Recently added articles from Criminal Justice Ethics:
A mark for Peter.(COMMENTARY)(Peter C. Alderman Foundation)(Essay)
May 01, 2009; ... Our youngest child, Peter, was murdered on September 11, 2001. He was attending a conference at Windows on the World in the World Trade Center. He didn't work in the building and he was only 25 years old when he died. Peter was too young to have decided whether he wanted to leave his mark ...
Fair trials and international courts: a critical evaluation of the Nuremberg legacy.(Essay)
May 01, 2009; ... The novelties of the contemporary international order require a rethinking of the normative foundations of criminal justice. Although one can understand the relevance of basic principles such as the rule of law and, in particular, the value of a fair trial in the domestic context, when one ...
Douglas Husak, Overcriminalization: The Limits Of The Criminal Law.(SYMPOSIUM)(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... Introduction For what kinds of conduct may we impose on people the condemnatory sanction of legal punishment? Or, what may be viewed as its echo, what kinds of behavior may we legitimately criminalize? For it might be argued that what we denominate as crimes are those forms of ...
A tale of two theories.(SYMPOSIUM)
May 01, 2009; ... Introduction My own mode of discussing Douglas Husak's excellent new book, Overcriminalization, (1) is by comparing the theory that book defends--what Husak calls "minimalism"--with a theory with which I am already familiar, namely, my own brand of legal moralism. (2) Both ...
Paternalism on pain of punishment.(SYMPOSIUM)(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... "We overpunish and overcriminalize," Douglas Husak insists in his latest book-length tour de force entitled Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law (2008). (1) In what ways and by what measure? In his carefully reasoned, systematic, and provocative analysis of the scope and ...