Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– 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 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)
– Explaining Sentencing Severity in Large Urban Counties: A Multilevel Analysis of Contextual and Case-Level Factors, 84 Prison Journal 184-207 (2004)
– Why Minnesota Will Weather Blakely's Blast, 18 Federal Sentencing Reporter 12-18 (2005)
– 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)
– Legislative Policies Toward the Serious Juvenile Offender: On the Virtues of Automatic Adulthood, 27 Crime & Delinquency 497 (1981)
– 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)
– 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 Punitive Juvenile Court and the Quality of Procedural Justice: Disjunctions Between Rhetoric and Reality, 36 Crime & Delinquency 443 (1990)
– 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)
– A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Centennary: Social Structure, Race, and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court, 1 Punishment & Society 187 (1999)
– Race, Youth Violence, and the Changing Jurisprudence of Waiver, 19 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 3 (2001)
– 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)
– The Juvenile Court, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
– The Juvenile Court, in Handbook of Justice Research in Law (Joseph Sanders & V. Lee Hamilton, eds., Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 2000)
– Juveniles' Waiver of Legal Rights: Confessions, Miranda, and the Right to Counsel, in Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (Thomas Grisso & Robert Schwartz, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2000)
– Criminalizing the Juvenile Court: A Juvenile Justice Research Agenda for the 1990's, in Juvenile Justice and Public Policy: Toward a National Agenda (Ira Schwartz, ed., Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992)
– Rehabilitation, Retribution, and Restorative Justice: Alternative Conceptions of the Juvenile Court, in Restorative Juvenile Justice: Repairing the Harm of Youth Crime (Lode Walgrave & Gordon Bazemore, eds., Criminal Justice Press, 1999)
– Race and the Changing Jurisprudence of Juvenile Justice: A Tale in Two Parts, 1950-2000, in Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Differences in American Juvenile Justice (Darnell Hawkins & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, eds., University of Chicago Press, 2005)
– 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)
– 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)
– Delinquent Careers and Criminal Policy: Just Deserts and the Waiver Decision, 21 Criminology 195 (1983)
– The Decision to Seek Criminal Charges: Just Deserts and the Waiver Decision, 3 Criminal Justice Ethics 27 (1984)
– The Politics of Race and Juvenile Justice: The "Due Process Revolution" and the Conservative Reaction, 20 Justice Quarterly 765 (2003)
– Just Deserts for Juveniles: Punishment v. Treatment and the Difference It Makes, 39-40 International Review of Criminal Policy 81 (1990)
– The Honest Politician's Guide to Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 564 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 10 (1999)
– Bad Law Makes Hard Cases: Reflections on Teen-Aged Axe-Murderers, Judicial Activism, and Legislative Default, 8 Law and Inequality 1 (1989)
– Criminalizing the American Juvenile Court, 17 Crime and Justice 197 (1993), reprinted in Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (Barry Feld, ed., Oxford University Press, 1999)
– Parochialism in U.S. Sentencing Policy, 45 Crime & Delinquency 48-65 (1999)
– Unthought Thoughts: The Influence of Changing Sensibilities on Penal Policies, 3 Punishment & Society 167-181 (2001), reprinted in Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences (David Garland, ed., Sage, 2001)