Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Why Minnesota Will Weather Blakely's Blast, 18 Federal Sentencing Reporter 12-18 (2005)
– The Defense Lawyer's Role in Negotiated Justice, in Strafverteidigung vor neuen Herausforderungen: Denkanstösse aus sieben Rechtsordnungen (Criminal Defense Facing New Challenges) (Thomas Weigend, ed., Duncker & Humblot, 2008)
– Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (Joshua Dressler, editor in chief, Macmillan Reference USA, 2d ed., 2002) (vols. I-IV) (co-editor)
– Explaining Sentencing Severity in Large Urban Counties: A Multilevel Analysis of Contextual and Case-Level Factors, 84 Prison Journal 184-207 (2004)
– The Warren Court's Missed Opportunities in Substantive Criminal Law, 3 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 75-103 (2005)
– The Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, in Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy (Arie Freiberg & Karen Gelb, eds., Willan Publishing, 2008); adapted version reprinted in Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy 270 (Andrew von Hirsch, Andrew Ashworth & Julian Roberts, eds., Hart Publishing, 3d ed., 2009)
– Criminal Evidence: Constitutional, Statutory, and Rules Limitations (Butterworth, 1985) (Supps. 1986-1992)
– Limiting Retributivism, in The Future of Imprisonment 83-119 (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2004), reprinted in Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy 135 (Andrew von Hirsch, Andrew Ashworth & Julian Roberts, eds., Hart Publishing, 3d ed., 2009), and in Why Punish? How Much?: A Reader on Punishment 255 (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2011)
– State Sentencing Guidelines: Diversity, Consensus, and Unresolved Policy Issues, 105 Columbia Law Review 1190-1232 (2005)
– Blakely in Minnesota, Two Years Out: Guidelines Sentencing Is Alive And Well, 4 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 73-94 (2006)
– The Criminal Justice System: Materials on the Administration and Reform of the Criminal Law (Little, Brown & Company, 1980)
– Proportionality Principles in American Law: Controlling Excessive Government Actions (Oxford University Press, 2009)
– Sentencing Guidelines in Minnesota, 1978-2003, 32 Crime and Justice 131-219 (2005)
– Punishment Purposes, 58 Stanford Law Review 67-83 (2005)
– National Report: United States of America, in Strafverteidigung vor neuen Herausforderungen: Denkanstösse aus sieben Rechtsordnungen (Criminal Defense Facing New Challenges) (Thomas Weigend, Susanne Walter & Barbara Grunewald, eds., Duncker & Humblot, 2008)
– Minnesota Misdemeanors and Moving Traffic Violations (Mason Publishing Company, 1st ed., 1982-1989 (looseleaf))
– Historical and Comparative Perspectives on the Exceptional Severity of Sentencing in the United States, 36 George Washington International Law Review 227-237 (2004) (reviewing James Q. Whitman, Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishments and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe (Oxford University Press, 2003)) (review essay)
– The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Decision to Imprison in Large Urban Jurisdictions: A Multilevel Analysis, 51 Crime and Delinquency 400-424 (2005)
– The Apprendi-Blakely Cases: Sentencing Reform Counter-Revolution?, 6 Criminology & Public Policy 403-32 (2007)
– The French Code of Criminal Procedure (F.B. Rothman, 1988) (translated into English)
– Legal and Extralegal Determinants of Inter-County Differences in Prison Use, 14 Criminal Justice Policy Review 377-400 (2003)
– Excessive Prison Sentences, Punishment Goals, and the Eighth Amendment: "Proportionality" Relative To What?, 89 Minnesota Law Review 571-651 (2005)
– A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Structure and Inmate Subcultures in Institutions for Juvenile Offenders, 27 Crime & Delinquency 336 (1981), reprinted in The Sociology of Juvenile Delinquency (Ronald J. Berger, ed., Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1991) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– The Punitive Juvenile Court and the Quality of Procedural Justice: Disjunctions Between Rhetoric and Reality, 36 Crime & Delinquency 443 (1990)
– The Social Context of Juvenile Justice Administration: Racial Disparities in an Urban Juvenile Court, in Minorities in Juvenile Justice (Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Carl Pope & William Feyerherm, eds., Sage Publications, 1995)
– Legislative Exclusion of Offenses from Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: A History and Critique, in The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court 83 (Jeffrey Fagan & Franklin Zimring, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2000)
– Race, Youth Violence, and the Changing Jurisprudence of Waiver, 19 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 3 (2001)
– In re: Gault Revisited: A Cross-State Comparison of the Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court, 34 Crime & Delinquency 393 (1988), reprinted in Exploring Delinquency: Causes and Control (Dean Rojek & Gary Jensen, eds., Roxbury Publishing Company, 1995) and in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– The Inherent Tension of Social Welfare and Criminal Social Control: Policy Lessons From the American Juvenile Court Experience, in Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems (Eric Jensen & Jørgen Jepsen, eds., Hart Publishing, 2006)
– Juvenile (In) Justice and the Criminal Court Alternative, 39 Crime & Delinquency 403 (1993), reprinted in The Juvenile Court: Dynamic, Dysfunctional, or Dead? (Center for the Study of Youth Policy, 1993), in Juvenile Delinquency: A Justice Perspective (Ralph Weisheit & Robert Culbertson, eds., Waveland, 4th ed., 2000), in Criminal Courts for the 21st Century (Lisa Stolzenberg & Stewart D'Alessio, eds., Prentice Hall, 1st ed., 1999; 2d ed., 2002), and in Essential Readings in Juvenile Justice (David Parry, ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005)