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Elder Restorative Justice, Mary Helen Mcneal, Maria Brown

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article explores the viability of utilizing restorative principles to address elder abuse and recommends the continuing implementation of an "elder restorative justice" paradigm. Part I describes the widespread problem of elder exploitation and possible reasons for it, and Part II outlines current strategies to address it. Part III offers an overview of restorative principles, with a description of selected models. In Part IV, this paper reviews restorative approaches currently addressing elder abuse, and their benefits and challenges. Part V analyzes the applicability of the restorative models outlined above to the elder abuse context, assessing the most effective options for …

Addiction As Disease, Teneille R. Brown

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

The opioid addiction epidemic is the most overwhelming public health crisis our country has faced. It is now creating a legal crisis, as the its poisonous fruits spill over into the criminal, tort, and family courts. The epidemic costs the U.S. economy about $500 billion every year, and the pressure is crippling our legal systems. This Article is an attempt to relieve some of that pressure, by advocating for a comprehensive public health campaign based upon a new model of addiction. Research shows that the prevalent “moral choice” model of addiction has facilitated stigma and discouraged treatment, by viewing affected …

Alternative Infrastructure Finance: Should The United States Adopt Federal Guidelines To P3 Concessions, Dih-Lin Wong

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

The article argues that the U.S. struggles with modernizing its infrastructure due to insufficient investment and a lack of standardized legal frameworks for public-private partnerships (P3s). While P3s offer a promising alternative to traditional financing by allocating risks and generating efficiencies, the U.S. faces challenges due to a patchwork of state-level laws and procurement practices. The article suggests that adopting federal guidelines for P3s, drawing lessons from successful models in the UK and Australia, could streamline infrastructure financing, attract private investment, and enhance project efficiency.

Emergency Removals: Does The Statutory Language Of N.Y. Fain. Ct. Act § 1024 Safeguard Vulnerable Families From Foster Care Panic?, Sydney Myones

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the surge in emergency child removals by the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) in New York City following the high-profile death of Zymere Perkins, arguing that these removals are driven by "foster care panic" rather than a genuine change in family conditions. It critiques the broad discretion granted to ACS under N.Y. Fam. Ct. Act 1024 and advocates for a more balanced approach that prioritizes family preservation and addresses systemic biases.

Introducing An Interdisciplinary Frontier To Judging, Emotion And Emotion Work, Terry A. Maroney, Stina B. Blix, Kathy Mack, Sharyn R. Anleu

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This special issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) held in May 2018. This issue builds on the growing critique of the dispassionate ideal of judicial work, combining original theoretical insights with imaginative empirical analyses to extend the understanding of emotion in judging. Fifteen articles are presented in four themes: Theoretical, cultural and historical perspectives; Tensions of the dispassionate ideal; Social dynamics of emotion in judging; and Research methods, empirical insights and [changing] judicial practice. …

Advocating For Children With Disabilities In Child Protection Cases, Joshua B. Kay

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Statute Of Limitations For Child Sexual Abuse Civil Lawsuits In Georgia, Emma Hetherington, Jean Mangan, Chase Lyndale, Michael Nunnally, Wilbanks Child Endangerment And Sexual Exploitation Clinic, University Of Georgia School Of Law

Scholarly Works

Only 29% of child sexual abuse reports result in criminal charges being filed. As a result, most states have enacted civil statutes of limitations to allow survivors to file claims both against abusers and also those who owed them a duty of care and knew or should have known about the abuse. In 2015 the Georgia legislature passed the Hidden Predator Act (HPA) to amend the state’s civil statute of limitations. Under the HPA, survivors of child sexual abuse that occurred prior to July 1, 2015 were given a two-year retroactive window under which to file claims against their abusers. …

Reflecting Clinics At 50: Reports From The Field, Russell C. Gabriel

Scholarly Works

For lawyers, learning law by practicing law is customary. In the world of legal education, learning from practice is situated in both acceptance and opposition. There are practical arguments in its favor—the practicing bar wants law graduates to be “practice ready,” and theoretical arguments—understanding how law operates in the real world yields a clearer understanding of law itself, how it maintains social and economic structures, and how it impacts individuals. At the University of Georgia, law students, hungry for a legal education and a bar license, have been learning from practice in the Law School’s clinical programs for over fifty …

Access To The Civil Court System For Survivors Of Child Sexual Abuse In Georgia: Observations And Recommendations From The Clinical Legal Education Experience, Emma M. Hetherington, Michael Nunnally

