John Locke Foundation: Prudent Policy / Impeccable Research - Volume CCXCVII

Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage ( More Entries )

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Publisher's note: We want our readers to understand that there is wise policy afoot here in North Carolina, and to that end, we offer these excellent videos from our associates, in prudent policy research, at the John Locke Foundation.

We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.

JLF’s Terry Stoops discusses N.C. lawmakers’ school safety concerns

Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, discusses N.C. lawmakers’ interest in addressing school safety issues. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

Institute for Justice’s Scott Bullock discusses civil-asset forfeiture abuse

Scott Bullock, president and general counsel at the Institute for Justice, discusses his group’s work to fight civil-asset forfeiture abuse. Bullock offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.

Tackling overcriminalization in North Carolina

    It’s a bad idea to let a chicken roam free on the streets. Is it an offense worthy of criminal prosecution?

    At least one N.C. community thinks so. That “crime” is just one of the more outrageous examples UNC professor Jessica Smith points to when she calls for a complete rewrite of the state’s criminal code. Smith also points to other problems, including the fact that many crimes are scattered throughout the state’s law books, rather than collected in the one chapter of General Statutes devoted to criminal law.

    Smith detailed her concerns about overcriminalization during a presentation Monday for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Smith also offered a suggestion for addressing the overly complex and expansive criminal code through a process called recodification.

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