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"Slack" In The Data Age, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring
"Slack" In The Data Age, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring
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This Article examines how increasingly ubiquitous data and information affect the role of “slack” in the law. Slack is the informal latitude to break the law without sanction. Pockets of slack exist for various reasons, including information imperfections, enforcement resource constraints, deliberate nonenforcement of problematic laws, politics, biases, and luck. Slack is important in allowing flexibility and forbearance in the legal system, but it also risks enabling selective and uneven enforcement. Increasingly available data is now upending slack, causing it to contract and exacerbating the risks of unfair enforcement.
This Article delineates the various contexts in which slack arises and …
Strategic Enforcement, Margaret H. Lemos, Alex Stein
Strategic Enforcement, Margaret H. Lemos, Alex Stein
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Federal Use Of State Institutions In The Administration Of Criminal Justice, Paul D. Carrington
Federal Use Of State Institutions In The Administration Of Criminal Justice, Paul D. Carrington
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