Criminal Justice Ethics

Martin Guggenheim, What's Wrong with Children's Rights Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005, pp. 320. In the interest of full disclosure, I will begin this essay by explaining that Martin Guggenheim, author of What's Wrong with Children's...

This volume is intended to be a resource in more ways than one. It reproduces a set of essays that help to frame the development of an ethically informed correctional ethic. Correctional ethics is thus embedded in a set of wider discussions that help...

Bruce Ackerman, Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 240. For the past several years, I have taught a new law school course called "Criminal Justice and Homeland Security."...

The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in sorely disproportionate numbers. Should economic deprivation then figure in the administration of criminal law? And if so, how? This collection of original, insightful essays...

The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a huge interest in various forms of personal and public corruption. As never before, there was an outpouring of media interest and scholarly articles, as well as the formation of large institutional...

Introduction When attending to the gathering threat of harm posed by an actor who is laying the groundwork for the commission of an offense, the lawmaker has to determine the point--within the succession of stages along the criminal path--at which...

A society's treatment of those it considers to be the "worst of the worst" is an accurate measure of its integrity and strength. Cutting corners can signal that a society lacks confidence in its highest ideals. The Military Commissions Act of 2006...