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Harm, Sex, And Consequences, India Thusi
Harm, Sex, And Consequences, India Thusi
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At a moment in history when this country incarcerates far too many people, criminal legal theory should set forth a framework for reexamining the current logic of the criminal legal system. This Article is the first to argue that “distributive consequentialism,” which centers the experiences of directly impacted communities, can address the harms of mass incarceration and mass criminalization. Distributive consequentialism is a framework for assessing whether criminalization is justified. It focuses on the outcomes of criminalization rather than relying on indeterminate moral judgments about blameworthiness, or “desert,” which are often infected by the judgers’ own implicit biases. Distributive consequentialism …
Drug-Induced Homicide: Challenges And Strategies In Criminal Defense, Valena Beety, Alex D. Kreit, Anne Boustead, Jeremiah Goulka, Leo Beletsky
Drug-Induced Homicide: Challenges And Strategies In Criminal Defense, Valena Beety, Alex D. Kreit, Anne Boustead, Jeremiah Goulka, Leo Beletsky
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Nearing the end of its second decade, the crisis of fatal opioid-involved overdoses in the United States has gone from bad to worse. In 2017, approximately 72,000 people died of a drug overdose in the United States. Overdose is now the leading cause of death for people under fifty. There is broad agreement that reducing opioid overdose deaths requires wider distribution of the opioid antidote naloxone, rapid scale-up in evidence-based treatment, and reducing the stigma associated with substance use and addiction. However, progress on these and other vital public health interventions remains abysmally slow. Meanwhile, there is a new and …