Discussion on The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Discussion on The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation as part of the colloquium on the prison overcrowding crisis.
The Review: Volume 12
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Volume 12 Issue 1
Selective Incapacitation: Some Queries about Research Design and Equity
Predictive future criminality, known as "selective incapacitation," has gained momentum as sentencing indicator; review and critique of underlying study.
Response to Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World
Response to panel and paper entitled Institutional Litigation in the Post-Chapman World.
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
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.
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
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.
Cultural Perspectves on Child Welfare
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances