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24 Jul 2018, 7:18 am
Further, Professor John Pfaff of Fordham Law School recently argued in a provocative summary of the current state of the criminal justice system that for prosecutors to address the “mass incarceration” problem in our society, there needs to be a change in the “price” of offenses for many categories of crime (and not just for often singled out “low hanging fruit” of drug cases).[6] Can this be done? [read post]
4 May 2018, 3:46 am
I credit Fordham prawf John Pfaff for raising awareness of the significance of prosecutorial discretion and overreach in the system, where they’ve gained inordinate power over criminal law outcomes. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 4:12 am
But even worse, as lawprof John Pfaff has been saying all along, NYS has a $140 BILLION budget. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 4:43 am
For example, John Pfaff frequently apportions great blame to prosecutors. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 1:00 am
” Reading Nietzsche brought Bloom and Cavell back to Emerson, and helped Rorty reclaim the pragmatists William James and John Dewey. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 5:02 am
As John Pfaff neatly put it, "'mass incarceration' essentially boil down to claims that we have too many people in prison, although we don't really know how many too many; and that we should reduce that number, although we don't really know what the new goal should be. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 5:44 am
As popular as this simplistic assertion may be on reddit, lawprof John Pfaff conclusively showed that’s just false. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 5:02 am
And yet, as John Pfaff has observed, while prosecutors "have used [their] power to drive up prison populations, …. [read post]
25 Apr 2008, 1:22 pm
Recent LexBlog Q & A posts: Mario Sundar, community evangelist and blog editor for LinkedIn [4.24.08] Kevin Livingston & Dennis Pfaff, the editorial team behind Thelen's Climate Law Update [4.17.08] Anita Campbell, editor-in-chief of Small Business Trends [4.15.08] Steve Matthews of Stem Legal, discussing the state of the Canadian legal blogosphere [4.11.08] John Sirman, manager of TexasBar.com and technology editor for the Texas Bar Journal… [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 5:02 am
In his terrific book, John Pfaff warns that "[u]ntil we accept that meaningful prison reform means changing how we punish violent crimes, true reform will not be possible. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 4:39 pm
Recent LexBlog Q & A posts: Kevin Livingston & Dennis Pfaff, the editorial team behind Thelen's Climate Law Update [4.17.08] Anita Campbell, editor-in-chief of Small Business Trends [4.15.08] Steve Matthews of Stem Legal, discussing the state of the Canadian legal blogosphere [4.11.08] John Sirman, manager of TexasBar.com and technology editor for the Texas Bar Journal [4.10.08] Robert Scoble, video blogger for Fast Company.TV and author of the… [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 7:48 am
Pfaff v. [read post]
7 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
In Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, by Marie Gottschalk, and more recently in Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, by John Pfaff, scholars have demonstrated convincingly that Alexander’s central contention, though enormously influential, is simply mistaken.Most people in prison in this country have been convicted of either property crimes or crimes of violence. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 3:30 am
John Pfaff has been telling us this for a while now, that it’s all about the prosecutors deciding that a black guy, with whom they share no commonality, needs more prison than a white guy. [read post]
23 Aug 2013, 12:09 pm
He cited the Supreme Court’s holding in Pfaff v. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 8:16 am
John R. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 7:48 pm
Just Liberty's latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast features discussions of important issues and fresh ideas confronting Texas' criminal justice system. [read post]
