Law & Society Blog

With amazing candor, Joseph Sullivan, director of the “law enforcement and compliance” department at eBay, encouraged government agencies to request detailed profiles of eBay’s customers. According to this article, Sullivan said to an audience of “securtity professionals:”
“We don’t make you show a subpoena, except in exceptional cases,” Sullivan told his listeners. “When someone uses our […]

Some time ago, Janice Nadler and Mary R. Rose published Victim Impact Testimony and the Pschology of Punishement. Here is the abstract:
A growing body of empirical evidence from psychology, sociology, law, and criminal justice has demonstrated that lay intuitions about punishment are strongly rooted in retributivism: i.e., the idea that punishment should be distributed in […]