Faculty

Richard Lippke

Senior Scholar in Criminal Justice
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982

Richard Lippke’s research focuses on philosophical issues raised by the criminal law and criminal procedure. He has written about such topics as felon disenfranchisement, prison labor, supermax confinement, and the preventive detention of dangerous offenders. He is the author of Rethinking Imprisonment (Oxford University Press, 2007) and The Ethics of Plea Bargaining (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Recent Publications:

“The Prosecutor and the Presumption of Innocence,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (2012)

“Anchoring the Sentencing Scale: A Modest Proposal,” Theoretical Criminology (2012)

“Modifying Double Jeopardy,” New Criminal Law Review (2012)

“Social Deprivation as Tempting Fate,” Criminal Law and Philosophy (2011)

“Why Sex (Offending) Is Different,” Criminal Justice Ethics (2011)

“Retributive Sentencing, Multiple Offenders, and Bulk Discounts,” in Mark D. White, Retributivism: Essays in Theory and Policy (OUP 2011)

“Punishing the Guilty, Not Punishing the Innocent,” Journal of Moral Philosophy (2010)

“The Case for Reasoned Criminal Trial Verdicts,” Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2009)

“Criminal Record, Character Evidence, and the Criminal Trial,” Legal Theory (2009)