Criminal Justice Ethics articles from June 2003

Criminal Justice Ethics archives from June 2003

Reaffirming the rule of law in federal sentencing.(COMMENTARY)
June 22, 2003... In 2000, the FBI searched the home of Aaron Thompson. Over 10,000 images of child pornography were found on his computer's hard drive along with evidence that he distributed over 47,000 images of child pornography that year. Thompson was...

Between madness and death: the medicate-to-execute controversy.
June 22, 2003... Introduction The evidence is overwhelming that Charles Laverne Singleton stabbed a grocery clerk to death in the course of a robbery. (1) The victim knew him. She told the police officer who first arrived at the bloody scene, as well as...

A plea for omissions.
June 22, 2003... In an attempt to identify elements that all criminal prohibitions have in common, many theorists, most of whom have been deemed adherents of "orthodox criminal law theory," have proposed a number of formal requirements for criminal liability....

Policing the brass: a case study in command malfeasance.(ETHICS IN CONTEXT)
June 22, 2003... I Introduction Even though police departments seek to fulfill the public's need for equity while preserving law and order, they are often perceived to be closed to outside scrutiny. There is some basis for this perception. If a police...

Rank has no privilege.(Commentary)(driving while intoxicated)
June 22, 2003... What William Giannetti describes is, on the surface at least, not a case of criminal justice ethics but of crime plain and simple. Though I shall eventually discuss some ethical issues, I must first focus on the crimes, in part because they...

Handling dirty laundry.(Commentary)(judicial misconduct)
June 22, 2003... In-house handling of misconduct offers possibilities for judicious and effective resolution, because it allows those who review such conduct to give due consideration to many factors involved, unencumbered by misguided, politicized, or...

The place of positive discipline.(Commentary)
June 22, 2003... In William Giannetti's narrative, Commissioner John Timoney preaches the value of positive discipline as "remedial in nature, and corrective in its approach." (1) In my discussion of this case, I focus on the concept of positive discipline,...

What kind of order?(Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing)(The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society)(Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City)(Phillipe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio)(Les Prisons de la Misere Paris: Raisons D'Agir)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, x + 294 pp. David Garland, The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society Chicago:...

Publications received.
June 22, 2003... David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, &Alexander Tabarrok (eds), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2002) vii + 439 pp. John F. Brown, Kenneth S. Obenski, & Thomas R. Osborn,...