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Methamphetamine-Associated Psychosis, Kathleen M. Grant, Tricia D. Le Van, Sandra M. Wells, Ming Li, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Howard E. Gendelman, Gustavo Carlo, Rick A. Bevins

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Methamphetamine (METH) is a frequent drug of abuse in U.S. populations and commonly associated with psychosis. This may be a factor in frequent criminal justice referrals and lengthy treatment required by METH users. Persecutory delusions and auditory hallucinations are the most consistent symptoms of METH-associated psychosis (MAP). MAP has largely been studied in Asian populations and risk factors have varied across studies. Duration, frequency and amount of use as well as sexual abuse, family history, other substance use, and co-occurring personality and mood disorders are risk factors for MAP. MAP may be unique with its long duration of psychosis and …

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2012

Nebraska Transcript

Dean’s Message 2

Faculty News

Profile: Roger Kirst 4

Schmid Law Library Faculty 6

Faculty Notes 8

Profile: Brank’s Return 16

Feature: Senator Mike Flood 18

Around the College

Warren Transitions to Admissions 21

Clinics Provide Lessons in Immediacy 22

CSO Report: Exploring Opportunities 26

Willborn Portrait Unveiled 27

A Perfect Storm 28

LL.M Report: Final NASA Grant Repor 32

Perry Fuller Lecturer: Thomas Crisham 38

The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan 39

Winter 2011 Commencement 40

Connect with Us! 43

Our Alumni

Dean Poser’s Travels 44

2011 Alumni Master: Eartha Johnson 45

Stejskal: FBI Probe on Illegal Steroid Usage …

Perceptions Of Personnel At Selected Texas Community Colleges Regarding The Impact Of Technology On Their Libraries, Sharon K. Kenan

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Technological innovations have transformed all areas of community college libraries. Automated library systems, office software, and Internet access have altered work processes for library personnel and have changed research methodologies for students and faculty. The purpose of this bounded multiple case study was to explore how the adoption of technology has changed important areas of four community college libraries in Texas. Using purposeful sampling to select community colleges with high technology libraries, the study explored how the adoption of technology by the case college libraries changed the libraries and the roles of people employed within the libraries by examining the …

Evaluation Of Nebraska’S Problem-Solving Courts, The Public Policy Center

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

From March 2010 through December 2011, the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center conducted an evaluation of Nebraska’s problem solving courts. Main findings include the following:

• Nebraska’s problem solving courts are effectively operated, following the ten key components for drug courts, thereby reducing crime and addiction and improving the lives of participants
• Graduation rates for Nebraska drug courts match or exceed national drug court rates
• Costs for Nebraska programs are comparable to costs for drug courts across the country
• Nebraska drug court programs are cost efficient, saving between $2,609,235 and $9,722,920 in tax dollars per year
• Problem solving courts in …

The Historical, Jurisprudential, And Empirical Wisdom Of Parental Responsibility Laws, Eve M. Brank, Leroy Scott

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The parent-child relationship is woven deep within historical and contemporary culture, but strong retributive ideals have led to blaming parents because of their presumed vicarious role in juvenile crime. The current article will discuss the history, forms, legal challenges, and empirical research related to parental involvement laws in the United States. The parent-child relationship provides the historical framework behind the separate juvenile justice parens patriae system; however, with the juvenile justice system not as successful as originally imagined, blame has shifted to the parents. We examine the potential constitutional implications of enacting and enforcing parental involvement statutes and ordinances and …

American Indian Women And Sexual Assault: Challenges And New Opportunities, Angela R. Gebhardt, Jane D. Woody

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

This article informs social workers about sexual violence against American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) women and the policy reforms in the 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA). It describes the unmet needs of AI/AN survivors, reviews the TLOA reforms on sexual assault in relation to social work and public health principles, discusses the complementary roles for social workers and public health practitioners in reform efforts, and offers guidance for professional participation that emphasizes tribal sovereignty, indigenous capacity, and cultural competence.

