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Fagan researches multiple topics in the fields of criminal law and social policy, including capital punishment and racial profiling. [1] For example, he is an outspoken critic of stop-and-frisk in New York City, and his research on the practice was a major factor in Shira Scheindlin's decision to strike it down as unconstitutional in 2013. [2]
Tom R. Tyler (born March 3, 1950) is a professor of psychology and law at Yale Law School, known for his contributions to understanding why people obey the law.A 2012 review article on procedural justice by Anthony Bottoms and Justice Tankebe noted that, "Unquestionably the dominant theoretical approach to legitimacy within these disciplines is that of 'procedural justice,' based especially on ...
Brown Chair in Law at the University of British Columbia, and was a visiting global professor in NYU Law School's Global Law program. Since 1997, he has been a member of the New York University School of Law faculty, where he holds the Arthur T. Vanderbilt professorship, and is also a full professor in the Department of Sociology. In fall 2014 ...
In particular, Bratton directed the police to more strictly enforce laws against subway fare evasion, public drinking, public urination, and graffiti. Bratton also revived the New York City Cabaret Law, a previously dormant Prohibition era ban on dancing in unlicensed establishments. Throughout the late 1990s, NYPD shut down many of the city's ...
Henry ("Hank") F. Fradella is an American lawyer and criminologist who is a professor of criminology at Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Affiliate Professor of Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
Morton Bard (born March 7, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York - d. December 4, 1997) was an American psychologist, known for the research he undertook on the psychology of crime victims.
Paul Wilbur Tappan (1911 – July 9, 1964) was an American criminologist who served as Professor of Law and Criminology at the UC Berkeley School of Law from 1962 until his death in 1964. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935 and subsequently began his academic career at Miami University of Ohio .
The Criminal Court of the City of New York is a court of the State Unified Court System in New York City that handles misdemeanors (generally, crimes punishable by fine or imprisonment of up to one year) and lesser offenses, and also conducts arraignments (initial court appearances following arrest) and preliminary hearings in felony cases (generally, more serious offenses punishable by ...