Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy
Response to Richard Singer's paper Desert Sentencing and Prison Overcrowding: Some Doubts and Tentative Answers.
The Review: Volume 12
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
- Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy
- Introduction to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
- Discussion on Post-Sentencing Strategies: The Politics of Prison Construction
Issue 2
featuring
Issue 3
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Discussion on the Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy
Discussion led by Graham Hughes on the Question of Appropriate Sentences: Responding to Prison Overcrowding Through Sentencing Policy.
Discussion on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Discussion on panel, paper and responses on institutional responses to overcrowding.
Institutional Responses to Prison Crowding
High-level assessment of prison overcrowding; addresses successes, failures, and remedies of the American prison system
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
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.
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.
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.
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