Franklin Zimring interviewed for Los Angeles Times, Dec. 15, 2015
“If you want executions, you move to Texas. If what you want to do is frame the number of death sentences you’ve obtained, then it’s a good idea to move to Riverside. Those are pretty expensive status rewards, though,” he said.
Franklin Zimring and Kate Weisburd quoted in Pacific Standard, Dec. 15, 2015
Beyond the cyclical criminalization that the device provokes, its rules and circumstances clash with the infrastructure of the teenage mind. “Expecting the experience-based ability to resist impulses … to be fully formed prior to age 18 or 19 would seem on present evidence to be wishful thinking,” says Berkeley law professor Frank Zimring.
Weisburd recommends community-based programming. “In Oakland there were Evening Reporting Centers at local non-profits,” she says, “the youth were kept busy, off the streets, got good programming, and there was no need at all for electronic monitoring.”
Jennifer Urban interviewed by WSJ 2050, Dec. 11, 2015
“There is great promise in these interconnected systems, but there are genuine security and privacy risks,” says Jennifer Urban.
Stephen Sugarman interviewed by San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 6, 2016
Stephen Sugarman questioned the NFL’s interpretation of its rules but said that fans and cities such as Oakland had no legal standing to demand the Raiders release their reasons for seeking to leave town. “The whole idea of having a sensible criteria set out in advance is … to avoid another antitrust battle between the league and the team seeking to relocate — as happened with the Raiders in the past.”
Daniel Farber writes for The Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2016
You might question comparing carbon emissions to ordinary careless behavior. It’s certainly true that identifying who is the injured party in a car accident is easier than defining who is suffering from the additional boost our own actions are giving climate change. But how can we justify carelessly harming others simply because it is difficult to identify who will be hurt?
Jesse Choper interviewed by CBS News, Jan. 5, 2016
“If you were to replace one of the conservatives, Kennedy or any of them, with a liberal, then you would have a radical change going forward and you may even have some changes going backwards,” said Choper, who pointed out that a court with a liberal majority could reverse earlier cases.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by The Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2016
“It is certainly consistent with the capacity and responsibility of the executive branch of government to make legislative standards coherent and clear,” Zimring said. Obama is “trying to make it coherent and clear—and give it more reach.”
Christopher Hoofnagle and Eduard Meleshinsky paper cited on MediaPost, Jan. 4, 2016
“Our findings suggest that even with a prominent disclosure, a substantial number of consumers are misled about the advertising nature of advertorials,” Hoofnagle and Eduard Meleshinsky, a former Berkeley Law Public Interest Fellow, write in Technology Science.
Justin McCrary quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 31, 2015
Banks have been successful at limiting the amount of cash on hand and initiating other “target hardening” efforts. “It’s not as lucrative today,” McCrary said. “It’s either a crime of desperation or a crime of the uninformed.”
Franklin Zimring interviewed by KQED-FM, Dec. 30, 2015
“If you’re a police officer there, and there’s a brick through a Muslim house of worship, then what you have to do is round up the usual suspects. They’re the same people who drink too many beers in bars and will in other situations go off gay-bashing or finding themselves racial minorities,” he said. “Those are essentially thugs taking on different targets because Muslims are in the news.”