Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Law (22)
- Criminal Law (18)
- Legal Studies (12)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (11)
- Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance (11)
-
- Arts and Humanities (9)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (9)
- Law Enforcement and Corrections (7)
- Philosophy (7)
- Public Law and Legal Theory (7)
- Public Policy (7)
- Ethics and Political Philosophy (6)
- Law and Society (6)
- Social Policy (6)
- Criminal Procedure (4)
- Economics (4)
- Inequality and Stratification (4)
- Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation (4)
- Political Science (4)
- Psychology (4)
- Race and Ethnicity (4)
- American Politics (3)
- Judges (3)
- Life Sciences (3)
- Civil Rights and Discrimination (2)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (2)
- Community-Based Research (2)
- Institution
-
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (13)
- City University of New York (CUNY) (4)
- University of Richmond (4)
- Cleveland State University (3)
- Western Michigan University (2)
-
- Bard College (1)
- Eastern Kentucky University (1)
- Eastern Michigan University (1)
- Georgia Southern University (1)
- Merrimack College (1)
- Montclair State University (1)
- Northern Illinois University (1)
- Old Dominion University (1)
- Selected Works (1)
- Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center (1)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (1)
- University of Florida Levin College of Law (1)
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1)
- University of Rhode Island (1)
- Valparaiso University (1)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (1)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- All Faculty Scholarship (13)
- Political Science Faculty Publications (4)
- Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects (2)
- Publications and Research (2)
- Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications (2)
-
- Cleveland State Law Review (1)
- Criminology Faculty Publications (1)
- Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works (1)
- E. Lea Johnston (1)
- Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations (1)
- Honors College Theses (1)
- Law Faculty Publications (1)
- Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024) (1)
- Online Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Senior Honors Projects (1)
- Senior Honors Theses and Projects (1)
- Senior Projects Spring 2019 (1)
- Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications (1)
- The Hilltop Review (1)
- The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (1)
- Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) (1)
- Touro Law Review (1)
- UF Law Faculty Publications (1)
- UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 31 - 42 of 42
Full-Text Articles in Criminology
Play Fair With Recidivists, Richard Dagger
Play Fair With Recidivists, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Retributivists thus face a difficult challenge. Either we must go against the social grain, and perhaps our own intuitions, by insisting that a criminal offense carry the same penalty or punishment no matter how many previous convictions an offender has accrued; or we must find a way to justify the recidivist premium. I shall take the second route here by arguing that recidivism itself is a kind of criminal offense. In developing this argument, I shall rely on Youngjae Lee's insightful analysis of "recidivism as omission." I shall complement his analysis, however, by grounding it in a conception of criminal …
Playing Fair With Prisoners, Richard Dagger
Playing Fair With Prisoners, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Oddness aside, however, I think there is much to recommend the attempt to restore rehabilitation to a central place in the practice of punishment. Nor do I think that rehabilitation must displace retribution in that practice. Properly understood, the two aims are not only compatible but also complementary. If we are to understand them properly, though, we shall need to see them as components of a theory of punishment that is grounded in considerations of fair play. Such a theory also has the advantage of offering guidance with regard to other controversial matters of penal policy, such as the question …
Jean Hampton’S Theory Of Punishment: A Critical Appreciation, Richard Dagger
Jean Hampton’S Theory Of Punishment: A Critical Appreciation, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Jean Hampton’s work first came to my attention in 1984, when the summer issue of Philosophy & Public Affairs appeared in my mailbox. Hampton’s essay in that issue, “The Moral Education Theory of Punishment,” did not persuade me—or many others, I suspect—that “punishment should not be justified as a deserved evil, but rather as an attempt, by someone who cares, to improve a wayward person” (Hampton 1984, 237). The essay did persuade me, though, that moral education is a plausible aim of punishment, even if it is not the “full and complete justification” Hampton claimed it to be (Hampton 1984, …
Comments On [Israeli] Proposal For Structuring Judicial Discretion In Sentencing, Paul H. Robinson
Comments On [Israeli] Proposal For Structuring Judicial Discretion In Sentencing, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
In this essay, Professor Robinson supports the current Israeli proposal for structuring judicial discretion in sentencing, in particular its reliance upon desert as the guiding principle for the distribution of punishment, its reliance upon benchmarks, or “starting-points,” to be adjusted in individual cases by reference to articulated mitigating and aggravating circumstances, and the proposal’s suggestion to use of an expert committee to draft the original guidelines.
