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"Should Parents Who Offend Receive Sentencing Discounts?"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the question posed at the start of this guest post at the NY Times' Freakonomic blog.  Here is the introduction to the guest post (links and all), and the start of its substance: We have recently featured two guest posts (here and here) by the authors of a new book called Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties. The authors are Ethan Leib, who is is a scholar-in-residence at Columbia Law School, and an associate professor of law at the University of California-Hastings College of the Law; Dan Markel, the D?Alemberte Professor of Law at the Florida State University in Tallahassee; and Jennifer Collins, a professor of law at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Leib and Markel usually blog at Prawfs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).