Michael Potere (Northwestern): Who Will Watch the Watchers? Citizens Recording Police Conduct. David Alan Sklansky (UC-Berkeley): Private Policing and Human Rights. Ann Cammett (UNLV): Deadbeats, Deadbrokes, and Prisoners. Michael S. Pardo (Alabama) and Dennis Patterson (EUI): Neuroscientific Challenges to Retributivism. David Alan Sklansky (UC-Berkeley): The Persistent Pull of Police Professionalism. Mary K. Ramirez (Washburn): Criminal Affirmance: Going Beyond the Deterrence Paradigm to Examine the Social Meaning Expressed by Exercising Discretion to Decline Prosecution of Elite Crime. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Rutgers): Beyond Crime and Commitment: Justifying Liberty Deprivations of the Dangerous and Responsible. Mark Niles (Seattle): Preempting Justice: "Precrime" in Fiction and in Fact. Janice Nadler and Mary-Hunter McDonnell (Northwestern): Moral Character, Motive, and the Psychology of Blame. Paul H. Robinson (Penn): Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenge for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctrination and "Rotten Social Background". From the International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Jay Karan, Deepak Saxena, Hitesh Shah on full moon days and crime: Is there any association? Douglas Starr delves into the origins of crime science, using literary and historical works to explain early forensics, phrenology and criminal psychology. Who confesses to a crime they didn't commit? The introduction to Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy. A review of Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong by Brandon L. Garrett. The economic downturn has not led to more crime, contrary to the experts' predictions — so what explains the disconnect? Big changes in American culture, says James Q. Wilson.
