All Articles tagged Criminal Justice

• Justice Commentaries
  February 26, 2024 EDT
  JUDGING FEDERAL DEFENSE SYSTEMS: DOES THE TYPE OF COUNSEL REPRESENTING DEFENDANTS INFLUENCE OUTCOMES IN FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT?
  Richard D. HartleyKelly Roberts FreemanBryce Peterson

  By linking court and sentencing data from the Federal Justice Statistics Program, this Article examines the influence of the type of counsel in federal criminal cases.

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  POSTCONVICTION INNOCENCE REVIEW IN THE AGE OF PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION
  Elizabeth Webster

  This article contains semi-structured interviews with twenty prosecutors (nine working in conviction integrity units) who have proactively assisted with an exoneration.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  RELIABLE JUSTICE: ADVANCING THE TWOFOLD AIM OF ESTABLISHING GUILT AND PROTECTING THE INNOCENT
  James R. Acker

  This article attempts to cast a somewhat different light on the traditional domain of wrongful conviction scholarship and policy.

• New York Appeals
  October 12, 2018 EDT
  JUDGE ROWAN D. WILSON: AN ADVOCATE ON THE COURT OF APPEALS
  Sarah A. Besson

  Although Judge Wilson brings commercial litigation experience to the bench, we can expect that his most significant contributions will likely be advocating for reform in the criminal justice system.

• New York Appeals
  October 12, 2018 EDT
  THE MAYHEM OF WRONGFUL LIBERTY: DOCUMENTING THE CRIMES OF TRUE PERPETRATORS IN CASES OF WRONGFUL INCARCERATION
  Frank R. BaumgartnerAmanda GriggRachelle RamírezJ. Sawyer Lucy

  This paper presents an account of wrongful liberty and a first-of-its-kind documentation of all known crimes of wrongful liberty in a single state, North Carolina.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT AND GENDER STEREOTYPES: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT CRIMINAL IDENTITIES
  Luis M. RiveraBonita M. Veysey

  What are the behavioral consequences when women violate society’s gender norms by committing a crime and participating in a criminal justice system that has been designed for male offenders?

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  MAKE THEM HEAR YOU: PARTICIPATORY DEFENSE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
  Janet MooreMarla SandysRaj Jayadev

  This article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for reforming public defense and challenging mass incarceration.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT AND GENDER STEREOTYPES: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN’S IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT CRIMINAL IDENTITIES
  Luis M. RiveraBonita M. Veysey

  What are the behavioral consequences when women violate society’s gender norms by committing a crime and participating in a criminal justice system that has been designed for male offenders?

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  MAKE THEM HEAR YOU: PARTICIPATORY DEFENSE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
  Janet MooreMarla SandysRaj Jayadev

  This article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for reforming public defense and challenging mass incarceration.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN STYLE PLEA BARGAIN
  Ken Strutin

  Through the prism of recent Supreme Court plea bargaining decisions this Article examines their implications for the competing goals of truth versus process.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  COMPARING INJUSTICES: TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE SYSTEM
  Ralph Grunewald

  This article examines the gap between the German criminal justice system in theory and how it works in reality, using the Rupp case as an example.

• Justice Commentaries
  June 11, 2013 EDT
  THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE, NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE, AND AN “UNOFFICIAL” EXCEPTION TO DOUBLE JEOPARDY: A COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
  Steven V. DeBraccio

  In the absence of an express statute or constitutional provision permitting re-trials for acquitted defendants, could prosecutors use perjury prosecutions and subsequent civil and forfeiture proceedings used against defendants?

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  “NOW I SEE IT FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS”: THE IMPACT OF PARTICIPATION IN AN INNOCENCE PROJECT PRACTICUM ON CRIMINOLOGY STUDENTS
  Rose RicciardelliKimberly A. ClowJames G. Bell

  This study investigated the experiences of criminology students who participated in an innocence project practicum at a Canadian university.

• Justice Commentaries
  March 04, 2011 EDT
  A PATCHWORK OF POLICIES: JUSTICE, DUE PROCESS, AND PUBLIC DEFENSE ACROSS AMERICAN STATES
  Alissa Pollitz WordenAndrew Lucas Blaize DaviesElizabeth K. Brown

  This article examines state policies on three key stages at which the right to counsel may be critical: bail hearings; pretrial, plea, and trial hearings; and appeals of convictions.