Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

1 Mark Berman, These Prosecutors Won Office Vowing to Fight the System. Now, the System
Is Fighting Back., WASH. POST(Nov. 9, 2019, 4: 52 PM), https://www. washingtonpost …

This review collects and critiques the academic literature on criminal defense lawyering, with
an emphasis on empirical work. Research on criminal defense attorneys in the United States …

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical
dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the …

In the 2010 landmark decision Padilla v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth
Amendment right to counsel demands that criminal defense attorneys inform their clients of …

The low-level misdemeanor process is a powerful socio-legal institution that both regulates
and generates inequality. At the same time, misdemeanor legal processing often ignores …

* Thanks to Lyz Riley for exceptional editing help. An earlier version of the ideas in this
introduction was presented at an ABA Criminal Justice workshop by Chad Flanders, and he …

From science to law enforcement, many research questions are answerable only by poring
over a large amount of unstructured text documents. While people can extract information …

Lawyers seeking social change experience firsthand the significant overlap between
criminal and immigration law. Today, a young criminal defense attorney will represent …

This article presents a qualitative research approach to exploring attorney–client
communication in an urban public defense system. The study drew upon procedural justice …