criminal justice

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/16/2020
  

  “Prisons Are Microcosms of the Broader Society”: An Interview with Heather Ann Thompson

  "The COVID-19 outbreak is essentially a reaping of what we’ve sown with mass incarceration, from a public health perspective."

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• 9/3/19
  

  Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice

  by Pamela Metzger and Andrew Davies

  The Norman Lefstein legacy: passionate, tireless efforts for indigent defense reform.

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  8/23/19
  

  Historian Carl Suddler's New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

  Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6/20/19
  

  The controversial 1994 crime law that Joe Biden helped write, explained

  The 1994 “tough on crime” law remains a big topic of debate in 2020 Democratic debates. Here’s what you need to know.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1/3/19
  

  Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes

  by Tony Platt

  A decade from now under the First Step Act, expect that incarceration will be not so much reduced as diversified.

• SOURCE: National Review
  7-9-13
  

  Victor Davis Hanson: Revolutionary Tribunals

  NRO contributor Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is The Savior Generals, published this spring by Bloomsbury Books. In ancient Athens, popular courts of paid jurors helped institutionalize fairness. If a troublemaker like Socrates was thought to be a danger to the popular will, then he was put on trial for inane charges like “corrupting the youth” or “introducing new gods.”Convicting gadflies would remind all Athenians of the dangers of questioning democratic majority sentiment. If Athenian families were angry that their sons had supposedly died unnecessarily in battle, then they might charge the generals with capital negligence — a warning to all commanders to watch their backs. As in the case of Socrates, a majority vote often led to conviction, and conviction to a death sentence, or at least ostracism or exile. The popular courts freelanced to ensure that “the people” would hold sway over the perceived powerful and elite.