Norway's Prison System: Investigating Recidivism And Reintegration,
Coastal Carolina University
Norway's Prison System: Investigating Recidivism And Reintegration
Bridges: A Journal of Student Research
Recidivism rates are high in most Western countries and, as prisons in these countries become overcrowded, the resources meant to enhance reintegration of inmates into society can be inadequate or nonexistent. On the other hand, Norway has one of the lowest recidivism rates among Western nations, at approximately 20 percent. Norway also has, along with other Scandinavian countries, a unique approach to its prison system. This paper discusses the exceptionalism associated with Norway's prison system and explores the reasons behind its low recidivism rates, with a focus on the encouragement of reintegration of inmates into society. With the educational opportunities …
Sexual Exploitation And The Adultified Black Girl,
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Sexual Exploitation And The Adultified Black Girl, Mikah Thompson
Faculty Works
A troubling legacy of American chattel slavery is the justice system’s continued failure to provide adequate protection to African-American crime victims. This piece focuses on the law’s historic unwillingness to shield Black girls from acts of sexual violence. During slavery, lawmakers refused to criminalize rape committed against Black girls and women based not only on the fact that they were considered property but also on stereotypes about their sexuality. Even though the law now criminalizes the rape of Black girls, African-American rape survivors encounter more skepticism and hostility when they come forward with their stories compared to their White counterparts. …
Playing By Their Rules: The Death Penalty And Foreigners In Saudi Arabia,
University of Georgia School of Law
Playing By Their Rules: The Death Penalty And Foreigners In Saudi Arabia
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Beccaria's 'On Crimes And Punishments': A Mirror On The History Of The Foundations Of Modern Criminal Law,
Columbia Law School
Beccaria's 'On Crimes And Punishments': A Mirror On The History Of The Foundations Of Modern Criminal Law
Faculty Scholarship
Beccaria’s treatise "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764) has become a placeholder for the classical school of thought in criminology, for deterrence-based public policy, for death penalty abolitionism, and for liberal ideals of legality and the rule of law. A source of inspiration for Bentham and Blackstone, an object of praise for Voltaire and the Philosophies, a target of pointed critiques by Kant and Hegel, the subject of a genealogy by Foucault, the object of derision by the Physiocrats, rehabilitated and appropriated by the Chicago School of law and economics — these ricochets and reflections on Beccaria’s treatise reveal multiple dimensions …
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence,
William & Mary Law School
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence
William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law
No abstract provided.
No, The Firing Squad Is Not Better Than Lethal Injection: A Response To Stephanie Moran’S A Modest Proposal,
Seattle University School of Law
No, The Firing Squad Is Not Better Than Lethal Injection: A Response To Stephanie Moran’S A Modest Proposal
Seattle University Law Review
In the article A Modest Proposal: The Federal Government Should Use Firing Squads to Execute Federal Death Row Inmates, Stephanie Moran argues that the firing squad is the only execution method that meets the requirements of the Eighth Amendment. In order to make her case, Moran unjustifiably overstates the negative aspects of lethal injection while understating the negative aspects of firing squads. The entire piece is predicated upon assumptions that are not only unsupported by the evidence but often directly refuted by the evidence. This Essay critically analyzes Moran’s claims regarding the alleged advantages of the firing squad over …
Psychiatric Effects Of Solitary Confinement,
Washington University in St. Louis
Psychiatric Effects Of Solitary Confinement
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
The author, Dr. Grassian, is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who was on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over twenty-five years. He has had extensive experience in evaluating the psychiatric effects of solitary confinement, and in the course of his professional involvement, has been involved as an expert regarding the psychiatric impact of federal and state segregation and disciplinary units in many settings. The following statement is largely a redacted, non-institution and non-inmate specific, version of a declaration which was submitted in September 1993 in Madrid v. Gomez.
The Trials Of Bail: Pre-Trial Presumption Of Innocence Under The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 And General Criminal Laws,
National Law School of India University
The Trials Of Bail: Pre-Trial Presumption Of Innocence Under The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 And General Criminal Laws
National Law School of India Review
The crisis of undertrial prisoners in India, constituting three-fourths of the total prison population, has occasioned a normative recognition of the relationship between bail and the presumption of innocence (‘PoI’). The same recognition, however, does not extend to special criminal laws such as the UAPA, where almost every single prisoner is an undertrial on account of provisions prohibiting grant of bail. With a focus either on outcomes (prison population) or exceptions (national security considerations), the jurisprudential relationship between bail and PoI per se remains underexplored under both the general and special criminal legal regimes. At issue is the ‘thin’ conception …
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence,
University of Florida Levin College of Law
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence, Michelle Jacobs
UF Law Faculty Publications
Black women have a very specific history with the state and law enforcement that is not replicated among other women’s communities, and it is that unique situation that is the focus of this Article. Part I of this Article explores the historical roots of Black women’s interaction with the state. Part II of this Article is broken into two sections. The first will cover police killings of Black women. The second part of the section will explore the conditions under which Black women are physically assaulted by the police. Part III of the Article seeks to highlight when the police …
No Clean Hands In A Dirty Business: Firing Squads And The Euphemism Of "Evolving Standards Of Decency",
Vanderbilt University Law School
No Clean Hands In A Dirty Business: Firing Squads And The Euphemism Of "Evolving Standards Of Decency"
Vanderbilt Law Review
"If we, as a society, cannot stomach the splatter from an execution carried out by firing squad, then we shouldn't be carrying out executions at all." Judge Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals laid down this challenge to reform the "inherently flawed" use of lethal injection in carrying out the death penalty. Justice Sotomayor recently voiced similar concerns, stating, "[W]e deserve to know the price of our collective comfort before we blindly allow a State to make condemned inmates pay it in our names." These judges' reasoning should underlie any discussion of the death penalty: can we, as …
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