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Mode, Melody, And Harmony In Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa To Cuba., Peter L. Manuel

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Fifth Millennium Anthropomorphic Figurines In Southeastern And Central Anatolia: Comparative Museum Research., Ellen H. Belcher

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The Halaf cultural horizon occurred during the fifth millennium B.C. (uncalibrated) and extended throughout upper Mesopotamia, including southeastern Anatolia. Halaf material culture is well-known for its imaginative and beautifully made architecture, polychrome-painted pottery, geometric stamp seals and figurines. The regional character and variation of Halaf figurine assemblages however, is poorly understood, particularly in southeastern Anatolia. My research and study of these figurines reveals distinct southeastern Anatolian styles and technologies, some of which demonstrate direct connections to central Anatolia.

This article presents preliminary conclusions from a comparative analysis of contemporaneous anthropomorphic figurines belonging to the Halaf and Chalcolithic cultures …

Back-End Sentencing A Practice In Search Of A Rationale, Jeremy Travis

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Crime Volume And Law And Order Culture, Steven Stack, Liqun Cao, Amy Adamczyk

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The literature on public opinion about crime and justice has neglected the exploration of macro‐ or community‐level influences on individual‐level attitudes. A key macrofactor that may be related to individual level attitudes is the volume of violent crime. High crime rates can facilitate the development of a culture of “law and order,” a response that may be a practical or instrumental attempt to control crime. The present paper tests the hypothesis that persons residing in nations marked by a high volume of crime will be more likely to adhere to elements of a law and order culture. It employs data …

Subways As A Space Of Cultural Intimacy: The Mass Rapid Transit System In Taipei, Taiwan, Anru Lee

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Southern Green Revolution: Urban Environmental Activism In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Anru Lee

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Activism And Pedagogies: Feminist Reflections, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Michelle Fine

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Together our two essays move between scenes of teaching and researching with women and men who are or have been in prison. Having written on ethnography, autoethnography, and participatory research, we both have sought a method that would allow us to abandon superficial identifications, mistaken for deep connection, with those who are or have been incarcerated. While we are conscious of the failures and successes of our attempts, we nonetheless write because what we have learned about the state's support for mass incarceration and the state's retreat from public higher education—particularly for persons of color—more than warrants it. With this …

Symposium On Back-End Sentencing And Parole Reform. Keynote Address At Stanford Law School On November 4, 2006 In Stanford, Ct., Jeremy Travis

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The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice, And Ownership In Jamaican Dancehall, Peter L. Manuel, Wayne Marshall

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The Jamaican system of recording and performance, from the 1950s to the present, constitutes a distinctive approach to notions of composition, originality and ownership. Emerging from a tradition of live performance practice mediated by (and informing) sound recordings, the relative autonomy of riddims and voicings in the Jamaican system challenges conventional ideas about the integrity of a song and the degree to which international copyright law applies to local conceptions, as enshrined in decades of practice, of musical materials as public domain. With the spread of the ‘riddim method’ to the sites of Jamaican mass migration, as evidenced by similar …

Social Capital: Lessons From A Service-Learning Program, Maria J. D'Agostino

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In an increasingly complex society, public administrators continue to pursue their ultimate goal of maintaining a democratic society. Confronted with decreasing civic engagement and social capital, universities are being sought as partners in the movement to address our faltering democracy. University based service-learning programs provide an opportunity to address our faltering democracy, while addressing the University mission of service to the community. Empirical research, using CASE, the Rutgers University service-learning program, was conducted to further explore the possibility (D’Agostino 2006).

Responding To The Realities Of The Era Of Mass Incarceration In America. Keynote Address At The Public/Private Venture Conference On March 21, 2006 In Houston, Tx., Jeremy Travis

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Casting A Wider Net: Another Decade Of Legislative Expansion Of The Death Penalty In The United States, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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Dead Innocent: The Death Penalty Abolitionist Search For A Wrongful Execution, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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Domestic And Sexual Violence As Sex Discrimination: Comparing American And International Approaches, Julie Goldscheid

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Empire State Injustice: Based Upon A Decade Of New Information, A Preliminary Evaluation Of How New York's Death Penalty System Fails To Meet Standards For Accuracy And Fairness, Jeffrey Kirchmeier, Sara Darehshori, Colleen Quinn Brady, Evan Mandery

