative Responses to Mass Shootings. 201 B. Protecting the Person: Model Penal Code & Majority Views. 204 i. Self Defense: Reasonable Belief,... |
2017 |
| Connie Felix Chen |
Freeze, You're on Camera: Can Body Cameras Improve American Policing on the Streets and at the Borders? |
48 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 141 (Spring, 2017) |
In the United States, recent killings of civilians by law enforcement have propelled body cameras to the forefront of solutions to the epidemic of police misconduct. Preliminary studies suggest that body cameras create a win-win situation for both the police and the public by producing a civilizing effect on all parties involved. The problem,... |
2017 |
| Tom R. Tyler |
From Harm Reduction to Community Engagement: Redefining the Goals of American Policing in the Twenty-first Century |
111 Northwestern University Law Review 1537 (2017) |
Society would gain if the police moved away from the goal of harm reduction via crime reduction and toward promoting the economic, social, and political vitality of American communities. Research suggests that the police can contribute to this goal if they design and implement their policies and practices in ways that promote public... |
2017 |
| Michael Tonry |
From Policing to Parole: Reconfiguring American Criminal Justice |
46 Crime and Justice Just. 1 (2017) |
No one would have purposely created criminal justice systems like those that now exist in the United States. Few informed people would disagree with the following litany of problems: laws that criminalize behaviors that should not be criminal and by weakening traditional mens rea requirements make it too easy to convict morally innocent people; ... |
2017 |
| Michael Tonry |
From Policing to Parole: Reconfiguring American Criminal Justice |
46 Crime and Justice 1 (2017) |
No one would have purposely created criminal justice systems like those that now exist in the United States. Few informed people would disagree with the following litany of problems: laws that criminalize behaviors that should not be criminal and by weakening traditional mens rea requirements make it too easy to convict morally innocent people; ; Search Snippet: ...WL 1968052 CRIME AND JUSTICE Crime and Justice 2017 FROM POLICING TO PAROLE: RECONFIGURING AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Michael Tonry Copyright © 2017... |
2017 |
| Jason Mazzone, Stephen Rushin |
From Selma to Ferguson: the Voting Rights Act as a Blueprint for Police Reform |
105 California Law Review 263 (April, 2017) |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 revolutionized access to the voting booth. Rather than responding to claims of voter suppression through litigation against individual states or localities, the Voting Rights Act introduced a coverage formula that preemptively regulated a large number of localities across the country. In doing so, the Voting Rights Act... |
2017 |