Response to Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World
Response to panel and paper entitled Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World.
The Review: Volume 12
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- Strategies, Values, and the Emerging Generation of Alternatives to Incarceration
- Selective Incapacitation and the Effort to Improve the Fairness of Existing Sentencing Practices
- Discussion on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
- Discussion on Post-Sentencing Strategies: The Politics of Prison Construction
Issue 2
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Discussion on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Discussion on panel, paper and responses on institutional responses to overcrowding.
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.
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.
Volume 12 Issue 2
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.
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
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
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.
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
Interview with Joseph Goldstein
Responses by professor of child welfare and family law related to the role that the law should play in affecting family bonds and child placement