ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Asset Forfeiture

Civil Forfeiture as a 'Sin' Tax
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Donald Boudreaux and Adam Pritchard
Country: United States

Boudreaux and Pritchard investigate what they call the three "frightening" aspects to civil forfeiture laws. They argue that rather than acting as a crime deterrent, the laws actually increase crime. Available offline only, for $5.95. (1998)

American forfeiture law: Property owners meet the prosecutor
Source: Cato Institute
Country: United States

This study finds civil forfeiture laws to be arcane and seemingly designed to be impervious to challenge. Specific reforms are recommended. (9/29/92)

Civil forfeiture: Substance, procedure, and possible challenges
Source: FEAR
Country: United States

What is civil asset forfeiture? Get the lowdown from this law-review article on the ins and outs of how government steals private property by accusing the property of committing a crime. (Subscription required) (1998)

Policing for profit: The drug war's hidden economic agenda
Source: FEAR/University of Chicago Law Review
Author: Eric Blumenson and Eva Nilsen
Country: United States

Tells how, among other abuses, asset forfeiture distorts police priorities. (3/98)

Corruption of blood, sovereign forfeiture, and property
Source: FEAR
Author: Lawrence J. Casella
Country: United States

Modern civil asset forfeiture statutes are based upon unconstitutional misinterpretations of already tortured medieval legal principles. (1997)

Policy briefing: Asset forfeiture
Source: Drug Policy Foundation
Country: United States

The Drug Policy Foundation details problems with civil asset forfeiture. (Adobe Acrobat plug-in required) (1999)

Property and Liberty: You can't give up one without losing the other
Source: The Progress Report
Author: Leon Felkins
Country: United States

Protection for property is at the root of American liberty — and forfeiture laws threaten that protection. (1/2/99)

Seizure fever: The war on property rights
Source: The Libertarian Library/FEE
Author: James Bovard
Country: United States

Bovard details the history and problems of asset forfeiture. (1996)

Drug control and asset seizures: A review of the history of forfeiture in England and colonial America
Source: Prof. Cecil Greek/Drugs, crime and social policy
Country: United States

A history of the evolution of asset forfeiture doctrine, through its reintroduction to American law in 1970. (1991)

Purchaser of seized car owns abandoned drug money
Source: The New Jersey Law Journal
Author: Ian M. Comisky
Country: United States

Comisky dissects "In Re Seizure of $82,000 More or Less," decided by the Western District of Missouri on Nov. 1, 2000, and in so doing provides an in-depth analysis of asset forfeiture laws.

Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual
Source: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Country: United States

The FEAR Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual Index is now online.

Confiscations from Japanese-Americans during WWII
Source: Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
Author: Richard Lawrence Miller
Country: United States

"U.S. citizens of Japanese descent lost their property through a process similar to Aryanization in Nazi Germany, by which covetous persons and corporations acquired valid titles under dubious circumstances." (11/01)

The next stage of forfeiture reform
Source: FEAR
Author: Eric D. Blumenson and Eva Nilsen
Country: United States

Article emphasizing two potential areas of forfeiture reform: reform through constitutional litigation and reform via legislation and voter initiatives. (09/04/02)

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