The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
The Review: Volume 29
Preview
Issue 1
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Issue 2
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- Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
- The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
- Protecting the Integrity of the Court: Trial Court Responsibility for Preventing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
- Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
Issue 3
featuring
- Pressing Public Necessity: The Unconstitutionality of the Absconder Apprehension Initiative
- The Role of Courts in Time of War
- You Say Defendant, I Say Combatant: Opportunistic Treatment of Terrorism Suspects Held in the United States and the Need for Due Process
- Civil Liberties during National Emergencies: The Interactions between the Three Branches of Government in Coping with Past and Current Threats to the Nation's Security
Issue 4
featuring
- Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
- The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure
- To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
- Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
In Depth Reading
Volume 29 Issue 1
What Policy-Makers Need to Know to Improve Indigent Defense Systems
Advice to policy makers about how to educate themselves to create effecive policy regarding the criminal defense system.
Alternative Strategies for Public Defenders and Assigned Counsel
Discusses the history and background of public defense and the strategies used in advancing it's goals then presents alternative strategies.
Bolder Management for Public Defense: Leadership in Three Dimensions
Looks at public defense leadership in three dimensions from very specific and local to broad and global.
Volume 29 Issue 2
Flunking the Methodology Test: A Flawed Tax-Exemption Standard for Educational Organizations That Advocate a Particular Position or Viewpoint
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
The Subordination of Subsidized Guardianship in Child Welfare Proceedings
A discussion of several policy and social issues within the adoption and foster care systems and their effects on these systems and the children within them.
Protecting the Integrity of the Court: Trial Court Responsibility for Preventing Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Criminal Cases
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
Volume 29 Issue 3
Shafiq Rasul, et al., Petitioners v. George W. Bush et al., Respondents and Khaled A.F. Al Odahet et al., Peititoners v. U.S., et. al.. Respondents - Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu in Support of Petitioners
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
The Role of Courts in Time of War
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
You Say Defendant, I Say Combatant: Opportunistic Treatment of Terrorism Suspects Held in the United States and the Need for Due Process
Explores the vocabulary used in the war on terror and how it reflects the indecision of the executive branch on what to call terrorism suspects.
Pressing Public Necessity: The Unconstitutionality of the Absconder Apprehension Initiative
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
Volume 29 Issue 4
Fifty Years after Brown, the Civil Rights Ideology and Today's Movement
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.
To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.
The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.
Officer or Overseer: Why Police Desegregation Fails as an Adequate Solution to Racist, Oppressive, and Violent Policing in Black Communities
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.