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Flamenco In Focus: An Analysis Of A Performance Of Soleares, Peter L. Manuel

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The Saga Of A Song: Authorship And Ownership In The Case Of ‘Guantanamera’, Peter L. Manuel

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Enhancing The Prospect For Deliberative Democracy: The Americaspeaks Model, Maria J. D'Agostino, Richard W. Schwester, Marc Holzer

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Engaging citizens in the deliberative process is essential to overcoming participatory apathy, cynicism toward government, and the apparent disconnect between citizens and decision-makers. AmericaSpeaks developed an electronic town meeting (ETM) designed to reconnect citizens and government. Ideally, the ETM affords citizens a means by which they can impact the policy-making discourse. This paper examines the extent to which AmericaSpeaks’ ETM enhances the prospect for deliberative democracy. Thirty minute structured interviews were conducted with twenty participants from Citizen Summit III, an ETM held in the District of Columbia in November 2003. The interview data suggest that AmericaSpeaks’ ETM, to some measure, …

Gambling For Certainty: Luck, Chance, And Uncertainty In Politics, Mindy Peden, Nicole M. Elias

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How much of what we do is the result of our will, and how much the result of chance or luck or fortune? This is a decidedly un-decidable question, but one that needs to be asked. The general assumption seems to be that a person's "lot" in life is physically, morally, politically, even romantically linked to choice. But the use of the term "lot" betrays the underlying uncertainty of what "causes" our "lot", laying bare questions of responsibility, burden, and even explanation. Much (perhaps at the very least 50% according to Machiavelli) of what happens in our lives can be …

Friends' Religiosity And First Sex, Amy Adamczyk, Jacob Felson

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Researchers have established that individual religiosity influences sexual behavior and that religious support can increase consistency between personal religiosity and behavior. Researchers are less certain, however, of the effect that religious friendship networks have on sexual behavior. In addition, the effects of network characteristics such as density and one’s position in a social network have not been established. This paper uses a network subsample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effect of friends’ religiosity on the probability of first sex. We find that friends’ religiosity has an independent influence on adolescent sexual behavior …

Journal Use By Graduate Students As Indicated By Masters’ Theses Bibliographies At An Urban Commuter College, 1991-2004., Ellen A. Sexton

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Citation analyses were carried out on master’s thesis in three disciplines, forensic psychology, forensic science and criminal justice, completed and deposited in John Jay library from 1991 to 2004. The aim was to determine the effect of availability of electronic journals on students’ choice of references. The number of journal citations and the ratio of journal articles to all citations was assessed. Criminal justice theses listed more citations that either science of psychology theses, but relatively fewer journal articles. An increase over time was seen in the number of journal articles cited and in the ratio of journal articles to …

Prisoner Reentry: National And Local Perspective On A New Dialogue. Keynote Address At The Maryland Reentry Symposium On October 24, 2005 In Annapolis, Md., Jeremy Travis

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Policing The Police: The Role Of The Courts And The Prosecution, Steve Zeidman

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Organs Of Society: A Plea For Human Rights Accountability For Transnational Enterprises And Other Business Entities, Rebecca Bratspies

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The Civil Rights Remedy Of The 1994 Violence Against Women Act: Struck Down But Not Ruled Out, Julie Goldscheid

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Race And The American Originary Moment: The Boston Massacre Narratives And The Idea Of Citizenship, Andrea Mcardle

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Frankl, Bettelheim, And The Camps, Amy Louise Adamczyk

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Immediately after the Holocaust a number of researchers wrote about and developed theories on how inmates' personalities changed because of time spent within Nazi concentration camps. The camps offered an unfortunate setting to understand socialization within total institutions. Some of the most important contributions to that literature have come from Victor Frankl and Bruno Bettelheim. They wrote about their experiences of imprisonment and presented markedly different accounts on what happened to prisoners' personalities. Although literature on the Holocaust is still prevalent, even as survivors have aged, less attention has been given to how the camps influenced inmates' personalities. Nevertheless, many …

Negative Emotions And Music Revisited, Peter L. Manuel

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Crime Victim Compensation In A Post 9/11 World, Julie Goldscheid

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A Tear In The Eye Of The Law: Mitigating Factors And The Progression Toward A Disease Theory Of Criminal Justice, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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