Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy
Response to Richard Singer's paper Desert Sentencing and Prison Overcrowding: Some Doubts and Tentative Answers.
The Review: Volume 12
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In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Strategies, Values, and the Emerging Generation of Alternatives to Incarceration
Analysis of recent trends in alternatives to incarceration; such reforms may increase criminal justice intervention without reductions in overall incarceration.
Prison Overcrowding Crisis--Introduction, The
Introduction of keynote speaker Judge Morris Lasker
Response to Alternatives to Incarceration
Response to the Alternatives to Incarceration panel and papers.
Volume 12 Issue 2
Differentiating Sex from Sex: The Male Irresistible Impulse
The male sexual impulse is a means for courts to find that men and women are not similarly situated; application of this principle in different areas of the law.
Selective Incapacitation and the Justifications for Imprisonment
Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.
Title I and Union Democracy
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
Volume 12 Issue 3
Urging Restraint in Terminating the Rights of Parents of Children in Foster Care
Discussion of the tension between two prominent theoretical orientations in parenting theory: the "psycholical parent" and the "biological parent"
The Constitutional Rights of Natural Parents Under New York's Adoption Statutes
Discussion of private adoption in New York; it is unfair, unconstitutional to terminate parental rights for one who has given extrajudicial consent.
Interview with Joseph Goldstein
Responses by professor of child welfare and family law related to the role that the law should play in affecting family bonds and child placement
Use and Abuse of the Power to Sever Family Bonds
Reflections by a Family Court Judge on modern psychotherapy's ideas of child welfare and the social and psychological consequences of their overuse