JUSTICE FOR THE DEFECTIVE OFFENDER.

State Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Ex-Offender Mobility

In Connectedness and Its Discontents, Dan Markel pays me the distinct honor of critiquing my recent article, Horizontal Federalism in an Age of Criminal Justice Interconnectedness. There, I examined the challenges faced by states as they seek to apply their registration and recidivist enhancement laws to exoffenders who, having discharged their penal commitments, migrate to other states. As I e...

Current Directions in Youth Justice and Young Offender Programming

There are few areas of practice in the criminal justice arena quite so contentious as how to respond to young people who commit serious and/or repeated offenses. Our views about what should be considered as appropriate responses (both in terms of the type of sentence that should be handed down by the courts and the programs that should be offered) are determined by our beliefs about the degree ...

Grand Challenges: Social Justice and the Need for Evidence-Based Sex Offender Registry Reform

Restorative Justice conferencing and the youth offender: exploring the role of oral language competence.

BACKGROUND Restorative Justice is an approach to responding to youth offending that aims to be collaborative and conciliatory rather than adversarial. In this respect, it is a welcome innovation in justice, welfare, and educational settings, and is gaining favour around the world. To date, however, the Restorative Justice literature has not considered the possible implications of unidentified l...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...