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Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Forum: Police Violence: Causes And Cures, Joan Wexler, Eve Cary, Paul G. Chevigny, Hon. Milton Mollen, William F. Kuntz Ii, Deborah Small

Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Mojica V. Reno: Upholding District Courts' Statutory Habeas Power Under The Immigration Laws Of 1996, Colleen Caden

Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

"Batson" For The Bench? Regulating The Peremptory Challenge Of Judges, Nancy J. King

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The choice of whether to adopt or preserve judicial peremptories should not turn on the resolution of one issue. The risk that such challenges will be used to discriminate between judges on the basis of race must be considered along with the other disadvantages of the challenge and weighed against its potential benefits. Nevertheless, if there is one lesson to be learned from the last few decades of scrutiny of the criminal justice system, it is that discretion can and will be used to discriminate. This difficulty weighs heavily against injecting into our justice system additional discretionary opportunities for litigants …

Review Essay / Criminal Procedure As Constitutional Law, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

Book review and essay of The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles by Akhil Reed Amar.

Making Pets: Social Workers, Problem Groups, And The Role Of The Spca--Getting A Little More Precise About Racialized Narratives Commentary, Richard Delgado

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Criminal Statutes To Regulate Financial Markets In The United States, Paul Marcus

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Mandatory Indeterminate Sentences Under Dangerous Offender Legislation, Jennifer J. Soward

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

On September 17, 1996, Allan Rock, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and Herb Grey, Solicitor General of Canada, announced "tough new measures" to deal with dangerous offenders. These measures were introduced in Bill C-55, which received Royal Assent on April 15, 1997. The following comment focuses on only one significant change to the dangerous offender legislation. As part of these measures, the new section 753(4) of the Criminal Code removes a judge's discretion to award a determinate sentence once an accused is found to be a dangerous offender. This discretionary power is which existed in the former …

The Criminal Jury Trial In Canada, Second Edition, Brent R.H. Johnston

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Book review of The Criminal Jury Trial in Canada, Second Edition by Christopher Granger and published by Carswell (Toronto), 1996. (358 pp.)

Breard And The Federal Power To Require Compliance With Icj Orders Of Provisional Measures, Carlos Manuel Vázquez

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Among the puzzling aspects of the Breard episode was the Clinton administration's claim that the decision whether or not to comply with the Order of the International Court of Justice requiring the postponement of Breard's execution lay exclusively in the hands of the Governor of Virginia. The ICJ's Order provided that"[t]he United States should take all measures at its disposal to ensure that Angel Francisco Breard is not executed pending the final decision in these proceedings." The Clinton administration argued that the Order was not binding, but it also took the position that, even if the order were binding, …

What If There Is No Client: Prosecutors As Counselors Of Crime Victims, Stacy Caplow

Clinical Law Review

As a teacher in a criminal practice-based clinic, I often feel like an eavesdropper on the discourse among clinicians about lawyering skills and professional values. Both the context of, and the language describing, criminal law practice, are sufficiently different from civil practice to make it difficult to teach many of the lessons and approaches developed in traditional texts used in clinical education, particularly those concerned with client-counseling. The dissonance between the sounds heard in a criminal and civil practice was loud when I was teaching a criminal defense clinic. When I moved on to teach an in-house prosecutor's clinic, the …

Justifying Racial Reform, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Sex And The Social Order: The Selective Enforcement Of Colonial American Adultery Laws In The English Context, Carolyn B. Ramsey

Publications

No abstract provided.

Re-Defining Reproductive Freedom, Timothy Zick

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, Amy Coney Barrett, John H. Garvey

Journal Articles

The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty places Catholic judges in a moral and legal bind. While these judges are obliged by oath, professional commitment, and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty, they are also obliged to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters. Although the legal system has a solution for this dilemma by allowing the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job, Catholic judges will want to sit whenever possible without acting immorally. However, litigants and the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a …

College Of Health And Public Affairs Annual Report, 1998 (Black And White Copy), University Of Central Florida. College Of Health And Public Affairs

Research Activities & Annual Reports

University of Central Florida College of Health and Public Affairs Annual Report, 1998. It covers message from the dean, research funding, community support, excellence awards, outstanding alumni, health, basic sciences, public affairs, faculty listings and faculty publications. Also includes a memorandum from Office of the Dean to the Vice President and Provost, an abstract and amendments to the report.

Standing On The Corner--Trying To Find Our Way, W. H. Knight

Faculty Articles

In this article, the author outlines academic presentations that have evoked in him a particularly emotional response. The effectiveness and importance of these presentations is judged by their groundedness, as they deal with the topic of law intersecting with the everyday lives of ordinary people. Generally, the author draws attention to a theme of social justice in academia.

