Criminal Law

Policy to Law?

Posted on January 28, 2008
Empirical Legal Studies continues an interesting discussion on whether law schools should be more interdisciplinary, incorporating more social science in particular, and provides a great historical perspective on the debate (while highlighting one of my legal scholar heroes, Edward Levi)...

Quick Hits

Posted on January 28, 2008
If you want some thought provoked, drop by these blogs today and get pummeled: Pam Clifton at Think Outside the Cage has good stuff up on law enforcement?s salutary role in offender reentry if they?ll take it on and on the damage to incarcerated parents when their kids go through a corrupt foster care system; CrimProf Blog has a statistically rich and depressing post up on OH?s problems with DNA evidence care and efforts by the gov there to upgrade their system; All in the Mind lets us know that Australia is having the same problem with political interference with science and evidence-based research that we find in our country; and Psychology and Crime News has a post linking you to two good stories once again calling into question the entire enterprise of eyewitness testimony, either through the witness? inability to deal errors or through their susceptibility to peer influence.

Hate to Go All Fuddy on You

Posted on January 28, 2008
But, seriously, what does this say about our senses of citizenship and mutual responsibility?States hooked on slots revenues

Don't Drop the Soap

Posted on January 28, 2008
The name of a new board game developed by the son of KS?s governor."Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole," the site says. "Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss' lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse's desk in the Infirmary...

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TECHNOCORRECTIONS and DUI

Posted on January 28, 2008
NE becomes the latest state to bust down on DUI, putting mandatory ignition interlocks in even first-timers? cars. NM says it has the stats to support the move, which it pioneered. What?s good about it is the fact that you don?t get mulligans like so many states provide before they start cracking down...

We're from the Government and . . .

Posted on January 28, 2008
Add the Feds to that list of fiscal problems facing the states as the economy recedes.Stimulus plan could ravage state budgets

Meth Use Down in UT

Posted on January 28, 2008
So say the latest stats. Let?s wait and watch to see if ID, with its new Meth Project effort, has a similar decline to UT, without a Meth Project, and attributes the decrease to the Project, hmm? It would be a nice example of a point we make here frequently regarding our tendency to mistake our rain dances for effectiveness when it rains even though other states that don?t do the dances get rain, too.

Twitching, Screaming Deaths Can Be a Great Deterrent

Posted on January 28, 2008
There?s an antidote to heroin overdose that costs less than $10, can be administered by nonprofessionals, and has been successful in saving lives and maybe even in deterring further use according to the one study that?s been done. So what?s the problem? Much of the science blogosphere is howling over this statement about that antidote by the deputy director of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy, who opposes the antdote?s use:"First of all, I don't agree with giving an opioid antidote to non-medical professionals...

Arbitrary Justice

Posted on January 27, 2008
I taught the basic American government freshman survey course for 17 years, did all the usual topics you find in the textbooks, espoused wisely on the intricacies that I could add from personal experience as a former budget analyst, practicing school board member, campaign consultant...

Black Lung Drug

Posted on January 27, 2008
Although I'm critical of our drug policies regarding pot, it's because I see them as so hypocritical (and thus legitimacy-draining) and wasteful given the opportunity costs for other areas of corr sent and crim just that they supplant, not because I think pot is a good thing for anyone not using it for (real) medicinal purposes...

More NCJRS Abstracts, January 27, 2007

Posted on January 27, 2008
AMONG THE LATEST RESEARCH POSTED AT http://www.ncjrs.gov/. CHECK FOR OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST THERE AS WELL.NCJ 221005Rebecca L. Jackson; Derek T. HessEvaluation for Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders: A Survey of ExpertsSexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment Volume:19 Issue:4 December 2007 Pages:425 to 448This study surveyed 41 experts who conduct sex offender civil commitment evaluations, in order to identify the features of their evaluations...

Game On for TECHNOCORRECTIONS

Posted on January 26, 2008
And remember how I said the other day that it might not start here?"Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails...

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