Criminal Law Research

David Abrams

Building Criminal Capital vs. Specific Deterrence: The Effect of Incarceration Length on Recidivism

The Imprisoner's Dilemma: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Incarceration, 98 IOWA L. REV. 905 (2013).

Putting the Trial Penalty on Trial, 51 DUQUESNE L. REV. 777 (2013).

Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, 4 AM. ECON. J.: APPLIED ECON. 32 (2012).

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?, 41 J. LEGAL STUD. 347 (2012). (with M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan).

Optimal Bail and the Value of Freedom: Evidence from the Philadelphia Bail Experiment, 49 ECON. INQUIRY 750-770 (2011) (with C. Rohlfs).

Is Pleading Really a Bargain?, 8 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 200 (2011).

The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability, 74 U. CHI. L. REV. 1145 (2007) (with A. Yoon).

Anita Allen

Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy, in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009).

Regina Austin

Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should Be Made of Victim Impact Videos? 31 CARDOZO L. REV. 979 (2010).

"The Shame of It All": Stigma and the Political Disenfranchisement of Formerly Convicted and Incarcerated Persons, 36 COLUM. HUMAN RIGHTS L. REV. 173 (2004).

Race Statistics, Disparate Impact Analysis and the Economic Disenfranchisement of Minority Ex-Offenders, 4 RACE & SOC'Y 177 (2001).

Tom Baker

Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements and Amounts: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Federal Securities Class Action Lawsuits, 9 J. EMPIRICAL L. STUD. 482 (2012) (with Blakely McShane, Oliver Watson & Sean Griffith).

Stephanos Bibas

Justice Kennedy's Sixth Amendment Pragmatism, 44 MCGEORGE L. REV. 211 (2013)

Shrinking Gideon and Expanding Alternatives to Lawyers, 70 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1287 (2013).

Criminal (In)Justice and Democracy in America, 122 HARV. L. REV. F. 134 (2013).

Bulk Misdemeanor Justice, 85 S. CAL. L. REV. POSTSCRIPT 101 (2013).

The Duties of Non-Judicial Actors in Ensuring Competent Negotiation, 51 DUQ. L. REV. 625 (2013)

Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment (with Richard A. Bierschbach), 112 MICH. L. REV. (forthcoming 2013)

THE MACHINERY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Oxford Univ. Press 2012)

Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 967 (2012) (with Benjamin H. Barton).

Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage, 5 NEUROETHICS 67 (2012) (with Thomas Nadelhoffer, Scott Grafton, Kent A. Kiehl, Andrew Mansfield, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Michael Gazzaniga).

Incompetent Plea Bargaining and Extrajudicial Reforms, 126 HARV L. REV. 150 (2012).

Notice-and-Comment Sentencing, 96 MINN L. REV. 1 (2012) (with Richard A. Bierschbach).

Taming Negotiated Justice, 122 YALE L. J. ONLINE 35 (2012).

Two Cheers, Not Three, For Sixth Amendment Originalism, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 45 (2011).

Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection, 99 CALIF. L. REV. 1117 (2011).

The Myth of the Fully Informed Rational Actor, 31. ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. 79 (2011).

Sacrificing Quantity for Quality: Better Focusing Prosecutors' Scarce Resources, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 138 (2011).

The Pitfalls of Professionalized Prosecution: A Response to Josh Bowers's "Legal Guilt, Normative Innocence, and the Equitable Decision Not to Prosecute," 111 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 14 (2011)

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with William W. Burke-White).

The Need for Prosecutorial Discretion, 19 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L REV. 369 (2010).

Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 196 (Oxford Univ. Press 2009).

Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1371 (2009) (coauthored with Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller).

Restoration, But Also More Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 595 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. 2009).

Political versus Administrative Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 677 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. 2009).

Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1371 (2009) (with Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller).

Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 959 (2009).

William Burke-White

Reframing Positive Complementarity: Reflections on the First Decade and Insights from the US Federal Criminal Justice System, in THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND COMPLEMENTARITY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, (C. Stahn & M. Al Zeidy, eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2011).

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with Stephanos Bibas).

Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice, 49 HARV. INT’L L.J. 53 (2008).

Implementing a Policy of Positive Complementarity in the Rome System of Justice, 19 CRIM. L.F. 59 (2008).

The Domestic Influence of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Creation of the State Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 46 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 279 (2008).

Kimberly Ferzan

Beyond the Special Part in PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW (R.A. Duff & Stuart Green, eds., forthcoming Oxford University Press 2010)(with Larry Alexander).

