Response to Post-Sentencing Strategies: The Politics of Prison Construction
Response to panel on post-sentencing strategies.
The Review: Volume 12
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In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
The Politics of Prison Expansion
Examination of the political and legal processes of prison expansion; proposal for how important decisions should be made by key stakeholders
Discussion on Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World
Discussion on the panel and replies to Susan N. Herman's paper Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Urging Restraint in Terminating the Rights of Parents of Children in Foster Care
Discussion of the tension between two prominent theoretical orientations in parenting theory: the "psycholical parent" and the "biological parent"