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Might Elena Kagan be a fan of shaming sanctions?

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader alerted me to this report on an interesting little sentencing tidbit to be found in the recently released papers from Elena Kagan time in the Clinton Administration: The William J. Clinton Presidential Library provided 46,500 pages of records from Kagan's four years of working in the Clinton White House in the 1990s. The papers, released today by the National Archives in Washington, are the first installment in a 160,000-page file.... [In these papers] Kagan also expressed interest in the idea of "shaming" criminals after a 1997 Wall Street Journal editorial lauded efforts such as making convicted drunk drivers affix bright "DUI" stickers to their bumpers and requiring nonviolent sex offenders to post warning signs on their property...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).