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5 Rutgers J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 9 (2007)
Instructed by
the state
legislature to consider all aspects of the death penalty, invited to
propose appropriate legislation, the New Jersey Death Penalty Study
Commission’s final report does neither. Apparently unbiased
in
its approach and thorough in its deliberation, the
Commission’s
final product nearly unanimously urging abolition of the death penalty
distorts the evidence, shows a consistent anti-retributive bias, and
worst of all, ignores basic well-established perspectives framing the
great debate. Standing alone, the report simply fails to inform the
people or guide their representatives to a reasoned moral response. ...
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Global
challenges are increasingly threatening and require us to quicken the
pace of response in establishing more effective global governance. This
article focuses especially on global warming, one of the great global
threats of our time, and on related environmental destruction.
Scientists warn that within ten years we must transform industrial
society to chart a new, clean energy path to avoid unprecedented global
environmental, economic, and social disruption. Addressing global
challenges is a complicated undertaking. ... [ read more]
This article
explores the impact of the mandatory reporting of child abuse and
neglect by analyzing the repercussions of erroneous reports. The
consequences of investigating reports that do not result in an
intervention by the child welfare agencies can be very serious because
these diminish the already over-extended resources of these agencies.
The consequences of over-burdening the child welfare system through
this misallocation of investigative resources can be devastating for a
high volume of children who remain at risk but whose needs are not
properly addressed. Mandatory reporting exacerbates the tensions
inherent in the child welfare system between the social responsibility
of protecting children at risk of harm, and a similar obligation to
shore up families who are distressed. ... [ read more]
While both
sides of the aisle agree that minimizing costs is a critical component
in any health plan, few plans provide specifics aimed at achieving that
objective. Current programs provide or extend insurance coverage to the
uninsured, divest employers of a coverage requirement, and vest it,
instead, in individuals. These methods would add substantial costs to
the system without commensurate return. At the outset, the cost-savings
of buying insurance in bulk -- by several thousand employers - -
disappears, replaced by the costs of handling hundreds of millions of
individual policies. ... [ read more]
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