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Victimization And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Runaway And Homeless Adolescents, Les B. Whitbeck, Dan R. Hoyt, Kurt Johnson, Xiaojin Chen

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This article presents lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates and comorbidity for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among a sample of 428 homeless and runaway adolescents. Data are from baseline interviews of a longitudinal diagnostic study of 428 (187 males; 241 females) homeless and runaway adolescents aged 16-19 years (mean age = 17.4 years, SD = 1.05). The data were collected by full-time street interviewers on the streets and in shelters in eight Midwestern cities of various populations. About onethird (35.5%) of the runaways met lifetime criteria for PTSD and 16.1% met 12-month criteria for the disorder. More than 90% of the …

Doctrinal Issues In Evidence And Proof, Paul F. Rothstein

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The word evidence ordinarily means the statements, events, items, or sensory perceptions that suggest the existence or nonexistence of, or truth or falsity of, another fact. Thus, one may say, “hoofbeats are evidence a horse may be passing.” Proof is similar in meaning but may connote more certainty.

Evidence can also mean the study of either (1) how people make such inferences (especially when conjoined with the word proof) or (2) how law regulates information admissibility in the judicial context. Evidence in the latter sense is the name of a standard law school course in common law countries and a …

Functional Neuroimaging Information: A Case For Neuro Exceptionalism, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has built on a number of technologies, including electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, positron emission tomography, and single-photon emission computed tomography, to become one of the decade's most powerful tools for mapping sensory, motor, and cognitive function. Scientists also are using fMRI to study the neural correlates of a range of conditions, characteristics, and social behaviors, including schizophrenia, addiction, racial evaluation, deception, cooperation, and sexual preferences. Now poised to move outside the research context, functional neuroimaging raises a number of confidentiality, privacy, and identity issues. In this Article, I examine whether special, or heightened, confidentiality, privacy, and informed …

Gender Inequality : A Meta-Analysis Of Trends In The State Gender Bias Task Force Studies, Karen D. Nelson-Schiff

Theses and Dissertations

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The Folklore Of Legal Biography, Mark Fenster

Michigan Law Review

Spencer Weber Waller's Thurman Arnold: A Biography faces the problem of making this life stand out, and this Review seeks both to evaluate his rendering-which it does in Part II, after providing more details of the raw materials of Arnold's life in Part I-and to use Arnold's ideas to reflect on the endeavor of the legal biography. Although other works bearing on Arnold's life have been available,' Waller's competent, readable chronicle will provide an authoritative source of information and satisfy the desires of general readers interested in accomplished legal lives and seeking a straightforward account of Arnold's career. But Waller's …

The Economics Of Presidential Pardons And Commutations, Richard A. Posner, William M. Landes

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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Completely Theorized Agreements In Constitutional Law, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

How is constitutionalism possible, when people disagree on so many questions about what is good and what is right? This essay, written for a special issue of Social Research on Difficult Decisions, explores the role of two kinds of incompletely theorized agreements amidst sharp disagreements about the largest issues in social life. The first consist of agreements on abstract formulations (freedom of speech, equality under the law); these agreements are crucial to constitution-making as a social practice. The second consist of agreements on particular doctrines and practices; these agreements are crucial to life and law under existing constitutions. Incompletely theorized …

The Ultimate Penal Sanction And "Closure" For Survivors Of Homicide Victims, Marilyn Peterson Armour, Mark S. Umbreit

Marquette Law Review

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Public Interest Drift Revised: Tracing The Sources Of Social Change Commitment Among Black Harvard Law Students, Jenee Desmond-Harris

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

Although "public interest drift"-the phenomenon of law students' interest in public interest careers decreasing over the course of legal education-has been studied extensively, author Jene Desmond- Harris argues that rates among black law students deserve a specially tailored analysis because of the black community's longstanding faith in the law and lawyers as instruments of social change. Through a study of current black Harvard Law students, admitted students, and alumni, she investigates the interactions between the Harvard Law School experience and the development of black law students' attitudes about pursuing careers aimed at affecting social change. Incorporating her own research with …

Providing Race Discrimination In Criminal Cases Using Statistical Evidence, Marc Price Wolf

