Hadar Aviram

Books

• Yesterday’s Monsters: Revision, Rehabilitation in the Manson Family Parole Hearings (UC Press 2020).
• The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (coedited with Jonathan Simon and Rosann Greenspan).
• Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (Univ. of Cal. Press, 2015).

Journal Articles

• The Center Cannot Hold: Zoom as a Potemkin Village, 16 Fla. Int'l Univ. L. Rev. 75 (2022). FULLTEXT
• The House Always Wins: Doctrine and Animus in California’s COVID-19 Prison Litigation, 72 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 565 (2022). FULLTEXT
• A Table Before Me in the Presence of My Enemies: Susan Atkins and the Embodiment of Aging and Frailty on Parole, 22 Int'l. Crim. L.R. 279 (2021). URL
• Bad Role Models? American Influence on Israeli Criminal Justice Policy, 28 U. Miami Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 309 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Bottleneck: The Place of County Jails in California’s COVID-19 Correctional Crisis, 2 Hastings J. Crime & Punishment 76 (2021). FULLTEXT
• Are We Still Cheap on Crime? Austerity, Punitivism, and Common Sense in Trumpistan, 1 Hastings J. Crime & Punishment 3 (2020). FULLTEXT
• Moral Character: Making Sense of the Experiences of Bar Applicants with Criminal Records, 43 Manitoba L. J. 1 (2020). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Progressive Punitivism: Notes on the Use of Punitive Social Control to Advance Social Justice Ends, 68 Buff. L. Rev. 199 (2020). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House: Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearing and the Perils of Progressive Punitivism, 33 J. C.R. & Econ. Dev. 1 (2019). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Felon Disenfranchisement, 13 Ann. Rev. L. Soc. Sci. 295 (2017) (with Allyson Bragg & Chelsea Lewis). FULLTEXT
• “What is Old is New Again”: Comments on Malcolm Feeley’s Tappan Lecture, 17 Crim. Just. 31 (2016). FULLTEXT
• The Correctional Hunger Games Understanding Realignment in the Context of the Great Recession, 664 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 260 (2016). URL
• Are Private Prisons to Blame for Mass Incarceration and Its Evils? Prison Conditions, Neoliberalism, and Public Choice, 42 Fordham Urb. L.J. 411 (2015). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Future of Polyamorous Marriage: Lessons from the Marriage Equality Struggle, 38 Harv. J.L. & Gender 269 (2015) (with Gwendolyn Leachman). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Troubled Waters: Diana Nyad and the Birth of the Global Rules of Marathon Swimming, 4 Miss. Sports L. Rev. 30 (2014). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Check, Pleas: Toward a Jurisprudence of Defense Ethics in Plea Bargaining, 41 Hastings Const. L.Q. 775 (2014) (with Deanna Dyer & S. C. Thomas). FULLTEXT
• Death Row Economics: The Rise of Fiscally Prudent Anti–Death–Penalty Activism, 28 Crim. Just. 1 (2013) (with Ryan Newby). FULLTEXT URL
• Legally Blind: Hyperadversarialism, Brady Violations, and the Prosecutorial Organizational Culture, 87 St. John's L. Rev. 1 (2012).
• Perceiving and Reporting Domestic Violence Incidents in Unconventional Settings: A Vignette Survey Study, 23 Hastings Women's L.J. 159 (2012) (with Annick Persinger). FULLTEXT
• Packer in Context: Formalism and Fairness in the Due Process Model, 36 Law & Soc. Inquiry 237 (2011). WL
• Dainty Hands: Perceptions of Women and Crime in Sherlock Holmes Stories, 22 Hastings Women's L.J. 233 (2011). FULLTEXT
• Dangerousness, Risk, and Release, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 175 (2010) (with Valerie Kraml & Nicole Schmidt). FULLTEXT
• Defining the Problem, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 161 (2010). FULLTEXT
• Humonetarianism: The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 1 (2010). FULLTEXT
• Moving Targets: Placing the Good Faith Doctrine in the Context of Fragmented Policing, 37 Fordham Urb. L.J. 709 (2010) (with Jeremy Seymour & Richard Leo). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Social Historical Studies of Women, Crime, and Courts, 6 Ann. Rev. L. Soc. Sci. 151 (2010) (with Malcolm M. Feeley).
• 'Almost Duress': Using Criminal Defenses at the Sentencing Stage, 2009 Hapraklit 601 (2009) (in Hebrew). URL
• Inequitable Enforcement: Introducing the Concept of Equity into Constitutional Review of Law Enforcement, 61 Hastings L.J. 413 (2009) (with Daniel L. Portman). FULLTEXT
• Discourse of Disobedience: Law, Political Philosophy, and Trials of Conscientious Objectors, 9 J.L. Soc'y 1 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• How Law Thinks of Disobedience: Perceiving and Addressing Desertion and Conscientious Objection in Israeli Military Courts, 30 Law & Pol'y 277 (2008). SSRN
• Make Love, Not Law: Perceptions of the Marriage Equality Struggle Among Polyamorous Activists, 7 J. Bisexuality 261 (2008) (excerpted in Bisexuality and Same–Sex Marriage 123 (M. Paz Galupo ed., Routledge 2008)). URL
• 'And Justice for All?' Regarding the Danger of Generalizing from Exceptional Cases, Following the Rami Dotan Petition, 14 Army & L. 343 (2002) (in Hebrew).
• Unauthorized Absences: Imaginary Solutions to a Real Problem, 15 Army & L. 83 (2001) (in Hebrew).