Scholarly Works

Founded in January 2016, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic (the CEASE Clinic) represents survivors of child sexual abuse in juvenile court dependency matters and civil litigation and is the first of its kind in the nation. The CEASE Clinic was established through a generous donation by Georgia Law alumnus Marlan Wilbanks (JD ‘84) in response to a new Georgia law known as the Hidden Predator Act (the HPA) that went into effect on July 1, 2015. The HPA extended the statute of limitations for civil claims arising out of acts of child sexual abuse by providing a …

Vol. 24: No. 2 (Spring 2019) Masthead

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

การกำหนดความรับผิดอาญาเพื่อคุ้มครองผู้เยาว์จากความเสี่ยงในการกระทำผิดของบุคคลอื่น, วรกัญญา เอกมฤเคนทร์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาการกำหนดความรับผิดบุคคลสองประเภท อันได้แก่ บุคคลผู้ใกล้ชิดกับเด็กหรือผู้เยาว์ และ บุคคลผู้มีอำนาจในองค์กรซึ่งดำเนินกิจกรรมเกี่ยวข้องกับเด็กหรือผู้เยาว์ ในกรณีที่บุคคลดังกล่าวนั้นรับรู้ถึงความเสี่ยงกรณีมีความเป็นไปได้อย่างมากที่เด็กหรือผู้เยาว์นั้นอาจจะตกเป็นผู้เสียหายจากการกระทำผิดของบุคคลอื่น รวมทั้งศึกษาแนวคิดและเนื้อหาของมาตรการทางกฎหมายของต่างประเทศ อันได้แก่ สหรัฐอเมริกามลรัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย นิวยอร์กประเทศนิวซีแลนด์ เครือรัฐออสเตรเลียรัฐวิกตอเรีย และรัฐนิวเซาท์เวลส์ เพื่อวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบและเสนอแนวทางแก้ไขเพิ่มเติมกฎหมายต่อไป จากการศึกษาพบว่าบทบัญญัติที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการกำหนดหน้าที่ในการที่บุคคลใดจะต้องกระทำเพื่อปกป้องเด็กหรือผู้เยาว์จากความเสี่ยงที่จะเกิดอันตรายตามกฎหมายไทยนั้นปรากฎอยู่ในประมวลกฎหมายอาญา 2 มาตรา คือ ความผิดฐานทอดทิ้งเด็กตามมาตรา 306 และความผิดฐานทอดทิ้งผู้ซึ่งพึ่งพาตนเองไม่ได้ตามมาตรา 307 แต่อย่างไรก็ตามทั้งสองมาตรานี้ใช้บังคับเพื่อคุ้มครองความเสี่ยงที่น่าจะเป็นอันตรายจากการกระทำที่เป็นการทอดทิ้งเท่านั้น เช่นนี้จึงไม่อาจปรับใช้กับกรณีที่เด็กหรือผู้เยาว์มีความเสี่ยงในการที่จะตกเป็นผู้เสียหายจากการกระทำผิดในลักษณะอื่นได้ และในขั้นตอนที่เพียงแต่รับรู้ว่ามีความเสี่ยงเช่นว่านั้นหากบุคคลทั้งสองประเภทที่ได้กล่าวไปละเลยไม่ดำเนินการใดๆให้เหมาะสมเพื่อกำจัดความเสี่ยงให้พ้นไปจากตัวเด็กหรือผู้เยาว์ เช่นนี้บุคคลดังกล่าวไม่มีความรับผิดทั้งตามประมวลกฎหมายอาญาและพระราชบัญญัติคุ้มครองเด็ก พ.ศ.2546 ซึ่งในกรณีเดียวกันนี้เองตามกฎหมายของต่างประเทศได้มีการบัญญัติความรับผิดแก่บุคคลทั้งสองประเภทไว้โดยเฉพาะ โดยไม่ใช่แค่การคุ้มครองเด็กจากความเสี่ยงอันเกิดจากการทอดทิ้งเด็กเพียงอย่างเดียวเหมือนมาตรา 306 และ307เท่านั้น แต่เป็นการคุ้มครองความเสี่ยงที่อาจจะเกิดการกระทำความผิดต่อเด็กโดยบุคคลอื่นด้วย ดังนั้นผู้เขียนจึงเสนอให้ประเทศไทยมีการกำหนดมาตรการทางกฎหมายดังกล่าวเพื่อคุ้มครองเด็กจากความเสี่ยงที่จะตกเป็นผู้เสียหายจากการกระทำความผิดของบุคคลอื่นเพื่อเป็นการคุ้มครองเด็กต่อไป

Exploring The Development Of Three Law-Based Competency Models For Public Health Practitioners, Montrece Mcneill Ransom, Brianne Yassine

