Discussion led by Graham Hughes on the Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy.

Discussion of alternative sentencing; argues that an immediate shift to alternative sentencing would not address the system's inherently punitive nature.

Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.

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.

Discussion of private adoption in New York; it is unfair, unconstitutional to terminate parental rights for one who has given extrajudicial consent.

Reflections by a Family Court Judge on modern psychotherapy's ideas of child welfare and the social and psychological consequences of their overuse