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Experiential Learning And City As Text©: Reflections On Kolb And Kolb, Robert Strikwerda

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The ancient Greek followers of Aristotle were called the Peripatetics, apparently because their teacher taught philosophy as they walked under the peripatos (“covered walk”) of the Lyceum, an area just outside of Athens. As a graduate student I thought this had to be a rather inefficient way of teaching, conjuring as it did an image of students jostling to get close to the teacher, some rushing to keep pace while asking questions or taking notes and others distracted by a bird flying overhead. City as Text© (CAT) has made me rethink the facile assumptions behind that image. Maybe walking around …

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The State-Of-The-States Survey Of Jury Improvement Efforts: A Compendium Report, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Gregory E. Mize, Nicole L. Waters

Faculty Publications

The State-of-the-States Survey is the cornerstone of a much larger initiative by the NCSC Center for Jury Studies – the National Program to Increase Citizen Participation in Jury Service (National Jury Program). The National Jury Program provides information and technical assistance to state courts about best practices in jury system management and trial procedures. Its ultimate goals are to assist courts to summons and impanel more representative juries; to manage their jury systems in an effective, efficient, and informative manner; to facilitate informed decision-making by trial jurors; to increase public trust and confidence in the jury system and in courts; …

Elected Texas District And County Attorneys' Perceptions Of Crime Victim Involvement In Criminal Prosecutions, Bradley Joseph Michelsen

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The purpose of this study is to test the utility of Stickels' Victim Satisfaction Model of the criminal justice system by quantitatively assessing elected district and county attorneys' perceptions of victims' involvement in the charging and plea bargaining stages of the criminal process. In addition, this study will compare Republican and Democratic prosecutors' perceptions of victim involvement in criminal prosecutions. A cross-sectional research design will be used in this study. Self-administered questionnaires will be mailed to every elected district and county attorney in Texas. The results of this study will further our understanding of prosecutorial decision making and have important …

Returning To The Abuser: The Cycle Of Violence Continues, Kristen Ann Lester

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The present study examines self-reported perceptions regarding the reasons why women in Tarrant County returned to their abuser. A survey was implemented in a North Texas domestic violence shelter in which clients answered a series of questions pertaining to why they left their abuser in the past based on ten recidivism variables previous research found influential. Three statistical analyses were performed to determine if dependency on or for their abuser resulted in the subjects returning to their abusive relationship. Contrary to the hypothesized prediction battered women were found to return to an abuser for reasons other than dependency. However, it …

Perception Towards Rehabilitation And Punishment In Correctional Facilities During The Era Of Homeland Security, Jacquelyn Lee

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

The purpose of this study is to measure knowledge and perception in the era of homeland security with the aim of determining if rehabilitation is a concept no longer prioritized given the apparent need to fight terrorism. This study reports results from the distribution of approximately 130 surveys to three undergraduate criminology and criminal justice classes. This study asks questions that pertain specifically to adult and juvenile correctional facilities in order to determine if there is a difference in perception and knowledge between the two different facilities. The results were entered into a statistical database called SPSS, Statistical Package for …

Keterangan Kanak-Kanak - Kenapa? Tidak Percaya Ke?, J.Z. Mohd Yusoff

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Jenayah seksual terhadap merupakan jenayah yang paling sukar dibuktikan kerana atas satu sebab yang nyata iaitu pada kebiasaannya tidak ada pihak lain yang melihat jenayah berkenaan dilakukan. Keadaan akan menjadi lebih sukar jika mangsanya adalah kanak-kanak. Pada kebiasaanya, keterangan utama di dalam kes penderaan seksual kanak-kanak adalah daripada mangsa sahaja. Apabila kanak-kanak menjadi saksi utama, maka isu berkenaan dengim kredibiliti kanak-kanak sering ditimbulkan. Sekiranya tertuduh mengaku salah melakukan perbuatan berkenaan, ttiaka hukuman boleh dijatuhkan. Walau bagaimanapun, terdapat kes-kes di mana tertuduh tidak mengaku salah dan kes tersebut terpaksa dibicarakan. Pada kebiasaannya, apabila kes berkenaan dibicarakan, isu utama yang sering dibangkitkan …

Table Of Contents - Issue 2, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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A Different Story Line For 12 Angry Men: Verdicts Reached By Majority Rule—The Spanish Perspective, Mar Jimeno-Bulnes

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The film 12 Angry Men is well known in Spain, not only to picture-goers but also to researchers examining the pros and cons of trial by jury. Had its plot faithfully reflected Spanish legislation on jury proceedings, the film would undoubtedly have ended very differently. Under the Spanish Jury Law of 1995, a verdict may be reached by a simple majority of the jurors, rather than by the unanimous decision that is depicted in the film. However, it is not the need for a unanimous verdict or otherwise, but for a "reasoned" verdict that has caused considerable controversy in Spain. …

