Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 2002

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 2002

Public health and civil liberties in an era of bioterrorism.(COMMENTARY)
June 22, 2002... Safeguarding the public's health, safety, and security took on new meaning and urgency after the attacks on the World Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. The subsequent intentional dispersal of...

The death penalty.(SYMPOSIUM)(American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Foreword On December 29, 2001, the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the death penalty at the Annual Meeting of APA's Eastern Division in Atlanta, Georgia. It was, perhaps, a...

The minimal invasion argument against the death penalty.
June 22, 2002... I Introduction When abolitionists attack the death penalty, they typically do so with a wide variety of arguments. Norms such as the value of human life and respect for human life often play a decisive role. For some abolitionists, the...

Retribution, deterrence, and the death penalty: a response to Hugo Bedau.(evaluation of capital punishment)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Hugo Bedau gives a clear and well-reasoned argument against the death penalty, based on the premise that the state ought to use the least harsh or intrusive means needed to ensure public safety. I share Bedau's feeling against the death...

Death and retribution.(analysis of capital punishment)
June 22, 2002... I Introduction It is often supposed that a theory of punishment predicated on desert lends support to the death penalty. What leads to this assumption is a prior thought about the appropriate punishment for murder: If we are to punish...

A sound retributive argument for the death penalty.(SYMPOSIUM)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Claire Finkelstein's primary conclusion is that "retributivism fails to justify the use of death as punishment." (1) By "justify," Finkelstein seems to mean no more than "show to be morally permitted." I shall "justify" the death penalty in a...

Two ideals and the death penalty.(International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, evaluation of capital punishment)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... When Kant argued in favor of capital punishment in the Metaphysics of Morals, he was justifying a penal institution in an idealized civil state. He gave reasons for thinking that murder and rebellion were capital crimes, but he did not claim...

Caution about character ideals and capital punishment: a reply to Sorell.(Tom Sorell)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... Tom Sorell's essay raises the fresh issue of how the criminal should behave were she now to behave as well as possible given that she has already committed a terrible crime. (1) Sorell argues that the "ideally responsible agent" who has engaged...

Afterword: proportionality and the difference death makes.(capital punishment)
June 22, 2002... Anyone who reflects on the practice of capital punishment has to work through two issues. The first is that of the justification of punishment in general, the second is that of the place of death within his or her overall theory of punishment....

The perp walk: due process v. freedom of the press.(police practice)
June 22, 2002... The "perp walk"--as it is popularly known--is a widespread police practice... in which the suspected perpetrator of a crime, after being arrested, is "walked" in front of the press so that he can be photographed or filmed. The perp walk both...

Review essay / the precinct confessional.(Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000, x + 207 pp. I Introduction In Troubling Confessions, (1) humanities scholar Peter Brooks gives us a provocative...

Review essay / the "p" word: profiling.(Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work)(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... David A. Harris, Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work New York: The New Press, 2002, xi + 276 pp. There are times when certain words become so politically charged that they become difficult to use and, when used, almost...

Publications received.
June 22, 2002... Jeannine Bell, Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2002) vii + 227 pp. Mike Brogden, Preeti Nijhar, Crime, Abuse, and the Elderly. (Devon, UK: Willan Publishing, 2000)...