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.
The Review: Volume 12
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In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Desert Sentencing and Prison Overcrowding: Some Doubts and Some Tentative Answers
Examination of retributive sentencing and its moral underpinnings; discusses the link between retributive sentencing and prison overcrowding.
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
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
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.
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 Political and Legal Implications of the Psychological Parenting Theory
Disparate treatment of child welfare laws and the impact of the psychological parenting theory on poor nonwhite families.
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