Journal of Gender, Race and Justice articles from September 2007

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice archives from September 2007

Will marriage promotion work?
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION Poor men and women are only about half as likely to be married as are the non-poor. (1) But unmarried couples form families, of course--over a third of all children born today are born into nonmarital families. (2) And...

I just need help ... TANF, the Deficit Reduction Act, and the new "work-eligible individual".(temporary assistance for needy families)
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION "I just need help..." were the words of a young woman, Hope, (1) as she perched on a chair in the welfare office. Hope was waiting for her name to be called for the administrative hearing on her challenge of the local...

Welfare reform: the promise unfulfilled.
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Liberals warned it would throw millions of children into poverty. Conservatives claimed it would end a "culture of dependency" that was supposedly the root cause of poverty in America. They were both wrong. Ten years after...

Reform of the Pakistani rape law: a move forward or backward?
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION Rape is a crime of the most serious nature. In every country in the world, rape is recognized as heinous and is punished as such; however, the punishments for rape differ between various countries and legal systems. (1)...

Reinvigorated judicial discretion after Booker: burden or boon to sexual exploitation offenders?
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION "Sex offenses are in our time the new witchcraft. We're as hysterical about these crimes as were the good people of Salem over witches. And our means of addressing the hysteria is about as effective." (1) In...

Iowa's sex offender residency restrictions: how the judicial definition of punishment leads policy makers astray.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION Courts are often asked to decide questions that seem better left to "common sense." (1) For example, in 2006 litigants asked a Massachusetts court to determine whether a burrito was a sandwich. (2) However, our...

Hernandez v. Robles and Goodridge v. Department of Public Health: the irrationality of the rational basis test.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION: A DYNAMIC DEBATE "Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature." (1) In Plato's Symposium, a...