Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 2000

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 2000

Miranda, Dickerson, and the problem of actual innocence. (Commentary).
June 22, 2000... In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court held that the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment ("no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself") requires that an individual who is subjected to...

Duress and culpability. (Articles).
June 22, 2000... Suppose Smith knowingly drives the getaway car for a gang of bank robbers. This would normally be grounds for charging him with being an accessory to the crime of robbery. One way in which he might defend himself, however, is by convincing the...

Memory and punishment.
June 22, 2000... I Introduction Lawyers and legal philosophers have both recognized that our prevailing concepts of criminal responsibility and punishment depend upon a particular notion of personal identity, namely our possession of conscious minds to...

The Structure of Liberty. (Review Essay / A Libertarian Alternative to Liberal Justice).
June 22, 2000... Randy E. Barnett, The Structure of Liberty Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, xi + 347pp. I Libertarianism and Liberalism The relation between classical liberalism and what has come to be called "libertarianism" is complicated. (1) In...

The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics. (Review Essay / Can a Lawyer Be Happy?).
June 22, 2000... William H. Simon, The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, viii + 253 pp. Since 1985, I have divided my professional life between teaching philosophy and practicing law in...