William S Lofquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 273906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William S Lofquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | William S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lofquist |
| SIGNATURE | LOFQUIST W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Geneseo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slavery's Enduring Legacy
Using data on post-Greggexecutions and death sentences, we explore the previously observed, but not well understood, relationship between slavery and the death penalty. We classify modern states into categories focused on their jurisdictional law and practice of slavery circa 1860. Our analyses reveal that the relationship between slavery and modern executions is stronger even than previously recognized, with 90.6% of post-Greggexecutions occurri…
Closing the Courthouse Door
Recent years have witnessed a broad series of elite efforts to withdraw legal rights extended to individuals over the preceding several decades. In closely examining two of these efforts, the tort and habeas corpus reform movements, it is argued that reform advocates have utilized a similar narrative framework to make the case for reform. By constructing plaintiffs as "undeserving," due to their improper use of the legal system to redress harms f…
Organizational Probation and the U.S. Sentencing Commission
As part of federal organizational sentencing guidelines enacted on 1 November 1991, the United States Sentencing Commission included organizational probation. This sanction allows courts to place convicted corporations on probation, with conditions designed to reduce the likelihood of future law violations and remedy the effects of the original offense. This article explores the history, development, and significance of organizational probation. …
Legislating Organizational Probation
This study examines the development of organizational probation. That this sanction emerged from the long process of developing organizational sentencing guidelines as a clearly specified, widely available, and often binding sanction represents an unexpected statutory outcome: an interventionist, nonmarket sanction during a time of deregulatory free market policy and ideology. This outcome is explained through a multi-theoretical framework emphas…
Jurors' Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases
Criticisms of the civil jury, including charges that the jury is biased against business, have been central to debates over the litigation explosion and demands for tort reform. This article seeks to inform these ongoing controversies by examining tort jurors' accounts of how they reached decisions in cases with business parties. Interviews and questionnaire data showed that jurors were skeptical of plaintiff tort claims against businesses, organ…
Jurors' Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases
Criticisms of the civil jury, including charges that the jury is biased against business, have been central to debates over the litigation explosion and demands for tort reform. This article seeks to inform these ongoing controversies by examining tort jurors' accounts of how they reached decisions in cases with business parties. Interviews and questionnaire data showed that jurors were skeptical of plaintiff tort claims against businesses, organ…
Closing the Courthouse Door
Recent years have witnessed a broad series of elite efforts to withdraw legal rights extended to individuals over the preceding several decades. In closely examining two of these efforts, the tort and habeas corpus reform movements, it is argued that reform advocates have utilized a similar narrative framework to make the case for reform. By constructing plaintiffs as "undeserving," due to their improper use of the legal system to redress harms f…
Legislating Organizational Probation
This study examines the development of organizational probation. That this sanction emerged from the long process of developing organizational sentencing guidelines as a clearly specified, widely available, and often binding sanction represents an unexpected statutory outcome: an interventionist, nonmarket sanction during a time of deregulatory free market policy and ideology. This outcome is explained through a multi-theoretical framework emphas…
Organizational Probation and the U.S. Sentencing Commission
As part of federal organizational sentencing guidelines enacted on 1 November 1991, the United States Sentencing Commission included organizational probation. This sanction allows courts to place convicted corporations on probation, with conditions designed to reduce the likelihood of future law violations and remedy the effects of the original offense. This article explores the history, development, and significance of organizational probation. …
Jurors' Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases
Criticisms of the civil jury, including charges that the jury is biased against business, have been central to debates over the litigation explosion and demands for tort reform. This article seeks to inform these ongoing controversies by examining tort jurors' accounts of how they reached decisions in cases with business parties. Interviews and questionnaire data showed that jurors were skeptical of plaintiff tort claims against businesses, organ…
Organizational Probation and the U.S. Sentencing Commission
As part of federal organizational sentencing guidelines enacted on 1 November 1991, the United States Sentencing Commission included organizational probation. This sanction allows courts to place convicted corporations on probation, with conditions designed to reduce the likelihood of future law violations and remedy the effects of the original offense. This article explores the history, development, and significance of organizational probation. …
Legislating Organizational Probation
This study examines the development of organizational probation. That this sanction emerged from the long process of developing organizational sentencing guidelines as a clearly specified, widely available, and often binding sanction represents an unexpected statutory outcome: an interventionist, nonmarket sanction during a time of deregulatory free market policy and ideology. This outcome is explained through a multi-theoretical framework emphas…
Closing the Courthouse Door
Recent years have witnessed a broad series of elite efforts to withdraw legal rights extended to individuals over the preceding several decades. In closely examining two of these efforts, the tort and habeas corpus reform movements, it is argued that reform advocates have utilized a similar narrative framework to make the case for reform. By constructing plaintiffs as "undeserving," due to their improper use of the legal system to redress harms f…
Slavery's Enduring Legacy
Using data on post-Greggexecutions and death sentences, we explore the previously observed, but not well understood, relationship between slavery and the death penalty. We classify modern states into categories focused on their jurisdictional law and practice of slavery circa 1860. Our analyses reveal that the relationship between slavery and modern executions is stronger even than previously recognized, with 90.6% of post-Greggexecutions occurri…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (2 works)