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I was glad to see that my post on the declining rate of incarceration in the U.S. was picked up by a number of other blogs and newspapers. In those fora, a number of people argued that the recent decrease...
Four recent news stories about crime and punishment made me realize, yet again, how little I understand all this.1. “HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering”: State and federal authorities decided against indicting HSBC in a...
Many times in the history of the United States, rising prevalence of use of a drug has been responded to with increased arrests of people in possession of that drug. As Peter Reuter and Rob MacCoun pointed out some years...
Not very much, according to Justice Kennedy. I couldn’t help thinking about the Affordable Care Act cases when reading his opinion for the Court in Florence v. Burlington County, handed down Monday. The Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment does...