Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
The Review: Volume 12
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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.
Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World
Discussion of the impact of Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337 (1981) on Eighth Amendment litigation of prison conditions.
Response to Panel on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Response to panel and paper on institutional responses to overcrowding.
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.
Title I and Union Democracy
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
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.
Volume 12 Issue 3
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
Psychological Dimensions in Child Placement Conflicts
Explanation of the psychological dimensions of child and parent; argument that privacy of family should be protected, and child's rights should be paramount
Assessing the Impact of Goldstein, Freud, and Solnit's Proposals: An Introductory Overview
Discussion of the impact on child welfare law and policy of seminal works arguing for less state intervention in removing children from functional families.
Child Abuse, Gender, and the Myth of Family Independence: Thoughts on the History of Family Violence and Its Social Control 1880-1920
Analyzes historical practices of child welfare agency; discussion of themes of state intervention and role of gender in exacerbating problems of child abuse.