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Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law
Manual De Derecho Procesal Civil, Edward Ivan Cueva
Manual De Derecho Procesal Civil, Edward Ivan Cueva
Edward Ivan Cueva
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Engaging With The State: The Growing Reliance On Lawyers And Judges To Protect Battered Women, Jane C. Murphy
Engaging With The State: The Growing Reliance On Lawyers And Judges To Protect Battered Women, Jane C. Murphy
All Faculty Scholarship
The passage of the federal Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (“VAWA II”) marked an important milestone in the evolution of the domestic violence movement. VAWA II created, among other things, a complex system for state and federal funding in all fifty states to provide civil legal assistance to battered women. Its passage completed a process that began in the early 1980s when domestic violence advocates shifted their focus from grass roots efforts to help battered women and their children leave abusive partners to building alliances with government and advocating for legal remedies to assist battered women. This paper looks …
Reforming Child Protection In Response To The Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Scandal, Susan Vivian Mangold
Reforming Child Protection In Response To The Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Scandal, Susan Vivian Mangold
Journal Articles
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Queering Domestic Violence To Straighten Out Criminal Law: What Might Happen When Queer Theory And Practice Meet Criminal Law's Conventional Responses To Domestic Violence, Adele M. Morrison
Queering Domestic Violence To Straighten Out Criminal Law: What Might Happen When Queer Theory And Practice Meet Criminal Law's Conventional Responses To Domestic Violence, Adele M. Morrison
Law Faculty Research Publications
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Damage To Family Relationships As A Collateral Consequence Of Parental Incarceration, Philip Genty
Damage To Family Relationships As A Collateral Consequence Of Parental Incarceration, Philip Genty
Faculty Scholarship
The most obvious and perhaps most serious collateral consequence of incarceration is family separation. Imprisonment undermines families and has a detrimental impact upon children, caretakers, and the communities in which they live. Unlike other collateral consequences, family separation has an irreversible impact upon both parents and children. The time apart is lost forever because a childhood can never be recovered.
This Essay will review the available statistical information about incarcerated parents and their children and discuss the detrimental effects of parental incarceration upon families. The Essay will conclude with some reflections about why the adverse consequences of incarceration for prisoners' …