Topics to be addressed include the role of violence and the threat of violence in delimiting conventional rights and freedoms, the morality of responding to state violence with civil and uncivil forms of disobedience, the moral distinction between disobedience and revolutionary aims and actions, approaches to thinking about prison reform and abolition, standards for the use of deadly force by the. [...] Criminal Procedure: Adjudication HLS 2049 Adriaan Lanni 2025 Spring Th F 10:15am - 12:15pm The subject of this course is the criminal process "from bail to jail." We will address some of the main constitutional and policy issues that arise about the structure of this process, including the right to counsel, the influence of prosecutorial discretion, the institution of plea bargaining, the role of. [...] There are major debates on incarceration issues swirling in the general public and in the legal community ranging from the morality and efficacy of solitary confinement to the effects of prison overcrowding to the proper administration of parole to the appropriateness of life sentences without parole for a variety of populations and crimes. [...] It will examine the history, philosophy, and administration of the criminal sentencing process, the causes of growth in the US penal population, the historical roots of that grown from the mid 20th century to the present, and the impact of those policies on communities of color and the crime rate. [...] What legal obligations does the state have toward those it incarcerates? Topics to be covered include: the evolution of prison rights litigation; the scope of constitutional rights in prison; the prison disciplinary process; the interaction of prison law and remedies; conditions of confinement; medical and mental health care; sexual assault; the intersection of prison law and race, and prison law.
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Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
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Table of Contents
- HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL 1
- Creating Justice in Real Time: Vision, Strategies and Campaigns 1
- Cybersecurity: Technology, Policy, and Law 2
- Economics of Disease and Health Equity 2
- Law, Order and Algorithms 3
- FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 4
- "I can't breathe!" - Tracing the Spatially Suffocated African Diaspora in the Americas 4
- Incarceration and Inequality in the United States 4
- Poverty in the United States 5
- Prison Abolition and Prison Literature 5
- Punishment and Prisons 6
- The State and Violence 6
- HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 7
- Access to Justice Lab 7
- The Carceral Lens: Exploring Criminal (In)justice through Film 7
- Comparative Abolitions (Slavery, Capital Punishment, Prison, Police) 7
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication 8
- Criminal Procedure: Investigations 8
- Criminal Procedure: Investigations 8
- Criminal Procedure Survey 9
- The Effects of Mass Incarceration: Experiences of Prison and Parole 9
- The Ethics of Prosecution 10
- Freedom of Expression and the Race Question 10
- Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice 11
- International Criminal Law 11
- Jury Deliberation in the Age of AI 11
- Law and Neuroscience 12
- Mass Incarceration and Sentencing Law 12
- Misdemeanor Justice 13
- Modern Surveillance Law 13
- Policing in America: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly 14
- Prison Law 14
- Race, Law and Capitalism 15
- The Second Amendment 15
- Second Chance Entrepreneurship – Barriers and Opportunities to Achieve Economic Independence for the Formerly Incarcerated 15
- Technology and Justice 16
- White Collar Criminal Law and Procedure 16
- GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 17
- Educating Incarcerated Youth: Practice, Research, Policy, and Advocacy 17
- GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN 18
- Contested Spaces: Architecture and Power 18
- T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 19
- Human Rights Dilemmas in Child Protection 19
- Principles of Injury Control 20
