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Michigan Sex Offender Registry: Implications And Effects, Heather Damuth Dec 2020

Michigan Sex Offender Registry: Implications And Effects, Heather Damuth

Honors Projects

This paper discusses the Michigan Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) and the ways that it affects offenders, the public, and society. It also discusses the conveniences and the challenges in relation to the SORA including discussions about public safety, and offender rights. The impacts on offenders, victims, and the general public are also discussed. The research was done through the Grand Valley State University Library, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Michigan Legislation. Sources were examined and combined to form an integrative research paper about the sex offender registry in Michigan.

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Choice-Of-Law Rules For Secured Transactions: An Interest-Based And Modern Principles-Based Framework For Assessment, Charles W. Mooney Jr. Jan 2017

Choice-Of-Law Rules For Secured Transactions: An Interest-Based And Modern Principles-Based Framework For Assessment, Charles W. Mooney Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

This essay examines the law applicable to secured transactions. It addresses in particular the codification of the choice-of-law rules for secured transactions (STCOL rules). These rules address the laws applicable to the creation, perfection, priority, and enforcement of security interests (security rights)—a form of legislative or statutory dépeçage. It draws on the 2016 UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (Model Law) as well as relevant North American law (Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 and the Canadian provincial Personal Property Security Acts). The STCOL rules lie at the heart of the emerged and emerging modern principles of secured transactions law …

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The International Deep Brain Stimulation Registry And Database For Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome: How Does It Work?, Wissam Deeb, Peter J. Rossi, Mauro Porta, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Domenico Servello, Peter Silburn, Terry Coyne, James F. Leckman, Thomas Foltynie, Marwan Hariz, Eileen M. Joyce, Ludvic Zrinzo, Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Marie-Laure Welter, Carine Karachi, Luc Mallet, Jean-Luc Houeto, Joohi Shahed-Jimenez, Fan-Gang Meng, Brian T. Klassen, Alan Y. Mogilner, Michael H. Pourfar, Jens Kuhn, L. Ackermans, Takanobu Kaido, Yasin Temel, Robert E. Gross, Harrison C. Walker, Andres M. Lozano, Suketu M. Khandhar, Benjamin L. Walter, Ellen Walter, Zoltan Mari, Barbara K. Changizi, Elena Moro, Juan C. Baldermann, Daniel Huys, S. Elizabeth Zauber, Lauren E. Schrock, Jian-Guo Zhang, Wei Hu, Kelly D. Foote, Kyle Rizer, Jonathan W. Mink, Douglas W. Woods, Aysegul Gunduz, Michael S. Okun Apr 2016

The International Deep Brain Stimulation Registry And Database For Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome: How Does It Work?, Wissam Deeb, Peter J. Rossi, Mauro Porta, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, Domenico Servello, Peter Silburn, Terry Coyne, James F. Leckman, Thomas Foltynie, Marwan Hariz, Eileen M. Joyce, Ludvic Zrinzo, Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Marie-Laure Welter, Carine Karachi, Luc Mallet, Jean-Luc Houeto, Joohi Shahed-Jimenez, Fan-Gang Meng, Brian T. Klassen, Alan Y. Mogilner, Michael H. Pourfar, Jens Kuhn, L. Ackermans, Takanobu Kaido, Yasin Temel, Robert E. Gross, Harrison C. Walker, Andres M. Lozano, Suketu M. Khandhar, Benjamin L. Walter, Ellen Walter, Zoltan Mari, Barbara K. Changizi, Elena Moro, Juan C. Baldermann, Daniel Huys, S. Elizabeth Zauber, Lauren E. Schrock, Jian-Guo Zhang, Wei Hu, Kelly D. Foote, Kyle Rizer, Jonathan W. Mink, Douglas W. Woods, Aysegul Gunduz, Michael S. Okun

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disease characterized by a combination of motor and vocal tics. Deep brain stimulation (DBS), already widely utilized for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, is an emerging therapy for select and severe cases of TS that are resistant to medication and behavioral therapy. Over the last two decades, DBS has been used experimentally to manage severe TS cases. The results of case reports and small case series have been variable but in general positive. The reported interventions have, however, been variable, and there remain non-standardized selection criteria, various brain targets, differences in hardware, as …

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Grand Challenges: Social Justice And The Need For Evidence-Based Sex Offender Registry Reform, Jill S. Levenson, Melissa Grady, George Leibowitz Jan 2016

Grand Challenges: Social Justice And The Need For Evidence-Based Sex Offender Registry Reform, Jill S. Levenson, Melissa Grady, George Leibowitz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Sex offender registries, though popular, bring with them enormous fiscal costs and unintended consequences for offenders and communities. Consistent with the Grand Challenges, social workers can play a role in advocating for sex offender management policies that are better informed by evidence and thus a better use of resources. Registry reform would also moderate the stigma resulting from the sex offender label, and reduce barriers to offender reintegration. First, a brief history of registration laws and the research around their effectiveness will be provided, followed by a rationale for needed improvements in sex offender management policy. Finally, evidence-based recommendations for …

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Regulating Sexual Harm: Strangers, Intimates, And Social Institutional Reform, Allegra M. Mcleod Jan 2014

Regulating Sexual Harm: Strangers, Intimates, And Social Institutional Reform, Allegra M. Mcleod

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The criminal regulation of sexual harm in the United States is afflicted by deep pathology. Although sexual harm appears before the law in a variety of forms—from violent rape, to indecent exposure, to the sexual touching by an older child of a younger child—the prevailing U.S. criminal regulatory framework responds to this wide range of conduct with remarkable uniformity. All persons so convicted are labeled “sex offenders,” and most are subjected to registration, community notification, and residential restrictions, among other sanctions. These measures purport to prevent the perpetration of further criminal sexual harm by publicizing the identities and restricting the …

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Clinical Implications Of Wearing A Scarlet Letter: Sex Offender Public Policy, Tracy E. Shannon Jan 2012

Clinical Implications Of Wearing A Scarlet Letter: Sex Offender Public Policy, Tracy E. Shannon

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation outlines a mixed methods research approach to evaluate the clinical implications of sex offender public policies. Background information is given regarding current public policy on sex offender civil commitment and community notification and registration, the development of public policy and the current ramifications of the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORNA), the etiology and construction of the definition of sex offenders, and a review of sex offender interventions and their impact on therapeutic outcomes. This study examines the therapeutic and anti-therapeutic effects of SORNA using a therapeutic jurisprudence framework. A discussion of the correlation between mental health symptoms and …

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Building A Global Knowledge Network Among Geospatial Specialists, Harlan Onsrud Dec 2011

Building A Global Knowledge Network Among Geospatial Specialists, Harlan Onsrud

Harlan J Onsrud

This presentation discusses the idea for, progress made and challenges confronted by the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association in pursuing development of the Geographic Information Knowledge Network found at http://www.giknet.org Objectives and goals of the network are explained as well as suggestions for supporting the network.

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