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A semiannual journal focusing on ethical issues in criminal justice. Includes articles on topics relating to the police, the courts, corrections, and issues in legal philosophy contributed by philosophers, criminal justice professionals, lawyers and judge
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An ethics consult with Kierkegaard.(COMMENTARY)
June 22, 2004... Four decades ago, Philip Rieff heralded the triumph of the therapeutic. According to Rieff, in the fifties and sixties the image of therapy eclipsed political and religious narratives and emerged as the central organizing motif for the self....
Is it better that ten guilty persons go free than that one innocent person be convicted?
June 22, 2004... I Introduction
The relevance of answers depends, of course, on getting the questions right. Sometimes, however, we are not quite sure that we actually know what the question is. The doctrine that underlies the title question to this essay...
Idealizing the other? Western images of the Japanese criminal justice system.
June 22, 2004... In psychological terms, the [Japanese] system relies on positive rather than negative reinforcement, emphasizing loving acceptance in exchange for genuine repentance. An analogue of what the Japanese policeman wants the offender to feel is the...
Punishment, reintegration, and atypical victims.(EXCHANGE)
June 22, 2004... I Introduction
An account of punishment must recognize punishment's role in maintaining something like a community. Because punishment affirms that we refrain from acts of kind x, punishing a criminal--rather than attacking, warring with,...
Communicative punishment and the role of the victim.(EXCHANGE)
June 22, 2004... Christopher Ciocchetti presents an important challenge to the communicative account of criminal punishment that we defend (indeed, to any normative penal theory that claims to take the rights of victims seriously), and suggests a way of...
Review essay / profiling: theory and practice.(IN THE LITERATURE)(Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes )(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Frederick Schauer, Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2003. xiii + 359 pp.
Frederick Schauer has a case to make. He has paid careful attention to the legal and public discourse in our...
Publications received.(IN THE LITERATURE)
June 22, 2004... Geoffrey P. Albert and Roger G. Dunham, Understanding Police Use of Force: Officers, Suspects, and Reciprocity. (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2004) x + 191 pp.
George Anastaplo, On Trial: From Adam & Eve to O.J Simpson....