Dan Markel

Rethinking Criminal Law and Family Status

119 Yale L.J. 1864 (2010).  In our recent book, Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, we examined and critiqued a number of ways in which the criminal justice system uses family status to distribute benefits or burdens to defendants. In their essays, Professors Alafair Burke, Alice Ristroph, and Melissa Murray identify a series of concerns...