Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Transfer of Criminal Justice Policies Across National Boundaries, in Internationale Perspektiven in Kriminologie und Strafrecht: Festschrift für Günther Kaiser zum 70. Geburtstag (Hans-Jörg Albrecht et al., eds., Duncker & Humblot, 1998)
– Sentencing Reform Across National Boundaries, in The Politics of Sentencing Reform (Chris Clarkson & Rod Morgan, eds., Oxford University Press, 1995)
– Intermediate Sanctions, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
– Gewinnabschöpfung in den USA, in Möglichkeiten der Gewinnabschöpfung zur Bekämpfung der Organisierten Kriminalität: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven im internationalen Vergleich (Michael Kilchling & Günther Kaiser, eds., Max-Planck Institute, 1997)
– Crime and Punishment in America, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
– Sentencing Guidelines "Alive and Well" in the States, 5 Overcrowded Times 1, 11-14, reprinted in Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective 12-17 (Michael Tonry & Kathleen Hatlestad, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997)
– Law and Crime Prevention, in Integrating Crime Prevention Strategies: Propensity and Opportunity 69-88 (Per-Olof Wikström, ed., National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet) (BRÅ), 1995)
– Building Safer Societies: Crime Prevention in Developed Countries, 5(3) European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 49-60 (1997)
– Prison Population Growing Under Minnesota Guidelines, 4 Overcrowded Times 1, 10-12 (1993), reprinted in Sentencing Reform in Overcrowded Times: A Comparative Perspective 40-45 (Michael Tonry & Kathleen Hatlestad, eds., Oxford University Press, 1997)
– Interchangeability, Desert Limits, and Equivalence of Function, in Principled Sentencing: Readings in Theory and Practice (Andrew von Hirsch & Andrew Ashworth, Hart Publishing, 2d ed., 1998)
– Limiting Excessive Prison Sentences under Federal and State Constitutions, 11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 39 (2008), reprinted in part in Why Punish? How Much?: A Reader on Punishment 263 (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 2011)
– Forfeiture Laws, Practices and Controversies in the U.S., 5 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice 294-307 (1997)
– Rethinking Unthinkable Punishment Policies in America, 46 UCLA Law Review 1751-91 (1999)
– Building Better Policies on Better Knowledge, in The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 1998)
– A Comparative Perspective on Minority Groups, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 6 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice 60-73 (1998)
– The Decision to File Federal Criminal Charges: A Quantitative Study of Prosecutorial Discretion, 47 University of Chicago Law Review 246 (1980)
– Main-streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How to Incorporate Comparative and International Concepts and Materials into Basic Criminal Law and Procedure Courses, 100 West Virginia Law Review 773 (1998)
– The Search for the Whole Truth About American and European Criminal Justice, 3 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 785-849 (2000) (reviewing William T. Pizzi, Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need To Do To Rebuild It (New York University Press, 2000)) (review essay)
– Sentencing in Germany and the United States: Comparing Apfel with Apples (Edition Iuscrim, 2001) (Research in brief series)
– Sentencing Reform in Minnesota, Ten Years After: Reflections on Dale G. Parent's Structuring Criminal Sentences: The Evolution of Minnesota's Sentencing Guidelines, 75 Minnesota Law Review 727 (1991)
– What Were They Thinking? Fourth Amendment Unreasonableness in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, 71 Fordham Law Review 329-421 (2002), reprinted as How Can a Clearly Unreasonable Arrest be a "Reasonable" Seizure?, in 30 Search and Seizure Law Report 85-92 (2003)
– Sentencing Guidelines in Minnesota, Other States, and the Federal Courts: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, 12 Federal Sentencing Reporter 69-82 (1999)
– Lessons of State Guideline Reforms, 8 Federal Sentencing Reporter 39 (1995)
– Defendant Amenability to Treatment or Probation as a Basis for Departure Under the Minnesota and Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 3 Federal Sentencing Reporter 328 (1991)
– Sentencing Laws & Practices in France, 7 Federal Sentencing Reporter 275 (1995)
– Sentencing Guidelines in the States: Lessons for State and Federal Reformers, 6 Federal Sentencing Reporter 123 (1993) (Guest Editor's Observations), reprinted in 10 Federal Sentencing Reporter 46 (1997)
– Implementing Commission-Based Sentencing Guidelines: The Lessons of the First Ten Years in Minnesota, 2 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 279 (1993)
– Sentencing Principles in Theory and Practice, 22 Crime and Justice 363 (1997)
– The Role of the Legislature, the Sentencing Commission, and Other Officials under the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, 28 Wake Forest Law Review 345 (1993)
– The Uncertain Future of Sentencing Guidelines, 12 Law & Inequality 1 (1993)