Chapters In Books

• Prison Litigation: Doctrine and Animus in California’s COVID-19 Prison Litigation, in The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 7 71 (UC Law 2023). URL
• Standing Trial for Lily: How Open Rescue Activists Mobilize Their Criminal Prosecutions for Animal Liberation, in Green Criminology and the Law 85 (James Gacek & Richard Jochelson, eds. 2022). URL
• Introduction: Past as Prologue and Adversarial Bias and the Criminal Process: Infusing the Organizational Perspective on Criminal Courts with Insights from Behavioral Science, in The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley 1 (Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram & Jonathan Simon eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2019). URL
• Taking the Constitution Seriously?, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 155 (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds., NYU Press 2017). CATALOG
• Afterward, in Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement 242 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) (Keramet Reiter & Alexa Koenig, eds.). AMAZON
• Geeks, Goddesses, and Green Eggs: Political Mobilization and the Cultural Locus of the Polyamorous Community in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Understanding Non–Monogamies 87 (Meg Barker & Darren Langdridge eds., Routledge 2010). AMAZON
• Deaf Dialogue: Legal and Therapeutic Discourse in Addressing the Military Deserter Population, in Law, Society & Culture 339 (Tel Aviv University 2008) (in Hebrew).
• When the Saints Go Marching in: Legal Consciousness and Prison Experiences of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Israel, in The New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach 183 (Benjamin Fleury–Steiner & Laura Beth Nielsen eds. 2006). CATALOG URL

