Melissa Hamilton is a former police officer, former corrections officer and former judicial clerk.
Hamilton has expertise in interpersonal violence, constitutional law, gun control legislation, domestic violence, sexual assault, sentencing, policing, criminal procedure, correctional law, death penalty, juvenile justice, drug law and policy and victimization.
Experience
–present
Visiting Criminal Law Scholar, University of Houston Law Center
Education
2006
University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D
1989
University of Texas School of Law, J.D.
Publications
2015
Back to the Future: The Influence of Criminal History on Risk Assessment, 20 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 75
2015
Adventures in Risk: Predicting Violent and Sexual Recidivism in Sentencing Law, 47 Arizona State Law Journal 1
2015
The Reliability of Assault Victims’ Immediate Accounts: Evidence from Trauma Studies, 26 Stanford Law & Policy Review 269
2015
Risk and Needs Assessment: Constitutional and Ethical Challenges, 52 American Criminal Law Review 231
2014
McSentencing: Mass Federal Sentencing and the Law of Unintended Consequences, 35 Cardozo Law Review 2199
2014
Prison-by-Default: Challenging the Presumption of Prison in Federal Sentencing, 51 Houston Law Review 1271
2014
Sentencing Policy Adjudication and Empiricism, 30 Georgia State Law Journal 375
2013
Adjudicating Sex Crimes as Mental Disease, 33 Pace Law Review 536
2012
The Child Pornography Crusade and its Net Widening Effect, 33 Cardozo Law Review 1679
2012
Reinvigorating Actus Reus: The Case for Involuntary Actions by Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 16 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 340
2011
The Efficacy of Severe Child Pornography Sentencing: Empirical Validity or Political Rhetoric?, 22 Stanford Law & Policy Review 545
2011
Sex Disparities in Arrest Outcomes for Domestic Violence, 26 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1559
2011
Public Safety, Individual Liberty, and Suspect Science: Future Dangerousness Assessments and Sex Offender Laws, 83 Temple Law Review 697