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Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 2 - Making A Difference: Tools To Help Judges Support The Healing Of Children Exposed To Domestic Violence, Lavita Nadkarni, Barbara Zeek Shaw

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Domestic violence has emerged from the privacy of one’s own home, where only the victims were aware of the abuse, to more public domains, where one can witness the impact of such abuse on society through our court system. Judges, in both the civil and criminal arenas, exercise considerable power in instituting a wide range of possible dispositions in cases involving domestic violence. The Family Violence Prevention Fund’s National Judicial Education Advisory Committee concluded that judges made the most significant decisions affecting the lives of victims, abusers, and their children. Judges can also play a significant role in shaping society’s …

Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 2 - The Resource Page: Focus On Domestic Violence

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 2 - Firearms And Domestic Violence: A Primer For Judges, Darren Mitchell, Susan B. Carbon

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Firearms and domestic violence are a deadly combination. As the examples on the following page show, abusers who gain access to firearms pose a lethal threat both to those they have abused and to the wider community. Even where laws exist to disarm abusers and prevent them from purchasing new firearms, absent effective implementation of the laws—by judges, as well as by others in the civil and criminal justice system— survivors of domestic violence and the broader community continue to remain at risk of death or serious injury.

Death Through Administrative Indifference: The Prison Litigation Reform Act Allows Women To Die In California's Substandard Prison Health Care System, Amy Pétre Hill

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

California's prison system, the nation's largest, developed a health care policy that is deliberately indifferent to the medical needs of women while still spending significantly more per prisoner for health care than other large states. However, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 interacts with California's prison administrative law to prevent women inmates from seeking emergency injunctive relief from the federal courts. Legal and legislative tools can be used at the federal and state level for short- and long-term reform of the California Department of Correction's health care system to stop the needless deaths of California's female inmates. Ultimately, courts …

Focus, Larry Burke (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

Boise state graduates ply their trades in virtually every sector of the Greater Boise work force. From the rank and file to the corporate higher-ups, alums play a vital role in keeping schools, businesses, health care, the arts and the community running smoothly. In this issue of FOCUS, we look at how their efforts help drive the local economy. Cover illustration by William Carman.

Should I Have Learned To Cook? Interviews With Women Lawyers Juggling Multiple Roles, Jacquelyn H. Slotkin

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

This 1996 empirical study explores the quality of the professional and personal lives of a selected sample of women lawyers practicing in San Diego, California. The sixteen women interviewed are successful and productive attorneys. Their stories show these women lawyer's ability to find solutions to work-family issues. They are super women, managing rewarding careers, marriage, family, and community responsibilities. Women have found workplaces that accommodate conflicting demands, and thus allow for a balanced life. They have realized contentment in their professional and personal lives, but this research suggests a persistence of role conflict, a clash between their ideals and their …

Orange & White - Summer 2002, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

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Street Law, Winnie F. Taylor

Faculty Scholarship

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A Case Of Deduction, Or, Upon The First Meeting Of Sherlock Holmes And Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., John H. Watson M.D.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Street Legal: The Court Affords Police Constitutional Carte Blanche, Wayne A. Logan

Indiana Law Journal

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The Personality Profile Of Al-Qaida Leader Osama Bin Laden, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States.

Bin Laden’s primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/exploitative and Dauntless/dissenting, with a secondary Distrusting/suspicious orientation, and subsidiary Dominant/controlling and Conscientious/dutiful features.

Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and often act as though entitled. Dauntless individuals are bold, courageous, and tough; minimally constrained by the norms of society; routinely engage …

The State Of Asylum Representation: Ideas For Change, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jonathan Jacobs

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The plight of refugees-those who flee persecution-touches a chord with Americans, who have supported both a substantial overseas resettlement program and a fair system for asylum seekers. U.S. laws provide a seemingly full opportunity for asylum applicants to explain their fear or actual experience of persecution. In fact, the U.S. offers an extensive process of interviews, hearings, and appeals to ensure that bona fide refugees are not sent back to their persecutors. The substantive law, too, has been developed considerably through administrative and judicial precedents. But how meaningful is a process that, no matter how extensive and developed, leaves asylum …

Street Legal: The Court Affords Police Constitutional Carte Blanche To Arrest, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

This article discusses the Supreme Court's landmark 2001 decision Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, upholding the authority of police to execute warrantless arrests for menial offenses (there, failure to wear a seatbelt) so long as police have probable cause to support such arrests.

