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Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 1997
A semiannual journal focusing on ethical issues in criminal justice. Includes articles on topics relating to the police, the courts, corrections, and issues in legal philosophy contributed by philosophers, criminal justice professionals, lawyers and judge
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Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 1997
Matching rhetoric with action: the challenge of an international criminal court.
June 22, 1997... In January 1998, the United Nations' new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, described the world's continuing failure to prosecute genocide and crimes against humanity as a "cause of shame." She had just come from Cambodia
where...
Sham arguments and capital punishment. (includes response and rejoinder)
June 22, 1997... Ad hominem arguments are not just a way of winning a dispute: a logically sound ad hominem argument does a service, even if an unwelcome one, to its victim--it shows him that his present position is untenable and must be modified. Of course...
Do appellate courts regularly cheat?
June 22, 1997... It probably will not surprise you to be told that the practice of law is almost entirely remote from its philosophy. Lawyers and judges are not much interested in jurisprudence--as indeed, not many mathematicians or scientists are much interested...
The federal Witness Protection Program: its evolution and continuing growing pains.
June 22, 1997... Introduction
Sometimes the best way to catch a crook is with another crook. However, this approach can have deadly consequences. Because of them, the Federal Witness Security Program emerged. The Program, commonly called the Witness...
The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective.
June 22, 1997... In The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity, Frank Anechiarico and James Jacobs provide us with a thoughtful analysis of the anti-corruption movement in the United States, particularly as this reform effort has evolved in the past thirty years. Their...
The Ethics of Policing.
June 22, 1997... In The Ethics of Policing,(1) John Kleinig presents a comprehensive discussion of the ethical problems that beset contemporary police organizations and individual police officers. That discussion is set within others that introduce the reader to...
Sentencing Matters.
June 22, 1997... Over the past third of a century, there have been only two changes in the criminal justice system that might be regarded as truly transformative. One was the change in the substantive criminal law when Congress passed RICO--the Racketeer...