Introduction to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
Introduction to the colloquium on prison reform.
The Review: Volume 12
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- The Constitutional Rights of Natural Parents Under New York's Adoption Statutes
- Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
- Urging Restraint in Terminating the Rights of Parents of Children in Foster Care
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Discussion on The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Discussion on The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation as part of the colloquium on the prison overcrowding crisis.
Prison Overcrowding Crisis--Introduction, The
Introduction of keynote speaker Judge Morris Lasker
Selective Incapacitation and the Effort to Improve the Fairness of Existing Sentencing Practices
Selective incapacitation can remedy prison overcrowding by employing a careful examination of who should remain incarcerated.
Volume 12 Issue 2
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
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.
Volume 12 Issue 3
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
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.
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
Public School Sex Education: Does it Violate Parents Rights?
Overview of the rise in constitutional challenges to sex education in public schools and an analysis of the arguments implicated.