The Justice Gambit
"Commentary on events in the U.S. system of justice from a social science perspective."
Author: Michael Blankenship is a professor of criminal justice at Boise State University.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • Sentencing/Post Conviction
Recent Posts from The Justice Gambit
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Financial Costs of Capital Punishment
Nearly 3 1/2 years into a court-ordered suspension of executions, opponents have embraced a new argument: that Californians can't afford to carry out the death penalty in a constitutional manner.They contend that by commuting all…
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Mexico Gets It
The Mexican legislature voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs.Read more...President Calderon proposed this legislation. His reasoning: It makes sense to distinguish between small-time users and big-time…
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DHS Report Warned Against Anti-Semitic Violence
A heavily criticized Department of Homeland Security Report on right-wing extremism that was released in April warned precisely of the type of violent anti-Semitic activity that occurred at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.…
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Another Exoneration
(CNN) -- Former death row inmate Paul House woke to laughter and cries of joy from his mother on Tuesday, the day he learned he was a free man. "You've been exonerated," his mother, Joyce…
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Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims
TENAHA, Texas (CNN) -- Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery. Police in the small East Texas town of Tenaha are…
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President Obama's Opportunity re: SCOTUS
Conservative activists are already planning their campaigns to derail President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice Souter.Read more....Read more on the politics of the process...The rallying cry of "No more Souters" is taken to mean…
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How should nations respond to crimes against humanity?
On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was…
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Marital Rape
What do Idaho and Afghanistan have in common? Both governments permit marital rape.Read more...Chapter 18 of the Idaho criminal code states that18-6107. RAPE OF SPOUSE. No person shall be convicted of rape for any actor…
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A Racial Shift in Drug-Crime Prisoners
For the first time since crack cocaine sparked a war on drugs 20 years ago, the number of black Americans in state prisons for drug offenses has fallen sharply, while the number of white prisoners…
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More Progress
New Hampshire's state House of Representatives voted Wednesday to abolish the state's death penalty, which has not been carried out in nearly 70 years.Read more...The fate of this bill is uncertain in the senate. The…