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The 1985 Move Bombing: A Study In Perspectives, Kaci Delisle

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a military grade bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue, a row house in a Black neighborhood in West Philadelphia. This home was occupied by a revolutionary group called MOVE. The bomb started a fire that the police and firefighters decided to “contain” rather than put out, resulting in the deaths of eleven people and the destruction of sixty-one homes. Only two MOVE members survived the fire. Using court records, documents from the investigation conducted by the Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (PSIC), and other interviews regarding MOVE and the bombing, this paper reconstructs different perspectives …

The War On Drugs And Its Legal Effects On Black Americans, Alexia L. Howard-Mullins

2022 Symposium

The differences in treatment between Black and white Americans in the past fifty years has been a topic of thought in the minds of political and sociological scholars since the inception of the War on Drugs in 1971. These differences in treatment may lead to discrimination legally, resulting in longer prison sentences and a higher proportion of Black Americans in prison. This study analyzes the results of the War on Drugs that led to disproportionate imprisonment of Black Americans, including mandatory sentencing laws, drug classifications, and discrimination within law enforcement and the legal system. This study will use primary sources …

Ua12/8 Annual Campus Safety & Security Report, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

Statistical report of crimes reported to and services rendered by the WKU Police Department during the calendar year 2022. Includes policies related to security and safety.

Towards A Psychological Science Of Abolition Democracy: Insights For Improving Theory And Research On Race And Public Safety, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Phillip Atiba Goff

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that Du Bois (1935) articulated as the need to dissolve slavery while simultaneously taking affirmative steps to rid its toxic consequences from the body politic. Because the legacies of slavery continue to produce disparities in public safety in the U.S, both harming Black people and the institutions that could keep them safe, psychologists must take seriously questions of history and structure in addition to immediate situations. In the present article, we consider the state of knowledge regarding psychological processes …

What Factors In The Life Experience Of African Americans Cause Them To Comply With Or Confront Law Enforcement Officers?, La'shelle Jefferson-Mcdonald

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

Widespread availability of cell phones has given most Americans the ability to record events as they happen. This has included recordings of increasing instances of police brutality directed at African Americans by White officers, including the shooting and killing of unarmed People of Color, particularly males. With such encounters being recorded and widely viewed by the general population, there is an increased need to focus on stopping this serious social problem. This study gives historical context on how this came about, what common stereotypes are associated with African Americans, and examples of several cases where unarmed African Americans were killed …

Health Implications Of Incarceration And Reentry On Returning Citizens: A Qualitative Examination Of Black Men’S Experiences In A Northeastern City, Jason Williams, Sean K. Wilson, Carrie Bergeson

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

While a great deal of research captures the lived experiences of Black men as they navigate through the criminal legal system and onto reentry, very little research is grounded in how those processes are directly connected to their health. Although some research argues that mass incarceration is a determinant of poor health, there is a lack of qualitative analyses from the perspective of Black men. Black men face distinct pathways that lead them into the criminal legal system, and these same pathways await them upon reentry. This study aims to examine the health implications associated with incarceration and reentry of …

Cannabis And Its Historical Role In America’S Intentional Segregation Of Race, William E. Kelley

Student Publications

One of the more dramatic shifts in attitudes towards a particular trend or culture we have seen during the turn of the century is none other than attitudes towards marijuana. The Cannabis plant, commonly known as marijuana, has been illegal in the United States for a while now. In the past ten years, we have seen an influx of states and countries relaxing their attitudes towards marijuana, and it's potential benefits. While this shift in attitude towards a relatively harmless drug is a step in the right direction, many are unaware of the sinister and racist history behind outlawing the …

Abolitionist Feminism As Prisons Close: Fighting The Racist And Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System, Venezia Michalsen

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The global prison industrial complex was built on Black and brown women’s bodies. This economy will not voluntarily loosen its hold on the bodies that feed it. White carceral feminists traditionally encourage State punishment, while anti-carceral, intersectional feminism recognizes that it empowers an ineffective and racist system. In fact, it is built on the criminalization of women’s survival strategies, creating a “victimization to prison pipeline.” But prisons are not the root of the problem; rather, they are a manifestation of the over-policing of Black women’s bodies, poverty, and motherhood. Such State surveillance will continue unless we disrupt these powerful systems …

