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Legal Rites: Abjection And The Criminal Regulation Of Consensual Sex, Kate Sutherland

Articles & Book Chapters

The application of criminal law to consensual sex is an arena of conflict and contest between conservative and liberal forces in the United States, with occasional feminist interventions. The same arguments tend to recur on each side of the debate. Conservatives assert the appropriateness and necessity of enforcing a particular Judeo-Christian sexual morality through law. Liberals argue for tolerance of private consensual sexual conduct. When the debate shifts from the private to the public arena, conservatives may argue privacy principles, asserting the right of bystanders to be let alone, whereas liberals may shift to freedom of expression arguments. In this …

Post-Cold War International Security Threats: Terrorism, Drugs, And Organized Crime Symposium Transcript, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

Symposium transcript.

Women Defenders On Television: Representing Suspects And The Racial Politics Of Retribution, Joan W. Howarth

Scholarly Works

This Essay is about Ellenor Frutt, Annie Dornell, Joyce Davenport, and other women criminal defense attorneys of prime time television. It examines how high-stakes network television presents sympathetic stories about women working as criminal defense attorneys while simultaneously supporting the popular thirst for the harshest criminal penalties. Real women who choose to represent criminal defendants are fundamentally out of step with angry and unforgiving attitudes toward crime and criminals. Indeed, women defenders have chosen work that puts them in direct opposition to the widespread public willingness to incarcerate record numbers of Americans, often young African-American and Latino men, for longer …

State Of Utah V. Jeffrey Lynn Jones : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

This appeal is from a conditional plea of guilty before the Honorable Stanton M. Taylor to two counts of attempted aggravated murder on January 6, \ 999. On February 2, 2000 the Court sentenced the Defendant to serve two concurrent terms of five years to life at the Utah State Prison.

A Study Of The Effect Of Projective Drawings On The Hindsight Bias, Elizabeth A. Dufresne

Open Access Master's Theses

This study examined the effect of including a human figure drawing on the hindsight bias among undergraduate psychology students. Six groups were given a description of a 15 year-old boy who was experiencing school difficulties. Some of these groups also were given outcome information suggesting that the boy's difficulties were due either to social-emotional problems or to learning problems. In addition, some groups also were given a human figure drawing made by the boy. Participants then assigned likelihood probabilities to the two outcomes. Results of non-parametric analyses showed the hindsight bias for only one of the six groups. In contrast, …

A Comparison Of Administration Procedures For The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure: Flow-Charts Vs. Pen-Switching, Jessica Somerville

Open Access Master's Theses

The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) is commonly used to assess visuospatial skills, visuoconstruction, visual memory, and executive functioning. In order to capture the sequential process used while drawing the figure, the order of pen strokes needs to be recorded. Two traditional methods are used to record this information, the flow-chart method and the pen-switching method. Although it has been suggested that pen-switching may interfere with performance, to date, no research has been conducted to assess whether ROCF performance significantly differs due to administration method. As part of routine neuropsychological evaluation, 100 inpatients and outpatients were randomly assigned to either administration …

A Study Of Language Used In Magazine Reports Of Rape And Sexual Assault Trials, Laura B. Chorbajian

Open Access Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the descriptors used to describe victims and alleged perpetrators in recent articles about rape trials and sexual assault trials in popular U.S. magazines to determine whether they were significantly different in connotative meaning as perceived by the respondents. Forty-four articles were examined for descriptors. The ten most commonly used descriptors for the victims and the ten most commonly used descriptors for the alleged perpetrators were then rated on Osgood's semantic differential by 107 undergraduates from the University of Rhode Island. Results showed that descriptors for the victims and alleged perpetrators were found …

An Assessment Of Decisional Balance, Self Efficacy, And Condom Stages Of Change Among White And Minority Women, Shirley Amanda Gazabon

Open Access Master's Theses

Between 1992 and 1999, the number of persons living with AIDS increased in all groups of women in the United States. In terms of ethnicity, the number of African American and Hispanic American infected with HIV has increased tremendously. In order to address the HIV pandemic among ethnic women in the United States, systematic methods for studying condom use and HIV prevention are being developed and validated.

