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27 Sep 2017, 3:28 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Writing in Vox, John Pfaff dislikes Cory Booker's Reverse Mass Incarceration Act for two principle reasons. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 6:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
24 Sep 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
The first two reviews are behind a paywall.In the LA Review of Books, Stephen Lurie reviews John Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A new study from the Urban Institute on the causes of mass incarceration (see coverage from Vox and the Marshall Project) confirms some of the points Grits made this spring rebutting suggestions by Fordham law prof John Pfaff that the criminal-justice reform movement must shift its focus. [read post]
2 Sep 2017, 5:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
27 Aug 2017, 7:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In the inaugural rendition, Texas Defender Service Executive Director Amanda Marzullo and I discussed a proposal popularized by Fordham law professor John Pfaff in his (relatively) new book, Locked In. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 7:48 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Just Liberty's latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast features discussions of important issues and fresh ideas confronting Texas' criminal justice system. [read post]
18 Jun 2017, 6:47 pm by Smita Ghosh
Pfaff and Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 4:36 am by SHG
Who doesn’t want to see that happen, John Pfaff? [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 2:00 am by mes286
Yale Law School John Pfaff, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, presents today: “Truth in Sentencing Laws and the Limited Role of the Federal Government in Criminal Justice: Evidence From the 1994 Crime Control Act, And What it Means for Today”. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has spent a fair amount of the last year thinking about Fordham law prof John Pfaff's theories on mass incarceration - first in a couple of law review articles he wrote, then on his Twitter feed, and finally in his recently published book: Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform. [read post]
11 Mar 2017, 11:00 pm by Smita Ghosh
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]
17 Feb 2017, 9:43 am by Harold O'Grady
Pfaff, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 4:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Crime is down, but per John Pfaff, prosecutors increased the number of convictions per arrest since 2001. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 7:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Fordham law prof John Pfaff has documented how, beginning in the 1990s, prosecutors dramatically increased the proportion of cases they pursue. [read post]