Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 2002

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from January 2002

Abuse of immigration detainees: before and after September 11.(COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2002... Since the events of September 11, the United States Department of Justice has arrested and held hundreds of individuals, holding them in jails for months on end, without any evidence of criminal wrongdoing. The government has asserted the right...

Forgiveness and public deliberation: the practice of restorative justice.
January 1, 2002... It is not easy to define the way we should be angry, with whom, about what, for how long. (1) Introduction Is forgiveness a social good that communities can further through mediated public dialogue between victims of crimes and...

Privacy rights and public spaces: CCTV and the problem of the "unobservable observer".(closed circuit television surveillance)
January 1, 2002... Over the past ten years, closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras have become an increasingly familiar part of the urban landscape in many developed countries. (1) Throughout Europe, despite early concerns about the possible implications for...

The attorney as moral agent: a critique of Cohen.(Elliot D. Cohen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... In a frequently anthologized article, Elliot D. Cohen, (1) a philosopher, has argued that an attorney who conforms to the conventional "pure legal advocate" model of lawyering will thereby be placed in a professional climate conducive to...

Pure legal advocates and moral agents revisited: a reply to Memory and Rose.(SYMPOSIUM)
January 1, 2002... It is not often that an author has the honor of responding to critics of an article written over a decade and a half ago. John M. Memory and Charles H. Rose III, two lawyers, have done me such an honor, albeit with the intention of laying to...

A surrebuttal.(SYMPOSIUM)(criminal justice system)
January 1, 2002... In trial-court jury arguments, lawyers with weak cases often use a "grape-shot" approach, attacking many of the points of opposing counsel's arguments, hoping somehow to raise sufficient doubt in the mind of the jury. Cohen has used this...

Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices New York: Norton, 2000, xli + 414 pp. During the nineties--Elazar Barkan claims--morality broke through dramatically into the realm of international...