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Barriers Experienced By First Nations Deaf People In The Justice System, Brent Elder, Karen Soldatic, Michael A. Schwartz, Jody Barney, Damien Howard, Patrick Mcgee
Barriers Experienced By First Nations Deaf People In The Justice System, Brent Elder, Karen Soldatic, Michael A. Schwartz, Jody Barney, Damien Howard, Patrick Mcgee
College of Education Faculty Scholarship
Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that members of the First Nations Deaf community experience more barriers when engaging with the criminal justice system than those who are not deaf. Therefore, our purpose for writing this article is to highlight legal and policy issues related to First Nations Deaf people, including perspectives of professionals working with these communities, living in Australia who have difficulty in accessing supports within the criminal justice system. In this article, we present data from semi-structured qualitative interviews focused on four key themes: (a) indefinite detention and unfit to plead, (b) a need for an intersectional approach to …
Moving Targets: An Examination Of Departmental Firearms Policies And Police Shooting At Vehicles, John Shjarback, Julie Ward
Moving Targets: An Examination Of Departmental Firearms Policies And Police Shooting At Vehicles, John Shjarback, Julie Ward
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Scholarship
Research question: Do restrictive deadly force policies reduce the likelihood and frequency of police shootings at moving vehicles?
Conclusions:
Departments with more restrictive firearms policies re: moving vehicles were less likely to 1) have these types of shootings and 2) had fewer of them – net of controls
-Policy language instructing officers to move out of the way of moving vehicles was not associated with this subset of police shootings.
Pal Evaluation El Salvador - Process And Outcome Study, Kimberly Houser, Christine Saum, Evan Sorg, Joel Capellan
Pal Evaluation El Salvador - Process And Outcome Study, Kimberly Houser, Christine Saum, Evan Sorg, Joel Capellan
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Scholarship
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Witness To A Homicide: Experiencing Vicarious Trauma At An Execution, Sandra Joy
Witness To A Homicide: Experiencing Vicarious Trauma At An Execution, Sandra Joy
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of my study is to analyze data that I gathered during a 10-month sabbatical, when I took off in my RV and drove across the nation to interview witnesses of state and federal executions. The primary focus of my interviews was to examine the response of all parties present at an execution, in order to determine the extent and nature of vicarious trauma found among these witnesses.