Criminal Justice Ethics articles from January 2003

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from January 2003

Guiding lights: intelligence oversight and control for the challenge of terrorism.(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001)
January 1, 2003... Winning the war on terrorism requires clear guidelines for data collection, use, and dissemination. The failure of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to predict and prevent the attacks of September 11, 2001, was powerful evidence of...

On the ethics of exporting ethics: the right to silence in Japan and the U.S.
January 1, 2003... In The Question of Hu, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a French missionary in China in the eighteenth century, who set out to prove that certain ancient Chinese documents confirmed his idiosyncratic Christian theory of world history. (1) It...

Foreword.(American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Philosophy of Law's symposium on the drug legalization )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's Eastern Division in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At a time when the...

Four points about drug decriminalization.(drug legalization)
January 1, 2003... Philosophers have been strangely silent about the topic of illicit drugs, even though it is a gold mine of philosophical questions. It is distressing to see how few of the dozens of books now available on current moral and social issues contain...

On the decriminalization of drugs.(drug legalization)
January 1, 2003... In his lively and provocative paper, "Four Points About Drug Decriminalization," (1) Douglas Husak advances two main claims: first, that none of the standard arguments for criminalizing drugs are any good, and, second, that there is little...

Against the legalization of heroin.(drug legalization)
January 1, 2003... The case against drug legalization rests on the empirical premise that drug use would increase in the absence of drug control laws. Everything I know about human nature and the effects of drugs supports this. People use drugs because they are...

Individual rights, drug policy, and the worst-case scenario.(drug legalization)
January 1, 2003... There is a lot to admire about Peter de Marneffe's paper. (1) It takes seriously the harm produced by drug prohibition. It does not falsely assume, as does much of the literature critical of drug legalization, that most illicit drug users--in...

Epilogue: what good are drugs anyway?(drug legalization)
January 1, 2003... I have learned a great deal from this lively exchange of views. One thing I found oddly instructive was the extent to which the general outlines of the discussion conformed to my already existing expectations. Despite the fact that the exchange...

Understanding crime, liberalism, and science.(Liberalism and Crime: The British Experience Lanham)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Robert Sullivan, Liberalism and Crime: The British Experience Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2000, vii + 227pp. This (1) is a curate's egg of a book--it is good in places. It addresses an interesting issue from an unusual perspective. The...

Publications received.
January 1, 2003... David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, & Alexander Tabarrok (eds), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2002) vii + 439 pp. John F. Brown, Kenneth S. Obenski, & Thomas R. Osborn,...