Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 2000

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from January 2000

A Well Regulated Militia, or a Volatile Militancy?
January 1, 2000... Because of the adolescent handgun violence in our country's schools and the shooting rampages that have struck our business districts, there have been many debates concerning the second amendment and its place in modern society. Congress has...

Scapegoats.
January 1, 2000... What is normally meant when someone is described as a scapegoat is that the person is being blamed for something more than he or she deserves and that some blame could or should in all fairness be directed at others. In the realm of criminal...

Double Punishment and Punishing Character: The Unfairness of Prior Convictions.
January 1, 2000... I Introduction Much of what is wrong with sentencing law and practice relates to the use that is made of prior convictions.(1) They are the primary cause of disproportionate sentences; in fact, rarely does so much turn on so little. In...

Race, Crime, and the Law.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Race, Crime, and the Law. Randall Kennedy. New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1997, xiv + 539 pp. I Introduction Randall Kennedy's Race, Crime, and the Law(1) contains a well-documented and compelling history of the effect that race...

Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the NYPD.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Lou Cannon, Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the NYPD New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997, xi + 679 pp. I There is little justice talk in criminal justice although practitioners show...

Publications Received.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles & Steven Durlauf, Meritocracy And Economic Inequality. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000) vi + 348 pp. Katherine Beckett, Making Crime Pay, Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics....