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The Forum (Volume 36 [35], Number 4), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

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Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Weapon In The War On Drugs Or War On Blacks, Crystal S. Byrd

McCabe Thesis Collection

This study will attempt to determine the direct and indirect consequences of Federal mandatory minimum drug sentences and drug policy to African Americans. It will examine statistics on drug use, arrest, convictions, and incarceration of African Americans. These statistics will be gathered from several government agencies and will be used to determine if American drug policy discriminates against African Americans. The purpose of this study is to inform and educate African Americans about Federal mandatory minimum drug sentences and the impact they are having on Black communities and to provide links to resources that can be used to promote drug …

Place Of Work And Place Of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks And Labor Market Outcomes, Patrick Bayer, Stephen L. Ross, Giorgio Topa

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 1, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 125, Issue 38

The Vine (2005-11)

The Vine, 1994-2008

The Vine was a successor to Reflections in Ink, published from 1994 to 2008. It transitioned from a mostly African American student perspective to a multi-cultural one.

Campus Connection, November 2005, Vol. 7 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

The Search For A New CSUMB President: The Process -- A Greener Policy For The CSU -- David Disend Named Interim VP For University Advancement -- Voters Approve Reduced Fees For Staff & Faculty Housing -- Make Way For The Bikes -- Writing Comes Naturally To Ruth Paget -- CSUMB Gets $2.5 Million Grant -- More Changes In UPD -- CSUMB News Website Upgrade -- CSUMB: We Are "Unwired" -- Upcoming Events From Music And Performing Arts (Faculty Recital, Annual Winter Concert) -- Students Raise $3,500 For Katrina Relief -- New Employees -- Transfers & Promotions -- Probation Passed -- …

Its News November 2005, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

SIRP Project Update: Identifying the Impact of System Changes Related to Social Security Numbers||Third Annual ITS Security Week Technology Seminars take place December 12 through 16||myRIT Portal News||Apple Maintenance Program (AMP) FAQ

Winifred S. "Winnie" Foster Research Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Winifred S. Foster, Christopher Johnston

Special Collections and University Archives Legacy Finding Aids: All Items

In June 2003, Winifred S. “Winnie” Foster donated a collection of clippings, photographs, and archival materials that document her involvement in local civil liberties activities and the development of commercial activities at the Central Plaza Shopping Center. Born in 1927, Winnie grew up in a Quaker home environment. She and other farm girls in rural Ohio often made clothes from feed sacks. As she came of age, she embraced the Quaker tradition of pacifism and commitment for equality. She and her husband, also a Quaker, moved to Rhode Island and supported liberal causes. Like many of her generation, she was …

Re-Mapping Africa, Biko Agozino

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

No abstract provided.

Legal Education In Malaysia: Some Reflections, L.T. Khaw

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

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Proportionality As A Principle Of Limited Government, Alice Ristroph

Faculty Scholarship

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Tales From The Blackmun Papers: A Fuller Appreciation Of Harry Blackmun's Judicial Legacy, Joseph F. Kobylka

Missouri Law Review

Even after he leaves the Court, a Justice remains part of the orchestra. Those who succeed him may not copy his style, but often play within the same melodic and rhythmic structures. Justice Blackmun himself, over the course of preparing his Roe and Doe opinions, eventually fell into the structures put in place in cases ranging from Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Botsford to Stanley v. Georgia. The Justices he left behind did much the same with Roe and, more significantly, Bowers. The Court's decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey represented a partial "victory" for Justice Blackmun, …

Legal Injustices: The Zina Hudood Ordinance Of Pakistan And Its Implications For Women, Rahat Imran

Journal of International Women's Studies

During recent decades the women of Pakistan have been the most vulnerable and convenient targets of social, domestic and sexual violence. This paper will examine the trend of sexual violence against women that emerged in Pakistan with the introduction of the Islamization process through the implementation of the Sharia laws since1979. The paper’s main focus will be on rape and the state legislation that governs it, namely the Zina Hudood Ordinance of 1979 and the Law of Evidence of 1984, and how the gender-discriminatory nature of these laws serves as a powerful weapon in the hands of the patriarchal society …

