Robina Institute Blog
This blog provides timely updates and commentary on issues in sentencing law, criminal justice policy and practice, and other related issues in the field of criminal justice.
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As the new academic year begins at the University of Minnesota, the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is continuing our work in sentencing law and criminal justice policy. By connecting research, education, and theory with practice the Robina...
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In a June, 2017 conference at Harvard Law School, Professor Bekh Bradley from Emory University, presented on the subject of "Trauma-Focused Neuroscience” to an audience of federal court officials, including judges. It was my task to respond to Dr. Bradley’s presentation...
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It was early August of 2014 when Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting of Michael Brown quickly spawned protests and public unrest that transfixed the nation – and the world – for several...
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This post was originally published on In Justice Today on July 25, 2017. See the original post, here. Over the past decade, the U.S. embarked on an unprecedented jail and prison building campaign, reaching a peak of 2.3 million people incarcerated in adult facilities in...
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At a recent meeting of the Robina Institute’s Probation Revocation Advisory Board there was a presentation and discussion about the work being done in Massachusetts addressing court-ordered conditions of probation and their relationship to probation revocations. In...
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After 15 years of work, the America Law Institute’s Model Penal Code: Sentencing received final approval at the 2017 ALI annual meeting (approved draft available here). This is the first-ever revision of the celebrated 1962 Model Penal Code. See the press release from...