Do Judges Vary In Their Treatment Of Race?, David S. Abrams, Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan
Do Judges Vary In Their Treatment Of Race?, David S. Abrams, Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan
All Faculty Scholarship
Are minorities treated differently by the legal system? Systematic racial differences in case characteristics, many unobservable, make this a difficult question to answer directly. In this paper, we estimate whether judges differ from each other in how they sentence minorities, avoiding potential bias from unobservable case characteristics by exploiting the random assignment of cases to judges. We measure the between-judge variation in the difference in incarceration rates and sentence lengths between African-American and White defendants. We perform a Monte Carlo simulation in order to explicitly construct the appropriate counterfactual, where race does not influence judicial sentencing. In our data set, …
Restoration But Also More Justice, Stephanos Bibas
Restoration But Also More Justice, Stephanos Bibas
All Faculty Scholarship
This short essay replies to Erik Luna's endorsement of restorative justice. He is right that the goal of healing victims, defendants, and their families is important but all too often neglected by substantive criminal law and procedure, which is far too state-centered and impersonal. The problem with restorative justice is that too often it seeks to sweep away punishment as barbaric and downplays the need for deterrence and incapacitation as well. In short, restorative justice deserves more of a role in American criminal justice. Shorn of its political baggage and reflexive hostility to punishment, restorative justice has much to teach …
The Influence Of Demographic Factors On The Experience Of House Arrest, Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey
The Influence Of Demographic Factors On The Experience Of House Arrest, Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey
Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
A great deal of research has focused on how various groups perceive and experience incarceration. Research into this area is justified on the grounds that understanding will yield information about appropriate strategies to effectively and efficiently supervise, protect, and treat incarcerated offenders. Groups whose incarceration experiences have been considered by criminologists include female prisoners (Enos, 2001; Kruttschnitt, Gartner, & Miller, 2000; Loucks & Zamble, 2000), older prisoners (Edwards, 1998; Fry & Frese, 1992; King & Bass, 2000), and minority prisoners (Frazier, 1995; Wright, 1989). Researchers have also considered the influence that length of sentence has on the incarceration experience. Together, …
Testing Lay Intuitions Of Justice: How And Why?, Paul H. Robinson
Testing Lay Intuitions Of Justice: How And Why?, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
When John Darley and I wrote Justice, Liability, and Blame: Community Views and the Criminal Law, our goal was not to provide the definitive account of lay intuitions of justice but rather to stimulate interest in what we saw as an important but long-term project that would require the work of many people. Having this American Association of Law Schools program is itself something toward that end and for that we thank Christopher Slobogin and Cheryl Hanna. In this brief introduction to the Symposium, let me set the stage by doing four things. Part I of this Article summarizes the …
A Meaner, More Punitive Nation, Bruce Berner
A Meaner, More Punitive Nation, Bruce Berner
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Deterrence And The Celerity Of The Death Penalty - A Neglected Question In Deterrence Research, William C. Bailey
Deterrence And The Celerity Of The Death Penalty - A Neglected Question In Deterrence Research, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
This paper examines the deterrent effect of the celerity of the death penalty on homicide rates. Although in recent years there have been a number of investigations of the certainty of execution and deterrence, the effect of celerity of execution has not been examined empirically. As a result, we can only speculate about the merit of the deterrence hypothesis for the celerity of executions, and how previous deterrence and death penalty investigations may be biased due to celerity being ignored. The deterrent effect of the certainty and celerity of the death penalty on homicide rates is examined cross-sectionally for states. …
Restitution, Punishment, And Debts To Society, Richard Dagger
Restitution, Punishment, And Debts To Society, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Of the many developments in the area of criminal justice over the last twenty years or so, the rediscovery of the victim may well be the most heartening. This rediscovery has produced both a new field of study, victimology, and a number of interesting programs and proposals that aim to redress the injuries suffered by the victims of crime. To this point, however, the rediscovery of the victim has not worked a fundamental transformation of our system of criminal justice. The question I wish to address here is whether it should do so.
Murder And Death Penalty, William C. Bailey
Murder And Death Penalty, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
The article examines the relationship between homicide and capital punishment. Studies by several researches have convinced most students of homicide that the ineffectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to murder has been demonstrated conclusively. Not all remain convinced, however, of the conclusiveness of the evidence. Comparative examinations of homicide rates before and after abolition, and in some cases, the restoration of the death penalty, have also questioned the efficacy of capital punishment. In sum, the evidence reported here falls within the pattern of previous death penalty investigations which span five decades.