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Something About Carry: Supreme Court Broadens The Scope Of 18 U.S.C. 924(C), Lynn Marsella

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Tributes To Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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More About Public Safety V. Individual Civil Liberties, Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Punishment Or Treatment For Adolescent Offenders: Therapeutic Integrity And The Paradoxical Effects Of Punishment, Jeffrey A. Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

Throughout much of its history, the American juvenile court maintained a goal of rehabilitation of the individual, and placed custody and punishment as secondary or ancillary goals in the pursuit of "remaking the child's character and lifestyle." To its founders, the development of a separate juvenile court reflected a fundamental distinction between sanctions based on characteristics of the offender, and punishment based on the offense. Juvenile court dispositions were designed to determine why the child was in court, and what could be done to avoid future appearances. Judge Julian Mack's classic statement of the original theory of the juvenile court …

Performance-Based Standards For Juvenile Corrections, Doris Layton Mackenzie, Gaylene Armstrong, Angela R. Grover

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Total quality management (TQM) has revolutionized business, and some of its components can be applied to corrections. The importance of information for developing performance-based standards is obvious. Much more difficult is the process of deciding what information to obtain and how to use it. In the area of juvenile corrections, information about the conditions or environments of juvenile facilities and how these conditions are associated with intermediate and longterm outcomes will be invaluable in developing performance-based standards.

Exluding Automobile Passengers From Fourth Amendment Protection, Jenny L. Riggs

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Volunteerism And The Decline Of Violent Crime, Warren Friedman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Crime In Public Housing: Clarifying Research Issues, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Tamara Dumanovsky, J. Phillip Thompson, Garth Davies

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, crime and public housing have been closely linked in our political and popular cultures. Tragic episodes of violence have reinforced the notion that public housing is a milieu with rates of victimization and offending far greater than other locales. However, these recent developments belie the complex social and political evolution of public housing from its origins in the 1930s, through urban renewal, and into the present.

Stereotypes abound about public housing, its management, residents, and crime rates. In reality, variation is the norm, and it is these variations that affect crime. The study of crime in public …

Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1997.

The Predictive Accuracy Of The Violent Offender Treatment Program Risk Assessment Scale, Ann Ward

Theses : Honours

Current methods for screening violent offenders for program eligibility are expensive and time consuming. Developers of the Violent Offender Treatment Program (VOTP) have designed 2 brief and economical instrument to screen offenders for program eligibility. The present study was undertaken to assess the reliability and predictive accuracy of the VOTP Risk Assessment Scale (RAS). An inter-rater reliability of 20 court histories attained a mean kappa of .8 I. The RAS was applied to court histories of 202 violent offenders released between 1985 and 1987. A I 0-year follow-up of convictions for violent behaviour yielded a 47~ base rate. Receiver Operating …

Three Strikes: Can We Return To Rationality, Michael Vitiello

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Just Say No Excuse: The Rise And Fall Of The Intoxication Defense, Mitchell Keiter

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Protecting First Federal Habeas Corpus Petitions: Closing The Opening Left By Gomez, John L. Kolakowski

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Survey Research And Self-Defense Gun Use: An Explanation Of Extreme Overestimates, David Hemenway

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Immaturity And Irresponsibility, Stephen J. Morse

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Abolish The Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, And Sentencing Policy, Barry C. Feld

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Evolution Of Adolescence: A Developmental Perspective On Juvenile Justice Reform, Elizabeth S. Scott, Thomas Grisso

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Justice For Children: How Do We Get There, Thomas F. Geraghty

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1996.

Repeat Violence In The Emergency Department, Jeanne A. Dorsey

Masters Theses

The purpose of this descriptive study was to conduct a secondary analysis of the data set obtained from the Trauma and Emergency Center Violence Project (Dorsey, 1994). It was noted during the original 6 month study of 33,098 emergency department visits that some patients threatened or carried out real violence on multiple visits.; This study (a) identified the percentage of incidents in the initial sample that were perpetrated by repeat offenders, (b) described the types of violent behaviors, (c) explored the relationship between current substance and psychiatric history and the number of threatened or real violence incidents.; A descriptive research …

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Race Effects In Juvenile Justice Decision-Making: Findings Of A Statewide Analysis, Donna M. Bishop, Charles E. Frazier

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Preventive Detention And The Judicial Prediction Of Dangerousness For Juveniles: A Natural Experiment, Jeffrey Fagan, Martin Guggenheim

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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End Of The Line: An Empirical Study Of Judicial Waiver, The , Marcy Rasmussen Podkopacz, Barry C. Feld

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Random, Suspicionless Drug Testing Of High School Athletes, Samantha Elizabeth Shutler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Portrayal Of Prison Inmates And Their Families In Juvenile Literature, Maleea Dudney

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper was to determine if juvenile literature portrays some characteristics of family members of male prison inmates in a realistic manner. Twenty five juvenile books were analyzed and compared to data gathered regarding characteristics of actual family members of prison inmates. This comparison revealed that juvenile literature does not portray the families of prison inmates in a realistic way.

Preventive Detention And The Judicial Prediction Of Dangerousness For Juveniles: A Natural Experiment, Jeffery Fagan, Martin Guggenheim

Faculty Scholarship

Since 1970, legislatures have increasingly relied on preventive detention – detention before trial ordered solely to prevent an accused from committing crime during the pretrial period – as an instrument of social control. Prior to this period, detention before trial was usually ordered only to assure an accused's presence at trial or to ensure the integrity of the trial process by preventing an accused from tampering with witnesses. Today, the majority of states and the federal system have changed their laws to allow judges to detain arrestees who pose a risk to society if released during the pretrial period. Half …

The Return To Family Intervention In Youth Services: A Juvenile Justice Case Study, Gordon Bazemore, Susan Day

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

After more than a decade of relative neglect, youth services policymakers in the late 1980s began targeting the family as a primary focus of intervention in the response to a range of deviant behavior. One recent example of this return to family intervention has been a renewed emphasis on family services in juvenile courts and juvenile justice agencies. This case study describes one attempt to implement a new "family-focused" intervention approach as part of a larger return to treatment-oriented probation services in an urban juvenile justice system. Based on interviews and participant observation data gathered during a nine month field …

Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1995.