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17 Apr 2018, 3:17 am
Fordham lawprof John Pfaff has been screaming this for years. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 2:39 pm
Indeed, Fordham University Professor John Pfaff, who has closely studied the data, concluded the number in prison for marijuana possession could be as low as 0.1 percent. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 11:58 am
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]
6 Mar 2018, 2:29 pm
I recently read a book called Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform by John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 4:19 am
But it wasn’t until Fordham lawprof John Pfaff’s research that we learned that prosecutors played a pivotal role in mass incarceration by increasingly pursuing felony charges, with their higher sentences. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 7:23 pm
9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm
.'Mass Incarceration and Its Discontents': Reviewing PfaffAfter Grits' reviewed John Pfaff's book Locked In last year, I've been watching for other data-based critiques of his conclusions about the causes of and solutions for mass incarceration. [read post]
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]
22 Jan 2018, 3:02 am
”)] Missed last spring: this challenge to the “Standard Story” of mass incarceration [Adam Gopnik on John Pfaff’s “Locked In”] Ignorance of the law is no excuse. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 8:14 pm
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]
5 Jan 2018, 9:16 am
John Pfaff's position that long sentences weren't a significant driver of mass incarceration. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am
The rivalry of the “official” Cold War may have ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December, 1991, but John Lewis Gaddis still has an ax to grind. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 7:12 am
"Beyond mass incarceration: Felony sentences rose quicker than imprisonment ratesWe've established that the War on Drugs contributed more to mass incarceration than critics like John Pfaff have claimed. [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]
20 Oct 2017, 8:22 am
This week, John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School, published an editorial in the New York Times, to argue that “The Supreme Court Justices Need Fact-Checkers,” N.Y. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 3:53 am
” In an op-ed for The New York Times, John Pfaff suggests ways of improving the Supreme Court’s ability to evaluate empirical evidence. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 8:14 pm
"The Supreme Court Justices Need Fact-Checkers": Law professor John Pfaff has this essay online at The New York Times. [read post]
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]