Reducing Courts’ Failure-To-Appear Rate By Written Reminders, Brian H. Bornstein, Alan J. Tomkins, Elizabeth M. Neeley, Mitchel N. Herian, Joseph A. Hamm

Alan Tomkins Publications

This article examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanor defendants’ failure-to-appear (FTA) rates. A subset of defendants was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural justice and trust and confidence in the courts. Reminders reduced FTA overall, and more substantive reminders (e.g., with information on the negative consequences of FTA) were more effective than a simple reminder. FTA varied depending on several offense and offender characteristics, such as geographic location (urban vs. rural), type of offense, and number of offenses. The reminders were somewhat more effective for Whites and …

Human Trafficking In The United States. Part Ii. Survey Of U.S. Government Web Resources For Publications And Data, Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

This second part of a two-part series is a survey of U.S. government web resources on human trafficking in the United States, particularly of the online publications and data included on agencies’ websites. Overall, the goal is to provide an introduction, an overview, and a guide on this topic for library staff to use in their research and instruction services, as well as to benefit new researchers, students, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), social service providers, and others exploring this topic.

Anti-Trafficking Legislation In Sub-Saharan Africa: Analyzing The Role Of Coercion And Parental Responsibility, Ruby Andrew, Benjamin N. Lawrance

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 4th (2012)

This article discusses the effect of US and international support for local laws to combat child trafficking in sub-Saharan African states. The annual ranking of African anti-trafficking measures, produced by the US State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (OMCTP) in conjunction with the UN Office on Crime and Drugs, not only provides an important source of data but also creates a powerful incentive for African states to effect legislative change.

We argue that, although the US supports criminalization of traffickers and the OMCTP espouses laws to deter parental inducement to support trafficking activities, the implementation of …

Child Maltreatment Histories Among Female Inmate Reporting Inmate On Inmate Sexual Victimization In Prison: The Mediating Role Of Emotion Dysregulation, Kate Walsh, Valerie M. Gonsalves, Mario J. Scalora, Steve King, Patricia L. Hardyman

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about how CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present study also examined emotion dysregulation emanating from early abuse experiences as a potential mediator in the link between early CM and inmate-on-inmate prison sexual victimization. Approximately 168 incarcerated women completed self-report inventories assessing various types of childhood maltreatment, emotion dysregulation, and coerced or forced sexual experiences in prison. Nearly 77% …

Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (Nasis) 2011-2012 Methodology Report, Bureau Of Sociological Research

Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS)

CONTENTS

Introduction 3

Mode Selection 3

Design & Item Selection 3

Sampling Design 4

Experimental Design Treatment 4

Data Collection Process 4

Response Rate 5

Data-Entry Training, Supervision, and Quality Control 5

Processing of Completed Surveys 5

Data Cleaning 5

Representativeness of the Survey 6

NASIS Sample Weights 6

Figures 8

Tables 9

Appendix A: Cover Letter 11

Appendix B: Formatted Mail Survey 13

Appendix C: Future Interest Research Form 45

Appendix D: Reminder Postcard 46

Appendix E: County Codes 47

Appendix F: Variables and Descriptions 48

Nasis 2012: Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey Questionnaire, Bureau Of Sociological Research

Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Survey (NASIS)

We need your help to learn about how Nebraskans think, feel, and live. Researchers from the University of Nebraska and across the state are counting on your help to learn about a variety of issues. Your responses will help shape program and policy development in Nebraska now and into the future.

105 questions; 16 pages

Death—Planning For The Inevitable: A Hybrid Honors Course, Jennifer Gresham, Betty Carlson Bowles, Marty Gibson, Kim Robinson, Mark Farris, Juliana Felts

Honors in Practice Online Archive

One of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s Basic Characteristics of an Honors Program is that “the program serves as a laboratory within which faculty feel welcome to experiment with new subjects, approaches, and pedagogies. When proven successful, such efforts in curriculum and pedagogical development can serve as prototypes for initiatives that can become institutionalized across the campus.” Four faculty members from the departments of nursing and respiratory therapy at Midwestern State University, a public liberal arts university in Wichita Falls, designed and taught a hybrid honors course called Death—Planning for the Inevitable. This course, which combined traditional in-class and online …

A Method For Analyzing The Accuracy Of Eyewitness Testimony In Criminal Cases, Richard A. Wise, Martin A. Safer

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Although no one knows precisely how many wrongful convictions occur each year, a study examining DNAexoneration cases estimated that in 3.3% to 5% of the capital rape-murder convictions in the U.S. from 1982-1989, the defendants were innocent. If this percentage of wrongful convictions applied to other types of crimes, there would be 33,000 to 50,000 wrongful felony convictions per year in the U.S.

