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The Civilization Of The Criminal Law, Christopher Slobogin
The Civilization Of The Criminal Law, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law Review
The boundaries of the criminal justice system are eroding. A vast amount of relatively innocuous behavior is now criminalized. The line between criminal penalties and administrative sanctions is dissolving, as criminal law relaxes its mens rea requirements and government bureaucracies aggressively pursue regulatory violations. Distinctions between criminal and civil forfeiture, contempt, and deportation proceedings have been vanishingly subtle for some time. Perhaps the most serious assault on the integrity of today's criminal justice system, however, is the increasing prominence of the "dangerousness criterion" as justification for confinement by the government. Governmental deprivations of liberty have usually been the province of …
The Dilemma Of Expressive Punishment, William Deford
The Dilemma Of Expressive Punishment, William Deford
University of Colorado Law Review
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