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

As public health promotion and protection become increasingly complex and integrated into various fields, public health law is emerging as an important tool for public health professionals. To ensure that public health professionals are adequately trained public health law, public health law-related competencies should to be integrated into educational and other programming. This article provides three competency models developed by the Public Health Law Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: (a) the public health emergency law competency model, (b) the public health law competency model, and (c) the legal epidemiology competency model. These competency models provide a …

Promoting Permanency And Human Rights, Lauren Bartlett

All Faculty Scholarship

An increasing number of children are being cared for exclusively by grandparents or extended family. The majority of these caregivers are raising children outside of the foster care system without a formal legal status. In fact, kinship diversion, placing children whose parents cannot or will not care for them with family or friends outside of the foster care system, is encouraged by state and federal law. Informal kinship caregivers face many obstacles to providing care for children and they are more likely to be unemployed, receive government benefits, and be less educated, as compared with parents raising their own children. …

A Tj Approach To Mental Disability Rights Research: On Sexual Autonomy And Sexual Offending, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Alison Lynch

Articles & Chapters

We believe it is impossible to understand the development and the power of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) without acknowledging that its roots in mental disability law have continued to expand and flourish over the decades, and that there is no other substantive area of the law in which every aspect – substantive and procedural, civil and criminal, statutory and constitutional. domestic and international – has been weighed and evaluated using a TJ lens. In this chapter, we consider how those roots have shaped the last three decades of research and the implications of what has developed. We look carefully at two …

There's Voices In The Night Trying To Be Heard: The Potential Impact Of The Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities On Domestic Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin, Naomi Weinstein

Articles & Chapters

This paper carefully examines, through a therapeutic jurisprudence framework, the likely impact of the ratification of this UN Convention on society’s sanist attitudes towards persons with mental disabilities. We argue that it is impossible to consider the impact of anti-discrimination law on persons with mental disabilities without a full understanding of how sanism -- an irrational prejudice of the same quality and character of other irrational prejudices that cause (and are reflected in) prevailing social attitudes of racism, sexism, homophobia, and ethnic bigotry -- permeates all aspects of the legal system and the entire fabric of American society.

Notwithstanding nearly …

Broken Experimentation, Sham Evidence-Based Policy, Kristen Underhill

Faculty Scholarship

Evidence-based policy is gaining attention, and legislation and agency regulation have been no exception to calls for greater uptake of research evidence. Indeed, current interest in “moneyball for government” is part of a long history of efforts to promote research-based decisions in government, from the U.S. Census to cost-benefit analysis. But although evidence-based policy-making (EBPM) is often both feasible and desirable, there are reasons to be skeptical of the capacity of EBPM in governmental decision-making. EBPM is itself bounded by limits on rationality, the capacity of science, the objectivity of science, and the authority we wish to give technocrats. Where …

The Rule Of Law Collaborative: A Center Of Practical, Interdisciplinary Research, And Engagement On Pressing Rule Of Law Issues Around The World, Joel H. Samuels

Articles

No abstract provided.

Techno-Optimism & Access To The Legal System, Tanina Rostain

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

For legal technologists, apps raise the prospect of putting the law in the hands of disadvantaged people who feel powerless to deal with their legal problems. These aspirations are heartening, but they rest on unrealistic assumptions about how people living in poverty deal with legal problems. People who are poor very rarely resort to the law to solve their problems. In the situations when they do seek solutions, they confront educational and material impediments to finding, understanding, and using online legal tools effectively. Literacy is a significant barrier. More than 15 percent of all adults living in the United States …

Tackling Elder Abuse: State Intervention Under Singapore's Vulnerable Adults Act, Wing Cheong Chan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Abuse and neglect of adults raise complex issues on the freedom of the individual to choose for themselves versus the powers of the State to intervene. The law has traditionally limited the scope of compulsory intervention to extreme situations only which can frustrate social workers who deal with such cases. On the other hand, it would be unacceptable to allow intervention simply because it is assessed to be in the adults' best interests. A balance therefore has to be struck between autonomy and protection. This paper examines how Singapore's Vulnerable Adults Act identifies the point for intervention and embodies safeguards …

A Promising Start For Early Childhood Development And The Law, Clare Huntington

Faculty Scholarship

Examining the role of the law in early childhood development is not new; several legal scholars have engaged in such an inquiry, including scholars at this symposium. But this engagement has not led to a sustained debate about how the legal system can foster early childhood development, nor has it yet led to the integration of legal scholars into the interdisciplinary research on, and policy debates about, early childhood. I have argued that the creation of a new subdiscipline in family law — early childhood development and the law — would achieve these goals, sparking debate within law, bringing a …

