Preface to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
Synopsis of 1983 colloquium on prison overcrowding.
The Review: Volume 12
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Volume 12 Issue 1
Introduction to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
Introduction to the colloquium on prison reform.
Response to Panel on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Response to panel and paper 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
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.
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
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.
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