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The role of nonprofits in the rehabilitation of prisoners.(COMMENTARY)
January 1, 2005... The criminal justice system in America today is broken. Measured by its ability to rehabilitate prisoners and facilitate their successful reentry to society, it is by all accounts a failure. With the United States having the highest per capita...
Liberal and republican arguments against the disenfranchisement of Felons.
January 1, 2005... In the United States today, 4.7 million citizens--more than two percent of the adult population--are deprived of the right to vote because they have been convicted of a felony. Of these, 1.7 million have completed their sentences and are no...
Punishing hate and achieving equality.(hate-crime legislation)
January 1, 2005... I Introduction
Many people continue to believe (and the law increasingly agrees) that wronging others while, or as a result of, hating them ought morally to expose the wrongdoer to an increased or enhanced punishment--a penalty aggravated...
Crimes beyond justice? Retributivism and war crimes.
January 1, 2005... For these crimes, no punishment is severe enough. It may well be essential to hang Goring, but it is totally inadequate. That is, this guilt, in contrast to all criminal guilt, oversteps and shatters any and all legal systems. That is the...
Defeating terrorism without fighting a war.(Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War )(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Philip B. Heymann, Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2003, pp. 288 + x.
Unfortunately, tragically, it is clear that Americans are going to have to learn to live with the specter of terrorism and...
Disgust, dignity, and a public intellectual.(Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Martha C. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, xv + 413 pp.
Do shame and disgust have legitimate roles within the law? Recent social theorists have argued that they do....
Publications received.
January 1, 2005... Jan Arriens, Welconte to Hell: Letters & Writings From Death Row. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2005) xvii + 277 pp.
Cyndi Banks, Criminal Justice Ethics: Theory and Practice. (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications 2004) xii + 305...