Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Law
Ai Risk Assessment Tools Amid The War On Drugs: Productive Or Counterproductive?, Matin Pedram
Ai Risk Assessment Tools Amid The War On Drugs: Productive Or Counterproductive?, Matin Pedram
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
The War on Drugs refers to a situation in which all the processes of production, distribution, and consumption of all illegal drugs are prohibited. This ambitious goal has imposed considerable costs on societies. The war has weaponized harsher punishments such as life imprisonment, execution, and long-term incarceration against drug offenders. Nonviolent offenders, those who possessed illegal drugs, have been easy targets for governments to show that the war is still ongoing. Although some countries became pioneers in changing the laws to end this costly war, Iran and the United States have made their stance on the drug issue clear, and …
Preventive Detention, Character Evidence, And The New Criminal Law, Ted Sampsell-Jones
Preventive Detention, Character Evidence, And The New Criminal Law, Ted Sampsell-Jones
Faculty Scholarship
A new criminal law has emerged in the last quarter century. The dominant goal of the new criminal law is preventive detention-incarceration to incapacitate dangerous persons. The emergence of the new criminal law has remade both sentencing law and definitions of crimes themselves. The new criminal law has also begun to remake the law of evidence. As incapacitation has become an accepted goal of criminal punishment, the rationale of the character rule has become less compelling, and the rule itself has begun to wane in criminal practice. These changes have been subtle, but they have also been both radical and …