Spring 2007, John M. Pfau Library

Peacock – John M. Pfau Library Newsletter

Contents:

• "Embrace the Change": Johnnie Ann Ralph Retires by Barbara Quarton
• Database Developments by Stacy Magedanz
• The New Catalog Is Here! by Brent Singleton
• Library Goings On

From The Reference Desk To River City: A Bibliography Of The Writings Of Robert C. Berring, Frank G. Houdek

Publications

Professor Houdek documents the prolific and eclectic body of work of Robert C. Berring, including the books, chapters, articles, and assorted other materials he has written to date on subjects ranging from law libraries and legal information to legal research instruction and Chinese law and history.

Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

In both size and stature, Boise State has come a long way from its days as a small church-run junior college to its current role as Idaho’s largest university. In this issue, the first of two special editions of FOCUS celebrating Boise State’s 75th anniversary, we look at the university’s buildings and the memories they hold for faculty, staff, students and alumni. Cover design by Drew Roberts.

Utb/Tsc Commencement – Spring 2007, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

Brownsville Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

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Utpa Commencement – Spring 2007, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

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On Misjudging And Its Implications For Criminal Defendants, Their Lawyers And The Criminal Justice System, Rodney J. Uphoff

Faculty Publications

Unquestionably, judges misjudge. Even the most arrogant of judges ultimately will concede that all judges err and, at some point, fail to apply governing law to the facts of the case accurately. Although all might agree that judges err, not all judges, lawyers, and scholars agree on how judges should behave or on what constitutes good judging. Not surprisingly, they also disagree about misjudging and the frequency with which it occurs.In his provocative article Misjudging, Chris Guthrie contends that “misjudging is more common, more systematic, and more harmful than the legal system has fully realized.” Based on my observations and …

Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Classified Information was a publication that informed the College about Library services, personnel, upcoming events, new technologies, and available resources.

Forty Years Of Transplantation At Loma Linda, Loma Linda University

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In this issue . . .

2 | Transplantation at Loma Linda
It’s been 40 years since the first kidney transplant at Loma Linda

7 | Remembering Baby Fae
Leonard L. Bailey, MD, tells the story of Baby Fae

12 | Everyday heroes
The pediatric trauma team exists to save young lives

16 | Same family, different sides
Circumstances put classmates on opposite sides of a grim 1943 battle

20 | Telehealth: miles away but face to face
Health care professionals and educators use telehealth technologies to serve outlying communities

24 | Newscope
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Not Just "Every Man": Revisiting The Journalist's Privilege Against Compelled Disclosure Of Confidential Sources, Jaime M. Porter

Indiana Law Journal

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Spring 2007

Alumni News

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Coping With Lasting Social Injustice, Jonathan R. Cohen

UF Law Faculty Publications

Sometimes we experience poetry in human life -- a sense of joy and wonder, connectedness and meaning, and occasionally even transcendence. Sometimes we do not. This is, I believe, a general aspect of the human condition. Such generality notwithstanding, different persons face different obstacles to hearing that poetry. Some obstacles are internal, rooted in an individual's personality. Others are external, deriving from an individual's family, community, or society. This essay explores one distinctive and particularly difficult external obstacle to that poetic joy: lasting social subordination. How does lasting social subordination affect a subordinated person's ability to hear that poetry? What, …

The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster

UF Law Faculty Publications

This essay reviews Spencer Weber Waller's recent biography of the legal realist Thurman Arnold (NYU Press 2005). Arnold's academic and popular writings during the 1930s - which not only critiqued what he saw as the foolishness and ill effects of legal formalism and political conservatism, but also recognized the symbolic authority of legal forms and conservative beliefs and the need for any reform movement to respect and appropriate them - force us to reconsider the entire project of legal biography. Arnold's life and work reveal the ways in which the forces of modernity - forces that Arnold celebrated in his …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2007, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Judith Kamber, Northern Essex Community College

From the editors -

Encounters With George: Information Literacy and Mathematics at Berkshire Community College - Karen Carreras-Hubbard and Annette Guertin, Berkshire Community College

Achieving Information Literacy Goals Through Collaboration - Pamela Bedore, University of Connecticut, Avery Point

Teaming Up! The Sociology/English Composition I /Librarian Embed Experience at Northern Essex Community College - Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College

Common Learning Outcomes for First-Year Information Literacy - Mary Adams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Gabriela Adler, Bristol Community College; Susan Berteaux, Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Marcia Dinneen, Bridgewater State …

Legal Work And The Glass Cliff: Evidence That Women Are Preferentially Selected To Lead Problematic Cases, Julie S. Ashby, Michelle K. Ryan, S. Alexander Haslam

