February 2017
Natalie Pifer, graduate student of Criminology, Law and Society, is featured in The Sacramento Bee: AM Alert for her impending presentation at the UC Sacramento Center on K street. She wil be presenting her research on recent controversies that were derived from "categorial exemptions" to the death penalty, and their respective implications for criminal justice.
From The Sacramento Bee:
A pair of U.S. Supreme Court cases last decade that established “categorical exemptions” to the death penalty for the intellectually disabled and minors has rippled out into policy governing other stringent punishments, such as life imprisonment and solitary confinement. But relying on these broad definitions has also introduced new complications into determining who gets punished how. Natalie Pifer, a doctoral candidate in criminology, law and society at UC Irvine, will discuss her research into recent controversies that resulted from categorical exemptions, including overcrowding and the use of isolation in California prisons, and their implications for criminal justice, noon at the UC Sacramento Center on K Street.