Of Counsel, Volume 6 | Summer 2002, North Carolina Central University School Of Law

Of Counsel

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Jails Not Homes: Quality Of Life On The Streets Of San Francisco, Maya Nordberg

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Quality-of-life ordinances criminalize visible acts associated with the status of homelessness. Quality-of-life enforcement removes perceived "others" from our communities, building on historical precedent that punished homelessness and pauperism with fines, workhouses and imprisonment. San Francisco's recent experiment in increased enforcement of these ordinances involved coercing individuals onto waitlists for social services under the threat of prosecution without legal representation. Through displacement from streets to jails, criminalization may temporarily serve to lessen the visibility of homelessness. But the process of charging police departments and court systems with the responsibility of solving this social policy dilemma leads to burgeoning social and economic …

Neiu Magazine- Summer 2002, Neiu Magazine Staff

NEIU Magazine

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A Feminist Fourth Amendment?: Consent, Care, Privacy, And Social Meaning In Ferguson V. City Of Charleston, Andrew E. Taslitz

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

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The Personality Profile Of September 11 Hijack Ringleader Mohamed Atta, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of a posthumous, indirect assessment of the personality of Mohamed Atta, apparent ringleader in the September 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.

Information concerning Mohamed Atta was collected from media reports in the one-month period following the attack and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.

The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the …

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Jason Vaughan, Cate Weeks

Inside UNLV

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Judging By Heuristic: Cognitive Illusions In Judicial Decision Making, Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The institutional legitmacy of the judiciary depends on the quality of the judgments that judges make. Even the most talented and dedicated judges surely make occasional mistakes, but the public expects judges to avoid making systematic errors that favor particular parties or writing opinions that embed these mistakes into the substantive law. Psychological research on human judgment, however, suggests that this expectation might be unrealistic.

The Bush Military Tribunals: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

On November 13, 2001, President George W. Bush issued the military order "Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-citizens in the War Against Terrorism." One of its provisions authorizes the trial by military commission of any non-citizen as to whom the president determines "that there is reason to believe that such individual ... has engaged in, aided or abetted, or conspired to commit, acts of international terrorism, or acts in preparation therefor, that have caused, threaten to cause, or have as their aim to cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States, its citizens, national security, foreign policy, …

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2002.07, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

From Scarlatti To "Guantanamera": Dual Tonicity In Spanish And Latin American Musics, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

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The Ideal Victim, The Hysterical Complainant, And The Disclosure Of Confidential Records: The Implications Of The Charter For Sexual Assault Law, Lise Gotell

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article explores the current state of Canadian law on the production and disclosure of complainants' records to reflect upon the implications of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for Canadian sexual assault law and jurisprudence. Some scholars assert that the Supreme Court's decision in R. v. Mills, upholding section 278 of the Criminal Code governing access to complainants' records, constitutes an erosion of accuseds' rights and an unjustified compromise of constitutional standards. By contrast, this article demonstrates that R. v. Mills is a highly contradictory decision that can be read as creating an interpretation of section 278 that …

Beware Of The Dog: Assaults In Prison And Cultures Of Secrecy, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In recent months I have been involved in a series of personal injury claims made by prisoners, against the State of NSW, arising out of incidents of inmate violence. The standard scenario occurs on a Sunday where the victim is stabbed with a shiv in a prison yard, barber-shop or gymnasium, out of sight from prison officers. Most victims have suffered a history of violence and intimidation in gaol, and the injuries forming the basis of the claims, are generally shocking. There are many reasons for inmate violence. A disturbing feature of such violence in NSW prisons today is its …

Analysis Of States Gun Control Restrictions, Xiaofeng Cheng

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the policy effects of several state gun control restrictions in the United States. The study employs the data of gun related crimes and gun control restrictions from Statistical Abstract of Criminal Justice Handbook through five years (from 1995 to 2000). Although many scholars have studied previously gun control policy effects on crimes, they always focus on the total violence level and ignore to compare the policy effects of different gun control laws. The present study examines intensively gun related crimes and compares several gun control policies.

Pooled data is employed to access the effects of gun control …

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

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Traffic Stop Practices Of The Louisville Police Department: January 15 - December 31, 2001, Terry D. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Grossi, Gennaro F. Vito, Angela D. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

This report summarizes the findings of a study conducted using data collected by the Louisville Division of Police between January 15, 2001 and December 31, 2001. These data resulted from 48,586 interactions between law enforcement officers and citizens during traffic-related contacts.

Information was collected about the driver, the officer, and the stop event. Driver demographics included race, sex, age, residency, license number, and vehicle registration. The only information collected about the officer was officer badge number. Finally, data collected about the stop event include the date, time of day, reason for stop, activities during the stop, number of passengers, and …

2002 Commencement Ceremony - Center For Psychological Studies, H. Wayne Huizenga School Of Business And Entrepreneurship, Graduate School Of Computer And Information Sciences, Graduate School Of Humanities And Social Sciences, Oceanographic Center And Criminal Justice Institute, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

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Board Of Trustees Minutes, June 21, 2002, Coastal Carolina University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

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