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Law School News: 'Injustice Dehumanizes Everyone It Touches' 1-31-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: 'Injustice Dehumanizes Everyone It Touches' 1-31-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Decarceration Courts: Possibilities And Perils Of A Shifting Criminal Law, Allegra M. Mcleod
Decarceration Courts: Possibilities And Perils Of A Shifting Criminal Law, Allegra M. Mcleod
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A widely decried crisis confronts U.S. criminal law. Jails and prisons are overcrowded and violence plagued. Additional causes for alarm include the rate of increase of incarcerated populations, their historically and internationally unprecedented size, their racial disproportionality, and exorbitant associated costs. Although disagreement remains over the precise degree by which incarceration ought to be reduced, there is a growing consensus that some measure of decarceration is desirable.
With hopes of reducing reliance on conventional criminal supervision and incarceration, specialized criminal courts proliferated dramatically over the past two decades. There are approximately 3,000 specialized criminal courts in the United States, including …
Could Specialized Criminal Courts Help Contain The Crises Of Overcriminalization And Overincarceration?, Allegra M. Mcleod
Could Specialized Criminal Courts Help Contain The Crises Of Overcriminalization And Overincarceration?, Allegra M. Mcleod
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In contrast to the existing scholarly commentary on specialized criminal courts, which is largely trapped in the mode of advocacy—alternately celebratory or disparaging, and insufficiently attentive to the remarkable variation between different specialized criminal courts—this article introduces an analytic framework and critical theoretical account of four contending criminal law reformist models at work in specialized criminal courts. These four criminal law reformist models include:
(1) a therapeutic jurisprudence model,
(2) a judicial monitoring model,
(3) an order maintenance model, and
(4) a decarceration model.
Based on a multi-method approach consisting of site visits, and an analysis of archived interviews, the …