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5 Oct 2017, 6:27 am
A new quantitative analysis with cool graphical representations, to me, puts the final nails in the coffin of some of the interesting-but-problematic theories being touted in the past couple of years by Fordham law professor John Pfaff.When Pfaff began promoting his revisionist counter-narratives on the causes of mass incarceration, it took Grits a while to figure out what was wrong with his analysis. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 4:05 pm
Thoughts from John Pfaff (Fordham) here and here. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 4:21 am
With the onset of the new month, I want to take a moment first to thank all the wonderful contributions over May and April from Mark Kende, John Pfaff, Marc Blitz, Marc DeGirolami, Rose Cuizon Villazar, Brooks Holland, Chad Oldfather, Jessie Hill, Bill Araiza, Hillel Levin, and Brian Galle. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 6:22 am
John Pfaff offers a sensible way to look at recent Uniform Crime Report data: Still near the bottom of a trough on crime rates, despite two years of increase in violent offense totals. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 3:28 pm
Writing in Vox, John Pfaff dislikes Cory Booker's Reverse Mass Incarceration Act for two principle reasons. [read post]
28 Mar 2018, 2:08 am
Since our paper was announced in The Chicago Tribune, distinguished law professor John Pfaff has tweeted a series of comments about our article, and the ACLU has commented as well. [read post]
30 May 2014, 10:48 am
27 Jan 2018, 2:36 am
In a twitstorm, Fordham law prof John Pfaff pointed out a reality that has long been clear to those of us engaged in criminal law, but miraculously eludes the unduly woke. [read post]
17 May 2009, 6:16 pm
Mark Blitz and I were in the same class, with John Pfaff, a JD/PHD, a year below I believe. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 3:39 am
For reasons that are both obvious and troubling, Fordham lawprof John Pfaff’s opening description of newly elected Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins notes the two foremost characterizations of the moment, that she’s Boston’s first black female prosecutor. [read post]
5 Sep 2010, 5:33 am
Pfaff, No. 09-1702-cr (2d Cir. [read post]
2 Sep 2017, 5:29 am
Based on changes in defendant behavior alone, I estimate that a one-year prison term for marginal defendants conservatively generates $56,200 to $66,800 in social costs, which would require substantial general deterrence in the population to at least be welfare neutral.H/T: John Pfaff. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:26 pm
Though people convicted of violent offenses make up the majority of Texas prison inmates, they constituted only 22.6 percent of 2014 releases.Still, when it comes to state-level decarceration reforms, Grits disagrees with Fordham law prof John Pfaff's tactical assessment about whether to prioritize reducing incarceration for nonviolent offenses. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 1:17 pm
Dennis Pfaff: Yeah, so do I. [read post]
30 May 2014, 12:59 pm
John Pfaff has plowed through it, however, and finds numerous errors and omissions. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 11:50 am
This is government shooting itself in the foot.Pfaff review corroborates Grits on 'strawman' claimA review of John Pfaff's book Locked In in the Boston Review (combined with a review of James Forman Jr.'s Locking Up Our Own) reiterated Grits' assertion that the "Standard Story" Pfaff purported to debunk amounted to a "strawman. [read post]
11 Mar 2017, 11:00 pm
Long reviews Armitage’s book for Newsday.In the LARB, Brian Goodman reviews Timothy Garton Ash’s Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World and Josh Jacobs reviews John Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, which seeks to correct the “myth” that punishment of drug offenses and other nonviolent crimes, alone, caused mass incarceration. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 8:21 am
John Pfaff's observations that we don't have a lot of data about prosecutors' functions, and what might be done about it. [read post]
2 May 2016, 9:35 am
8 Aug 2019, 3:01 am
There’s nothing new… but real risks: pic.twitter.com/jnSusKkxPC — John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) August 7, 2019 The Patriot Act created special warrants to go after terrorists. [read post]
