Institutional Responses to Prison Crowding
High-level assessment of prison overcrowding; addresses successes, failures, and remedies of the American prison system
High-level assessment of prison overcrowding; addresses successes, failures, and remedies of the American prison system
Response to Richard Singer's paper Desert Sentencing and Prison Overcrowding: Some Doubts and Tentative Answers.
Discussion of alternative sentencing; argues that an immediate shift to alternative sentencing would not address the system's inherently punitive nature.
Synopsis of 1983 colloquium on prison overcrowding.
Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
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.
Overview of the rise in constitutional challenges to sex education in public schools and an analysis of the arguments implicated.
Discussion of the impact on child welfare law and policy of seminal works arguing for less state intervention in removing children from functional families.
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
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law