Justification & Excuse, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF CRIMINAL LAW (David Dolinko & John Deigh, eds., forthcoming Oxford University Press 2010).

CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (Cambridge University Press 2009)(co-authored with Larry Alexander and Stephen Morse).

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Oxford University Press 2009) (co-edited with Paul Robinson & Stephen Garvey).

Claire Finkelstein

Punishment as Contract, 8 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 319 (2011).

Should Bush Administration Lawyers Be Prosectured for Authorizing Torture, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNumbra 195 (2010) (with Michael W. Lewis).

Vindicating the Rule of Law: Prosecuting Free Riders on Human Rights, in WHEN GOVERNMENTS BREAK THE LAW: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE PROSECUTION OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION (Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussein, eds. 2010).

Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem (co-authored with Leo Katz), 5 OHIO. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008).

Two Models of Murder: Patterns of Criminalization in the United States, in HOMICIDE LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Jeremy Horder and David Hughes, eds. 2007).

A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).

Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).

Responsibility for Unintended Consequences, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 579 (2005).

Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).

A Contractarian Approach to Punishment, BLACKWELL SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Martin Golding & William Edmundson eds., 2004).

Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed, in CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: DOCTORINES OF THE GENERAL PART (Stephen Shute & A.P. Simester eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).

The Inefficiency of Mens Rea, 88 CAL. L. REV. 895 (2000).

Sarah Gordon

CONVICTIONS: MORMON POLYGAMY AND CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UTAH (with Kathryn Daynes, co-author, Univ. Illinois Press)

Gregory Hall

Legitimating Criminal Justice

Leo Katz

WHY THE LAW IS SO PERVERSE (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011).

Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem, 5 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008) (with Claire Finkelstein).

Choice, Consent and Cycling:The Hidden Limitations of Consent, 104 MICH. L. REV. 627 (2006).

The Prerequisites of Responsibility: Comments on Antony Duff, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 463 (2005).

Justification and Harm in Negligence, 4 THEORETICAL INQUIRY L. 397 (2003).

Villainy and Felony: A Problem Concerning Criminaliztion, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 451 (2003).

Duress, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MacMillan Press 2002).

Villainy and Felony, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 100, Symposium on "The New Culpability" (2002).

Randall Kennedy

RACE, CRIME, AND THE LAW (Pantheon 1997).

Orin Kerr

COMPUTER CRIME LAW (West Publishers 2d. ed. 2009).

MODERN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, BASIC CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, AND ADVANCED CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (with Kamisar, LaFave, Israel & King) (12th ed. 2008).

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (6-volume treatise) (with LaFave, Israel, & King) (3d ed. 2007).

Jonathan Klick

Police, Prisons, and Crime (with Alexander Tabarrok), in LAW AND ECONOMICS OF CRIME (Bruce Benson, ed., Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing).

Forfeiture of Illegal Gains and Implied Risk Preferences, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-18 (Feb. 3, 2012) (with Murat C. Mungan).

The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-36 (November 4, 2012) (with John MacDonald & Ben Grunwald).

Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIMINAL LAW 243 (Alon Harel & Keith N. Hylton eds., Elgar: 2012). (with John MacDonald & Thomas Stratman)

Terrorism (with Nuno Garoupa and Francesco Parisi), in CRIMINAL LAW AND ECONOMICS (Nuno Garoupa, ed., 2d ed., Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009).

Differential Victimization: Efficiency and Fairness Justifications for the Felony Murder Rule, 4 REV. L. AND ECON. 407 (2008)(with Nuno Garoupa).

Seth Kreimer

Truth Machines and Consequences: The Light and Dark Sides of 'Accuracy' in Criminal Justice, 60 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 655 (2005).

Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with David Rudovsky) (2002).

Setsuo Miyazawa

Will Penal Populism in Japan Decline?: A Discussion, 33 JAPANESE J. SOC. CRIM. 122 (2008).

The Politics of Increasing Punitiveness and the Rising Populism in Japanese Criminal Justice Policies, in PUNISHMENT AND SOCIETY, (2008).

Stephen Morse

Common Criminal Law Compatibilism, in NEUROSCIENCE AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY (Nicole A. Vincent ed. 2013).