Eyewitness error is the leading cause of wrongful convictions. In fact, Professor Gary Wells and other prominent eyewitness researchers stated that “cases of proven wrongful convictions of innocent people have consistently shown that mistaken eyewitness identification is …

Seeing Is Believing: The Impact Of Jury Service On Attitudes Toward Legal Institutions And The Implications For International Jury Reform

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

124 Seeing Is Believing: The Impact of Jury Service on Attitudes Toward Legal Institutions and the Implications for International Jury Reform.

Judges And Wrongful Convictions

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

132 Judges and Wrongful Convictions.

Gps Monitoring And More: Criminal Law Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2011-12 Term, Charles D. Weisselberg

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The United States Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 Term was big. The headline on the civil side of the docket was the Affordable Care Act decision.1 The blockbuster on the criminal side was United States v. Jones,2 the Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring case. In Jones, the Court showed that some old things can be new again—the justices gave us “new” ways of thinking about Fourth Amendment searches. There were other key criminal-law rulings as well, including on effective assistance and plea negotiations, confrontation, juries and criminal fines, juvenile life-without-parole sentences, and double jeopardy. And as in the previous Term, the Court …

Memory Conformity Between Eyewitnesses, Fiona Gabbert, Daniel B. Wright, Amina Memon, Elin M. Skagerberg, Kat Jamieson

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

More than a century of psychology research has shown that memory is fallible. People’s memory can be influenced by information encountered after an incident has been witnessed—so-called postevent information, or PEI. In everyday life, one of the most common ways to encounter PEI is when individuals who have shared the same experience discuss this with one another. In the case of witnessing a crime, individuals might be particularly motivated to discuss what happened, and who was involved, because of the significance of the event. The PEI encountered during this discussion with a co-witness might be largely consistent with one’s own …

Court Review, Volume 48, Issues 1-2 (Complete)

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Articles

4 Ready for the Psychologists: Learning from Eyewitness Errors (James M. Doyle)

14 Eyewitness-Identification Evidence: Scientific Advances and the New Burden on Trial Judges (Laura Smalarz & Gary L. Wells)

22 A Method for Analyzing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Cases (Richard A. Wise & Martin A. Safer)

36 Memory Conformity Between Eyewitnesses (Fiona Gabbert, Daniel B. Wright, Amina Memon, Elin M. Skagerberg, & Kat Jamieson)

44 Repeated Information in the Courtroom (Jeffrey L. Foster, Maryanne Garry, & Elizabeth F. Loftus)

48 Jury Instructions on Witness Identification (Brian H. Bornstein & Joseph A. Hamm)

Departments

2 Editor’s …

Court Review, Volume 48, Issue 3 (Complete)

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Articles

60 GPS Monitoring and More: Criminal Law Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2011-12 Term (Charles D. Weisselberg)

74 Opinions as the Voice of the Court: How State Supreme Courts Can Communicate Effectively and Promote Procedural Fairness (William C. Vickrey, Douglas G. Denton & Wallace B. Jefferson)

86 Increasing Court-Appearance Rates and Other Benefits of Live-Caller Telephone Court-Date Reminders: The Jefferson County, Colorado, FTA Pilot Project and Resulting Court Date Notification Program (Timothy R. Schnacke, Michael R. Jones & Dorian M. Wilderman)

96 An Experiment in the Law: Studying a Technique to Reduce Failure to Appear in Court (Alan J. …

Increasing Court-Appearance Rates And Other Benefits Of Live-Caller Telephone Court-Date Reminders: The Jefferson County, Colorado, Fta Pilot Project And Resulting Court Date Notification Program, Timothy R. Schnacke, Michael R. Jones, Dorian M. Wilderman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

It is likely during our first jobs in the justice system when we realize the adjective “important” is a somewhat relative term as it relates to the issues that we face. Far from what we learned in college or law school—and further still from the topics typically reported in the media—often the most important issues we face will be found in the most common of cases. There is a saying in city government that the public’s idea of how well you are doing your job is only as good as how well you administer the water bills. That is because …

Ready For The Psychologists: Learning From Eyewitness Errors, James M. Doyle

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Over a century ago, Dean John Henry Wigmore published a famous demolition of pioneering psychologist Hugo Munsterberg in the Illinois Law Review. Munsterberg had complained in his best seller, On the Witness Stand, that while other disciplines and professions were hustling to learn the lessons about eyewitness memory that his new field of experimental psychology was beginning to teach, “the lawyer alone is obdurate.” Munsterberg charged that the lawyers chose traditional primitive ignorance over scientific enlightenment. Wigmore could not sit still for that. His satirical response is still remembered by psychologists as the bloodthirsty slaughter of psychology as …

An Experiment In The Law: Studying A Technique To Reduce Failure To Appear In Court, Alan Tomkins, Brian H. Bornstein, Mitchel Norman Herian, David I. Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Neeley

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

It would be ideal if we knew the best ways to structure the judicial system, the best processes to use to ensure fairness for litigants, and the best incentives to ensure compliance with the law. Unfortunately, as all of us who work in or with the system and those of us who study such issues well know, we do not. So what should we do?