Race As A Carceral Terrain: Black Lives Matter Meets Reentry, Jason Williams

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In the United States, racialized people are disproportionately selected for punishment. Examining punishment discourses intersectionally unearths profound, unequal distinctions when controlling for the variety of victims’ identities within the punishment regime. For example, trans women of color are likely to face the harshest of realities when confronted with the prospect of punishment. However, missing from much of the academic carceral literature is a critical perspective situated in racialized epistemic frameworks. If racialized individuals are more likely to be affected by punishment systems, then, certainly, they are the foremost experts on what those realities are like. The Black Lives Matter hashtag …

The Justice System Is Criminal, Raven Delfina Otero-Symphony

2020 Award Winners

No abstract provided.

Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.

What Are The Key Competencies, Qualities, And Attributes Of The African American Municipal Police Chief?, Patrick Oliver

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this dissertation was to identify and understand the dimensions of leadership of those African Americans, who are effective as the chief executive officer (CEO) of a municipal law enforcement agency, and thereby to educate and inform both those aspiring to be police chiefs and those presently serving as police chiefs, particularly African Americans. Four content areas were examined to gain a better understanding of the research question: (1) Police executive leadership literature; (2) African American leadership; (3) The trait theory of leadership; (4) emotional intelligence. Study participants were all African American police chiefs with the expertise and …

How Porous Are The Walls That Separate Us?: Transformative Service-Learning, Women’S Incarceration, And The Unsettled Self, Coralynn V. Davis

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article, we refine a politics of thinking from the margins by exploring a pedagogical model that advances transformative notions of service learning as social justice teaching. Drawing on a recent course we taught involving both incarcerated women and traditional college students, we contend that when communication among differentiated and stratified parties occurs, one possible result is not just a view of the other but also a transformation of the self and other. More specifically, we suggest that an engaged feminist praxis of teaching incarcerated women together with college students helps illuminate the porous nature of fixed markers that …

Exploiting Borders: The Political Economy Of Local Backlash Against Undocumented Immigrants, Jamie Longazel, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

Four years prior to Arizona's passage of one of the most far-reaching pieces of anti-Latino immigrant legislation signed into law in decades,3 demands to "seal off the border"4 were being made thousands of miles from the U.S.-Mexico divide. In 2006, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, passed equally harsh legislation aimed at keeping undocumented immigrants out of their community. During this time, commentators described the local backlash in Hazleton and other small cities across the United States as akin to "the opening of a deep and profound fissure in the American landscape" 5 wherein "all immigration politics is local." 6 Yet, as the so-called …

Participatory Evaluation Of The Tribal Victim Assistance Programs At The Lummi Nation And Passamaquoddy Tribe, Ada Pecos Melton, Michelle Chino

Public Health Faculty Publications

The high rate of crime in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and/or against AI/AN people reflected in numerous studies in the last three decades, demonstrates the need for victim assistance programs in Indian Country to help victims cope with and heal from violent crime (Wolk 1982; Allen 1985; Sacred Shawl Women’s Society, no date; McIntire 1988; DeBruyn, Lujan & May 1995; Norton & Manson 1995; Fairchild et. al 1998; Greenfield & Smith 1999; Alba, Zieseniss, et al 2003; Perry 2004). The U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) became aware of the lack of resources available to …

