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Illuminating Black Data Policing, Andrew Ferguson Jan 2018

Illuminating Black Data Policing, Andrew Ferguson

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The future of policing will be driven by data. Crime, criminals, and patterns of criminal activity will be reduced to data to be studied, crunched, and predicted. The benefits of big data policing involve smarter policing, faster investigation, predictive deterrence, and the ability to visualize crime problems in new ways. Not surprisingly then, police administrators have been seeking out new partnerships with sophisticated private data companies and experimenting with new surveillance technologies. This potential future, however, has a very present limitation. It is a limitation largely ignored by adopting jurisdictions and could, if left unaddressed, delegitimize the adoption and use …


Acta's Constitutional Problems: The Treaty Is Not A Treaty, Sean Flynn Jan 2011

Acta's Constitutional Problems: The Treaty Is Not A Treaty, Sean Flynn

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On the eve of the United States’ entry into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (“ACTA”), there is considerable confusion as to just what legal effect the agreement will have. In written answers to Senator Ron Wyden, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) went to lengths to describe ACTA as non-binding, asserting that “ACTA does not constrain Congress’ authority to change U.S. law,” and that it would operate only as an “Executive Agreement” that “can be implemented without new legislation.” But European negotiators have described the agreement to their legislature in very different terms, asserting that ACTA is “a binding international agreement …


A Claim For Third Party Standing In America's Prisons, N. Jeremi Duru Jan 2001

A Claim For Third Party Standing In America's Prisons, N. Jeremi Duru

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The Case Against The Prison-Industrial Complex, Ira P. Robbins Jan 1997

The Case Against The Prison-Industrial Complex, Ira P. Robbins

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Federalism, State Prison Reform, And Evolving Standards Of Human Decency: On Guessing, Stressing, And Redressing Constitutional Rights, Ira P. Robbins Jan 1978

Federalism, State Prison Reform, And Evolving Standards Of Human Decency: On Guessing, Stressing, And Redressing Constitutional Rights, Ira P. Robbins

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Punitive Conditions Of Prison Confinement: An Analysis Of Pugh V. Locke And Federal Court Supervision Of State Penal Administration Under The Eighth Amendment, Ira P. Robbins, Michael B. Buser Jan 1977

Punitive Conditions Of Prison Confinement: An Analysis Of Pugh V. Locke And Federal Court Supervision Of State Penal Administration Under The Eighth Amendment, Ira P. Robbins, Michael B. Buser

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