Philosophers have established that certain ethically important values are modally robust in
the sense that they systematically deliver correlative benefits across a range of …

The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment.
Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these …

Borrowing from its English forebears, the United States once had a form of punishment
called civil death. Civil death extinguished most civil rights of a person convicted of a crime …

In May 2017, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a statute that resolved a long-
standing question regarding the right to vote in the state: What constitutes a crime of" moral …

Human rights activists, litigators, and scholars the world over are actively seeking means to
hold accountable those responsible for egregious human rights abuses. Given the absence …

This volume collects 17 of Douglas Husak's influential essays in criminal law theory. The
essays span Husak's original and provocative contributions to the major topics in the field …

Thirteen million people, including about thirty percent of black men, are banned for life from
jury service because they are felons.'Thirty-one states and the federal government subscribe …

Approximately eight percent of adults in the United States have a felony conviction. The"
collateral consequences" of criminal conviction (CCs)-legal disabilities imposed by …

On any given day, about 2.2 million people are confined in US jails and prisons'-nearly 0.9%
of American men are in prison, 2 and another 0.4% are in jail. 3 This year, 9 or 10 million …

It is often said that a criminal offender owes a debt to society. Lately, though, it seems that a
growing number of bill collectors are trying to cash in on that debt. Courts ask for payment of …