Will the Real Alternatives Please Stand Up
Discussion of alternative sentencing; argues that an immediate shift to alternative sentencing would not address the system's inherently punitive nature.
The Review: Volume 12
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- Assessing the Impact of Goldstein, Freud, and Solnit's Proposals: An Introductory Overview
- Urging Restraint in Terminating the Rights of Parents of Children in Foster Care
- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
- Public School Sex Education: Does it Violate Parents Rights
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.
Closing Address
Reflection on other professors' thoughts during the colloquium on how to reform the criminal justice system.
Keynote Address
Address on the landscape of meaningful racial reform.
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
Political and Legal Implicaions of the Psychological Parenting Theory, The
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
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