Items tagged with Criminal Justice

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  “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”: A Minority Bank, Racial Bias, and the Democratization of Credit
  February 26
  Steve James presents the story of the Sungs and their struggle to save their family-run Chinatown bank from a misguided prosecution based on cultural incompetence.
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  “The Return”: Resentencing, Reentry Support, and a Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Evolving Roles
  June 21
  “The Return” reveals why a lawyer, deeply involved in the resentencing of Three Strikers as a way of reducing mass incarceration, placed reentry services near the top of his concerns.
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  Only “Good Victims” Need Apply: “Tales of the Grim Sleeper” and Poor Black Women in Crack Culture
  May 27
  The story of a serial killer who took advantage of crack culture to prey on black women can tell us much about what is wrong with the notion of “the good victim.”
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  “Last Day of Freedom”: Bill Babbitt’s Struggle with the Stigma of Being the Brother of a Murderer
  January 25
  How does a brother cope with the shame, guilt, regret, and anger of being the relative of a mentally-ill ex-Marine who committed a murder, but should not have been executed for it?
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  Not Girls in a Gang nor a Gang of Girls: A Law-Focused Review of “Out in the Night”
  August 11
  The law uses the term “gang” too loosely.  “Out in the Night” explores what happened when the term was applied to four young-adult black working-class lesbians from Newark.
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  Forget Flattery: The Attributes of a Good, Effective Sentencing Video
  May 29
  A sentencing video should be more than a flattering portrait of a defendant; it should tell the story of what the defendant has done to deserve a lighter sentence and why he or she is unlikely to reoffend.
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  Morse contributes to ground-breaking report on criminal justice reform
  March 12
  Penn Law professor Stephen J. Morse has contributed a chapter to a comprehensive report titled Reforming Criminal Justice. Morse’s chapter, “Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice,” examines the wide-reaching interactions between mental health and the criminal justice system.
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  Now on Display in Biddle Library: I am Innocent. Photographs & stories of the wrongfully accused by multimedia artist Diane Bladecki
  April 19
  Bladecki works for the organization Centurion, an organization that has devoted countless hours and funds to investigate and overturn convictions of innocent men and women on death row or serving lifetime prison terms. Since 1980, Centurion has helped free 54 people.
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  “Get Digi With It”: AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGY’S CHALLENGE TO RESTRICTIONS ON RECORDING IN PENNSYLVANIA PRISONS
  October 21
  The PA Department of Corrections’ nearly complete ban on recording in its facilities by lawyers and the media needs to be reexamined in light of advances in the use of digital audiovisual technology and visual legal advocacy.
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  Showing Where We Come From – A Public Defender’s Use of Video in Pretrial Plea Negotiations
  June 16

  In making the case for resources and training in visual legal advocacy, a public defender describes how a video she shot in a client’s home with his mother was effective in reducing his sentence.   

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  Sentencing Videos: Visual Legal Advocacy for Criminal Defendants
  April 25
  Sentencing videos are short nonfiction advocacy pieces that can help criminal defendants obtain better sentences by illustrating with images, sound, and text their capacity as a human beings to suffer, err, grow and change.