The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) has been postulated as an integrative and comprehensive model of intentional behavior change that incorporates process oriented variables in an effort to predict how and when people adopt healthy …

Understanding The Efficacy Of Residential Treatment For Female And Alaskan Native Adolescents: Outcome Study And Meta-Analysis, Kathleen Cady-Webster

Open Access Master's Theses

Today adolescent violent crime and juvenile delinquency is an increasing problem in our society. Along with the high number of minority offenders, there is also evidence from state and local agencies that the number of female offenders is also increasing. Once youth enter the family court system, they are often adjudicated for treatment into a residential facility. There is little information available regarding the efficacy of these types of placement especially for female and minority problem youths. Phase I of this project involved the examination of such a facility utilizing a longitudinal study spanning four years of data collection. Year …

Relationship Of Maternal Age To Risk Factors And Infant Outcomes For Children Of Young Mothers, Candace A. Reynolds

Open Access Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to broaden the field of research on the developmental risks associated with the infants of young mothers by identifying age-related differences within this group of mothers and their associated influences on children's outcomes. A sample of young mothers was developmentally separated into three maternal age groups: 13-15, 16-18, and 19-21. Data on the family's available resources, maternal utilization of social support, the environment of the home, and the infant's developmental progress at six months were combined to examine their relationship to maternal age. In addition, further analysis was completed to identify differences surrounding these …

Creating Postmodern Hybrid Organizational Systems: Exploring The Philosophical Foundations Of Administrative Theory Through A Review Of Literature, Andrew Delonno

Open Access Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

2000-2001 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

Complaints, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Eucharist As Basic Training: Liturgy, Ethics, And The Body, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Marijuana As A Schedule I Substance: Political Ploy Or Accepted Science?, Annaliese Smith

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Protecting The Performers: Setting A New Standard For Character Copyrightability, Mark Bartholomew

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reforming Divorce Reform, Allen M. Parkman

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent Be Shown In A Virtual World In Light Of The Fantasy Defense?, Donald S. Yamagami

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Content Analysis Of Newspaper Columns Written In 1994 By Syndicated Humorist Columnists Erma Bombeck And Art Buchwald, Carol Patricia Wight

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study uses content analysis to reveal aspects of the content in newspaper columns written by Erma Bombeck compared with column content written by Art Buchwald. The purpose of this study was to reveal content characteristics that may be perceived as having propelled the columnist Erma Bambeck into the status of one of the top syndicated humorist columnists, based on the uses and gratifications and media dependency theories. Art Buchwald was chosen for a comparative analysis because of his status as one of the top syndicated humorist columnists.

Content analysis was used to reveal answers to these questions about the …

Book Review [Freedom To Die: People, Politics And The Right-To-Die Movement], Santa Clara Law Review

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Scaling Back The Ada: How The Sutton V. United Airlines Decision Affects Employees With Bipolar Disorder., Kevin Wiley Jr.

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The Sutton v. United Airlines decision went too far in the Supreme Court’s effort to scale back the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Congress should review the Sutton decision and amend the ADA to consider disabilities as they exist without regard to mitigating measures based on the severity of the illness. To seek protection under the ADA, one must have a discernable disability, and one’s impairment must be diagnosed and disclosed to the employer. Disability, however, was not specifically defined in the ADA, and no agency or regulation has specifically defined disability for the courts to utilize …

The Roles Of Cognitive Rigidity And Impulsivity In Adolescent Suicide Attempts., Robin Vaughan Eliason

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Suicide is a major health problem for adolescents. It is the sixth leading cause of death for five to 14 year-olds and the first and the third leading cause of death for adolescents 15 to 19 years of age. The purpose of this study was to extend the research on the risk factors of cognitively rigid behavior, impulsive behavior, and depression and to lay groundwork for the validation of cognitively rigid and impulsive personality traits of adolescent suicide attempters. The amount of time between thought and attempt was explored to extend the research on impulsivity. In this three-group design adolescent …

Paradoxical Interventions With Severe Conduct-Disordered Adolescents: Research Of Treatment Effectiveness., Marsha Anne Mills