Neuroimaging Evidence in Law: A Plea for Modesty and Relevance, in NEUROIMAGING IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY: FROM THE CLINIC TO THE COURTROOM 341 (Joseph R. Simpson ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility, in HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME 11: FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY 440 (Irving B. Weiner & Randy K. Otto, eds., 2012) (with Alan M. Goldstein and Ira K. Packer).

Mental Disorder and Criminal Law, 101 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 885 (2011).

Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience, LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, 13 CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES 529 (Michael Freeman, ed., 2011).

Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, in GENE INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 207 (Kenneth A. Dodge & Michael Rutter, eds., Guilford Press, 2011).

Genetics and Criminal Responsibility, 15 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 378 (2011).

Addiction and Criminal Responsibility, in ADDICTION AND RESPONSIBILITY 159 (Jeffrey Poland & George Graham eds., 2011)

Severe Environmental Deprivation (aka RSB): A Tragedy, Not a Defense, 2 ALA. C.R. & C.L. L. REV. 147 (2011).

Protecting Liberty and Autonomy: Desert/Disease Jurisprudence, 48 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1077 (2011).

The Status of NeuroLaw: A Plea for Current Modesty and Future Cautious Optimism, 39 J. PSYCHIATRY & L. 595 (2011).

Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility, in CONSTITUTION 3.0: FREEDOM AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 113 (Jeffrey Rosen & Benjamin Wittes eds., Brookings Institution Press, 2011).

CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (2009) (contributing author, with Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan).

Against Control Tests for Criminal Responsibility, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Paul H. Robinson et al., eds., 2009).

The Uneasy Entente Between Legal Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona, 97 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1071 (2007).

Dorothy Roberts

Prison, Foster Care, and the Systematic Punishment of Black Mothers, 59 UCLA L. REV. 1474 (2012).

Race, Gender, and the Conflation of Biological and Social Issues, 9 DUBOIS REV. 235 (2012) (book review).

The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities, 56 STAN. L. REV. 1271 (2004).

Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy, 104 HARV. L. REV. 1419 (1991).

Paul Robinson

Empirical Desert, Individual Prevention, and Limiting Retributivism: A Reply (May 28, 2013), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-19 (with Joshua Samuel Barton & Matthew J. Lister).

The Moral Vigilante and Her Cousins in the Shadows (November 22, 2013), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-29.

The Model Penal Code's Conceptual Error on the Nature of Proximate Cause, and How to Fix It (January 14, 2014), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-3

Natural Law and Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors, 2013 U. ILL. L. REV. 433.

Four Distinctions that Glanville Williams Did Not Make: The Practical Benefits of Examining the Interrelation Among Criminal Law Doctrines, in THE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW: THE LEGACY OF GLANVILLE WILLIAMS (Dennis Baker ed., Cambridge University Press 2013).

INTUITIONS OF JUSTICE AND THE UTILITY OF DESERT (Oxford University Press, 2013).

CRIMINAL LAW (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012) (with Michael T. Cahill) (1st ed. Aspen 1997).

Comments on [Israeli] Proposal for Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing, HUKIM – Israeli Journal on Legislation.

Extralegal Punishment Factors: A Study of Forgiveness, Hardship, Good-Deeds, Apology, Remorse, and Other Such Discretionary Factors in Assessing Criminal Punishment, 65 VAND. L. REV. 737 (2012).

Perceptions of Fairness and Justice: The Shared Aims and Occasional Conflicts of Legitimacy and Moral Credibility, 47 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 212 (2012).

Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenges for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctrination and "Rotten Social Background," 2 ALA. C.R. & C.L. L. REV. 53 (2012).

Life Without Parole Under Modern Theories of Punishment, in LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE: AMERICA'S NEW DEATH PENALTY? (Austin Sarat & Charles Ogletree eds., NYU Press 2012).

The Proper Role of the Community in Determining Criminal Liability and Punishment (U. Pa. Pub. L. & Leg. Theory Res. Paper Series, No. 12-49, 2012)

Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Changing Norms, and Rape Reform, in THE STRUCTURES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 186 (Duff, Farmer, Marshall, Renzo, & Tadros, eds., 2011).

Advantaging Aggressors: Justice & Deterrence in International Law, 3 HARV. NAT'L SECURITY J. 143 (2011) (with Adil Ahmad Haque).

Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory, 89 TEX. L. REV. 291 (2010) (with Michael Cahill & Dan Bartels).

Realism, Punishment & Reform, 77 U. CHI. L. REV. 1611 (2010) (with Robert Kurzban, Penn Psych, and Owen Jones, Vanderbilt Law).

