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
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Closing Address
Reflection on other professors' thoughts during the colloquium on how to reform the criminal justice system.
Discussion on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Discussion on panel, paper and responses on institutional responses to overcrowding.
Response to Alternatives to Incarceration
Response to the Alternatives to Incarceration panel and papers.
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 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.
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
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.