Bill Stuntz has brilliantly highlighted the supply side of overcriminalization – how the institutional purposes of criminal justice actors will often be served by more criminal law (and perhaps more criminal enforcement) than is appropriate for a well-functioning society. One might profitably supplement his insights by exploring the demand side, and in particular how criminal law offers a unique and unnecessarily bundled set of institutional and procedural characteristics for which there are no non-criminal substitutes. While for actors within the system, the opacity of criminal law cloaks the self-dealing of agencies and agencies (that\u27s the supply side problem), so for outsiders, the shadow of criminal law offers some alluring shade. E...
Book Chapter Stephen F. Smith, Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduct...
In contrast to the existing scholarly commentary on specialized criminal courts, which is largely tr...
My basic point is that major aspects of systems of legal justice deal with antisocial behavior. That...
Bill Stuntz has brilliantly highlighted the supply side of overcriminalization – how the institution...
The literature treats overcriminalization (and, at the federal level, the federalization of crime) a...
In The Pathological Politics of Criminal Law, Bill Stuntz provides a powerful critique of the modern...
In a recent article in this law review, William J. Stuntz argues that criminal law in the United Sta...
The function of the criminal law is to effectively enforce the moral code that every person knows by...
Overbreadth in criminal liability rules, especially in federal law, is abundant and much lamented. O...
The dangers of “overcriminalization” are widely appreciated across the political spectrum, but confu...
William Stuntz\u27s recent article, The Uneasy Relationship Between Criminal Procedure and Criminal ...
Confronting criminal law’s violence calls for an openness to unfinished alternatives — a willingness...
Overcriminalization takes many forms and impacts the American criminal justice system in varying way...
The harms of overcriminalization are usually thought of in a particular way—that the proliferation o...
The criminal justice system encompasses the most severe instrument at the state's disposal in times ...
Book Chapter Stephen F. Smith, Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduct...
In contrast to the existing scholarly commentary on specialized criminal courts, which is largely tr...
My basic point is that major aspects of systems of legal justice deal with antisocial behavior. That...
Bill Stuntz has brilliantly highlighted the supply side of overcriminalization – how the institution...
The literature treats overcriminalization (and, at the federal level, the federalization of crime) a...
In The Pathological Politics of Criminal Law, Bill Stuntz provides a powerful critique of the modern...
In a recent article in this law review, William J. Stuntz argues that criminal law in the United Sta...
The function of the criminal law is to effectively enforce the moral code that every person knows by...
Overbreadth in criminal liability rules, especially in federal law, is abundant and much lamented. O...
The dangers of “overcriminalization” are widely appreciated across the political spectrum, but confu...
William Stuntz\u27s recent article, The Uneasy Relationship Between Criminal Procedure and Criminal ...
Confronting criminal law’s violence calls for an openness to unfinished alternatives — a willingness...
Overcriminalization takes many forms and impacts the American criminal justice system in varying way...
The harms of overcriminalization are usually thought of in a particular way—that the proliferation o...
The criminal justice system encompasses the most severe instrument at the state's disposal in times ...
Book Chapter Stephen F. Smith, Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduct...
In contrast to the existing scholarly commentary on specialized criminal courts, which is largely tr...
My basic point is that major aspects of systems of legal justice deal with antisocial behavior. That...