" We used to think that if we improved policing we could escape its violence," Rachel
Herzing began. 1 It was November 2014, the fall that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown …

The rules and practices of criminal procedure assume a clean separation between the
interests of the public and the interests of the lone defendant who stands accused. Even the …

DISBANDING POLICE AGENCIES Page 1 ESSAY DISBANDING POLICE AGENCIES
Anthony O'Rourke,* Rick Su** & Guyora Binder*** Since the killing of George Floyd, a …

This is the story of a group of abolitionist lawyers who devoted themselves to working within
a legal system that they considered to be fundamentally unjust and illegitimate. These …

Union power in the United States has hit a nadir. Less than eleven percent of the labor force
is unionized-a lower percentage than at any point since World War II. 1 Twenty-eight states …

For over half a century, US prison populations have ballooned, and criminal codes have
expanded. In recent years, a growing awareness of mass incarceration and the harms of …

MENS REA REFORM AND ITS DISCONTENTS Page 1 0091-4169/19/10903-0491 THE
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 109, No. 3 Copyright © 2019 by Benjamin …

A growing trend in philosophical commentary about penal justice is what I loosely call
“criminal law skepticism.” The scholarship I have in mind does not simply urge caution or a …

Over the last decade, prison populations in the United States began to decline for the first
time since the early 1970s. 1 Fiscally conservative policymakers and redemption-focused …

Under common theoretical assumptions, courts should distrust the political process that
generates criminal laws and procedures.'The electorate, the argument goes, consistently …