Book Reviews

• Book Review, Punishment & Soc’y (2022) (reviewing Paul Kaplan & Daniel LaChance, Crimesploitation: Crime, Punishment, and Pleasure on Reality Television (2022)). URL
• Book Review, 54 J. Am. Stud. 1063 (2020) (reviewing Brett Story, Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America (2019)). URL
• Book Review, 00 Punishment & Soc’y 00 (2020) (reviewing Sarah Beth Kaufman, American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials (2020)). URL
• What Were 'They' Thinking, and Does It Matter? Structural Inequality and Individual Intent in Criminal Justice Reform, 45 Law & Soc. Inquiry 249 (2020) (reviewing Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification (1985), James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017) & Heather Schoenfeld, Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (2018)). URL
• Book Review, 53 Law & Soc'y Rev. 313 (2019) (reviewing Danielle Arlanda Harris, Desistance from Sexual Offending: Narratives of Retirement, Regulation and Recovery.). URL
• Book Review, 51 Law & Soc'y Rev. 1017 (2017) (reviewing John Pfaff, Locked In (2107); Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, & Michelle Phelps, Breaking the Pendulum (2017)). URL
• Book Review, 49 Law & Soc'y Rev. 295 (2015) (reviewing Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (2014)).
• Book Review, 13 Persp. on Pol. 526 (2015) (reviewing Erica Weiss, Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (2014)). URL
• Book Review, CritCom (April 2015) (reviewing Ozgur Heval Cinar, The Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Turkey’s Obligations under International Human Rights Law). URL
• Book Review, 17 Punishment & Soc’y 258 (2015) (reviewing Austin Sarat, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty).
• Book Review, 15 Theoretical Criminology 106 (2011) (reviewing Tamar Pitch, Pervasive Prevention: A Feminist Reading of the Rise of the Security Society (2010)).
• Book Review, 73 Mod. L. Rev. 155 (2010) (reviewing Nicole Lacey, Women, Crime and Character: From Mol Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)).
• Book Review, 43 Law & Soc'y Rev. 239 (2009) (reviewing Rasmus H. Wandall, Decisions to Imprison: Court Decision–Making Inside and Outside the Law (2007)). WL
• Mass Atrocity and Criminology, 13 Theoretical Criminology 487 (2009) (reviewing John Hagan and Wenona Rymond–Richmond, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide (2008)).
• Book Review, 4 L. Cult. & Human. 122 (2008) (reviewing Daphne Barak Erez, Outlawed Pigs (2007)).
• Book Review, 19 Army & L. 377 (2007) (reviewing Irena Fein, Military Criminal Law in the IDF (2006)) (in Hebrew).
• Book Review, 19 Army & L. 373 (2007) (reviewing Zvi Inbar, The Scales and the Sword (2006)) (in Hebrew).
• Book Review, 2 L. Cult. & Human. 153 (2006) (reviewing Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense (2004)).
• Book Review, 8 Israeli Soc. 22 (2006) (reviewing Lisa Hajjar, Courting Conflict (2005)) (in Hebrew).

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• California’s COVID-19 Prison Disaster and the Trap of Palatable Reform, Boom California, Aug. 10, 2020. URL
• Governor Wrong to Criticize Inmates’ Lawyers, The Recorder, Feb. 22, 2013. CATALOG URL
• The Death Penalty is in Limbo, The Recorder, June 14, 2013. CATALOG URL
• Props 34, 35 and 36: Old Patterns or New Solutions?, The Recorder, Oct. 26, 2012. CATALOG URL
• Do Problem-Solving Courts Solve Problems?, L.A. Daily J., Mar. 31, 2011, at 1. CATALOG
• Gang Members, How Different Are They?, L.A. Daily J., Sept. 22, 2011, at 1. CATALOG
• Legally Blind: The Importance of Seeing Both Sides of a Case, L.A. Daily J., May 2, 2011, at 7. CATALOG
• Why Realignment? A Story of Finances and Litigation, L.A. Daily J., Nov. 23, 2011, at 1. CATALOG
• California's Death Penalty Is a Farce, L.A. Daily J., Oct. 1, 2010, at 5. CATALOG
• The Inmate Export Enterprise, L.A. Daily J., Feb. 1, 2010, at 5. CATALOG
• Undermining 'the CSI Effect', L.A. Daily J., Apr. 6, 2010, at 1. CATALOG
• A Hard Look at the Prison Budget, S.F. Bay Guardian, June 2, 2009. URL
• Confronting Overcrowding, L.A. Daily J., Aug. 14, 2009, at 6. CATALOG
• Fixing California Prisons Through Courts, L.A. Daily J., Nov. 17, 2009, at 5. CATALOG
• Local Policing And Accountability, L.A. Daily J., Oct. 9, 2009, at 6. CATALOG
• Punitive White Men, L.A. Daily J., Dec. 31, 2009, at 7. CATALOG

Dissertations & Theses

• Managing Disobedience as Crime: Legal and Extra–Legal Discourse in Addressing Unauthorized Absences and Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel (Spring 2005) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley) (on file with Gardner Library, University of California, Berkeley).