Criminal Justice — Topics
Legal Consequences of the Media’s Relationship with Domestic Violence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 30, 2026
Fighting Pre-Crime?: Law Enforcement, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Policing Technology
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 27, 2026
Expanding Compassionate Release Eligibility in a Post-COVID World
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 27, 2025
Minnesota's Clemency Review Commission: Reforming the Criminal Pardon Proces
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 18, 2024
Waupun Correctional Institution: A Case Study in the Failures of the PLRA’s Administrative Remedies Requirement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 22, 2024
Supporting Criminalized Survivors: The Ongoing Need for Minnesota to Pass the Survivor’s Justice Act
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 18, 2024
Innocence in Missouri: Searching for a New Avenue Forward
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, September 30, 2024
I Still Can’t Hear You Your Honor: Zoom Court is Here to Stay–and It’s at the Expense of Criminal Defendants
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 17, 2024
Will Solitary Confinement’s Visibility in the Public Consciousness Lead to Real Change?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 29, 2024
An Ongoing Struggle: Police Brutality and Native Americans
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 3, 2024
The Bystander Standard: Do Survivors of Mass Shootings Qualify for U Visas?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 23, 2024
Will Minnesota’s New Automatic Expungement Laws Have an Effect on Federal Sentences?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 14, 2024
Punished Twice: Opioid Users Increasingly Handed Harsh Sentences for Friends’ Deaths
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 1, 2023
Right to Spiritual Advisors During Executions: Missouri’s Latest Refusal and the Supreme Court’s Evolving Jurisprudence
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 12, 2023
Inequality as the Vertical partiality of Public Administration: Empirical Evidence from the Judiciary
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 1, 2023
Expungement: The Missing Federal Piece
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 10, 2023
Fundamental, Not Absolute: Implications of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Ruling in Schroeder v. Simon
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 29, 2023
How Current Law Fails to Protect Defendants with Mental Illnesses from the Death Penalty
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 27, 2023
Face It: Police Can't Be Trusted with Facial Recognition Technology
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 7, 2023
Police Questioning of Juveniles
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 9, 2023
Expungement of Marijuana Convictions: Lessons Learned from Minnesota Prohibition
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 7, 2023
State v. Khalil: How a Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling Led to the Amendment of a Minnesota Criminal Sexual Conduct Statute
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 6, 2023
“It’s Absolutely Immoral”: The Denial of Mental Health Treatment in U.S. Prisons
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 9, 2023
What's Brewing with Bruen?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 30, 2022
Purging False Narratives Around Cash Bail
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 28, 2022
More than Miranda: Exploring Preventive Solutions to Juvenile False Confessions
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 31, 2022
Out of the Cell and Into the Fire: Inherently Dangerous Prison Work Assignments, the Eighth Amendment’s Guarantee of Safe Conditions of Confinement, and California’s AB-2147
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 13, 2022
A Constitutional Necessity, Not a Luxury: States Must Provide Public Defender Offices With More Resources to Provide Indigent Defendants With Effective Counsel
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 30, 2022
A Healthy Start: Minnesota Is Pioneering an Alternative to Prison Nurseries, and Other States Should Follow Its Lead
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 28, 2022
Biden’s Private Prison Ban Must Include ICE Detention
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 16, 2022
Above the Law: How Kim Potter’s Sentencing Serves as Another Example of Police Receiving Disproportionately Low Sentences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 7, 2022
Review of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System by Alec Karakatsanis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 23, 2022
Are New York's Bail and Discovery Reforms in Renewed Danger?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, February 9, 2022
How a New Ohio Law and Other State Reforms Are Changing the Landscape of Mental Health and Criminal Justice
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 24, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Legalized Recreational Marijuana in South Dakota
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 12, 2022
The Sex Offender Registry is a Life Sentence for Juveniles
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December 2, 2021
Mental Health & Criminal Justice: An Interview with Kelly Mitchell and Professor JaneAnne Murray
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, October 11, 2021
Joint Publication: Racial Inequality in the Legal System Locally and Nationally
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, August 5, 2021
The Long Scalpel of the Law: How United States Prisons Continue to Practice Eugenics Through Forced Sterilization
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, June 6, 2021
Constitutional Avenues for Challenging Social Media Monitoring by Law Enforcement
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2021
The Injustice of Inconsistency: Language Access in Judicial Proceedings
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 25, 2021
This Week in News: Responses to the Killing of Daunte Wright
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 15, 2021
How We Got Here: Race, Police Use of Force, and the Road to George Floyd
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, April 1, 2021
“How Are We Supposed to Move Forward with THIS Police Force After This?”: The Stalled Reform Movement in Minneapolis
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 26, 2021
The $2 Billion-Plus Price of Injustice: A Methodological Map for Police Reform in the George Floyd Era
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 22, 2021
Refunding the Community: What Defunding MPD Means and Why It Is Urgent and Realistic
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 18, 2021
Deadly Force: How George Floyd's Killing Exposes Racial Inequities in Minnesota's Felony-Murder Doctrine Among the Disenfranchised, the Powerful, and the Police
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, March 8, 2021
Covid-19 in Prisons: Human Rights Violations and Inmate Exploitation
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 29, 2021
Does the Minneapolis Police Department Traffic Stop Data Reveal Racial Bias?
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 24, 2020
Avoiding Atkins: How Tennessee is on the Verge of Unconstitutionally Executing an Individual with Intellectual Disabilities
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 18, 2020
2020 Summit for Civil Rights - The State of Multi-Racial America and Black Power
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, November 16, 2020
Inmate Rights and the Prison/Jail System During COVID-19—Interview with Prof. Susanna Blumenthal
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 9, 2020
Stretched Thin: Parents Lacking Resources Who Are Accused of Negligent Child Abuse Need Solutions, Not Prisons
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, January 21, 2020
Pass Senate Bill 355: How Proposed Minnesota Legislation Brings the U.S. into Compliance with International Norms
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, May 25, 2016