Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

"Are Liberals Responsible For Mass Incarceration?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of my post here comes from this intriguing post by SHG over at the great blog Simple Justice: A New York Criminal Defense Blog.  At that blog, SHG indicates that he "look(s) forward to lively and thoughtful discussion," and we engaged in just such a discussion when SHG took issue with my support here for a Kentucky forfeiture bill.  SHG kindly let me have the last word in our debate over asset forfeiture as an alternative punishment, in part because he rightly realized that I "took this discussion to a much deeper place."  That, in turn, prompted SHG's long post with the title above.  The full post should be read for context, but here's how it concludes:What I found so jarring by Doug's position is that we share a concern for the over-incarceration, over-criminalization of American society...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).