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37 Crime & Delinquency 3 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/cadq37 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Arthur J. Lurigio The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic poses daunting challenges for all our major institutions. The burden it has placed on medical care, for example, is already overwhelming and will only become more onerous. In schools, for example HIV is compelling administrators to con- front thorny ethical and moral questions, and forcing them to balance the rights of individual students against the fears of the larger group. This special issue addresses the impact of HIV on the criminal justice system, which has been less apparent, but is no less serious. The present contributions explore the effects of HIV on statutory law and on policies and practices in institu- tional and community corrections. The issue begins with Blumberg and Langston who delve into the highly polemical question of mandatory HIV testing or screening for persons under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system (e.g., inmates, probationers, and parolees). The authors weigh the benefits and costs of mandatory tests to determine the circumstances under which such testing is warranted from both a legal and public health perspective. The next two contributions focus on HIV policy. In the first, Laszlo and Smith describe the HIV Policy, Training, and Technical Assistant Project designed to assist a wide range of criminal justice personnel and service providers in developing HIV-related policy and procedural guidelines for their agencies. The article showcases a generic set of HIV policies and data examining the impact of training on participants' knowledge, attitudes about the necessity and usefulness of HIV policies, and the actual implementation of such policies in their respective agencies. In the second, Griffin, Lurigio, and Johnson present model HIV policies for probation departments. Their recommendations cover such topics as discrimination, testing, education, and services for both employees and offenders with HIV. For each policy ARTHURJ. LURIGIO: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Loyola University of Chicago; Research Associate, Northwestern University; Director of Research and Evaluation, Cook County Adult Probation Department. I would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Bruce Johnson who diligently solicited manuscripts for this issue. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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