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The Child Witness: Techniques For Direct Examination, Cross-Examination, And Impeachment, John E.B. Myers Jan 1987

The Child Witness: Techniques For Direct Examination, Cross-Examination, And Impeachment, John E.B. Myers

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Notice To Minors Under The Illinois Juvenile Court Act: An Anomaly Of Due Process, 36 Depaul L. Rev. 343 (1987), Susan L. Brody Jan 1987

Notice To Minors Under The Illinois Juvenile Court Act: An Anomaly Of Due Process, 36 Depaul L. Rev. 343 (1987), Susan L. Brody

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Contributions Of Victimization To Delinquency In Inner Cities, Jeffery Fagan, Elizabeth S. Piper, Yu-Teh Cheng Jan 1987

Contributions Of Victimization To Delinquency In Inner Cities, Jeffery Fagan, Elizabeth S. Piper, Yu-Teh Cheng

Faculty Scholarship

The relationship between victimization and criminality has been widely cited in recent years. Early thinking and public perceptions about crime intuitively presumed that criminals were distinct from their victims. Crime control policies resulted which promoted the physical separation of victims from predatory offenders through "target hardening" and "defensible space." Such distinctions, however, ignored the empirical evidence on the considerable overlap between offender and victim profiles and distorted the reality of events in which persons are labelled as victims or victimizers based only on the consequences of the event. Given the homogeneous relation between victim and offender, theories of crime that …


The Abuses Of Social Science: A Response To Fineman And Opie., David L. Chambers Jan 1987

The Abuses Of Social Science: A Response To Fineman And Opie., David L. Chambers

Articles

Martha Fineman and Anne Opie have written an article on the misuses of social science research by those who are recommending policies for the placement of children after divorce.' The subject is important. When Professor Fineman told me that she and Opie were using an article I wrote about child custody2 as an example of some of the problems they discussed, I anticipated a useful exchange on the subject. Having read their article, I have decided against an exchange on the merits of the larger issues they raise. I have so decided because their article, which refers extensively to my …


Child Welfare Decisionmaking: In Search Of The Least Drastic Alternative, Marsha Garrison Jan 1987

Child Welfare Decisionmaking: In Search Of The Least Drastic Alternative, Marsha Garrison

Faculty Scholarship

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