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Abq Free Press, June 3, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Could A Trial Finally Be In The Works For El Salvador’S Jesuits-Massacre Case?, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

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Abq Free Press, April 22, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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Supreme Court Rules That Holding Suspects Of Serious Crimes Without Trial Passes Constitutional Muster, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Date Set For General Elections In Haiti; Voter Turnout Remains In Doubt, George Rodrã­Guez

NotiCen

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Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 40-Yy, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

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

Senate Elects Former Prosecutor Eduardo Medina Mora To Supreme Court, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Judge Rejects Lawsuit By French Citizen Florence Cassez Against Ex-President Felipe Calderã³N, Others, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Public Policy Implementation: Recreational Marijuana In Colorado, Sara Elena Shoemate

Public Administration ETDs

In 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington State voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. These states have the challenging task of creating and implementing a policy framework with which to regulate the now legal cultivation, distribution, and use of marijuana. This is a considerable task due to the lack of precedent and information regarding the issue, and because of the intergovernmental issues involved. This thesis focuses on the issue in regard to local governments in Colorado. The goal of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of the adoption of RME and barriers to the implementation processes of …

Abq Free Press, January 28, 2015, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Moneyball Sentencing, Dawinder S. Sidhu

Faculty Scholarship

Sentencing is a backward- and forward-looking enterprise. That is, sen-tencing is informed by an individual’s past conduct as well as by the criminal jus-tice system’s prediction of the individual’s future criminal conduct. Increasingly, the criminal justice system is making these predictions on an actuarial basis, computing the individual’s risk of recidivism according to the rates of recidivism for people possessing the same group characteristics (e.g., race, sex, socio-economic status, education). The sentencing community is drawn to this statisti-cal technique because it purportedly distinguishes with greater accuracy the high-risk from the low-risk, and thereby allows for a more efficient allocation of …

Should Agencies Enforce?, Max J. Minzner

Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores an important but understudied structural choice: the decision to vest enforcement authority in administrative agencies. Each year, agencies routinely bring enforcement actions producing billions of dollars in civil penalties and industry-reshaping consent decrees. Where do they get this power? Congress grants enforcement authority to administrative agencies because it believes that agency subject matter expertise will generate appropriate enforcement choices. Similarly, the Supreme Court has strongly deferred to agency enforcement because it sees it as intimately intertwined with other agency regulatory decisions. Scholars have also generally taken for granted that specialist agencies will be enforcement experts because they …

Spatial Terrorism, Dawinder S. Sidhu

Faculty Scholarship

Terrorism, under federal law, generally means an act of politically- or socially-motivated violence perpetrated against innocents. Terrorism within the meaning of federal law, in other words, exists only if a cognizable motive is uncovered. This definition also sees the United States as an undifferentiated landscape—by its own terms, it fails to take into account any geographic nuance in acts of mass violence. This Article suggests that spatial considerations are relevant in determining whether an act of mass violence constitutes an act of terrorism for purposes of federal law. It points to cities—which are characterized by a highly concentrated, fluid population, …

Abq Free Press, December 3, 2014, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Guerrero Tragedy Reopens Debate On Legalizing Drug Production, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Abq Free Press, November 5, 2014, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 39-Tt, No. 11, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

A Step in the Right Direction

Disarm the Police!

Boehner Advierte a Obama que no Tome Medidas Ejecutivas en Materia de Inmigración

Former Prisons Chief Arraigned in For-Profit Prison Bribery Scheme

New Details Emerge Of Political-Criminal Links In Guerrero, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Social-Media Activist Killed For Reporting On Activities Of Criminal Organizations In Tamaulipas, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Massacre Of Students Exposes High Levels Of Corruption In Guerrero State, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Abq Free Press, October 8, 2014, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Pledges Mexican Participation In Un Peacekeeping Operations, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Organizational Factors And Therapist Attitudes In The Prediction Of Mi Adoption., Erin Tooley

Psychology ETDs

Dissemination efforts occur within a context. It is important to determine the individual and organizational factors that promote MI adoption. The present study had three goals: 1) to examine the four-factor structure of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale (EBPAS) in a sample of substance abuse providers, 2) to examine the organizational and therapist attitude variables that predicted study attrition, and 3) to examine the organizational and therapist attitude factors that predicted MI skill levels at each of the three time points and the factors that predicted skill growth over time. While the factor-structure of the EBPAS was similar in this …

Crime And Immigration In Albuquerque, Nm — Real Or Misperception?, Saundra D. Daras

Geography ETDs

The decade between 2000 and 2010 marked the largest increase of immigrant populations in U.S. history, however crime rates have seen a decrease during this same period. Recent research suggests that immigrant groups may actually be associated with this phenomenon. As immigration rates are expected to continue to grow in Albuquerque and the U.S., further research into the relationship between immigration and crime rates within historical destination cities (i.e. Los Angeles, New York) and new destination gateway cities, such as Albuquerque, is necessary. This study examines how violent and non-violent crime rates in immigrant neighborhoods compare to those of non-immigrant …

Zetas And Three Other Criminal Organizations Reportedly Meet To Discuss Alliance, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Announces Creation Of New Elite Police Unit, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Abq Free Press, August 27, 2014, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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Abq Free Press, July 30, 2014, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

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Mexico Criticizes Texas Gov. Rick Perry’S Decision To Send National Guard Troops To Border Area, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

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Pathologizing And Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, And The Ideological Underpinnings Of The War On Drugs, David Korostyshevsky

History ETDs

Since the Enlightenment, Anglo-American temperance thinkers—who were usually clergymen and physicians—have expressed broader concerns about intoxication and addiction with rhetoric that simultaneously pathologized and criminalized the unsanctioned use of psychoactive substances. During the first half of the eighteenth century, a period known as the Gin Craze, rising levels of urban drunkenness in England came under the sustained gaze of temperance-minded doctors and churchmen, who used a shared language of contagion, disease, and slavery to problematize intoxication simultaneously as a medical and criminal condition. Building on Enlightenment English temperance thought, which was transferred into the United States by physician Benjamin Rush, …