Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Rights
Abstract
This article traces the evolution of “get tough” sentencing and corrections policies that were touted as the solution to a criminal justice system widely viewed as “broken” in the mid-1970s. It draws parallels to the adoption some twenty years later of harsh, punitive policies in the immigration enforcement system to address perceptions that it is similarly “broken,” policies that have embraced the theories, objectives and tools of criminal punishment, and caused the two systems to converge. In discussing the myriad of harms that have resulted from the convergence of these two systems, and the criminal justice system’s recent shift away from severity and toward harm reduction, this article suggests that the criminal justice system has been more proactive in compensating for its excesses than the immigration enforcement system and discusses the reasons why.
Publication Title
Fordham Urban Law Journal
First Page
217
Last Page
246
Recommended Citation
Teresa A. Miller,
Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost: Immigration Enforcement's Failed Experiment with Penal Severity,
38
Fordham Urb. L.J.
217
(2010).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/412