The Modern Irrationalities of American Criminal Codes: An Empirical Study of Offense Grading, 100 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 709 (2010) (with Thomas Gaeta, Matthew Majarian, Megan Schultz, & Douglas Weck).

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (editor, with Steve Garvey & Kim Ferzan) (Oxford 2009)

A Right to Bear Firearms But Not to Use Them? Defensive Force Rules and the Increasing Effectiveness of Non-Lethal Weapons, 89 B.U. L. REV. 251 (2009).

FINAL REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CRIMINAL CODE GRADING STUDY (December 2009) (with University of Pennsylvania Law School's Criminal Law Research Group).

DISTRIBUTIVE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW: WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED HOW MUCH? (Oxford 2008), also appearing in Spanish and Chinese.

Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical, 67 CAMBRIDGE L.J. 145 (2008).

Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, 91 MINN. L. REV. 1829 (2007) (with Robert Kurzban).

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1 (2007) (with John Darley).

The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (with Robert Kurzban and Owen Jones), 60 VAND. L. REV. 1633 (2007).

FINAL REPORT OF THE MALDIVES PENAL LAW & SENTENCING CODIFICATION PROJECT (Republic of Maldives 2006) (two volumes) (with University of Pennsylvania Law School's Criminal Law Research Group).

LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE: WHY CRIMINAL LAW DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESERVE (with Michael Cahill) (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).

FINAL REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS CRIMINAL CODE REWRITE AND REFORM COMMISSION (State of Illinois 2003) (two volumes) (with staff).

Kermit Roosevelt

Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World (Donahue Lecture), 42 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 1 (2008).

David Rudovsky

Debate: The Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk in New York City, 162 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 117 (2013) (with Lawrence Rosenthal).

POLICE MISCONDUCT: LAW AND LITIGATION (3d ed., Clark Boardman Co. 2012) (with MICHAEL AVERY and KAREN BLUM).

Saucier v. Katz: Qualified Immunity as a Doctrine of Dilution of Constitutional Rights, in WE DISSENT: TALKING BACK TO THE REHNQUIST COURT: EIGHT CASES THAT SUBVERTED CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS (Michael Avery, ed. 2009).

THE LAW OF ARREST, SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 5th ed. 2008 & 6th ed. 2011).

A Closing Keynote: A Comment on Mass Incarceration in the United States, 11 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 207 (2008).

CRIMINAL LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA (West Publ. Co. 2007) (with LEONARD SOSNOV).

Litigating Civil Rights Cases to Reform Racially Biased Criminal Justice Practice, 39 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 97 (2007).

Habeas Corpus, The Suspension Clause, and the Field Theory, A Response to Professor Vladeck, 80 TEMPLE L. REV. 441 (2007)

Running in Place: The Paradox of Expanding Rights and Restricted Remedies, 2005 U. ILL. L. REV. 1199.

Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with Seth Kreimer) (2002).

Law Enforcement by Stereotypes and Serenditpity, 3 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 296 (2001).

Louis Rulli

The Long Term Impact of CAFRA: Expanding Access to Counsel and Encouraging Greater Use of Criminal Forfeiture, 14 FED. SENTENCING REP. 87 (2001).

Nadia Sawicki

Doctors, Discipline, and the Death Penalty: Professional Implications of Safe Harbor and Exclusionary Policies, 27 Yale L. & Policy Rev. __ (2008)

Matiangai Sirleaf

The Truth About Truth Commissions: Why they do not Function Optimally in Post-Conflict Societies, 35 CARDOZO L. REV. (2014).

Beyond Truth and Punishment __ VA. J. INT’L L. __ (2014)

David Skeel

Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz (with Michael J. Klarman & Carol S. Steiker), in THE POLITICAL HEART OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: ESSAYS ON THEMES OF WILLIAM J. STUNTZ, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (co-editor with Michael J. Klarman & Carol S. Steiker).

The Criminal Law of Gambling: A Puzzling History, in GAMBLING: MAPPING THE AMERICAN MORAL LANDSCAPE (Alan Wolfe & Erik C. Owens, eds., 2009) (with William J. Stuntz).

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Comment, Admitting Mental Health Evidence to Impeach the Credibility of a Sexual Assault Complainant, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 1373 (2005).

Christopher Yoo

New Technologies and Constitutional Law, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 485–94 (Mark Tushnet et al. eds., 2012) (with Thomas Fetzer).