John F. Pfaff

Publications

• County Prosecution and State Preemption: The Confusing Politics of Criminal Legal Reform and Backlash
  114 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 981 (2024) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2024
• The Poor Reform Prosecutor: So Far from the State Capital, So Close to the Suburbs
  50 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1013 (2023) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2023
• Why the Policy Failures of Mass Incarceration Are Really Political Failures The 2019 Minnesota Law Review Symposium - Mass Incarceration
  104 MINN. L. REV. 2673 (2020) · Minnesota Law Review · 2020

• A Second Step Act for the States (and Counties, and Cities)
  41 CARDOZO L. REV. 151 (2019) · Cardozo Law Review · 2019
• Criminal Punishment and the Politics of Place
  45 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 571 (2018) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2018
• The Complicated Economics of Prison Reform
  114 MICH. L. REV. 951 (2016) · Michigan Law Review · 2016
• Federal Sentencing in the States: Some Thoughts on Federal Grants and State Imprisonment
  66 UC L.J. 1567 (2015) · UC Law Journal · 2015
• The Micro and Macro Causes of Prison Growth
  28 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (2013) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2013
• Waylaid by a Metaphor: A Deeply Problematic Account of Prison Growth
  111 MICH. L. REV. 1087 (2013) · Michigan Law Review · 2013
• The Durability of Prison Populations
  2010 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2010) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2010

• The Future of Appellate Sentencing Review: <i>Booker</i> in the States
  93 MARQ. L. REV. 683 (2009) · Marquette Law Review · 2009
• The Empirics of Prison Growth: A Critical Review and Path Forward
  98 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 547 (2008) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2008

• The Montana Coroner System: An Archaic Inadequacy in Need of Reform
  36 MONT. L. REV. (1975) · Montana Law Review · 1975