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Debunking The Myth That Police Body Cams Are Civil Rights Tool, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Debunking The Myth That Police Body Cams Are Civil Rights Tool, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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Criminal “Justice” As Racial Justice?, Aya Gruber
Affirmative Consent, Aya Gruber
United States, Aya Gruber
Criminal Law Exceptionalism, Benjamin Levin
Criminal Law Exceptionalism, Benjamin Levin
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For over half a century, U.S. prison populations have ballooned and criminal codes have expanded. In recent years, a growing awareness of mass incarceration and the harms of criminal law across lines of race and class has led to a backlash of anti-carceral commentary and social movement energy. Academics and activists have adopted a critical posture, offering not only small-bore reforms, but full-fledged arguments for the abolition of prisons, police, and criminal legal institutions. Where criminal law was once embraced by commentators as a catchall solution to social problems, increasingly it is being rejected, or at least questioned. Instead of …
Against Domestic Violence: Public And Private Prosecution Of Batterers, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Against Domestic Violence: Public And Private Prosecution Of Batterers, Carolyn B. Ramsey
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Victims’ Rights Revisited, Benjamin Levin
Victims’ Rights Revisited, Benjamin Levin
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This Essay responds to Bennett Capers's article, "Against Prosecutors." I offer four critiques of Capers’s proposal to bring back private prosecutions: (A) that shifting power to victims still involves shifting power to the carceral state and away from defendants; (B) that defining the class of victims will pose numerous problems; C) that privatizing prosecution reinforces a troubling impulse to treat social problems at the individual level; and (D) broadly, that these critiques suggest that Capers has traded the pathologies of “public” law for the pathologies of “private” law. Further, I argue that the article reflects a new, left-leaning vision of …