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Full-Text Articles in Social Justice
Los Problemas De Las Fronteras Humanitarias, Miriam Ticktin
Los Problemas De Las Fronteras Humanitarias, Miriam Ticktin
Publications and Research
Resumen:
Este texto plantea un análisis crítico del papel de los discursos y prácticas humanitaristas en nuestra concepción de la migración y en las políticas públicas desarrolladas en relación a la movilidad poblacional a través de las fronteras internacionales. Se parte de la premisa de que el humanitarismo, aunque fuera bien intencionado, puede tener efectos perniciosos sobre la situación que se vive en las fronteras, especialmente si acaba por sustituir a la justicia y a los derechos que tienen los emigrantes. Para estudiar esta paradoja, el texto analiza, sucesivamente, varios problemas asociados a la acción humanitaria: el problema con la …
Even Judging Woodrow Wilson By The Standards Of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger
Even Judging Woodrow Wilson By The Standards Of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger
History
The news that Princeton acquiesced to student demands that the university confront the racism of Woodrow Wilson set off a series of responses. Some protest that it is unfair to judge the 28th president by present day standards. These pundits, almost all white, proclaim that Wilson must be understood within the context of his own time. The inference of such an assertion is that in times of pervasive racism it is reasonable for a leader to perpetuate it. Setting aside the assumption that morals are relative rather than absolute, let’s examine Wilson’s actions within his times.
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vii, No. 12, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vii, No. 12, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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More Progress Against Solitary Confinement
Business As Usual
Escuche
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women Created
2016 LifeLines Poetry Competition
Bail Out Steps
¡There Will Be No New Jail!
We Don’T Always Mean What We Say: Attitudes Toward Statutory Exclusion Of Juvenile Offenders From Juvenile Court Jurisdiction, Tina Zotolli, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Patricia A. Zapf
We Don’T Always Mean What We Say: Attitudes Toward Statutory Exclusion Of Juvenile Offenders From Juvenile Court Jurisdiction, Tina Zotolli, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Patricia A. Zapf
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In the United States, juvenile offenders are often excluded from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court on the basis of age and crime type alone. Data from national surveys and data from psycholegal research on support for adult sanction of juvenile offenders are often at odds. The ways in which questions are asked and the level of detail provided to respondents and research participants may influence expressed opinions. Respondents may also be more likely to agree with harsh sanctions when they have fewer offender- and case-specific details to consider. Here, we test the hypothesis that attitudes supporting statutory exclusion laws …
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vi, No. 11, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vi, No. 11, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Follow The Money
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
More Numbers
No Somos los Silenciados
Civic Play And Civic Gaps: Can Life Simulation Games Advance Educational Equity?, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, Amanda Waldron
Civic Play And Civic Gaps: Can Life Simulation Games Advance Educational Equity?, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael, Amanda Waldron
Communication
Digital games and simulations (DG&S) could help mitigate inequities in civic education and participation, which are found in many contemporary democracies. Yet incorporating DG&S into the curriculum may reinforce or introduce inequities for students who are less engaged by game-based learning. A quasi-experimental study of 301 U.S. high school students in social studies classes examined whether prior academic performance, civic engagement, civic game play experience and gender affected how (and which) students benefit from playing a life simulation game. Dependent variables included several civic dispositions: justice-oriented citizenship norms and interest in politics, news, and global issues. The simulation game especially …
Homophobia And Heterosexism, Barry D. Adam
Homophobia And Heterosexism, Barry D. Adam
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications
“Homophobia” is a widely understood term referring to antihomosexual attitudes and practices, but terms such as “homophobia,” “heterosexism,” and “heteronormativity” point to different ideas of what “homosexual” means, and where opposition to same-sex relations originates. Gayle Rubin, relying on structural anthropology, proposes that it arises as a disciplinary mechanism used by men to exercise control over women’s reproductive power in families. Gender panic theory focuses particularly on how defensiveness against losing male status and privilege generates homophobia. Sociohistorical theories examine how homophobia increases or decreases according to the symbolic placement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the social …
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-V, No. 10, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-V, No. 10, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Making Money From Catastrophe
Decreasing Juvenile Life Without?
Ganar Dinero con la Miseria?
Crime of the Month
Changes in Incarceration Rates
Hegel On Sovereignty And Monarchy, Philip J. Kain
Hegel On Sovereignty And Monarchy, Philip J. Kain
Philosophy
Hegel is not a democrat. He is a monarchist. But he wants monarchy because he does not want strong government. He wants to deemphasize power. He develops an idealist conception of sovereignty that allows for a monarch less powerful than a president—one whose task is to expresses the unity of the state and realize the rationality inherent in it. A monarch needs to be a conduit through which reason is expressed and actualized, not a power that might obstruct this process.
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Iv, No. 9, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Iv, No. 9, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Helping Each Other Out
La Guerra Contra las Drogas
Voices From Inside
Voting Rights
Beatings by Guards Reported
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Iii, No. 8, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Iii, No. 8, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Progress Against Solitary Confinement
Crime of the Month
Terminar con el Conducto Escuela-Prisión
Voices From Inside
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Ii, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Ii, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Dedication to the Principle of Struggle
Cure Life-Long
¿No se Infringió Ninguna Ley?