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

Proving race discrimination in a criminal case using statistical evidence has been a difficult endeavor since the Supreme Court's rulings in McCleskey and Armstrong. In those cases, the Court set a high threshold for using statistics to prove constitutional violations. This note argues that this threshold is not insurmountable. Studies can be crafted to overcome the strict guidelines set out in McCleskey and Armstrong. Additionally, lower courts have interpreted these cases too broadly, such that validly presented statistical studies have unfairly been brushed aside. This note also argues that the Court analyzes social scientific studies differently when those studies are …

The Adjudication Of Genocide: Gacaca And The Road To Reconciliation In Rwanda, Maya Sosnov

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

A Better Approach To Juvenile Sex Offender Registration In California, Christina Rule

University of San Francisco Law Review

This Comment argues that the legitimate goals of juvenile sex offender registration-public safety, retribution, and rehabilitation-cannot be effectively implemented or realized under California's current juvenile registration statute.

Reconsidering The Relationship Between Cognitive Psychology And Plea Bargaining, Russell Covey

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Multi-State Responsibility For Extraterritorial Violations Of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights, Todd Howland

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

The Multi-State Responsibility For Extraterritorial Violations Of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights, Todd Howland

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Vol. 36, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver Journal Of International Law & Policy

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Japan Supports The Extension Of Regional Initiative For Sustainable Economy (Rise) Programme, Undp

Global CWD Repository

In continuation of its generous support to the Regional Initiative for Sustainable Economy Programme, known as RISE, the Government of Japan has agreed to extend the duration of the programme until June 2007. This USD 12.7-million programme is fully funded by the Government of Japan under the Peace Building Grant Aid scheme, and has been in operation in Balkh, Nangarhar and Kandahar provinces. The actual implementation of the RISE activities started in March 2006 initially for the period of one year, and was recently extended until June 2007. The Japanese contribution will enable the Afghan government and international stakeholders to …

Social Psychology, Information Processing, And Plea Bargaining, Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Traces Of A Libertarian Theory Of Punishment, Erik Luna

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

U.S. Private Equity In Japan: The Road To Success Or The Path To Failure, Nicole Simpson

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.

Weighing Crime Victims' Interests In Judicially Crafted Criminal Procedure, Douglas E. Beloof

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Gang Member Perpetrated Domestic Violence: A New Conversation, Videtta A. Brown

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Criminal Performances: Film, Autobiography, And Confession, Jessica Silbey

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Spillikin (Vol. 24), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Relevance: Definition And Limitations-Conforming The California Evidence Code To The Federal Rules Of Evidence, Miguel A. Méndez

University of San Francisco Law Review

This Article examines from a comparative perspective the rules of evidence relating to relevance and its limits. The Article compares the approaches of the California Evidence Code ("Code") and the Federal Rules of Evidence ("Rules") to challenges to the introduction of evidence on the grounds of irrelevance or on the basis of limits placed on the introduction of relevant evidence.

Smooth Sailing - Navigating The Sea Of Law Applicable To The Cruise Line Industry, Sarah J. Tomlinson

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

Obscenity Prosecutions And The Bush Administration: The Inside Perspective Of The Adult Entertainment Industry & Defense Attorney Louis Sirkin, Robert D. Richards, Clay Calvert

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

2007-2008 Bgsu Catalog, Bowling Green State University

Course Catalogs

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Due Process Rights And Terrorist Emergencies, James W. Nickel

Articles

This essay discusses the grounds for due process rights (DPRs) and the permissibility of suspending them during terrorist and other emergencies. The two topics are profitably treated together because DPRs - along with freedoms of movement, expression, and political participation - are often suspended or restricted when national emergencies occur. Although I present a strong case for DPRs as human rights, this justification does not settle their priority during emergency situations. That issue raises additional questions, and I discuss some of them. The overall thrust of the essay is to defend the importance of respecting DPRs during troubled times. The …

The Nuremberg Roles Of Justice Robert H. Jackson, John Q. Barrett

Faculty Publications

This lecture covers the background of Robert H. Jackson and the story of "Nuremberg," which is Jackson's Nuremberg. The program of this Nuremberg conference states that Prof. Barrett will speak about "The Crucial Role of Robert H. Jackson." In fact, there were multiple Jackson roles at Nuremberg—many, many roles and moments were encompassed in the undertaking that has come to be so significant historically that the primary, global meaning of the word "Nuremberg" today is, and probably always will be, the 1945-46 international trial of the principal surviving Nazi criminals. Justice Jackson's Nuremberg was over 15 months of full time …