Procedural Protection at Parole Release Hearings: The Need for Reform

Understanding Parole Officers’ Responses to Sanctioning Reform

There are constant calls for reform in the criminal justice system, but obs­ ervers have often reported that criminal justice reform is an exceptionally challenging task. As with any organizational change, resistance to new policies, procedures, and practices comes from a variety of sources. The relatively broad discretionary authority vested in line­level personnel often contributes to the dif...

Eugenic Reform, the Need for

The Need for Inner-Procedural Re nements

Today one of the most widely accepted paradigms of software engineering is the Top-Down method. Based on the hypothesises that (a) Top-Down is a good way to go and (b) programmers are lazy by their very nature, I show here that with most modern imperative programming languages, we stop the Top-Down process at least one level too early. What languages need is the concept of re nements within pro...

Confronting Government After Welfare Reform: Moralists, Reformers, and Narratives of (Ir)responsibility at Administrative Fair Hearings

Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the...

Is There a Need for Reform?

The very notion of "reform of the international monetary system" is a very modern one in two respects. "Reform" is a conscious act, an act of volition and coordinated will, as distinguished from a series of piecemeal changes that occur as individual actors--banks, business firms, governments--respond to new circumstances, leading over time to change, but not to conscious reform. Second, the not...