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Transnational Government Hacking, Jennifer Daskal
Transnational Government Hacking, Jennifer Daskal
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Big Data Prosecution And Brady, Andrew Ferguson
Big Data Prosecution And Brady, Andrew Ferguson
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Prosecutors are joining the big data revolution, adopting “intelligence-driven” strategies to target crime patterns. Centralized big data systems now track offenders, places, and groups allowing prosecutors to link crimes by time, place, associations, or other connections. Adding to these types of formalized, structured databases are growing sources of raw, unstructured big data from digital surveillance technologies like video cameras, police body cameras, and automated license plate readers. The prosecutors of the future will sit on a wealth of valuable investigative insights – all searchable and potentially relevant for a more aggressive and proactive investigation strategy.But as helpful as these new …
Promise Amid Peril: Prea's Efforts To Regulate An End To Prison Rape, Brenda V. Smith
Promise Amid Peril: Prea's Efforts To Regulate An End To Prison Rape, Brenda V. Smith
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This Article discusses the modest aspirations of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (“PREA”) that passed unanimously in the United States Congress in 2003. The Article posits that PREA created opportunities for holding correctional authorities accountable by creating a baseline for safety and setting more transparent expectations for agencies’ practices for protecting prisoners from sexual abuse. Additionally, the Article posits that PREA enhanced the evolving standards of decency for the Eighth Amendment and articulated clear expectations of correctional authorities to provide sexual safety for people in custody.