As issues of public policy go, few are as strange as overcriminalization. Once largely the subject only of academic complaint, the problems associated with overcriminalization are now more widely ...
Sen. Rand Paul continued to drive momentum for criminal justice reform Wednesday, saying the greatest barrier to jobs and voting in the U.S. is a criminal record. “If we want to help people work and ...
David Rosenthal is a visiting legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. As politicians, lawyers, and policy wonks prepare for transition at ...
Dear Chairman Sensenbrenner and Ranking Member Scott: Thank you for agreeing to lead the task force created by “The Over-Criminalization Task Force Resolution of 2013.” The growing national awareness ...
Abstract: Those who commit real crimes should be prosecuted and appropriately punished. But the question of what kind of conduct is deserving of criminal punishment has become increasingly muddled in ...
It will stare back, balefully. Furthermore, the radiating ripples from the nation’s overdue reconsideration of present practices may reach beyond matters of crime and punishment, to basic truths about ...
With federal prison costs skyrocketing and a tenfold increase in the federal prison population since 1980, the task force should reexamine federal criminal laws and sentencing regimes that will stem ...
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