Could The Benefits Of The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Be Retroactively Curtailed?, Gregory S. Crespi

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

There is a sharp tension between the expectations that hundreds of thousands to millions of persons have or will have regarding their right to have their federal student loan debts forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (“PSLF”) program and the legitimate public concerns regarding the large costs and regressive incidence of the PSLF program’s benefits. In 2017, the Trump Administration proposed abolishing the PSLF program for future federal Direct Loans, but this proposal was not adopted. A similar proposal was made in 2019 as part of the Administration’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal, with little chance of adoption. But given …

Incapacitating Errors: Sentencing And The Science Of Change, M. Eve Hanan

Scholarly Works

Despite widespread support for shifting sentencing policy from “tough on crime” to “smart on crime,” reflected in legislation like the federal First Step Act, the scope of criminal justice reform has been limited. We continue to engage in practices that permanently incapacitate people while carving out only limited niches of sentencing reform for special groups like first-time nonviolent offenders and adolescents. We cannot, however, be “smart on crime” without a theory of punishment that supports second chances for the broadest range of people convicted of crimes.

This Article posits that the cultural belief that adults do not change poses a …

Global Carceral Feminism And Domestic Violence: What The West Can Learn From Reconciliation In Uganda, Aparna Polavarapu

Scholarly Works

Around the world, policies and laws emphasizing criminal justice have dominated domestic violence interventions for decades. In the United States, certain feminist advocates worked with state actors to develop a primarily criminal justice response to domestic violence. Western influence in the international human rights movement has spread this approach around the world, leading it to become the key means of addressing violence against women. However, critics argue that the overreliance on the criminal justice system is a key failure of the anti-domestic-violence movement, with some referring to the strain of feminism promoting prosecution as "carceral feminism. " The carceral approach …

Crime And Punishment In Gold Country: A Historical Case-Study, Lawrence M. Friedman, Shih-Chun Chien

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Final Report And Collaborative Action Plan, Maryland Commission On The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Restorative Practices

C-DRUM Publications

Report to the Maryland Governor and General Assembly Pursuant to House Bill 1287 (2017).

A Survivor’S Tale: Mcdonnell Douglas In A Post-Nassar World, Joss Teal

San Diego Law Review

This Comment examines the circuit split that has developed over the application of but-for causation in Title VII retaliation claims. Following a brief look into the traditional requirements of a Title VII retaliation plaintiff, Part II assesses the 2013 Supreme Court holding that established but-for causation as the required causation standard and surveys courts of appeal holdings in its wake. After examining policy considerations and arguments put forward for each position in Part III, this Comment clarifies the misperception that the McDonnell Douglas framework necessarily proves but-for causation. In Part IV, this Comment proposes that the Supreme Court should rectify …

In Translation: An Examination Of Esl Policy On Paper As It Relates To The Realities Of Implementation, Grace M. Cuevas

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This honors research project explores the features of Title III requirements as they relate to the actual experience of students and their families. This paper synthesizes my experience researching English as a Second Language (ESL) specific supports and policy to inform my time spent accompanying an upper-level administrator for the Harrisonburg City Public School (HCPS) system, and interviewing professionals at an area school. In this paper I outline the results of interviews with 13 service providers. Interviews examined the “letter of the law” and the subsequent “spirit of the law” through application of a social work lens to the different …

The Struggle Is Eternal, Joseph R. Fitzgerald

Civil Rights

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies—including her belief that black people had a right to self–defense—were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists.

The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores …

Public Perceptions Of Police Interactions With Juveniles, Jillian Orr

Honors Program Theses and Projects

While previous research shows how different people respond differently to situations regarding police use of force on juveniles (Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, etc) this paper delves into what aspect each person has that influences the way they feel the police officer should respond to a juvenile suspect. I surveyed a group of about 300 people and asked them to give their responses to a vignette in which they were the acting police officer. Then, I analyzed the public opinion results through the lens of authoritarianism and compared them to the variables of age, gender, employment, and education.

Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care, Wendy A. Bach

Scholarly Works

In 2013, state legislators sitting at the heart of America’s opiate epidemic created the crime of fetal assault. Although they offered a fairly standard series of criminologic rationales to justify the legislation, they also posited that the creation of this crime was a precondition to secure treatment (or care) resources for women addicted to opiates. This extraordinary supposition—that criminalizing conduct creates a road to care—is an outgrowth of three interlinked socio-legal trends: the building of the carceral state, the criminalization of poverty, and the rapid growth, since the late 1980s, of a new generation of problem-solving courts. Framed in this …