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A Profile Of Women Released Into Cook County Communities From Jail And Prison, Gipsy Escobar, David Olson Oct 2012

A Profile Of Women Released Into Cook County Communities From Jail And Prison, Gipsy Escobar, David Olson

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

This testimoney presented at the Cook County, Illinois Commission on Women's Issues hearing on incarceration summarizes the characteristics of women admitted to the Cook County, Illinois, Jail, how these compare to male detainees, and the criminal history and specific communities detainees resided in before their incarceration.


Population Dynamics And The Characteristics Of Inmates In The Cook County Jail, David E. Olson, Sema Taheri Feb 2012

Population Dynamics And The Characteristics Of Inmates In The Cook County Jail, David E. Olson, Sema Taheri

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

An overview of the population characteristics and population dynamics in the Cook County Illinois Jail in 2011.


The Structural Injustice Of Forced Migration And The Failings Of Normative Theory, David Ingram Jan 2012

The Structural Injustice Of Forced Migration And The Failings Of Normative Theory, David Ingram

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

I propose to criticize two strands of argument - contractarian and utilitarian – that liberals have put forth in defense of economic coercion, based on the notion of justifiable paternalism. To illustrate my argument, I appeal to the example of forced labor migration, driven by the exigencies of market forces. In particular, I argue that the forced migration of a special subset of unemployed workers lacking other means of subsistence (economic refugees) cannot be redeemed paternalistically as freedom or welfare enhancing in the long run. I further argue that contractarian and utilitarian approaches are normatively incapable of appreciating this fact …