Radical Acts of Justice – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:24:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Radical Acts of Justice – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 A Crisis of Purpose in Public Defense https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-crisis-of-purpose-in-public-defense/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10220 Radical Acts of Justice, identifies a deeper, more existential crisis facing public defense — not one of funding, but of purpose.]]> This post concludes our symposium on Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Read the rest of the posts here. *** That public defense is in a state of crisis is far from controversial. Crushing caseloads and rampant underfunding have created untenable working conditions under which even the most well-meaning defenders often struggle to...

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]]> Popular Justice Reborn?  https://lpeproject.org/blog/popular-justice-reborn/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10137 Radical Acts of Justice challenge the idea that criminal prosecutors represent "the People." But where did that idea come from in the first place? By tracing the long shift in American history from informal, non-professional law enforcement to our current system of formal, bureaucratized law enforcement, we can better understand the terrain on which contemporary popular justice movements are waging their struggles.]]> This post is part of a symposium on Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Jocelyn Simonson opens Radical Acts of Justice by reflecting on a vexing linguistic practice in contemporary criminal courts: the habit of referring to individual prosecuting attorneys as “the People” (“as in ‘Would the People...

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]]> Radical Constitutionalism and a Critique of Nonviolence https://lpeproject.org/blog/radical-constitutionalism-and-a-critique-of-nonviolence/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10004 This post is part of a symposium on Jocelyn Simonson’s Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Four years after police killings of Black people catalyzed some of the largest mass uprisings in the history of the United States, not a few liberals would prefer that “criminal justice reform” again be left to the liberal...

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]]> “The Fuel for Everything”: Acts of Care as Sources of Hope https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-fuel-for-everything-acts-of-care-as-sources-of-hope/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:15:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=9957 This post introduces a symposium on Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration. Read the responses here. *** In recent years, it has become commonplace among those critical of criminalization to refuse the term “criminal justice system” and refer instead to a “criminal legal system.” This terminological substitution reflects a growing belief that our formal...

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