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22 Mar 2024, 3:30 am by Jonathan Simon
(I’m thinking here in particularly of John Pfaff’s very important book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (2017) and its critique of Michelle Alexander’s a The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012).) [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 6:13 am by Jeff Welty
John Pfaff and others have been arguing for some time that the war on drugs isn’t the main driver of incarceration rates and the graphic provides at least some support for that thesis. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 10:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Compare this to how the increase in murders played out in the press last year.As John Pfaff observed on Twitter, this news reinforces the extent to which the reported crime increase being touted near-daily in the press has been largely about homicides. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 3:20 am by SHG
Lawprof John Pfaff argues that rulings based on falsehoods need to be addressed. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 9:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Finally, the longest pending seized drug case is approximately 1,209 days old while the average case takes 90 days to complete.Drug war a major contributor to attacks on Fourth AmendmentThere's a meme out there spread by revisionist academics like John Pfaff that critics of the drug war have overstated its contribution to mass incarceration. [read post]
12 Oct 2019, 2:14 pm by Kent Scheidegger
In writing my review of John Pfaff's anti-incarceration book Locked In, I was particularly struck by his argument that the absence of the incarcerated, criminal parent from the household was bad for the children and therefore an unaccounted-for cost to society. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 5:02 am by Andrew Leipold
  And yet, as John Pfaff has observed, while prosecutors "have used [their] power to drive up prison populations, …. [read post]
10 Oct 2019, 11:36 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Kent Scheidegger (Criminal Justice Legal Foundation) has posted Refreshing Candor, Useful Data, and a Dog’s Breakfast of Proposals: A Review of Locked In by John Pfaff (Federalist Society Review, Vol. 20, p. 124, 2019) on SSRN. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 5:02 am by Andrew Leipold
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]
8 Oct 2019, 5:02 am by Andrew Leipold
  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]
27 Sep 2019, 3:22 pm by Kent Scheidegger
As previously noted on the blog, I wrote a review of Locked In by John Pfaff for the Federalist Society Review. [read post]