Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
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Response to The Question of Appropriate Sentences: Selective Incapacitation
High-level assessment of prison overcrowding; addresses successes, failures, and remedies of the American prison system
Response to panel and paper on institutional responses to overcrowding.
Selective incapacitation can remedy prison overcrowding by employing a careful examination of who should remain incarcerated.
Tracks the development of selective incapacitation as an alternative sentencing procedure; argues for rejection because its impossible to predict dangerousness.
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.
Examines ways the law can ensure democratic governance in the internal affairs of unions
Discussion of the impact on child welfare law and policy of seminal works arguing for less state intervention in removing children from functional families.
Analysis of child welfare legal frameworks and their failure to incorporate non-nuclear family kinship structures and cultural nuances
Explanation of the psychological dimensions of child and parent; argument that privacy of family should be protected, and child's rights should be paramount
Overview of the rise in constitutional challenges to sex education in public schools and an analysis of the arguments implicated.