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.
The Review: Volume 12
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- Urging Restraint in Terminating the Rights of Parents of Children in Foster Care
- Psychological Dimensions in Child Placement Conflicts
- The Political and Legal Implications of the Psychological Parenting Theory
- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
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.
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.
Response to Panel on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Response to panel and paper on institutional responses to overcrowding.
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
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
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.
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
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