Strategies, Values, and the Emerging Generation of Alternatives to Incarceration
Analysis of recent trends in alternatives to incarceration; such reforms may increase criminal justice intervention without reductions in overall incarceration.
The Review: Volume 12
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- Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
- The Constitutional Rights of Natural Parents Under New York's Adoption Statutes
- Child Abuse, Gender, and the Myth of Family Independence: Thoughts on the History of Family Violence and Its Social Control 1880-1920
- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Preface to the Prison Overcrowding Crisis Colloquium
Synopsis of 1983 colloquium on prison overcrowding.
Response to Panel on Institutional Responses to Overcrowding
Response to panel and paper on institutional responses to overcrowding.
Selective Incapacitation and the Effort to Improve the Fairness of Existing Sentencing Practices
Selective incapacitation can remedy prison overcrowding by employing a careful examination of who should remain incarcerated.
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
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
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"
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
Child Abuse, Gender, and the Myth of Family Independence: Thoughts on the History of Family Violence and Its Social Control 1880-1920
Analyzes historical practices of child welfare agency; discussion of themes of state intervention and role of gender in exacerbating problems of child abuse.