All Posts Tagged With: "criminal justice"
Indefinite Detention and the Free Society
The free market, and the free society in general, cannot be understood without also understanding their indispensable political, legal, and moral conditions.
2Dec2011 | Sheldon Richman | 20 comments | ContinuedMoney-Grabs Go to Next Level
Prisoners in Riverside County, California, who have assets may soon be required to fork over approximately $143 a day for their stay in what County Supervisor Jeff Stone calls the “Prison Hotel.”
8Nov2011 | Wendy McElroy | 18 comments | ContinuedNaming Names in Sexual Assault Cases
Transparency, equal treatment under law, and a defendant’s presumption of innocence all seem to dictate that both accused and accuser should be identified.
24May2011 | Wendy McElroy | 16 comments | ContinuedThe Injustice of Domestic Violence Policies
Domestic violence is a deeply politicized issue used by “get tough” prosecutors and politicians as a career path.
9Nov2010 | Wendy McElroy | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Crime of Living
The new term “overcriminalization” describes the last few decades’ legislative orgy of criminalizing trivial or harmless behavior.
19Oct2010 | Wendy McElroy | 11 comments | ContinuedThe Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry
Psychiatrists alternately deny and delight in possessing special professional skill at detecting future “dangerousness” that entitles them to the special power to incarcerate individuals they so stigmatize in prisons that masquerade as hospitals. The American legal system makes heavy use of psychiatric determinations of dangerousness, as a result of which vast numbers of Americans are deprived of liberty and, at the same time, of opportunity to demonstrate the injustice of their detention. Examples abound.
17Jun2009 | Thomas Szasz | 12 comments | ContinuedTo Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Over the last three decades, the share of GDP consumed by the public sector on crime control has tripled and now exceeds $100 billion annually, or about $1,000 per household. Crime rates have declined in the 1990s, suggesting some benefit from the expenditure, yet crime stubbornly remains three times higher than 30 years ago, according [...]
1Oct1999 | Morgan O. Reynolds | 0 comments | Continued-
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