Eric Janus

President and Dean

President and Dean

Bibliography

Books

Failure to Protect: America's Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. Click here for information from the Cornell University Press. Click here for PDF excerpt from the book. (Reviewed in 17 Law and Politics Book Review 326 (2007); Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 2007 ; City Pages, November 29, 2006, at 1; Minneapolis Star Tribune; St. Paul Pioneer Press, December 3, 2006, at 1.)

Sexually Coercive Behavior: Understanding and Management. Robert Prentky, Eric Janus & Michael Seto, eds. Vol. 989 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2003). 

Law & Mental Health Professionals: Minnesota. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1994. With R. Mickelsen, S. Sanders.

Civil Commitment in Minnesota. 2d ed. St. Paul: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1991.

Civil Commitment in Minnesota. St. Paul: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1984-1986.

Articles

"A Crooked Picture: Re-Framing the Problem of Child Sexual Abuse." 36 William Mitchell Law Review 142 (2009). With Emily Polachek. Full article currently available online via William Mitchell Law Review.

"Sexual Predator Laws: A Two-Decade Retrospective." Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2008. With R.Prentky. Full text on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

“An End-Game for Sexually Violent Predator Laws: As-Applied Invalidation.” 6 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 25 (2008). With Brad Bolin. Click here for public link to full article.

“Forward”  in Recent Developments in Minnesota Law. 34 William Mitchell Law Review 1243 (2008). Full test on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text on Westlaw and Lexis.

"Don’t Think of a Predator: Changing Frames for Better Sexual Violence Prevention," 6 Sex Offender Law Report 81 (2007). Full text on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

"Sexually Violent Predators in the Courtroom: Science on Trial, " 12 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 357 (2006). With R. Prentky, H. Barbaree, B. Schwartz, and M. Kafka.

"Sexually violent predator laws: psychiatry in service to a morally dubious enterprise," 364 The Lancet s1 at 50 (2004).

"The Preventive State, Terrorists and Sexual Predators: Countering the Threat of a New Outsider Jurisprudence," 40 Criminal Law Bulletin 576 (2004).  Full text on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

"Closing Pandora’s Box: Sexual Predators and the Politics of Sexual Violence,"  34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1233 (2004). Full text on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Forensic Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment: How a Developing Science can Enhance Accuracy and Accountability," 16 Federal Sentencing Reporter 176 (2004) (with Robert A. Prentky, Ph.D.). Reprinted in 5 Sex Offender Law Report 75 (2004).

"Establishing a Law and Psychiatry Clinic." 14 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 209 (2004). With M. Hackett. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Forensic Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment with Sex Offenders:  Accuracy, Admissibility and Accountability." 40 American Criminal Law Review 1443 (2003). With R. Prentky. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw. Full text on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

"Clinical Teaching at William Mitchell College of Law: Values, Pedagogy, and Perspective." 30 William Mitchell Law Review 73 (2003). Text available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Substantive Due Process and the Involuntary Confinement of Sexually Violent Predators."  35 Connecticut Law Review 319 (2003). With W. Logan. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

“Minnesota’s Sex Offender Commitment Program: Would an Empirically-Based Prevention Policy be more Effective?” 29 William Mitchell Law Review 1083 (2003). Text available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"An Empirical Study of Minnesota's Sex Offender Commitment Program." 1 Sex Offender Law Report 49 (2000).

"Sex Offender Commitments in Minnesota: A Descriptive Study of Second Generation Commitments." 18 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 343 (2000). With N. Walbek.

"Sex Predator Commitment Laws: Lessons for Law and the Behavioral Sciences." 18 Behavioral Sciences and the Law  5 (2000).

"Sex Predator Commitments: Constitutional but Unwise?" 30 Psychiatric Annals 411 (2000).

"After Hendricks, Some Thoughts on the Future Use of Sex Offender Commitment Laws," 1 Sex Offender Law Report 9 (Dec. 1999-Jan. 2000).

"Foreshadowing the Future of Kansas v. Hendricks: Lessons from Minnesota's Sex Offender Commitment Litigation." 92 Northwestern University Law Review 1279 (1998). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Hendricks and the Moral Terrain of Police Power Civil Commitment." 4 Psychology, Public Policy and Law 297 (1998). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Hendricks and the Future of Sex Offender Commitment Laws." 18 Developments in Mental Health Law 1 (1998).

