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Finally Some Improvement, But Will It Accomplish Anything? An Analysis Of Whether The Charitable Bail Bonds Bill Can Survive The Ethical Challenges Headed Its Way, Alex Petrossian
Fordham Urban Law Journal
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Health Reform And Correctional Health Care: How The Affordable Care Act Can Improve The Health Of Ex-Offenders And Their Communities, Joel B. Teitelbaum, Laura G. Hoffman
Health Reform And Correctional Health Care: How The Affordable Care Act Can Improve The Health Of Ex-Offenders And Their Communities, Joel B. Teitelbaum, Laura G. Hoffman
Fordham Urban Law Journal
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Aggregation And Urban Misdemeanors, Alexandra Natapoff
Aggregation And Urban Misdemeanors, Alexandra Natapoff
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The urban misdemeanor process relies on a wide variety of informal groupings and aggregations. Order maintenance police arrest large numbers of people based on neighborhood, age, race, and other generalizations. Prosecutors and public defenders resolve entire classes of minor plea bargains based on standard local practices and pricing. Urban courts process hundreds of cases en masse. At each stage, the pressure to aggregate—to treat people and cases by group—weakens and sometimes eliminates individuated scrutiny of defendants and the evidence in their cases; people are largely evaluated, convicted, and punished by category and based on institutional habit. This wholesale process of …