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Articles in Law & Justice tagged with Crime and Prison

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Azadeh Shahshahani

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

David McDermott Hughes

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Sonali Chakravarti

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Joseph Margulies

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Stuart Streichler
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Matt Nadel

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Randall L. Kennedy

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Baher Azmy
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