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The End Of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, Ben Grunwald, Jeffrey Fagan
The End Of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, Ben Grunwald, Jeffrey Fagan
Faculty Scholarship
In 2000, the Supreme Court held in Illinois v. Wardlow that a suspect’s presence in a “high-crime area” is relevant in determining whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigative stop. Despite the importance of the decision, the Court provided no guidance about what that standard means, and over fifteen years later, we still have no idea how police officers understand and apply it in practice. This Article conducts the first empirical analysis of Wardlow by examining data on over two million investigative stops conducted by the New York Police Department from 2007 to 2012.
Our results suggest …
Born Criminal: The Criminalization Of African Americans, Debra Carolyn Wasserman
Born Criminal: The Criminalization Of African Americans, Debra Carolyn Wasserman
Theses Digitization Project
This study examined the factors that have contributed to the overrepresentation of Black Americans in the criminal justice system.
Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?, David Cole
Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Nullification Of Section 718.2(E): Aggravating Aboriginal Over-Representation In Canadian Prisons, Renee Pelletier
The Nullification Of Section 718.2(E): Aggravating Aboriginal Over-Representation In Canadian Prisons, Renee Pelletier
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article considers the disproportionate incarceration rate of Aboriginal offenders in Canadian prisons and the effectiveness of Parliament's attempts at alleviating this problem through the enactment of section 718.2(e) of the Criminal Code. This article focuses primarily on two recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions-R. v. Gladue and R. v. Wells. It is argued that the Court's narrow view of systemic factors, the Imitation it places on section 718.2(e) through its discussion of serious offences, as well as a number of practical problems inherent in the framework provided by the Court, strip the provision of its remedial intent. The article …
Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Formalism, Realism, And The War On Drugs, David Cole
Formalism, Realism, And The War On Drugs, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
One of the ways our legal system has avoided confronting this ugly reality is through a commitment to legal formalism. Legal formalism allows us to ignore the social determinants that my AUSA friend saw every day as he prosecuted federal drug cases. As my colleague Professor Michael Seidman has suggested, legal formalism, which has been effectively critiqued and displaced by legal realism in many other areas of law, continues to exercise considerable influence over the way we think about criminal law. This formalist approach, in my view, has strongly affected the way we approach the drug problem. One consequence is …
Cross Cultural Relations In Law Enforcement, Mario Martin Cortez
Cross Cultural Relations In Law Enforcement, Mario Martin Cortez
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.