U.S. national debate topic, 2020-2021. Criminal justice reform /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Grey House Publishing, Inc (Compiler)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2020.
Series:	Reference shelf ; v. 92, no. 3.
Subjects:	Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > History > 21st century. Corrections > United States > History > 21st century. Prisons > United States > History > 21st century. Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States > History > 21st century. Criminal justice, Administration of > Technological innovations.

Table of Contents:

1. Race, human rights, and justice. Human rights and the law
The growing racial disparity in prison time / Weihua Li, The Marshall Project, December 3, 2019
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans / Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, November 27, 2019
LAPD searches blacks and Latinos more often / Ben Poston and Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2019
Study that claims white police no more likely to shoot minorities draws fire / Juanita Bawagan, Science, August 15, 2019
The bad-apple myth of policing / Osagie K. Obasogie, The Atlantic, August 2, 2019
2. Prison and its alternatives. Rehabilitation and punishment
The case for abolishing prisons / German Lopez, Vox, June 19, 2017
How lessons in Scandinavian design could help prisons with rehabilitation / Yvonne Jewkes and Kate Gooch, The Conversation, January 4, 2019
White House touts prison reforms but throws cold water on sentencing bill / C. J. Ciaramella, Reason, March 1, 2018
3 months into new criminal justice law, success for some and snafus for others / Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, April 1, 2019
The case against solitary confinement / Stephanie Wykstra, Vox, April 17, 2019
3. Privatization and mass incarceration. The incarceration problem
What Democrats get wrong about prison reform / John Pfaff, Politico, August 14, 2019
Who profits from our prison system? / Michelle Chen, The Nation, August 9, 2018
Here's why abolishing private prisons isn't a silver bullet / Mia Armstrong, The Marshall Project, September 12, 2019
Everything you don't know about mass incarceration / Rafael A. Mangual, City Journal, Summer 2019
Michelle Alexander is wrong about mass incarceration / Barry Latzer, National Review, April 4, 2019
4. The scientific and technological dimensions. The technological era
How robots, IoT and artificial intelligence are transforming the police / Bernard Marr, Forbes, September 19, 2017
How the police use facial recognition, and where it falls short / Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The New York Times, June 12, 2020
How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him / Cyrus Farivar, Politico, June 3, 2018
Ten years later: the lasting impact of the 2009 NAS Report / The Innocence Project, February 19, 2019
Bad evidence / Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, The Intercept, May 5, 2019
Recent developments in the forensic sciences / Dr. Victor W. Weedn, United States Attorneys' Bulletin, January 2017
Forensic science isn't "reliable" or "unreliable"--it depends on the questions you're trying to answer / Claude Roux, The Conversation, September 10, 2019
Rep. Takano introduces the Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act to protect defendants' due process rights in the criminal justice system / U.S. House of Representatives, September 17, 2019
5. What the states are doing. The state of criminal justice
From marijuana to the death penalty, states led the way in 2019 / Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal, December 20, 2019
Voting rights restoration gives felons a voice in more states / Matt Vasilogambros, Pew/Stateline, January 3, 2020
California set to end private prisons and immigrant detention camps / Steve Gorman, Reuters, October 9, 2019
NYPD overhauls rules for DNA evidence in criminal cases / Ben Chapman, The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2020
Chicago judge says his bail reforms were a success. But independent reviews show flaws and more crimes / Scott Shackford, Reason, February 20, 2020
Big risks in discovery reform: N.Y.'s new law tips the balance way too far in favor of defendants / Seth Barron and Ralf Mangual, New York Daily News, June 3, 2019
New York police try to pin gang witness's death on criminal justice reforms / Scott Shackford, Reason, February 6, 2020
How a criminal justice reform became an enrichment scheme / Jessica Pishko, Politico, July 14, 2019
In California, criminal justice reform offers a lesson for the nation / Tim Arango, The New York Times, January 21, 2019.