Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 2001

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from January 2001

Imprisoning the mentally ill: does it matter? (Commentary).
January 1, 2001... A chronically schizophrenic criminal defendant who is floridly delusional, and whose speech is so garbled it is difficult to understand, insists nonetheless that he would rather be tried for trespassing or criminal mischief than be labeled...

Equity and community policing: a new view of community partnerships.
January 1, 2001... Introduction These days police reformers regard the community with more ambivalence than first impressions might suggest. Community policing, like so many popular government reforms, certainly celebrates the role of citizens in helping...

Gun control. (Exchange).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTORY NOTE Each year at its Eastern Division Annual Meeting, the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Law sponsors a symposium on a topic of current interest. For its Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting, held...

Gun control: the issues (1). (Exchange).
January 1, 2001... Although most of us assume that we must either oppose or support gun control, the issue is far more complex: we must decide who can own which guns under what conditions. But to simplify discussion, I will say that those who support most...

Gun violence and fundamental rights.
January 1, 2001... In this essay I develop themes that I have pursued in two previous papers--"Self-defense and Coerced Risk-Acceptance" (1) and "Arms as Insurance" (2)--and then respond to some problems posed by Hugh LaFollette and Cynthia Stark. I The...

Fundamental rights and the right to bear arms.
January 1, 2001... Part of what is at issue in the dispute between advocates and opponents of gun control is the nature and status of the right to bear arms. Opponents of gun control tend to see the right to bear arms as, in some sense, fundamental, whereas...

Gun control and the regulation of fundamental rights.
January 1, 2001... Introduction Gun control (1) has always had two vectors: the first, a common sense, regulatory interest inherent in the rule of law, namely, to keep guns away from the untrustworthy and incompetent; the second, an ancient but still-live...

Controlling guns.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Wheeler, Stark, and Stell have raised many interesting points concerning gun control that merit extended treatment. Here, however, I will focus only on two. I will then briefly expand on the proposal I offered in the original paper. (1) ...

Epilogue: is there an issue here?(gun control)
January 1, 2001... One striking fact about this fascinating discussion of gun control is the extent to which the various sides of the discussion agree, or at least fail to disagree. Samuel Wheeler and Lance Stell argue against banning guns, while Hugh LaFollette...

Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law. (Review Essay/Defending Sexual Autonomy).
January 1, 2001... Stephen J. Schulhofer, Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, xii + 284 pp. Professor Schulhofer is a feminist who has been thinking about gender and criminal...

Double Jeopardy: The History, the Law. (Review Essay / A Rough Country Guide: Double Jeopardy, Doctrine, and Realism).
January 1, 2001... George C. Thomas III, Double Jeopardy: The History, the Law New York University Press, 1998, 349 pp. Throughout his scholarly career, George Thomas has ventured often into procedural territory that most scholars in his field avoid. (1)...

Publications received.
January 1, 2001... Albert W. Alschuler, Law Without Values, The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000) xi + 325 pp. Roger Billingsley, Teresa Nemitz & Philip Bean, Informers, Policing, Policy, Practice....