Student Employee Recruitment And Retention Through Campus Partnerships, Corinne M. Daprano, Megan L. Coyle, Peter J. Titlebaum

Health and Sport Science Faculty Publications

Recruitment and retention of student employees are important considerations for any recreational sports department, large or small, because student employees impact both the quantity and quality of programs and services. This article proposes a strategy for establishing partnerships with academic departments to aid in the recruitment and retention of student employees. These partnerships benefit students, the recreational sports department, academic departments, and university student retention efforts. Following a description of this strategy is an example of a partnership that has been successfully established at one Midwestern university.

Revelations From The Blackmun Papers On The Development Of Death Penalty Law, Martha Dragich Pearson

Missouri Law Review

Justice Blackmun's legacy is strongly linked to two issues - abortion and capital punishment. Blackmun's opinions in these controversial areas account for much of the notion that his ideology changed while on the Court. Participants in this Symposium have reflected on these and other areas where Justice Blackmun left his mark on American law. Professor Deason explores the arbitrability cases and shows that the Court struggled - and Justices changed their minds - even in connection with relatively technical legal issues arising in non-controversial commercial contexts. One reason the Court struggles with some issues is that legal standards are (or …

Justice Harry Blackmun And The Phenomenon Of Judicial Preference Change, Theodore W. Ruger

Missouri Law Review

We are fond of putting our judges into neat adjectival boxes, particularly when they sit on the Supreme Court. These typologies often reflect perceived attitudinal or ideological preferences; some Justices are called "liberal" or "conservative" or "moderate," or occasionally some hyphenated combination thereof. Or the labels might seek to capture variations in jurisprudential philosophy or method, such as "formalist," "pragmatist," "originalist," "textualist," or "minimalist." No Justice is immune from this classification game, and the subject of this symposium is an apt example. From the moment of his nomination by President Nixon in 1970, Harry A. Blackmun attracted a bevy of …

Internationalism Of Justice Harry Blackmun, The, Margaret E. Mcguinness

Missouri Law Review

This comment is intended to provide a roadmap for closer examination of the Blackmun Papers and to evaluate the sources of internationalism in Justice Blackmun's opinions. An understanding of those sources can in turn inform typologies of internationalism among other Justices, past, present, and future. It seems particularly salient to be discussing the internationalist aspects of Justice Blackmun's legacy today, at a time when the Court is deeply divided on questions of executive power over foreign affairs, the relevance of foreign and international political practices and judicial opinions to constitutional interpretation, and the extent to which decisions of international tribunals …

Undue Process: Congressional Referral And Judicial Resistance In The Schiavo Controversy, Adam M. Samaha

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Opinion Volume 44 Issue 3 – November 1, 2005, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated November, 1, 2005

Race, Performance, And Baseball Card Values, John D. Hewitt, Robert Muñoz Jr., William L. Oliver, Robert M. Regoli

Peer Reviewed Publications

This study reports on a search for racial disparities in the value of baseball cards for Black and White members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF). The study’s sample of 51 players was derived from the population of the 96 players elected to the HOF since 1936 by the Baseball Writers of America. Although the authors found that race produced no statistical difference in Black and White players’ card values, they did observe that players’ career performance plus the availability of a player’s card (scarcity) exerted a significant effect on the value of cards. The study concludes with …

A Refutation Of Racial Differentials In The Juvenile Recidivism Rate Hypothesis, Jospeter M. Mbuba

