New Ideas in Criminal Law

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The latest issue of the student-run Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law has just been published, featuring four articles from scholars and law students from across the country. Claire K. Child and Stephanie A. Clark of Vermont Law School analyze the collateral damage caused by the lifetime ban on receiving federal food assistance for those convicted of a felony drug charge; Kristen McCowan, Henry F. Fradella, and Tess M.S. Neal of Arizona State University probe the influence of rape myth-related information in court. In addition, Harvard Law student Lucy Litt examines bias in the federal RICO street gang database, and recent Vanderbilt Law graduate A. Spencer Davies offers a new strategy for regulating the use of facial recognition technology by police.