Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
The Review: Volume 12
Preview
Issue 1
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Issue 2
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Issue 3
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- Psychological Parenting vs. Attachment Theory: The Child's Best Interests and the Risks in Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons
- The Political and Legal Implications of the Psychological Parenting Theory
- Public School Sex Education: Does it Violate Parents Rights?
- Psychological Dimensions in Child Placement Conflicts
In Depth Reading
Volume 12 Issue 1
Keynote Address
Address on the landscape of meaningful racial reform.
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.
Will the Real Alternatives Please Stand Up?
Discussion of alternative sentencing; argues that an immediate shift to alternative sentencing would not address the system's inherently punitive nature.
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
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
Solnit/Fanshel Discussion
Critical exchange between Drs. Solnit and Fanshel regarding theoretical underpinnings of child welfare law
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
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.