Voices From Inside
Hegel, Recognition, And Same-Sex Marriage, Philip J. Kain
Hegel, Recognition, And Same-Sex Marriage, Philip J. Kain
Philosophy
To understand Hegel's concepts of love, marriage, and Sittlichkeit, which are closely related, we must begin to understand his very important theory of recognition. This will be the task of Section II of this article. In pursuing this task, we must be careful to avoid the mistake, made by some commentators, of thinking that mutual recognition between equals is sufficient either for marriage or for Sittlichkeit. For Hegel, I hope to show, the more significant and powerful the recognizer, the more real the recognized—such that, ultimately, recognition must come from spirit (Geist). Then, to better understand Hegel's theory of recognition, …
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-I, No. 6, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-I, No. 6, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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But Is It Retroactive?
The Meaning of Numbers
Crime of the Month
Cuba y Estados Unidos
Voices From Inside
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Zz, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Zz, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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It Depends on What You Think the Problem Is
Crime of the Month
¡Ya Basta con Niños Encarcelados!
To Silence
Inequality Widens
Imagining The Unimaginable: Torture And The Criminal Law, Francesca Laguardia
Imagining The Unimaginable: Torture And The Criminal Law, Francesca Laguardia
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This article examines the use of torture by the U.S. government in the context of the late 20th-century preventive turn in criminal justice. Challenging the assumption that the use of “enhanced interrogation tactics” in the war on terror was an exceptional deviation from accepted norms, this article suggests that this deviation began decades before the terror attacks, in the context of conventional criminal procedure. I point to the use of the “ticking time bomb hypothetical,” and its connection to criminal procedure’s “kidnapping hypothetical.” Using case law and criminal procedure textbooks I trace the employment of that narrative over several decades, …
Predicting Parole: Revolutionizing Risk/Needs Assessment In Louisiana, Chelsea Andre
Predicting Parole: Revolutionizing Risk/Needs Assessment In Louisiana, Chelsea Andre
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Gay And Lesbian Culture And Politics, John C. Hawley
Gay And Lesbian Culture And Politics, John C. Hawley
English
As laws change and we move several generations away from the times of greatest struggle, the atmosphere that created the contemporary scene for gay and lesbian citizens, their culture and politics, becomes increasingly remote and potentially forgotten. As recent historians have recalled, though, “This was a population too shy and fearful to even raise its hand, a group of people who had to start at zero in order to create their place in the nation’s culture,” –an “invisible people” (Clendinen, 11). The movement for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, considered by many to have originated with the …
Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley
Postcolonial Theory, John C. Hawley
English
Rather than agreeing to any one meaning or referent, most critics these days speak of ‘post-colonialisms’ to refer principally to ‘historical, social and economic material conditions’ and at other times to ‘historically-situated imaginative products’ and ‘aesthetic practices: representations, discourses and values’ (McLeod 2000: 254). Arising from subaltern studies, its theorists embrace hybridity, indict alterity, analyze colonial discourse, and employ strategic essentialism to promote identity politics. Under its influence, a strain of self-interrogation has for decades run as an undercurrent through much of anthropology and archaeology. Topics including looting, repatriation, stewardship, and the transformation of disciplinary identity are now persistent tropes …
Reducing Poverty In California…Permanently, Conway Collis, David Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, Courtney Powers, Sandra Sanchez, Marion Coddou, Erin Cumberworth, Jonathan Fisher, Jared Furuta, Jasmine Hill, Molly M. King, Yana Kucheva, Ryan Leupp, Ana Matosantos, Natassia Rodriguez, Rachel Wright
Reducing Poverty In California…Permanently, Conway Collis, David Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, Courtney Powers, Sandra Sanchez, Marion Coddou, Erin Cumberworth, Jonathan Fisher, Jared Furuta, Jasmine Hill, Molly M. King, Yana Kucheva, Ryan Leupp, Ana Matosantos, Natassia Rodriguez, Rachel Wright
Sociology
If California were to seriously commit to equalizing opportunity and reducing poverty, how might that commitment best be realized?
This is of course a hypothetical question, as there is no evidence that California is poised to make such a serious commitment, nor have many other states gone much beyond the usual lip-service proclamations. There are many reasons for California’s complacency, but an important one is that most people think that poverty is intractable and that viable solutions to it simply don’t exist.
When Californians know what needs to be done, they tend to go forward and get it done. When, …
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Yy, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Yy, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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But What Are They Going To Do About It?
General Fue Deportado
Release Aging People in Prison
To All Who Are or Have Been on Death Row
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Xx, No. 3, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Xx, No. 3, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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A Unique U.S. Nightmare: The Carceral State
Sesame Street Ofrece Consejos para Padres Encarcelados
Reproductive Injustice
Voice From Inside
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Ww, No. 2, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Ww, No. 2, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
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Survivors of The System of Class and Color
What Have They Ever Done To Us?: What Needs to be Changed Between the U.S. and Cuba
Un Fallo Emitido por un Juez de Derecha Demora el Indulto a Milliones de Inmigrantes Indocumentados
Voices in Solidarity
Share of World's Wealth
Majority of U.S. Public School Students are in Poverty
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vv, No. 1, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Vv, No. 1, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights
Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters
Prison Labor
Root Problems
In Memoriam
La Liberación de Los Cinco Cubanos
Some Call it "Strip and Straddle"
Bail Requirements
¡Thank you! ¡Mil Gracias!
