My book, Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk, is out today from Cambridge University Press: https://t.co/RHXpnjGIPz

My trilogy is now complete-Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Policing, Adjudication and Sentencing (2025); Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing ('22); Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk ('21)

My new book, Rehabilitating Criminal Justice: Policing, Adjudication, and Sentencing, will be out this month from Cambridge University Press. This website has the TOC and preface:

In The Minimalist Alternative to Abolitionism (on SSRN) I argue that a criminal law minimalist approach to prisons can radically reduce reliance on both prisons and on the police without the loss in crime prevention capacity and legitimacy that is likely to come with abolition.

Live Program Overview Title: Constitutional Criminal Mental Health Law: An Overview Date & Time: June 12, 2023 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Presenter: Christopher Slobogin, J.D., LLM Register:

My new book, Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing (NYU Press) is out today: https://t.co/n3UVr8BWRw.

3, the potential sentences in #Arbery of from 30 years to LWOP are too long. 10% of our prison population (much of it black) is serving life. We are spending $100s of millions keeping repentant and potentially productive people locked up.

2, the #Arbery defendants may have been extremely reckless and thus guilty of “malice murder,” but they should not have been convicted of felony murder based on the felony of agg assault, since almost all killings involve agg assault. . .

Three under-reported aspects of the #Arbery case: 1, a citizen's arrest in Ga. requires cause to believe a *felony* has occurred. A trespass in Ga. is only a misdemeanor; the defendants knew Arbery was not carrying anything . . . .

My new article, Police as Community Caretakers, explores how the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Caniglia v. Strom rejecting a free-standing community caretaker exception provides doctrinal support for the movement to de-police:

Using algorithms to determine sentencing may reduce length of prison sentences, increase use of evidence-based rehabilitative programs https://t.co/AAvnY65Y84 #justalgorithm

A podcast on how risk assessment instruments can reduce incarceration, https://t.co/60KOVwiMGH , and a primer for legal decisionmakers on how to figure out when to use them,

See this editorial from Brandon Garrett, a co-Reporter for the ALI Principles of Policing Project mentioned in the piece.