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The Misplaced Trust In The Doj's Expertise On Criminal Justice Policy, Shon Hopwood May 2020

The Misplaced Trust In The Doj's Expertise On Criminal Justice Policy, Shon Hopwood

Michigan Law Review

Review of Rachel Elise Barkow's Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration.


Why Arrest?, Rachel A. Harmon Dec 2016

Why Arrest?, Rachel A. Harmon

Michigan Law Review

Arrests are the paradigmatic police activity. Though the practice of arrests in the United States, especially arrests involving minority suspects, is under attack, even critics widely assume the power to arrest is essential to policing. As a result, neither commentators nor scholars have asked why police need to make arrests. This Article takes up that question, and it argues that the power to arrest and the use of that power should be curtailed. The twelve million arrests police conduct each year are harmful not only to the individual arrested but also to their families and communities and to society as …


The Problem Of Policing, Rachel A. Harmon Mar 2012

The Problem Of Policing, Rachel A. Harmon

Michigan Law Review

The legal problem of policing is how to regulate police authority to permit officers to enforce law while also protecting individual liberty and minimizing the social costs the police impose. Courts and commentators have largely treated the problem of policing as limited to preventing violations of constitutional rights and its solution as the judicial definition and enforcement of those rights. But constitutional law and courts alone are necessarily inadequate to regulate the police. Constitutional law does not protect important interests below the constitutional threshold or effectively address the distributional impacts of law enforcement activities. Nor can the judiciary adequately assess …


Ethics, Public Policy And Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Ethics, Public Policy And Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Ethics, Public Policy and Criminal Justice by Frederick Elliston and Norman Bowie


Punishment By Imprisonment: Placing Ideology Into Concrete, David A. Ward Mar 1983

Punishment By Imprisonment: Placing Ideology Into Concrete, David A. Ward

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Imprisonment in America: Choosing the Future by Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins


The Policy Dilemma: Federal Crime Policy And The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Michigan Law Review Mar 1982

The Policy Dilemma: Federal Crime Policy And The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Policy Dilemma: Federal Crime Policy and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration by Malcolm M. Feeley and Austin D. Sarat