"The Shame Of It All": Stigma And The Political Disenfranchisement Of Formerly Convicted And Incarcerated Persons, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Buckman, Josh. 2,500 People Take to Bowling Green Streets for 10K Classic Events
• Pinkston, Antwon. Students Continue File-sharing Despite Risks
• Hoang, Mai. Insurance Surplus for 2003 Possible
• Lord, Joseph. Lucas Goodrum, Stephen Soules to Have Separate Trials, Judge Says – Katie Autry
• Clark, Ashlee. Student Searches for Bone Marrow Donor – Philip Schardein
• Knowing Facts Would Be a + for Students – Grading System
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Grading System
• Crawford, Nick. Regarding a Transpark Letter
• McClarnon, Chad. Not Liking Recent Letters – Katie Autry
• Alfrejd, Cassie. Where …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Darrin Horn Signs Four-Year, $135,000 Contract
• Reed, Lindsey. Students Sees Pluses, Minuses in New System – Grading System
• Hoang, Mai. Midnight Madness Returns
• Sebastian, Kandace. Health Services May Get New Building
• Hoang, Mai. Greeks Show Mixed Support for Proposed Greek Village
• Coffman, Josh. Draughon’s Junior College Relocates Near Campus
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Football
• Eastern Kentucky University Crowd Should be the Rule, Not Exception – Football
• Terry, Don. Adapting to College Computer System
• Campbell, Amy. Katie Autry
• Hightower, Kyle. Editor’s Note – Katie Autry Trial Caution …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Lord, Joseph & Shawntaye Hopkins. Katie Autry Estate Files Suit
• Reed, Lindsey. University Senate May Consider New Grading
• Casagrande, Michael. 18,317 Fans Fill L.T. Smith Stadium to the Brim
• Hoang, Mai. President’s Circle Gala Honors Donors
• Sebastian, Kandace. Students Arrested – Sigma Chi
• Coffman, Josh. City Considers Fair Housing Plan
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: A Place to Grow, A Place to Be Sheltered?
• Western Frying Small Fish – Student Privacy
• Jackson, Danica. Western Should Have a Heart – Katie Autry
• Passafiume, Tiffany. There Should Be No Lawsuit – …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Holding Memories – Katie Autry
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Caution on Campus – Katie Autry
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Tracking the Case – Katie Autry
• Hoang, Mai. Donors, Staff Reflect on Capital Campaign
• Brueggemann, Marlene. Winona LaDuke Speaks Out for Environment, Women’s Rights
• Reed, Lindsey. Faculty Senate Meets Today
• Reed, Lindsey. Concerns Raised About Students’ Privacy – Student Government Association
• Different Views Key in College
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Opinions
• McIntosh, Jeri. If You’re Thinking About a Tattoo. . .
• Johnson, Leigh. Kentucky Academy Will Be Good – Gatton Academy …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Budget Concerns Again Looming Over the Hill
• Sebastian, Kandace. Campus Safety Task Force Issues Report
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Mass Media & Technology Building Opens – Sorta
• Baker, Joanie. Former Coach Paul Sanderford Hired as Fundraiser
• University, T.J. Samson Hospital Make Partnership
• Clark, Ashlee. Wake-Up Calls Among Perks – Telephone System
• Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Big Red to Serve & Protect
• Eadens, Adam. Get Your Free Money
• Safety A Concern, Not an Epidemic
• Hightower, Kyle. New Opinion Editor Hopes Job Will Be Search for Potential In Words
• Clark, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 57, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Brown, Abbey. Suspicious Fire Leaves Freshman Critical – Katie Autry
• Lord, Joseph & Abbey Brown. Pellville Freshman Known as Shy & Funny Without Even Trying
• Sasseen, Jessica. Sprinklers Extinguished Fire
• Hopkins, Shawntaye. Poland Hall Security Heightened
• Tucker, Kyle. Family Shocked by Events
• Hoang, Mai. Dorm Evacuation Delays Studying for Final Exams
• Hoang, Mai. Students Urged to Talk About Feelings
• Casagrande, Michael. Freshman Football Players Drowns on Fishing Trip – Trey McMiller

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 57, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• O’Connor, Molly. Mandatory Meal Plan Up for Vote
• Loyal, Taylor. Cause for Concern – Catholic Church, Child Abuse
• Brown, Abbey. Student’s Life Remembered – Zac Carroll
• O’Connor, Molly. Dining Changes to be Proposed
• The 2002 Marsupial Awards
• Conger, Aaron. Appreciate Diversity – Homosexuality
• Moore, Michael. Arrest Made in Egypt Break-ins – Parking
• Warren, Brandy. Out-of-State Graduate Tuition May Go Up
• Shinall, Dave. Government Students Land Internships in Washington, DC
• Corcoran, Kate. Gala to be Held in Owensboro – Run for the Arts
• Shinall, Dave. Former Newspaper Adviser Has Eyes …

Crime, Race And Reproduction, Dorothy E. Roberts

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

"The Black Community," Its Lawbreakers, And A Politics Of Identification, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.