"The Use of Social Science and Medicine in Sex Offender Commitment." 23 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 347 (1997). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Toward a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation." 76 Nebraska Law Review 1 (1997). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Sex Offender Commitments: Debunking the Official Narrative and Revealing the Rules-in-Use." 8 Stanford Law and Policy Review 71 (1997). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Assessing the Legal Standard for Predictions of Dangerousness in Sex Offender Commitment Proceedings." 3 Psychology, Public Policy and Law 33 (1997). With P. Meehl. Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Preventing Sexual Violence: Setting Principled Constitutional Boundaries on Sex Offender Commitments." 72 Indiana Law Journal 157 (1996). Full text on Lexis and Westlaw.

"Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Megan’s Law: Protection vs. Privacy." 13 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights at 111 (1996). Full text on Lexis.

"Diversity Work: Risky and Rewarding." 1994 The SALT Equalizer 5. With C. Chomsky.

"Minnesota Supreme Court Explores the Limits of Police Power Commitments." 3 Expert Evidence 75 (1994).

"The Role of Legal Education in Instilling an Ethos of Public Service Among Law Students: Towards a Collaboration Between the Profession and the Academy on Professional Values." 13 Law & Inequality 1 (1994). With S. Befort. Full text on Westlaw.

"A Memorial to Bernie Becker." 17 William Mitchell Law Review 409 (1991).Text available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

"Clinics and ‘Contextual Integration’: Helping Law Students Put the Pieces Back Together Again." 16 William Mitchell Law Review 463 (1990). Text available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

"A Shot in the Dark: Illuminating the Doctrinal Foundations for Forced Mental Health Treatment." Hennepin Lawyer, Nov.-Dec. 1990, at 8.

"AIDS and the Law: Setting and Evaluating Threshold Standards for Coercive Public Health Intervention." 14 William Mitchell Law Review 503 (1988). Text available on Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Full text on Westlaw.

"Minnesota’s Coercive Public Health Legislation: Quarantine in the Age of AIDS." Hennepin Lawyer, March-April 1988, at 10.

"The Minnesota Commitment Act of 1982: Summary and Analysis." 6 Hamline Law Review 41 (1983). With R. Wolfson.

Chapters

"Sexual Violence, Gender Politics, and Outsider Jurisprudence—Lessons from the American Experience in Prevention," in 'Dangerous' People: Policy, Prediction and Practice, Bernadette McSherry and Patrick Keyzer, eds. New York, NY: Routledge (in press).

"The Preventive State: When is Prevention of Harm Harmful?" in Handbook of Public Protection, Michael Nash and Andrew Williams, eds. Abingdon, England: Willan Publishing (in press).

"Legislative Responses to Sexual Violence: An Overview,” in Sexually Coercive Behavior: Understanding and Management, E. Janus, R. Prentky, M. Seto, eds. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 989, 2003.

“Treatment and the Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders,” in Protecting Society From Dangerous Offenders: Law, Justice, and Therapy.  Washington, DC: APA Books, 2003. Bruce J. Winick and John Q. LaFond, eds.

“Sexual Predators.” In Vol. 4, Joshua M. Dressler, ed. in chief, Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice. 2d. ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002.

"Sex Offender Commitments and the ‘Inability to Control’: Developing Legal Standards and a Behavioral Vocabulary for an Elusive Concept." In Anita Schlank, ed., The Sexual Predator: Legal Issues, Clinical Issues, Special Situations. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 2001.

"Civil Commitment as Social Control: Managing the Risk of Sexual Violence." In Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order, Mark Brown and John Pratt, eds. New York: Routledge, 2000.

"Defending Sex Offender Commitment Cases." In Anita Schlank and Fred Cohen, eds., The Sexual Predator. Kingston, N.J.: Civic Research Institute, Inc., 1999. With L. J. Nudell.

Miscellaneous

"Skills for Diversity: Description, Evaluation and Recommendations." Indexed in Resources in Education. Washington, D.C.: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (available from ERIC Document Reproduction Service as ERIC document ED/351/924) (April 1993).

Vulnerable Adult Protection Act Analysis. St. Paul: Minnesota Department of Human Services, 1988. With T. Campbell.