Much has changed in our society and criminal justice system since the first issue of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, originally titled the Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, was published in 1910. The Journal and the Institute grew out of the National Conference on Criminal Law and Criminology, which was held at Northwestern in 1909. The primary goal of the conference was to articulate and promote an agenda for criminal justice reform. With that history and goal in mind, our centennial symposium, A Century of Criminal Justice, considers the significant developments in the American criminal justice system and in criminal justice scholarship over the last one hundred years.

American Sentencing: Too Much Law, Too Little Evidence
Nancy Gertner, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts; Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate
Carol S. Steiker, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Jordan M. Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

The Modern Irrationalities of American Criminal Codes:  An Empirical Study of Offense Grading
Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania School of Law

Efficiency and Cost: The Impact of Videoconferenced Hearings on Bail Decisions
Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University School of Law; and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
Locke E. Bowman, Director, MacArthur Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

A Hundred Years of Getting it Wrong? Wrongful Convictions after a Century of Research
Jon Gould, Director, Center for Justice, Law and Society and Associate Professor, George Mason University
Richard Leo, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law (not appearing at live symposium)

Damaged Daughters: The History of Girls' Sexuality and the Juvenile Justice System
Lisa Pasko, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver

The Victimizations and Offending of Women and Girls and the Invisible Link Between Them:
An Historical Perspective
Joanne Belknap, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Racial Disparity and Criminal Justice: How Much is Too Much?
Robert Crutchfield, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Washington

A Century of Negro Incarceration
Paul Butler, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law, George Washington University

The Scale of Imprisonment: 20th Century Trends and 21st Century Prospects
Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law (Boalt Hall)

The Sting of a Criminal Record: Past, Present and Future
Michael Pinard, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Clinical Law Program, University of Maryland School of Law

The Decline and Fall of the Pardon Power
Albert Alschuler, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law;
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, Emeritus, the University of Chicago Law School
Margaret Colgate Love, Law Office of Margaret Love, Washington, D.C.