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Skinning The Cat: How Mandatory Psychiatric Evaluations For Animal Cruelty Offenders Can Prevent Future Violence, Ashley Kunz
Skinning The Cat: How Mandatory Psychiatric Evaluations For Animal Cruelty Offenders Can Prevent Future Violence, Ashley Kunz
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
In 2017, the Texas legislature amended Texas Penal Code § 42.092, which governs acts of cruelty against non-livestock animals. The statute in its current form makes torturing, killing, or seriously injuring a non-livestock animal a third degree felony, while less serious offenses carry either a state jail felony or a Class A misdemeanor charge.
While a step in the right direction, Texas law is not comprehensive in that it fails to address a significant aspect of animal cruelty offenses: mental illness. For over fifteen years, Texas Family Code § 54.0407 has required psychiatric counseling for juveniles convicted of cruelty to …
New Uri Journal Explores Sexual Exploitation, G. Wayne Miller, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
New Uri Journal Explores Sexual Exploitation, G. Wayne Miller, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
Injunctions In Domestic Violence: Case Study In Iran, Ehsan Zarrokh
Injunctions In Domestic Violence: Case Study In Iran, Ehsan Zarrokh
Ehsan Zarrokh
As domestic violence becomes increasingly recognized a widespread social problem, judicial system has begun playing larger roles in providing legal protection to these victims. One way they are doing this in the Iran is through the use of protective restraining orders or injunctions. The purpose of this research was to determine if permanent Injunctions for Protection provide victims of Domestic Violence with a sense of security in alleviating fear of retaliation or on-going violence.
Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Book Notes, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency By Anthony M. Platt Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. ix, 202.$8.50.
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Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (rev. ed.) By Clifford R.Shaw & Henry D. McKay Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1969. Pp. 394.
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The Positive School of Criminology Edited by Stanley E. Grupp Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. vi, 114. $5.95.
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State and Local Tax Problems Edited by Harry L. Johnson Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969. Pp. xiii, 190. $7.50.
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Tension in the Cities By James A. Bayton Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1969. Pp. x, …