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Editor’S Forward, Ava Agree
Editor’S Forward, Ava Agree
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
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Unjust Isolation: The Diminishing Returns Of Solitary Confinement Of Pregnant Women And California’S Need To Regulate It., Richard Lee
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
California’s state prison system lacks sufficient regulations to restrict the use of solitary confinement for pregnant women. Under the current system, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) possesses broad discretion regarding the use of solitary confinement, administrative segregated housing, or other forms of isolated placement. According to the CDCR manual, prison officers may place a pregnant woman in solitary confinement as long as her medical condition does not “preclude” that placement. This standard, which vests an inappropriate amount of discretion in prison officers, is deeply insufficient to prevent the negative consequences of subjecting pregnant women to solitary confinement. …
California’S Sb 1437 And Its Applicability To Attempted Murder Liability, Violeta Alvarez
California’S Sb 1437 And Its Applicability To Attempted Murder Liability, Violeta Alvarez
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
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Bottleneck: The Place Of County Jails In California’S Covid-19 Correctional Crisis, Hadar Aviram
Bottleneck: The Place Of County Jails In California’S Covid-19 Correctional Crisis, Hadar Aviram
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
This Article examines a lesser-known site of the COVID-19 pandemic: county jails. Revisiting assumptions that preceded and followed criminal justice reform in California, particularly Brown v. Plata and the Realignment, the Article situates jails within two competing/complementary perspectives: a mechanistic, jurisdictional perspective, which focuses on county administration and budgeting, and a geographic perspective, which views jails in the context of their neighboring communities. The prevalence of the former perspective over the latter among both correctional administrators and criminal justice reformers has generated unique challenges in fighting the spread of COVID-19 in jails: paucity of, and reliability problems with, data; weak …
Editor’S Foreword, Ava Agree
Editor’S Foreword, Ava Agree
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
No abstract provided.
Defunding Prosecutors And Reinvesting In Communities: The Case For Reducing The Power And Budgets Of Prosecutors To Help End Mass Incarceration, Udi Ofer
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
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Criminalization Of Homies: Gang Policing Tactics And Community Fragmentation, Juan Flores
Criminalization Of Homies: Gang Policing Tactics And Community Fragmentation, Juan Flores
Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment
While growing scholarship has been crucial in understanding gang policing’s nature and impacts, there is currently limited research focusing on how policing relies upon fragmenting communities and perpetuating divisions within them. Gang policing claims to respond to conflict and rivalries between “gangs,” but how does this policing produce and perpetuate these community divisions? This paper seeks to understand how gang policing tactics perpetuate divisions and fragment communities while simultaneously producing criminality. This study used a qualitative approach, interviewing eight participants in Berkeley, San Diego, and Los Angeles who are perceived by law enforcement as “gang members” but who self-identify instead …