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The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields
The Procedural Justice Industrial Complex, Shawn E. Fields
Indiana Law Journal
The singular focus on procedural justice police reform is dangerous. Procedurally just law enforcement encounters provide an empirically proven subjective sense of fairness and legitimacy, while obscuring substantively unjust outcomes emanating from a fundamentally unjust system. The deceptive simplicity of procedural justice – that a polite cop is a lawful cop – promotes a false consciousness among would-be reformers that progress has been made, evokes a false sense of legitimacy divorced from objective indicia of lawfulness or morality, and claims the mantle of “reform” in the process. It is not just that procedural justice is a suboptimal type of reform; …
Fulfilling The Promise Of The Housing Choice Voucher Program: Blind Review As An Enforcement Method For Source-Of-Income Antidiscrimination Laws, Zachary Wakefield
Fulfilling The Promise Of The Housing Choice Voucher Program: Blind Review As An Enforcement Method For Source-Of-Income Antidiscrimination Laws, Zachary Wakefield
Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality
The housing choice voucher program (HCV) is one that provides subsidies to very low-income individuals. These subsidies allow recipients of the vouchers to pay thirty percent of their income out of pocket towards their rent, with the difference being paid by the subsidy from the government directly to a landlord. Although the program itself is federal, it is administered by the states at the local level. As with most housing in the United States, the Fair Housing Act protects HCV recipients from discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin,” regardless of the state where the …