Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Governing through Crime in Post Conflict Societies: Notes from Belfast

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Reporting to you from Queens University, School of Law in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where I am in the middle of a fascinating two week vis...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Bill Stuntz and the Pathological Politics of Crime Control

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Those of us concerned with mass incarceration, and friends of the rule of law everywhere have lost a great friend and teacher. Harvard Law ...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Back on prisoner voting and dignity

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I'm still pondering the prisoner voting controversy over here (see my last post ). At first I thought it was a rather trivial issue, at...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Proud to Be from Illinois: Land of Lincoln becomes 16th State to Abolish Capital Punishment

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Illinois today became the 16th state to ban capital punishment when Governor Pat Quinn, recently elected Democrat signed into a law a bill a...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

The Face of the "Monster:" Lori Berenson's Saga as the Criminal Other in the heart of Peru

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Jennifer Egan provides a moving account in the NYT Magazine of Lori Berenson's life since being sentenced to life in prison as a terror...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Thnking Allowed about the Death Penalty

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David Garland discussed his important new book on America's death penalty ( Peculiar Institution ) on BBC Radio Four's Thinking Allo...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Sarkozy’s battle with the French magistrates

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(Read Angelique Crisafis reporting in the Guardian here ) Special report from Simon Grivet, Paris Her beautiful smile was everywhere. As soo...