Closing Address
Reflection on other professors' thoughts during the colloquium on how to reform the criminal justice system.
The Review: Volume 12
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- Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
- Public School Sex Education: Does it Violate Parents Rights?
- Child Abuse, Gender, and the Myth of Family Independence: Thoughts on the History of Family Violence and Its Social Control 1880-1920
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Introduction to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
Introduction to the colloquium on prison reform.
Prison Overcrowding Crisis--Introduction, The
Introduction of keynote speaker Judge Morris Lasker
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.
Volume 12 Issue 2
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.
Title I and Union Democracy
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
Volume 12 Issue 3
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
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"
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