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Paradoxical interventions are therapeutic techniques in which the therapist appears to promote the worsening or continuation of the problem rather than its removal. The objective of this treatment is to lessen or eliminate the problematic behavior through the unusual means of encouraging it. Only two previous studies have empirically evaluated these techniques with resistant and defiant youths; those results suggested that paradoxical interventions may be effective with severely conduct-disordered adolescents. This study applied the techniques of symptom scheduling and restraining with three conduct-disordered adolescents residing in a therapeutic group home. The experimental design was a nonconcurrent multiple baseline across participants; …

"Chuckle While You Work": Subordinates' Perceptions Of Superiors' Humor Orientation, Assertiveness, Responsiveness, Approach/Avoidance Strategies, And Satisfaction., Kristen Campbell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to examine subordinates’ perceptions of superiors’ humor orientation, assertiveness, responsiveness, avoidance strategies, approach strategies, and overall superior satisfaction. Participants were individuals over thirty that work at least 30 hours a week. 158 participants completed surveys. Results of the study show that humor orientation was positively and significantly correlated with responsiveness. Likewise, humor orientation was positively and significantly correlated with superior satisfaction. Humor orientation was also positively and significantly correlated with approach strategies. However, humor orientation was negatively associated with avoidance strategies. Furthermore, a post hoc analysis revealed that females perceived their supervisors as being …

The Effects Of Different Shifts On Injury And Illness Rates At A Manufacturing Facility., Angela M. Mattis

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The study examined the impact of working different shifts on the injury and illness rates at a diesel engine factory. A retrospective study was conducted using injury data from 1995-1999 collected from the test site. The injury rates of the shifts were compared with each other and with other studies. The study showed that there was not a significant increase in the amount of injuries on the first shift as compared to the other two main shifts. This indicates that the off shifts may not necessarily cause an increase in the injury and illness rate at the facility. The results …

An Examination Of Existing Caregiving Models And Male Spousal Caregivers., Kristi A. Barnes

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As part of a larger study examining well-being among older West Virginia residents, male spousal caregivers (n = 30) and their non-caregiving counterparts (n = 99) were compared on self-reports of physical and psychological well-being, and appraisals of social support. Demographic trends suggest the importance of examining the caregiving situation among females, the traditional caregivers, and male caregivers who are growing in numbers. The data revealed few differences between caregivers and non-caregivers, chronological age was not a factor. This suggests that the male and female caregiving experience are not consistent. Given the growing percentage of male caregivers and the demand …

The Effects On Student's Personality Preferences From Participation In Odyssey Of The Mind., Scott A. Warner

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The problem for the research was to determine what effects participation in the OM program had on the development of personality preferences in elementary school children. The purposes of the research were to: (1) provide research data to teachers that justifies the use of teaching strategies to meet the needs of students toward the development of their personality preferences, and (2) provide research data toward further investigation of inventive personality characteristics and the programs that encourage their growth and development. The subjects for the study were selected from students in grades 3 to 5 at two elementary schools within the …

(2000.2) Making Sense Of My World: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Pixie' (Teacher Manual), Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp

Through a range of exercises and discussion plans, Making Sense of My World helps teachers encourage children to think more deeply about the world around them, and to explore the philosophical concepts attached to their daily experience. What makes something real? What makes a 'best' friend? Together with the companion novel The Doll Hospital, Making Sene of My World is an ideal starting point for primary school children and philosophy.

(2000.4) Discovering Our Voice: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp

Geraldo is a story about what an immigrant undergoes when he leaves one culture and tries to 'join' another culture. An immigrant suffers a triple disruption: he loses his sense of place, he enters into an alien language, and he finds himself surrounded by beings whose social behavior, norms and traditions are very unlike, and sometimes even offensive to his own. The explanation of the leading ideas in this manual help students and teachers explore the philosophical themes in Geraldo. The discussion plans, exercises, and activities are designed to foster and cultivate the process of philosophical dialogue in the classroom.

(2000) Making Sense Of My World: Teacher Manual For 'The Doll Hospital', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Through a range of exercises and discussion plans, Making Sense of My World helps teachers encourage children to think more deeply about the world around them, and to explore the philosophical concepts attached to their daily experience. What makes something real? What makes a 'best' friend? Together with the companion novel The Doll Hospital, Making Sene of My World is an ideal starting point for primary school children and philosophy.

Download The Doll Hospital novel here.