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Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III
Dear Readers, Thank you for your interest in The Criminal Law Practitioner. I am pleased to address you for the first time as the brief’s...
Jackie Solomon
Aug 15, 20222 min read
Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings
In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...
Kirsten Rowe
Jul 24, 20223 min read
Legal tracking: Malicious prosecution at issue in Thompson v. Clarke
Malicious prosecution is a major problem in the United States. The Washington Post found government misconduct in some manner caused over...
Bennett Nuss
Jun 5, 20223 min read
Latent fingerprint identification: A lack of scientific process
Fingerprint analysis was first proposed for criminal identification in the 19th century and has since become an evidentiary staple of...
Ben Crawford
Jun 3, 20223 min read
Pregnant in prison? What’s next for you? Abortion access for the incarcerated
There are over 200,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States. Thousands of these women are pregnant. Many persons become...
Lucy Delves
Jun 3, 20223 min read
A pattern of bias in PATTERN
The First Step Act, implemented on Dec. 21, 2018, required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “develop a risk needs assessment system to...
Brianna Long
May 31, 20224 min read
Greenlighting non-police alternatives to traffic enforcement and road safety
Though traditional notions of public safety have long regarded law enforcement as the only effective means of keeping communities safe,...
Arielle Aboulafia
May 31, 20224 min read
Visitation: Can it do more for juvenile offenders?
According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the...
Jackie Solomon
May 27, 20223 min read
Interstate prohibition of sports gambling: The Wire Act must go
Sports gambling is a market that has not always been legal, but that has not stopped sports bettors from placing bets on sporting events...
Nikko Respeto
May 26, 20223 min read
The guardians of our legal system unchecked
Crime is often a local issue, one handled by the community in which it occurs. Laws are mostly enforced by local or state police, and...
Adam K. Roberts
May 26, 20224 min read
How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system
Maryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...
Breann Bell
May 24, 20223 min read
The Bureau of Prison’s systematically unfair treatment of D.C. Code offenders
On Feb. 3, 2022, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed Blades v. Garland in the U.S. District Court for the...
Caitlyn Greene
May 24, 20225 min read
State-sanctioned secrecy in capital punishment
On Oct. 28, 2021 after being injected with the first of a series of lethal injection drugs, John Marion Grant began to violently...
Devin Iorio
May 23, 20223 min read
The high cost of parenting while incarcerated
The moment a parent comes in contact with the criminal legal system, their entire family is impacted. As a result of an arrest alone, a...
Siena Richardson
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Locked up and left to die: Addiction in America’s prisons
Mass incarceration is an institution as American as apple pie. In 2019, roughly 2.1 million people were incarcerated in the United...
W. Connor Smith
Apr 20, 20223 min read
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