...scoff at probation, a small number of judges are returning to an old weapon in the war on crime: shame. From the South Carolina judge who forced a man convicted of battery to carry a sign that read "I beat women," to the Ohio judge who sentenced...

...Shedd's appointment was bitterly opposed by civil rights and women's groups, who accused the 49-year-old South Carolina judge of siding mainly with employers in discrimination suits. But Shedd's supporters accused the judge's critics...