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

It has repeatedly been argued that race is an important predictor of juvenile recidivism, invariably with black offenders having significantly higher odds of recidivating than white offenders (DeComo, 1998; Strom, 2000; Benda, 2001; Langan & Levin, 2002; Harms, 2003; Pope and Snyder, 2003; Puzzanchera, 2003; Stahl, 2003). This study refutes that assertion. Using data from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections in the state of Louisiana, a total of 2,810 juvenile offenders released in the 1999/2000 fiscal year were examined and a socio-demographic profile of those who were returned into the correctional system one year post release was established. …

Ethnicity And Crime: Criminal Behavior Redefined, Noel Otu, Nancy A. Horton

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

Studies dealing with the definition of crime have primarily been concerned with developing hypotheses and theories of universal crime commission and definition. These theories of human behavior may appear plausible on paper but do not work well with people. All the theories of human behavior contain some truth. However, variables do not function one at a time nor can one theory explain all human behavior. These reasons justify studying human behavior from a social context perspective. This paper examines why one ethnic group can be heard praising a behavior while another ethnic group is doing the opposite. Factually, ethnic definition …

Crime, Criminology And Post-Colonial Theory: Criminological Reflections On West Africa By Biko Agozino, Nọnso Okereafọezeke

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

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Some Critical Reflections On The Governance Of Crime In Post-Apartheid South Africa, By Anne Marie Singh, Nọnso Okereafọezeke

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

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Edict V. Dicta: Rolling Back Rights In The Second Circuit Under The Clearly Established Clause Of The Aedpa Amended Habeas Statute, Aron E. Goldschneider

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article, through a close critical analysis of two recent habeas corpus decisions by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, shows how appellate courts, under § 2254 of the AEDPA amended habeas statute, are methodically erasing venerable and well-considered federal habeas precedents that formerly protected state defendants' rights. In the process of examining these Second Circuit decisions' impact on two discrete areas of criminal trial procedure, the article exposes the way in which habeas review under the AEDPA too often becomes a formalistic yet un-disciplined exercise that turns away from the crucial question that should be at the heart of …

Ipulse: November 2005, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• Special Hurricane Wilma Edition
• November 9, 2005
• November 10, 2005
• November 11, 2005
• November 15, 2005
• November 16, 2005
• November 17, 2005
• November 18, 2005
• November 29, 2005
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Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Attention Felons: Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhood In Chicago, Andrew V. Papachristos, Tracey L. Meares, Jeffrey Fagan

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This research uses a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impact of Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) initiatives on neighborhood level crime rates in Chicago. Four interventions are analyzed: (1) increased federal prosecutions for convicted felons carrying or using guns, (2) the length of sentences associated with federal prosecutions, (3) supply-side firearm policing activities, and (4) social marketing of deterrence and social norms messages through justice-style offender notification meetings. Using an individual growth curve models and propensity scores to adjust for non-random group assignment, our findings suggest that several PSN interventions are associated with greater declines of homicide in the treatment neighborhoods …

Globalisation And Urban Crime: Mean Streets Or Lost Suburbs, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This parer introduces notions of contemporary globalisation and the manner in which crime and glotalisation interrelate. In particular, the importance of analysing crime and control at both local and global levels is emphasised. Issues of crime and space are addressed in the context of urbanisation. The tendencies of the city to marginalise, and the consequential criminal outcomes from this environment of modernisation (and the modem city) are discussed. Urban planning has had a crucial part to play in humanising and at the same time distinguishing the global push towards urbanisation, and crime prevention is now a recognised feature of globalised …

Appeal Waivers And The Future Of Sentencing Policy, Nancy J. King, Michael E. O'Neill

Duke Law Journal

This paper is the first empirical analysis of appeal waiversclauses in plea agreements by which defendants waive their rights to appellate and postconviction review. Based on interviews and an analysis of data coded from 971 randomly selected cases sentenced under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, the study's findings include (1) in nearly two-thirds of the cases settled by plea agreement, the defendants waived their rights to review; (2) the frequency of waiver varies substantially among the circuits, and among districts within circuits; (3) the government appears to provide some sentencing concessions more frequently to defendants who sign waivers than to …