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Criminal Justice Ethics articles from December 1998
A semiannual journal focusing on ethical issues in criminal justice. Includes articles on topics relating to the police, the courts, corrections, and issues in legal philosophy contributed by philosophers, criminal justice professionals, lawyers and judge
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Criminal Justice Ethics archives from December 1998
Attacking Youth Violence.
December 22, 1998... The recent string of school shootings across the country has brought our juvenile violence problem into the national spotlight. Each incident has produced endless commentary on the issue of youth violence: articles, op-eds, and editorials have...
Stunning Morality: The Moral Dimensions of Stun Belts.
December 22, 1998... Introduction
O.J. was supposed to wear one on the visit to the crime scene, but he did not. Along with striped uniforms, they are supposed to be standard attire in chain gangs in several states, although they have been outlawed in others....
Justifications, Excuses, and a Model Penal Code for Democratic Societies.
December 22, 1998... I Introduction
In this essay I consider the possibility of developing a draft penal code that could assist legislative drafters and scholars in a range of democratic societies.(1) I concentrate on how the subject of justifications and...
Arguing Against Inhumane and Degrading Punishment.
December 22, 1998... Increasingly, it seems, there are crimes so appalling that they challenge our resolve not to sink to the level of their perpetrators as we punish them. In cases where several victims have not only been murdered, but also raped, tortured,...
Cameras in the Station House.(police misconduct)
December 22, 1998... Video cameras operating 24 hours a day in police precincts are the most important component of police oversight that is now missing in efforts to stem police brutality and abuse of authority. No other device or procedure can substitute for an...
Responses to Emery.(Response to article by Richard Emery in this issue)(police misconduct)
December 22, 1998... I endorse Richard Emery's proposal that police stations be equipped with fixed video cameras, though I think we should frame the issue in more general terms and articulate more clearly the costs and benefits of such a proposal. Although the...
More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Donald Alexander Downs, More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xi + 309.
Domestic violence has been the focus of feminist organizing efforts in this country for...
The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Akhil Reed Amar, The constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, xi + 272 pp.
Pick up any law school course catalog and turn to the listing for criminal procedure. Chances are that the basic...