Jonathan Rapping (John Marshall): The Revolution Will Be Televised: Popular Culture and the American Criminal Justice Narrative. Oliver K. Roeder (Texas), Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Julia Bowling, and Inimai M. Chettiar (NYU), and Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia): What Caused the Crime Decline? Max Ehrenfreund on how no one can figure out why crime is so low. Geoff Ward (UC-Irvine): The Slow Violence of State Organized Race Crime. Andrew Verstein (Wake Forest): Violent White-Collar Crime. Jason L. Mallory (Polk State): Denying Pell Grants to Prisoners: Race, Class, and the Philosophy of Mass Incarceration. The overcriminalization of America: Charles G. Koch and Mark V. Holden on how to reduce poverty and improve race relations by rethinking our justice system. Cynthia V. Ward (William and Mary): “Stand Your Ground” and Self Defense. More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement. What were you thinking? As the criminal code expands, intent is often ignored. Brandon L. Garrett (Virginia): Why Plea Bargains are Not Confessions. Does an innocent man have the right to be exonerated? In the 1980s, Larry Youngblood was wrongfully imprisoned for raping a 10-year-old boy — the way the Supreme Court handled his case had lasting consequences. Ty Alper (UC-Berkeley): The United States Execution Drug Shortage: A Consequence of Our Values. Eric Holder calls for a halt on U.S. executions.
