Professor John Pfaff‘s work is mentioned in Paul Butler’s Washington Post review of Emily Bazelon’s new book, “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration.”
Bazelon’s thesis is that prosecutors bear most of the guilt for dragging the country into the morass of mass incarceration, and they are the ones who can help bring us out.
She cites the scholarship of Fordham law professor John Pfaff to demonstrate how in the 1990s prosecutors began to charge many more people with serious felonies, dramatically increasing the number of incarcerated Americans, even after crime rates started to fall. Law professor Angela J. Davis’s important work on prosecutorial discretion also informs Bazelon’s analysis.