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Recent archival and experimental research by Ryan and Haslam has revealed the phenomenon of the glass cliff whereby women are more likely than men to be appointed to risky or precarious leadership positions in problematic organizational circumstances. This paper extends research on the glass cliff by examining the precariousness of the cases women are assigned in a legal context. An experimental study conducted with law students (N = 114) investigated the appointment of a candidate to lead a legal case that was defined as either low-risk or high-risk. Commensurate with patterns observed in other domains, results indicated that a male …

Low-Income Women's Access To Education? A Case Study Of Welfare Recipients In Boston, Erika Kates

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

In 2003 and 2004, the Massachusetts legislature dramatically changed state law to allow welfare recipients to engage in education and training to fulfill their mandatory work requirements. The research reported here had as its goal to document whether women who received welfare benefits between 2003 and 2006 knew about, and took advantage of, these historic changes. A fundamental supposition of the research described here is that low-income women should have access to substantive educational opportunities to improve their employment and earnings; raise children with educational aspirations and achievements; enhance their civic participation; and contribute to the state’s human capital resources.

Punishing The Innocent, Josh Bowers

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Scholars highlight an “innocence problem” as one of plea bargaining’s chief failures. Their concerns, however, are misguided. In fact, many innocent defendants are far better off in a world with plea bargaining than without. Plea bargaining is not the cause of wrongful punishment. Rather, inaccurate guilty pleas are merely symptomatic of errors at the points of arrest, charge, and/or trial. Much of the worry over an innocence problem proceeds from misperceptions over (i) the characteristics of typical innocent defendants, (ii) the types of cases they generally face, and (iii) the level of due process they ordinarily desire. In reality, most …

Crime And Punishment: Does Punishment Work?, David J. Cherrington

Faculty Publications

Most analyses of punishment seem to assume that it plays a major role in shaping the behavior of people, whether they are children, students, employees, or ordinary citizens in the community. Some people argue that there is no justification for the use of punishment in any setting, even childrearing. A bill debated in the 2007 California state legislature that would make spanking illegal appears to be a move in this direction. Others believe that there are times when punishment is the most effective and timely way to change behavior and without it homes, schools, organizations, and societies would disintegrate. Does …

Application Of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment For Long-Standing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder In Law Enforcement Personnel, Tara L. Cornelius, Rita Kenyon-Jump

Peer Reviewed Articles

The development and maintenance of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be understood as a function of learning and cognitive processes. This case report addresses treatment of PTSD with a 72-year-old former police officer who was experiencing intrusive thoughts, nightmares, experiential and affective avoidance, and hyperarousal resulting from witnessing a series of traumatic events during his time in law enforcement. Although the latency between events and treatment was more than 20 years, this patient was responsive to a cognitive-behavioral, exposure-based treatment. Several other factors, including the client’s age and chronic pain, complicated this case. The aim of this study was …

On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The phrase "transitional justice" has had an amazingly successful career at an early age. Popularized as an academic concept in the early 1990s in the aftermath of apartheid's collapse in South Africa, the phrase quickly gained traction in a variety of global contexts, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. A sizeable literature has been generated around it, so much so that one might even call it a sub-discipline with inter-disciplinary qualities. Nonetheless, the concept remains an enigma. It defines the contours of an entire field of intellectual inquiry, yet at the same time it hides more than it illuminates. …

"It's Like Deja Vu All Over Again": Williams V. Taylor, Wiggins V. Smith, Rompilla V. Beard And A (Partial) Return To The Guidelines Approach To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel, John H. Blume, Stacey D. Neumann

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Shoddy lawyering in capital cases is well documented. Many defendants facing the death penalty end up on death row not because of the heinousness of the crime they committed but rather because of the poor quality of trial counsel's performance. Despite the acknowledgment of sometimes shockingly poor representation by academics, litigators and even judges, most post-conviction claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are unsuccessful. Why? The legal standard for adjudicating these allegations which the Court adopted in Strickland v. Washington, which requires a defendant to demonstrate that his lawyer's performance was outside the "wide range of competent assistance" and that …

Using Selected Scales Of The Mmpi-A To Differentiate Adjudicated From Nonadjudicated Adolescent Females., Brandon M. Robbins

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Juvenile crime has become an increasingly notable problem in society. Historically, a large portion of research on juvenile offenders centers on the psychological diagnosis of conduct disorder. Juveniles diagnosed with Conduct Disorder often possess other high-risk factors that further complicate their problematic behaviors. For example, deviant peer groups reinforce such behaviors as do home environments where parents exhibit antisocial behaviors and substance abuse (Kronenberger & Meyer, 2001 ). Female offenders constitute a small but important part of the population of adolescents who become involved in the legal system, yet they have been the subject of minimal research. Although only 7-27% …