Creating Knowledge, Volume 8, 2015
Creating Knowledge, Volume 8, 2015
Creating Knowledge
Dear reader,
I am delighted to introduce this eighth volume of Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. This volume features 19 essays and 14 art works, representing advanced coursework produced in twenty different departments and programs during the 2014-2015 academic year. Several of the essays have been honored with department awards and several draw on research supported by undergraduate research grants. Many were originally written in senior capstone seminars, research-intensive seminars, and independent studies, and many were presented in some form at one of the numerous conferences and showcases sponsored by departments and programs throughout the year. All …
Moishe Postone And The Critique Of Traditional Marxism: Helplessness And The Present Moment Of The Great Acceleration, Alexander M. Stoner, Andony Melathopoulos
Moishe Postone And The Critique Of Traditional Marxism: Helplessness And The Present Moment Of The Great Acceleration, Alexander M. Stoner, Andony Melathopoulos
Book Sections/Chapters
This chapter situates Moishe Postone's critique of traditional Marxism in relation to the present moment of the Great Acceleration. We engage a close reading of Postone reinterpretation of Marx's mature theory of capital with specific focus on the linkage between economic growth and ecological degradation, and how this linkage is necessary connected to social domination in modern capitalist society. Postone's Marxian theory is significant because, as we demonstrate, it allows one to grasp societally induced environmental degradation following WWII in a critical and reflexive manner. The chapter concludes by discussing the growing sense of helplessness that defines the present moment …
Georg Lukács (1885-1971) And The Critique Of Reification: On The Dialectical Genesis Of The Great Acceleration, Alexander M. Stoner, Andony Melathopoulos
Georg Lukács (1885-1971) And The Critique Of Reification: On The Dialectical Genesis Of The Great Acceleration, Alexander M. Stoner, Andony Melathopoulos
Book Sections/Chapters
This chapter situates Lukács' critique of reification (1923) in relation to the emergence of the Great Acceleration. We develop Lukács' critique through the issue of the increasing rationalization of industrial and administrative work in the early twentieth century. In do so, we show how Lukács is able to relocate the continued relevance of Marx's insights with respect to the deeper structure of capitalist society in his consideration of the differential manner in which proletariat and bourgeois class consciousness approach the problem of social contradictions. We then discuss how, for Lukács, the overcoming of reification (or the failure to do so) …
Compassion Development In Higher Education, Roxanne Rashedi, Thomas G. Plante, Erin S. Callister
Compassion Development In Higher Education, Roxanne Rashedi, Thomas G. Plante, Erin S. Callister
Psychology
Many schools of psychology and religious studies intend to promote the cultivation of compassion. Compassion is currently an integral area of study in psychology, religious studies, and higher education, specifically in faith-based higher education. While secular universities in the United States strive to generate disciplinary-based knowledge through scholarship, their ability to promote students' use of the information they are learning to create positive social change has typically lagged. Conscious of the magnitude of today's global issues and dissatisfied with the current disparity between the world's reality and university curricula, scholars have begun to re-imagine the role of higher education in …
Leaning Out: Exploring Organizational Advocacy Activities From An Open Systems Perspective, Lauri Goldkind
Leaning Out: Exploring Organizational Advocacy Activities From An Open Systems Perspective, Lauri Goldkind
Social Service Faculty Publications
his article explores the effect of organizational culture on engagement with advocacy activities, both traditional and electronic. The Competing Values Framework offers a model for understanding how organization's culture influences behavior. Using a sample of nonprofit providers from across the country, the author hypothesized that organizations that use electronic advocacy tools are more involved with advocacy activities of all types. A paper and pencil survey was used to collect data on organizational culture, advocacy tools and techniques, perceived effectiveness of the advocacy tools, policy goals, organizational sustainability goals as well as barriers and facilitators of electronic advocacy. The study used …
Excusing Murder? Conservative Jurors’ Acceptance Of The Gay Panic Defense, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Jessica Salerno, Bette L. Bottoms, B. L. Harrington, Dave Kemner
Excusing Murder? Conservative Jurors’ Acceptance Of The Gay Panic Defense, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Jessica Salerno, Bette L. Bottoms, B. L. Harrington, Dave Kemner
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
We conducted a simulated trial study to investigate the effectiveness of a “gay-panic” provocation defense as a function of jurors’ political orientation. Mock jurors read about a murder case in which a male defendant claimed a victim provoked the killing by starting a fight, which either included or did not include the male victim making an unwanted sexual advance that triggered a state of panic in the defendant. Conservative jurors were significantly less punitive when the defendant claimed to have acted out of gay panic as compared to when this element was not part of the defense. In contrast, liberal …