Publications

Working Papers

Compliance Rate: An Empirical Theory of Excuse (with Paul H. Robinson).

Books

Confronting Failures of Justice: Getting Away with Murder and Rape, Rowman & Littlefield (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson & Muhammad Sarahne).

Law Review Articles

Conflicting Theories on the Proper Role of Just Deserts: Irrelevant, Complementary, or Inviolate?, forthcoming in Notre Dame Journal of Legislation (2026) (with Paul H. Robinson & Hugh Rennie).

What Justice? Confronting the Criminal Justice System’s Biggest Problem, 20 California Legal History 261 (2025) (with Paul H. Robinson).

Don’t Black Lives Matter? Confronting the Problem of Disproportionate Black Victimization, 53 Fordham Urban Law Journal 449 (2025) (with Paul H. Robinson).

Decriminalizing Condemnable Conduct: A Miscalculation of Societal Costs and Benefits, 98 Southern California Law Review 585 (2025) (with Paul H. Robinson).

“Mass Incarceration” Myths and Facts: Aiming Reform at the Real Problems, 50 American Journal of Criminal Law 1 (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson).

Electronic Prison: A Just Path to Decarceration, 58 University of Illinois Chicago Law Review 306 (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson).

Is Progressive Criminal Justice Reform Fair, Just, and Equitable? 14 Wake Forest L. Rev. Online 124 (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson).

Rethinking the Balance of Interests in Non-Exculpatory Defenses, 114 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1 (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson & Muhammad Sarahne).

Our Troubling Failures in Catching Criminals: Rethinking Legal Limits on Crime Investigation, 74 Case Western Law Review 693 (2024) (with Paul H. Robinson & Muhammad Sarahne).

Standing Back and Standing Down: Citizen Non-Cooperation and Police Non-Intervention as Causes of Justice Failure and Crime, 51 Hofstra Law Review 923 (2023) (with Paul H. Robinson & Muhammad Sarahne).

Selected Magazine Articles & Op-Eds

Stop Decriminalising Crime, Quillette, June 24, 2024 (with Paul H. Robinson).

The Myth of Mass Incarceration, National Review, Jan 2025 (with Paul H. Robinson).

Don’t we care about disproportionate Black victimization?,The Hill, Jan 3, 2025 (with Paul H. Robinson).

Harris doesn’t know where she stands on crime, nor do the rest of the Democrats, USA Today, Oct 29, 2024 (with Paul H. Robinson).