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John Pfaff

Law

#1723

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#2154

Historical Rank

#827

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International Law

#852

World Rank

#1031

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#379

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John Pfaff

Economics

#4381

World Rank

#4968

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#1184

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
Bachelors Mathematics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, John F. Pfaff is an American law professor at Fordham University. He previously served as a John M. Olin Fellow at the Northwestern University School of Law and as a clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was educated at the University of Chicago. His 2017 book Locked In argues that conventional wisdom regarding the causes of high rates of incarceration in the United States is wrong, arguing that, for example, the war on drugs has played a much smaller role than generally thought. Instead, he argues that rising violent crime rates and prosecutorial discretion were major factors in the rise in America's incarceration rate.

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John Pfaff's Published Works

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Published Works

The Micro and Macro Causes of Prison Growth (2012) (60)
The Empirics of Prison Growth: A Critical Review and Path Forward (2008) (44)
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform (2017) (38)
The Myths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program on Sentencing Practices (2009) (35)
The Continued Vitality of Structured Sentencing Following Blakely: The Effectiveness of Voluntary Guidelines (2005) (17)
Escaping from the Standard Story: Why the Conventional Wisdom on Prison Growth is Wrong, and Where We Can Go from Here (2014) (13)
The Causes of Growth in Prison Admissions and Populations (2011) (12)
The Complicated Economics of Prison Reform (2016) (10)
Waylaid by a Metaphor: A Deeply Problematic Account of Prison Growth (2012) (9)
The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited Importance, and Limited Legislative Options (2015) (9)
The Growth of Prisons: Toward a Second Generation Approach (2007) (5)
Internet Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth (2007) (5)
Doing Business in Today's Western Europe@@@Cracking the New European Markets (1993) (5)
It's about quality (2019) (5)
A Plea for More Aggregation: The Looming Threat to Empirical Legal Scholarship (2009) (4)
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice. By David Alan Sklansky. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 336 pp. $29.95 hardcover (2021) (2)
The Durability of Prison Populations (2010) (2)
Criminal Punishment and the Politics of Place (2018) (2)
Changes in the EC licensing environment and their effect on licensing as a strategy for Europe 1992 (1992) (1)
Why the Policy Failures of Mass Incarceration Are Really Political Failures (2020) (1)
Evidence Based Policy (2007) (1)
A smarter approach to federal assistance with state-level criminal justice reform (2018) (1)
The Vitality of Voluntary Guidelines in the Wake of Blakely v. Washington: An Empirical Assessment (2007) (1)
Theories of Mass Imprisonment (2020) (1)
The Need for Prosecutorial Guidelines (2017) (0)
Future of Appellate Sentencing Review: Booker in the States, The Symposium: Criminal Appeals: Sentencing Appeals (2009) (0)
Federal Sentencing in the States: Some Thoughts on Federal Grants and State Imprisonment (2015) (0)
Decarceration's Blindspots (2018) (0)
Locked In by John Pfaff (2017) (0)
Habeas Settlements (2005) (0)
Technology transfer in Mexico: Past patterns and new problems related to the North American free trade agreement (1993) (0)
Book Review (1993) (0)
Truth in Sentencing Laws and the Limited Role of the Federal Government in Criminal Justice: Evi- dence From the 1994 Crime Control Act, And What it Means for Today (2017) (0)
Vitality of Voluntary Guidelines in the Wake of Blakely v. Washington: An Empirical Assessment, The Articles on Guideline Operation Issues (2006) (0)
How to have Students Learn More from their Term Projects (1990) (0)
Five Myths About Prison (2019) (0)
An investigation of the investment in the British coastal shipping industry, 1775-1790 (1976) (0)

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