Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 1998

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 1998

Why Drug Legalization Should Be Opposed.
June 22, 1998... In my view, the very idea of legalizing drugs in this country is counterproductive. Many well-meaning drug legalization advocates disagree with me, but their arguments are not convincing. The questions that I asked them twenty years ago remain...

The Liberal Critique of the Harm Principle.
June 22, 1998... As conceived by J.S. Mill, the harm principle holds that "[t]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."(1) This essay concerns a...

A Dialogue of the Deaf? New International Attitudes and the Death Penalty in America.
June 22, 1998... The U.S. press spotlighted the recent decision by 120 governments to create an International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. That the new court would not impose the death sentence went...

Constitutional Conscience: Criminal Justice and Public Interest Ethics.
June 22, 1998... There is likely to be a genuine process of moral awareness and sensitization involved in this task [of teaching criminal justice ethics]... with.., the effect... of "conscientizing" and "empowering" those who engage in such activity. --...

The Victim and the Justification of Punishment.
June 22, 1998... Introduction The rise of the victims' rights movement is a signal that the justice system has missed something. In 1980 Wilham Clifford, Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, stated: The victims of crime are, indeed, the...

Review Essay / Reining in the Police?(Review)
June 22, 1998... John Alderson, Principled Policing: Protecting the Public with Integrity Winchester, U.K.: Waterside Press, 1998, 185 pp. The study and practice of policing has made great strides in recent years. Scholars and practitioners have advanced...