Automation in the Courtroom: On Algorithms Predicting Crime
The justice system's growing reliance on artificial intelligence threatens to remove human sensibility from sentencing.
Justice for All?: William Kelly and Kyle Rittenhouse
Should departments really be in the business of policing their officers' off-duty behavior?
Qualified Immunity: An Unqualified Disaster?
Can the lengths the law goes to hide institutional actors from public accountability be morally justified?
Do Police Intentions Matter?
If the prevalence of racial bias and the demands of law enforcement makes rights violations predictable, are we not then complicit in maintaining the status quo?
More Than Words: Hate Crime Laws and the Atlanta Attack
Deploying the vocabulary of hate crime legislation might be more important than prosecuting offenders.
Sarah Everard and the Politics of Fear
The kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard represents structural violence and is not the unexplainable and unimaginable act it's been made out to be.
The Ethics of Digidog
Concerns over privacy and the use of police funds may hobble the deployment of new peacekeeping technology.
Implications of Exonerations
What might explain the difference in our intuitions regarding the death penalty and life in prison?
Under Discussion: Right to Riot?
Can looting and vandalism ever be considered a justified response to oppression? Does it effectively communicate a message of resistance?
Under Discussion: Law and Order as Suppression and Oppression
The "law and order" slogan is nothing more than a wish return to the status quo that is fundamentally opposed to the project of racial justice.