Hardiness And Job Fitness For The Intensive Family Preservation Specialist: A Correlational Study, Sandi Fisher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

It is costly to train the counselors who serve in intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS). The hiring agency must pay for traveling expenses in addition to any fee paid for training. When an IFPS worker chooses to terminate employment before the end of two years of employment, this puts a strain on an already tight budget. This problem could be alleviated by finding an efficient pre-hire screening instrument. The three personality traits described in Hardiness Theory literature: commitment, challenge, and control, are traits often used to describe the ideal IFPS worker. This study assessed IFPS workers to determine if the …

Clinton And Jackson Must Rise To The Occasion In L'Affaire Lewinsky, Porcher L. Taylor Iii

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Having apparently prayed with everyone in the first family about - if not against - the Monica Lewinsky specter, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has become the spiritual point man for the Clinton White House.

Challenges For The Next Century, Ruth Triplett

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Review of the book "Crime and Punishment in America," by Elliott Currie.

Conceptualizing The Impact Of Health Care Crimes On The Poor, Brian K. Payne

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Past research shows that a small percentage of health care employees commit an assortment of criminal acts while on the job. Missing from previous research, however, is an examination of the effects such acts have on the poor (i.e. the victims). This paper fills this void by considering the effects of three broadly defined health care crimes: Medicaid fraud, elder abuse, and prescription fraud. In addition to the direct victimization experiences of those served by me health care system, the physical, economic, and time losses are also considered. Implications for future research and policy are provided.

Grandparents Today: A Demographic Profile, Maximiliane E. Szinovacz

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This article presents a demographic profile of grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households. Specific dimensions of grandparenthood addressed include grandparents' survival, the timing of grandparenthood, grandparents' involvement in other roles, surrogate parenting, and stepgrandparents. The data indicate considerable heterogeneity among grandparents of different genders and races or ethnicities. They also suggest modifications in previous descriptions of modern grandparenthood.

The Violence Against Women Act Of 1994: Connecting Gender-Motivated Violence To Interstate Commerce, Judi L. Lemos

Seattle University Law Review

This Comment explores whether the Supreme Court will grant certiorari in the Brzonkala v. Virginia Polytech and State University, and whether the Court will uphold the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as a constitutional use of the commerce power. Part I explains the provisions of VAWA. Part II scrutinizes the development of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, which culminated in the Lopez decision. Part III analyzes the panel's Fourth Circuit ruling in Brzonkala. Part IV reviews the Supreme Court's handling of post-Lopez Commerce Clause cases and discusses whether the Court will grant certiorari to a challenge of VAWA's constitutionality. …

Fred Twitty, Fred Twitty

The House on 24th Avenue

The recollections of Fred Twitty about his time at the Nashville Christian Institute.

The Presumption Of Guilt And Compulsory Hiv Testing Of Accused Sex Offenders: A Case Study Of State Ex Rel. J.G., N.S., And J.T., Justin Amaechi Okezie

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

"The More Speeches I Gave, The Better It Got:" Reflections On Managing Highly Apprehensive Students, Marsha Clowers

Iowa Journal of Communication

There is no singular method of immediately and permanently dispensing with anxiety about public communication. The pedagogical strategies described in this thought piece, however, when used in a receptive environment and combined with the essentials of public speaking training can, given time, help students appreciate the thrill of public speaking. In my experience, individual attention outside of class and constructive group criticism during class do much to ease highly apprehensive students. This narrative contains my reflections on working with just such a group.

Our Constitutionalized Adversary System, Monroe H. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, attacks upon the adversary system have been unprecedented in their breadth and intensity, and at times have been "scathing [and] venomous." For example, at a conference of twenty-five of the country's "professional elite" (most of them lawyers and judges) the adversary system was "thoroughly savaged." Efforts by the conferees to produce an acceptable alternative to the adversary system ended unsuccessfully on a "note of resignation.

It is not coincidental that these attacks on the adversary system have taken place in the context of critical analyses of lawyers' ethics. Critics concerned with the negative aspects of zealous, client- …

Prenatal Drug Exposure: An Examination Of Cognitive, Language, And Social Skills., Rhonda Chantelle Conerly

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

About The Authors, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

No abstract provided.

"Mental Pictures And Emotional Intimacy: A Theoretical Explanation For The Sexual Sadistic Serial Murder's Heterosexual Lifestyle", John E. Holman

Clinical Sociology Review

This paper develops a theoretical explanation for the sexual sadistic serial murderer's heterosexual lifestyle. The theoretical formulation developed draws upon Glasser's (1984) control theory and Marshal's (1989) general theory of sexual offending. It synthesizes Glasser's propositions around idealized life style and mental pictures and Marshal's propositions on intimacy. The theoretical formulation developed focuses on the mental and behavioral contradictions implicit in the life of this type of offender. The paper concludes by comparing these lifestyles to those of homosexuals in similar heterosexual lifestyles.

Witnessing For Sociology: Sociologists In Court, Jean H. Thoresen

Clinical Sociology Review

No abstract provided.