As social scientists trained to examine the judiciary and judicial processes from the perspectives of economics, law, political science, psychology, and sociology, we suggest that systematic experimentation should be used whenever feasible and warranted to …

Eyewitness-Identification Evidence: Scientific Advances And The New Burden On Trial Judges, Laura Smalarz, Gary L. Wells

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

An increasingly strong case can be made for the argument that mistaken-eyewitness identification is the primary cause of the conviction of the innocent in the United States. The strongest single body of evidence in support of this proposition is the collection of cases in which forensic DNA testing was used to exonerate people who had been convicted by juries and were serving hard time (some on death row). These cases are well documented and tracked at the Innocence Project website and, as of this writing, there were 267 fully exonerated cases, of which 203 (76%) were cases involving mistaken-eyewitness identification.

Best Outcomes For Indian Children, Loa L. Porter, Patina Park Zink, Angela R. Gebhardt, Mark Ells, Michelle Graef

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and the Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center are collaborating with Wisconsin's tribes and county child welfare agencies to improve outcomes for Indian children by systemically implementing the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act (WICWA).This groundbreaking coUaboration wiU increase practitioners' understanding ofthe requirements of WICWA and the need for those requirements, enhance communication and coordination between all stakeholders responsible for the welfare of Indian children in Wisconsin; it is designed to effect the systemic integration of the philosophical underpinnings of WICWA.

In December 2009, Governor James Doyle signed the Wisconsin Indian Child Welfare Act, signaling …

Due Process, The Sixth Amendment, And International Extradition, Roberto Iraola

Nebraska Law Review

Fugitives whose extradition from the United States is sought by foreign countries at times argue that the delay between the commission of the alleged crime for which they are wanted and the submission of the request for their extradition violates their rights to a speedy trial or extradition under the Sixth Amendment, and/or their right to due process under the Fifth Amendment. In a similar vein, defendants who are returned to the United States from abroad to face criminal charges often argue that their right to a speedy trial under the Sixth Amendment was violated because the government failed to …

Punitive Juvenile Justice And Public Trials By Jury: Sixth Amendment Applications In A Post-Mckeiver World, Martin R. Gardner

Nebraska Law Review

This Article argues that the continued homage to McKeiver in an era of punitive juvenile justice is the misguided result of judicial inattention to the distinction between punitive and rehabilitative dispositions. In Part II, I clarify this distinction and demonstrate why understanding it is essential to a sound analysis of whether jury determinations and public proceedings are constitutionally required in delinquency adjudications. I show that the concepts of rehabilitation and punishment are distinct and, for purposes of constitutional analysis, mutually exclusive. From this discussion I derive a conceptual framework, which I apply in Part IV to analyze several cases. These …

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy December Newsletter 2012

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Newsletters and Annual Reports

Calender

NCPA Changes

NCPA Counselors

Important Dates

Senior Corner

Lied Center

Trick-or-Treat for Canned Goods

NCPA Chancellor Ambassadors

Grand Island Seminar Dates

Omaha Spotlight Scholar

Grand Island Spotlight Scholar

Ncpa October Newsletter 2012

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Newsletters and Annual Reports

NCPA Tips for Success!

NCPA Counselors

Calender

Senior Corner

Parent Corner

Omaha Spotlight Scholar

Grand Island Spotlight Scholar

Rotten, Vile, And Depraved! Depictions Of Criminality In Superhero Cartoons, Lisa A. Kort-Butler

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The literature argues that media depictions of crime present messages that conform to and promote the dominant ideology about the causes of crime and the nature of criminality. Most research focuses on television news and adult programs, but little research examines messages about criminality present in children’s shows. To fill this gap, a content analysis of children’s cartoons was conducted, using episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, Spider-Man, and Justice League Unlimited. Three central themes emerged. First, much criminal activity centers on greed. Second, criminals are aware of right and wrong but pursue crime to meet their own self-interests. Third, …