Policy Perspective: Without Due Process of Law, The Conservative Case for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

September 15, 2015

Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D.

Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D, is the Vice President of Policy and Right on Crime Senior Fellow. Previously the director of Right on Crime, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative, Cohen was instrumental in the passage of the First Step Act, federal legislation that borrowed from successful changes to prisons and sentencing that he had helped pass in conservative states. In addition to leading the Foundation’s work on criminal justice, he is also the lead researcher of firearms policy.

There is little dispute among the conservative movement that criminals who would threaten the safety of our communities deserve to be divested of the fruits of their illicit enterprise. Drug dealers should lose possession of vehicles used to facilitate offenses in addition to the criminal sanction they face.

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Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D.

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