Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 1996

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 1996

The death penalty: a personal view.
June 22, 1996... What has it come to in this great nation of ours when the entire state and federal judiciary silently stood aside, as did the governor, and allowed Texas last year to execute Jessie Jacobs, a man whose prosecutor even admitted was innocent of...

Punishment, quarantine, and preventive detention.(Punishment, Quarantine, and Preventive Detention)
June 22, 1996... Impositions on others need justification. Punishment we generally justify as a just or deserved response to wrongdoing or crime. What about quarantine and preventive detention, where, it would seem, there has been no wrongdoing to justify the...

Preventive detention, Corrado, and me. (response to article by Michael Corrado in this issue, p.3)(Punishment, Quarantine, and Preventive Detention)
June 22, 1996... The subject of "Arresting the White Death"[1] was civil confinement for treatment of tuberculosis, a particularly burdensome form of quarantine; the paper's primary purpose was to understand how such quarantine could be morally justified....

Response to Michael Davis. (reponse to article in this issue, p.13)(Punishment, Quarantine, and Preventive Detention)
June 22, 1996... My paper was not intended as a criticism of Michael Davis's earlier paper, but rather a discussion of an argument that caused me some concern. It caused me concern because it seemed on the one hand to be sound and, on the other hand, to have...

Reply to Corrado. (response to article by Michael Corrado in this issue, p.25)(Punishment, Quarantine, and Preventive Detention)
June 22, 1996... What I shall try to do here is (briefly) clarify what seem the three chief differences remaining between Corrado's position and mine. They are, I think, so fundamental that clarification may be more useful now than any attempt at resolution....

Religion and rehabilitation.
June 22, 1996... In his book The Kingdom of God in America, H. Richard Niebuhr described the disenchanted world created by the abandonment of a religious vision for America during the post-Civil War era in favor of one based on secular, progressive logic....

Personal loyalty to superiors in public service.
June 22, 1996... One must ask every man: Do you in all conscience believe that you can stand seeing mediocrity after mediocrity, year without being embittered?[1] In 1993 the Journal Criminal justice Ethics took a major step toward clarifying a topic...

Reasons for anger: a response to Narayan and von Hirsch's provocation theory.
June 22, 1996... The significance of a successful provocation plea as an extenuating ground is usually that it reduces murder to manslaughter, despite the fact the defendant intended to - and did - kill in anger. The unique feature of provocation is that the...