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18 Aug 2019, 8:20 am
16 Aug 2019, 11:22 am
To address the larger question, The Federalist Society Review is publishing a point-counterpoint discussion on mass incarceration featuring Fordham University Law Professor John Pfaff, author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration--and How to Achieve Real Reform, and Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. [read post]
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]
31 Jul 2019, 7:40 pm
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Enrique’s Journey – Sonia Nazario Gendered Asylum – Sara McKinnon Becoming – Michelle Obama Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson Locked In – John Pfaff Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates Random Family – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Evicted – Matthew Desmond Racecraft – Karen & Barbara Fields $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost… [read post]
24 May 2019, 2:03 pm
According to "reform" advocate John Pfaff, the national drop in prisoners has been "pretty small" and two-thirds of it has been in California. [read post]
22 May 2019, 9:05 pm
Fordham’s John Pfaff explains what’s wrong with each assertion. [read post]
5 May 2019, 4:57 am
The criminologist John Pfaff, among others, has shown that to truly end mass incarceration, we’ll need to not just release nonviolent offenders but also rethink how we treat violent offenders. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 12:53 pm
Here's the letter I sent: FROM: John Gear, 161 High St SE STE 208B, Salem OR 97301To: Hon. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 1:51 pm
In a recent post Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff asks the question "How many studies show that severe sanctions are an effective way to deter crime? [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 4:43 am
For example, John Pfaff frequently apportions great blame to prosecutors. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 4:44 pm
John Pfaff, Boston’s New D.A. [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]
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]
29 Jun 2018, 11:26 am
(On Twitter, John Pfaff recently pointed to a paper showing a similar voluntary incapacitation effect related to violent movies.)My personal belief is that the rise of video games and online entertainment caused a much greater proportion of the crime decline witnessed in the past quarter century than most observers have considered.Young males through about their mid-to-late twenties are the highest risk population group for committing crime. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 5:22 am
7 Jun 2018, 2:55 am
” [John Pfaff Twitter thread, earlier here, here, and here] “CBP Sued For Seizing $41,000 From Airline Passenger, Then Refusing To Give It Back Unless She Promised Not To Sue” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Even when suspects are in fact guilty, lies told to justify searches “corrupt the law in order to enforce it. [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 2:41 pm
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]
20 Apr 2018, 11:11 am
In his book, Locked In, John Pfaff demonstrated the same trend occurred nationwide from the mid-90s to the late aughts, with the number of felony-charges-per-arrest over that period rising from one-in-three to two-in-three. [read post]
