Christopher Slobogin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Slobogin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Slobogin |
| SIGNATURE | SLOBOGIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3077-1549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is heightened when the evidence is from an expert), (3) helpful to the factfinder (through promoting “incremental v…
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice offers bold yet sensible proposals for reforming every major component of the US criminal justice system. The first third of the book explains how existing caselaw can be interpreted to end over-policing, better regulate interrogations, and replace the exclusionary rule with direct sanctions on officers and their departments. The second part of the book, on the post-arrest adjudication process, calls for replacing …
Surveillance Technologies and Constitutional Law
This review focuses on government use of technology to observe, collect, or record potential criminal activity in real-time, as contrasted with “transaction surveillance” that involves government efforts to access already-existing records and exploit Big Data, topics that have been the focus of previous reviews (Brayne 2018, Ridgeway 2018). Even so limited, surveillance technologies come in many guises, including closed-circuit television, automa…
Legal Admissibility of the Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (Cast-MR)
The Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR) was developed to assess competence to stand trial in defendants with Intellectual Disability. Although it remains the only validated instrument for this population, previous research has suggested it is rarely used by forensic examiners, a finding our survey of legal cases confirms. Initial validation studies provided some support for the instrument's re…
Just Algorithms
Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison co…
The Law on Police Use of Force in the United States
Recent events in the United States have highlighted the fact that American police resort to force, including deadly force, much more often than in many other Western countries. This Article describes how the current regulatory regime may ignore or even facilitate these aggressive police actions. The law governing police use of force in the United States derives in large part from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohi…
Introduction to the Special Issue on implementing Post‐Conviction Risk Assessment
Juveniles at Risk
Juveniles at Risk
Chapter One: Juvenile Justice in Flux Chapter Two: Juvenile Crime and How to Reduce It Chapter Three: The Implications of Science for Juvenile Justice Chapter Four: A Preventive Risk Management Model of Juvenile Justice Chapter Five: The Procedural Implications of Social Science Research Chapter Six: The Future of (Juvenile) Justice Appendix Notes
Psychological Syndromes and Criminal Responsibility
In criminal cases, evidence about psychological syndromes is typically introduced by the defense in support of insanity, self-defense, or imperfect self-defense claims and by the prosecution to show that a criminal act occurred. The admissibility of defense-proffered testimony about phenomena such as battered woman syndrome, combat stress syndrome, or XYY syndrome depends in the first instance on how insanity, self-defense, and other defensive do…
Pragmatic forensic psychology
The admissibility of behavioral science information in criminal trials
The admissibility of behavioral science information in criminal trials
"Appreciation" as a measure of competency
"Appreciation" as a measure of competency
Therapeutic jurisprudence
This article identifies and examines 5 conundrums confronting therapeutic jurisprudence. Is therapeutic jurisprudence distinguishable from other jurisprudences that share its goal of using the law to improve the well-being of others (the identity dilemma)? Can the term therapeutic be defined in a meaningful way (the definitional dilemma)? Will the vagaries of empirical research, on which therapeutic jurisprudence heavily relies, doom its proposal…
Pragmatic forensic psychology
"Appreciation" as a measure of competency
Therapeutic jurisprudence
This article identifies and examines 5 conundrums confronting therapeutic jurisprudence. Is therapeutic jurisprudence distinguishable from other jurisprudences that share its goal of using the law to improve the well-being of others (the identity dilemma)? Can the term therapeutic be defined in a meaningful way (the definitional dilemma)? Will the vagaries of empirical research, on which therapeutic jurisprudence heavily relies, doom its proposal…
Psychological Syndromes and Criminal Responsibility
In criminal cases, evidence about psychological syndromes is typically introduced by the defense in support of insanity, self-defense, or imperfect self-defense claims and by the prosecution to show that a criminal act occurred. The admissibility of defense-proffered testimony about phenomena such as battered woman syndrome, combat stress syndrome, or XYY syndrome depends in the first instance on how insanity, self-defense, and other defensive do…
The admissibility of behavioral science information in criminal trials
Therapeutic jurisprudence
This article identifies and examines 5 conundrums confronting therapeutic jurisprudence. Is therapeutic jurisprudence distinguishable from other jurisprudences that share its goal of using the law to improve the well-being of others (the identity dilemma)? Can the term therapeutic be defined in a meaningful way (the definitional dilemma)? Will the vagaries of empirical research, on which therapeutic jurisprudence heavily relies, doom its proposal…
"Appreciation" as a measure of competency
"Appreciation" as a measure of competency
The admissibility of behavioral science information in criminal trials
The admissibility of behavioral science information in criminal trials
Pragmatic forensic psychology
Psychological Syndromes and Criminal Responsibility
In criminal cases, evidence about psychological syndromes is typically introduced by the defense in support of insanity, self-defense, or imperfect self-defense claims and by the prosecution to show that a criminal act occurred. The admissibility of defense-proffered testimony about phenomena such as battered woman syndrome, combat stress syndrome, or XYY syndrome depends in the first instance on how insanity, self-defense, and other defensive do…
Juveniles at Risk
Juveniles at Risk
Chapter One: Juvenile Justice in Flux Chapter Two: Juvenile Crime and How to Reduce It Chapter Three: The Implications of Science for Juvenile Justice Chapter Four: A Preventive Risk Management Model of Juvenile Justice Chapter Five: The Procedural Implications of Social Science Research Chapter Six: The Future of (Juvenile) Justice Appendix Notes
The Law on Police Use of Force in the United States
Recent events in the United States have highlighted the fact that American police resort to force, including deadly force, much more often than in many other Western countries. This Article describes how the current regulatory regime may ignore or even facilitate these aggressive police actions. The law governing police use of force in the United States derives in large part from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohi…
Introduction to the Special Issue on implementing Post‐Conviction Risk Assessment
Just Algorithms
Statistically-derived algorithms, adopted by many jurisdictions in an effort to identify the risk of reoffending posed by criminal defendants, have been lambasted as racist, de-humanizing, and antithetical to the foundational tenets of criminal justice. Just Algorithms argues that these attacks are misguided and that, properly regulated, risk assessment tools can be a crucial means of safely and humanely dismantling our massive jail and prison co…
Legal Admissibility of the Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (Cast-MR)
The Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR) was developed to assess competence to stand trial in defendants with Intellectual Disability. Although it remains the only validated instrument for this population, previous research has suggested it is rarely used by forensic examiners, a finding our survey of legal cases confirms. Initial validation studies provided some support for the instrument's re…
Surveillance Technologies and Constitutional Law
This review focuses on government use of technology to observe, collect, or record potential criminal activity in real-time, as contrasted with “transaction surveillance” that involves government efforts to access already-existing records and exploit Big Data, topics that have been the focus of previous reviews (Brayne 2018, Ridgeway 2018). Even so limited, surveillance technologies come in many guises, including closed-circuit television, automa…
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice offers bold yet sensible proposals for reforming every major component of the US criminal justice system. The first third of the book explains how existing caselaw can be interpreted to end over-policing, better regulate interrogations, and replace the exclusionary rule with direct sanctions on officers and their departments. The second part of the book, on the post-arrest adjudication process, calls for replacing …
Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is heightened when the evidence is from an expert), (3) helpful to the factfinder (through promoting “incremental v…
Psychology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (4 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Criminal Law and Evidence (3 works)