Sex Offenses—Offensive Sex: Some Observations on the Recent Reform of Ecclesiastical Penal Law

Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy, The

The Dilemma of Penal Reform

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Dr. Hermann Mannheim, with a preface by Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders. Allen & Unwin. 1939. pp. 228. 7s. 6d. This book is based on a course of public lectures given at the London School of Economics in 1938-9. Professor Carr-Saunders points ?ut that for the constructive development of Penal Reform we need, firstly, accurate systematic sociological and psychological s...

Understanding Penal Reform: The Dynamic of Change

Some Observations on Recent Economic Developments

I confess that I had diffi culty in deciding on a topic for tonight’s talk. There were, in my view, no burning issues that I wanted to address, or messages that I wanted to leave my listeners with. In the event, I have decided to talk about three topics: how the world has coped with a tripling of oil prices, how the world is emerging from a period of exceptionally low interest rates, and, quite...

Sex selection: morality, harm, and the law.

For centuries, couples have tried to choose the sex of their children. Italian men bit their wife’s left ears during intercourse to beget daughters; Swedish men hung their pants on the right bedpost to father boys; while German woodcutters took their axes to bed and chanted: “Ruck, ruck, roy, you shall have a boy!” or “Ruck, ruck, raid, you shall have a maid!” Sex selection is now a reality. Th...