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Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 1995
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 January 1995
San Francisco's Matrix program for the Homeless.(California)
January 1, 1995... Cities across the country are engaged in a great experiment: having lost control of their public spaces, can they reclaim them?
Over the last three decades, judicial rulings and changing social attitudes stripped governments of the legal and...
The "new syndrome excuse syndrome." (creation of criminal defenses based on psychological syndromes)
January 1, 1995... I Introduction
Behavioral science is on the march. Psychiatrists and psychologists are identifying an ever-proliferating and often bewildering array of new syndromes or disorders. Some have received the clinical and scientific imprimatur of...
Police gratuities: what the public think.(Australia)
January 1, 1995... This paper reports an Australian study of public attitudes to police gratuities. Police ethics have become a major public concern in Australia following corruption scandals in the 1970s and 1980s. Elsewhere, studies of police ethics have...
In the land of omissions: an opinionated guide.
January 1, 1995... Liability for omissions has long been a controversial subject in Anglo-American legal theory. The legal and philosophical literature on omissions is so extensive, and frequently so dense, that yet another article on the topic seems painfully...
Lying during crisis negotiations: a costly means to expedient resolution.
January 1, 1995... #1 After being confined to a wheelchair for over eleven years, a twenty-eight-year-old paraplegic attempts to quell his overwhelming anger with alcohol. The beautiful spring afternoon is no consolation for the man who, at the age of seventeen,...
Drugs and Rights.
January 1, 1995... Douglas Husak's main thesis is terribly important and fundamentally sound: the current war on citizens who use drugs is unjustified because it violates moral rights. As Husak rightly stresses, the "war on drugs" is a war against our fellow...
Permissible Killing: The Self-Defence Justification of Homicide.
January 1, 1995... Until Suzanne Uniacke's recent book, Permissible Killing, it was probably true that "George Fletcher ha[d] developed the most complete contemporary theory of self-defense."(1) That honor, at least at the level of philosophical analysis, may now...