Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 22 1999

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 22 1999

Leadership Is the Key to Ethical Practice in Criminal Justice Agencies.
June 22, 1999... Newspaper reporters have recently called me to comment on two separate incidents involving violations of ethical practice by employees of criminal justice agencies. One reporter, by exercising the Freedom of Information Act, discovered that a...

The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique.
June 22, 1999... There is something deeply paradoxical about laws that criminalize blackmail. How is it that, as Glanville Williams put it, "two things that taken separately are moral and legal whites together make a moral and legal black"?(1) For the crime of...

Blockmail.
June 22, 1999... I A Strong Case for Legalizing Blackmail Professor Block's case for legalizing blackmail is short, sweet and, on its own terms, decisive. It begins with the right to speak, rooted in Mill's harm principle: there must be no aggression...

Blackmail as a Career Choice: A Liberal Assessment.
June 22, 1999... Walter Block sets out a respectable libertarian critique of laws that criminalize blackmail. Although some may take offense at the behavior of those who earn or supplement their livelihoods in this despicable way, Block endorses the libertarian...

Replies to Levin and Kipnis.
June 22, 1999... I appreciate the care that both Michael Levin(1) and Kenneth Kipnis(2) have taken to understand and respond to my paper.(3) Both concede much--even most--of what I want to argue, yet both refuse to draw my conclusions. Even though there is...

Moral Education in Victim Offender Conferencing.
June 22, 1999... Introduction If every crime represents a failure in moral learning-- on the part of the offender, his/her community, and possibly the surrounding society -- then every crime also presents an opportunity for moral learning. Just as the...

Declaring Life at the Crossroads of Death: Victims' Anti-Death Penalty Views and Prosecutors' Charging Decisions.
June 22, 1999... Death and life were not Till man made up the whole. -- W.B. Yeats(1) I Introduction Among the many issues polarizing Americans today, few can match capital punishment in terms of divisiveness. Unique in its severity, the death...

Teaching Criminal Justice Ethics: Strategic Issues.
June 22, 1999... edited by John Kleinig and Margaret Leland Smith John Jay College of Criminal Justice What should we be trying to achieve in teaching criminal justice ethics? How best may we go about it? How can we tell if we have succeeded? In this...

Philosophical Analysis and the Limits of the Substantive Criminal Law.
June 22, 1999... George P. Fletcher, Basic Concepts of Criminal Law New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, xi + 223 pp. I would like to begin by describing the circumstances under which I came to read George Fletcher's Basic Concepts of the Criminal...

Publications Received.
June 22, 1999... Charles K.B. Barton, Getting Even: Revenge as a Form of Justice. (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1999) ix + 180 pp. Bruce L. Benson, To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. (New York: New York University...

From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law.
June 22, 1999... edited by William C. Heffernan & John Kleinig John Jay College of Criminal Justice The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in sorely disproportionate numbers. Should economic deprivation then figure in...