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Leveraging Maximum Reform While Enforcing Minimum Standards, Alphonse Gerhardstein
Leveraging Maximum Reform While Enforcing Minimum Standards, Alphonse Gerhardstein
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article focuses on criminal justice reform in the context of litigation. Specifically, it offers solutions for how to promote effective policies to reduce recidivism and ultimately keep the public safe from crime. It takes the position that litigation that merely focuses on constitutional violations of prison confinement is not complete without a focus on programming and supervision options upon return to society. Part I of the Article reviews some of the problems facing efforts to improve recidivism rates, specifically litigation that solely focuses on prison conditions. Part II deals with programs that should be undertaken to reduce recidivism in …
Public Interest Litigation: Insights From Theory And Practice, Scott L. Cummings, Deborah L. Rhode
Public Interest Litigation: Insights From Theory And Practice, Scott L. Cummings, Deborah L. Rhode
Fordham Urban Law Journal
If public interest litigation has not always delivered all that we desire, it has surely provided no lack of experience. Our challenge now is to integrate these lessons from practice with insights from allied disciplines. Taken together, they remind us of the need to coordinate litigation with broader mobilizing efforts, to think strategically about effectiveness, and to create adequate systems of evaluation and accountability.