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Who Let The Dog Out?: On The British Roots Of American Bounty Hunting, Brian K. Pinaire
Who Let The Dog Out?: On The British Roots Of American Bounty Hunting, Brian K. Pinaire
Brian K. Pinaire
This Essay provides the first-ever scholarly investigation of the origins of “bounty hunting” as the practice exists in the United States. With an historical focus on British policies instituted around the turn into the eighteenth century, I argue that the scheme of regularized rewards for the arrest and prosecution of alleged criminal offenders constitutes the “roots” of American bounty hunting. This early system, whose practitioners were referred to as “thief-takers,” formalized and legitimized the notion of incentivized pursuit of “fugitives” and—while eventually phased out in Britain—provides the historical and conceptual parallel for the for-profit, private sector-level apprehension of individuals wanted …
Bad Medicine, Brian K. Pinaire, Milton Heumann, Simon Burger
Bad Medicine, Brian K. Pinaire, Milton Heumann, Simon Burger
Brian K. Pinaire
This article provides the first-ever examination of the collateral consequences of felony convictions for physicians in the state of New York. We collected data from 4,739 records of disciplinary actions from 1990 2007 and coded them according to the infraction and the punishment given by the Board of Physician Medical Conduct, or BPMC. We also conducted extensive interviews with elites involved in all facets—and on both sides—of the disciplinary process. Four major findings flow from this research: (1) Of all the disciplinary records in New York, 50% of infractions were felonies and 50% were non-felonies, generally professional infractions; (2) Physicians …