Ivó Coca-Vila (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) has posted What’s Really Wrong with Fining Crimes? On the Hard Treatment of Criminal Monetary

Fines (Forthcoming in Criminal Law and Philosophy (2021)) on SSRN. Here is... [...]

Colton Fehr (Simon Fraser University) has posted Tying Down the Tracks: Severity, Method, and the Text of Section 12 of the Charter ((2020) 25 Canadian Criminal Law Review

235) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent jurisprudence and academic commentary... [...]

I noted in this post a few months ago the fascinating split Fourth Circuit panel ruling in US v. Freeman, No. 19-4104 (4th Cir. Mar. 30, 2021) (available here), which started

this way: Precias Freeman broke her tailbone as a teenager, was prescribed opioids, and has been addicted to the drugs ever since. [...]

A few years ago I wrote an essay, titled "Reflecting on Parole's Abolition in the Federal Sentencing System," which lamented the federal sentencing system's decision to abolish

parole back in 1984.  Among other points, in this piece I suggested that "parole could have been, and perhaps should now become, a bulwark against the kind of impersonalized [...]

Geoffrey Marczyk, Kirk Heilbrun, Tammy Lander and David DeMatteo (Independent, Drexel University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School

of Law) have posted Juvenile Decertification: Developing a Model for Classification and Prediction on SSRN. [...]

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) has posted #WeToo (Florida State University Law Review, forthcoming 2021) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

The #MeToo movement has caused a widespread cultural reckoning over sexual violence, abuse, and harassment.... [...]

Today I saw two different types of commentary coming from two different authors saying in different ways the same fundamental resolute point: the war on drugs has been a failure

full of injustices and we must dramatically change course.  Both pieces should be read in full, and I hope these snippets prompt clicks through: First, be sure to [...]

Though my effort to use millennial terminology in the title of this post is surely sus, I wanted to take a high-key approach to spilling the tea about some notable new crime

research.  This UT press release has the headline that I quoted in the title of this post, but the published new research discussed in the press release is titled [...]

Fatma E. Marouf (Texas A&M University School of Law) has posted Immigration Detention and the Illusory Alternatives to Habeas (U.C. Irvine Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN.

Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court has never directly addressed whether, or under... [...]

Susan A. Bandes (DePaul University - College of Law) has posted From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99: How Cop Shows Excuse, Exalt and Erase Police Brutality (Routledge Handbook of Police

Brutality in America (Thomas Aiello ed.) Forthcoming 2022) on SSRN. Here... [...]