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Mapping Missouri's Tobacco Control Funding 2006-2008, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Stephanie Herbers, Nancy Mueller

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report presents descriptive information regarding tobacco control funding and activities in Missouri. The purpose of this analysis was to identify tobacco control-related funding agencies and recipients, funded activities, and regional opportunities for development. In addition, maps depicting the geographic distribution of activities across a number of variables are presented.

Sharpshooting Suburban White-Tailed Deer Reduces Deer–Vehicle Collisions, Anthony J. Denicola, Scott C. Williams

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Too many deer–vehicle collisions (DVCs) are one of the primary reasons local governments implement lethal deer management programs. However, there are limited data to demonstrate that a reduction in deer (Odocoileus spp.) densities will result in a decline in DVCs. We conducted sharpshooting programs in 3 suburban communities to reduce deer numbers and to address rising DVCs. Annual or periodic population estimates were conducted using both helicopter snow counts and aerial infrared counts to assess population trends. Management efforts were conducted from 3 to 7 years. Local deer herds were reduced by 54%, 72%, and 76%, with resulting reductions …

Design In The Public Interest - The Dilemma Of Professionalism, Rob Corser

Imagining America

No abstract provided.

The End(S) Of Self Regulation?, Richard Devlin, Porter Heffernan

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Self-regulation is a sacred cow of the Canadian legal profession. The authors question this assumption on several levels and ask whether, in a liberal democratic society such as Canada, self-regulation really is in the public interest. The advantages and disadvantages of self-regulation are discussed in the context of other Commonwealth nations who have moved away from this type of regulatory structure. Though the self-regulation debate has been traditionally viewed as a "one way or the other" argument, calibrated regulation seems to be a possibility in Canada and, in fact, steps have already been taken in this direction. Devlin and Heffernan …

U.S. Immigration Policy: Contract Or Human Rights Law?, Victor C. Romero

Faculty Scholarship

The current immigration debate often reflects a tension between affirming the individual rights of migrants against the power of a nation to control its borders. An examination of U.S. Supreme Court precedent reveals that, from our earliest immigration history to the present time, our immigration policy has functioned more like contract law than human rights law, with the Court deferring to the power of Congress to define the terms of that contract at the expense of the immigrant's freedom.

Securing Online Transactions: Crime Prevention Is The Key, Michael Ena

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Comment illustrates how government regulation, criminal justice, private legal actions, and market forces contribute to the security of online transactions. Further, it argues that government regulation aimed at the prevention of cybercrime should be the primary focus of the efforts to improve online security. Ultimately, the Comment argues that as more businesses more online, securing online transactions becomes more critical to protect against fraud, to cut off source of illegal income for organized crime and terrorists, and to ensure the future growth of the national economy.

Self-Produced Child Pornography: The Appropriate Societal Response To Juvenile Self-Sexual Exploitation, Mary Graw Leary

Scholarly Articles

The issues of “sexting” and “self-produced child pornography” (SPCP) have captured the attention of the media, courts, and state legislatures. A debate rages among advocates, policy makers, and reporters about how the law should address this activity. More than sixteen states have considered special legislation to address the problem and litigation has ensued. Lost in the debate are many realities including the complexity of the problem. This behavior implicates aspects of child development, child sexuality, child exploitation, teen dating violence, education, and parenting. While any deliberation about children and how the law should protect children is positive, sensationalism and oversimplification …

Condemning Our Youth To Lives As Criminals:Incarcerating Children As Adults, Chelsea Dunn

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Underlying the juvenile court system are two competing philosophies of justice which have taken predominance over the system at different historical periods in relation to the public climate. Early reformers conceptualized juvenile justice as an informal and protective system that would seek to rehabilitate disadvantaged children who had succumbed to criminal influences. In response to negative assessments noting the leniency of juvenile courts, critics began to advocate for a more punitive system which would focus on retribution rather than treatment. Measures adopted by courts to increase the criminal responsibility placed upon juveniles include minimum sentencing guidelines and transfer of offenders …

Really Leaving No Child Behind: How The Supreme Court's Student Speech Doctrine Compromises Modern Education Reform - And How It Can Use The In Loco Parentis Doctrine To Change It, Scott J. Street

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

tudent speech" doctrine defined by Tinker in favor of an in loco parentis standard that defers to the expertise of school officials in maintaining a safe, effective, and orderly school environment. Contrary to what its critics assume, an in loco parentis standard would not give school officials carte blanche to violate their students' rights. It would, for example, prohibit school officials from discriminating against students on the basis of viewpoint. But as long as Tinker's student speech doctrine survives, efforts to improve our schools and prepare our children for the rigors of the twenty-first century will suffer. The in loco …

Indices

Richmond Public Interest Law Review

Index of bills from the House and Senate of the Virginia General Assembly

Pfo Law Reform, A Crucial First Step Toward Sentencing Sanity In Kentucky, Robert G. Lawson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Likelihood Of Using Drug Courts: Predictions Using Procedural Justice And The Theory Of Planned Behavior, Evelyn M. Maeder, Richard L. Weiner

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The current research compares two theoretical models borrowed from social psychology (theory of planned behavior and procedural justice) to predict intentions to make use of a drug court. Medicaid-eligible substance users answered a number of questions regarding their intentions to use a drug court in the future, including items from planned behavior and procedural justice scales. When procedural justice was considered alone, only trustworthiness predicted intention to use drug courts. When planned behavior was considered alone, only deliberative attitudes predicted the intention. After combining the two models, deliberative attitudes from the theory of planned behavior were the only significant predictor …

Reflections On The Recommendations Of The Task Force To Modernize Securities Legislation In Canada: A Retail Investor Perspective, Paul Halpern, Poonam Puri

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Gender Equity In Clinical Trials In Canada: Aspiration Or Achievement?, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Patricia Peppin

Articles & Book Chapters

Achieving gender equity in clinical trials requires that women be included in sufficient numbers to carry out analysis, that sub-sample analyses be performed, and that results be communicated in such a way as to expand medical knowledge, inform policy decisions, and educate patients. In this article, we examine the extent to which Canada promotes gender equity through its laws and guidelines, viewed within the context of its drug safety system and its research ethics board structure. We analyze the structuring of information by the pharmaceutical industry and consider the impact of its promotional activities on the state of gender knowledge …

Future Of Administrative Justice, Lorne Sossin

Articles & Book Chapters

This is the introductory talk, programme, and keynote to the "Future of Administrative Justice" Symposium.

The Cultural Limits Of Legal Tolerance, Benjamin Berger

Articles & Book Chapters

This article presents the argument that our understanding of the nature of the relationship between modern constitutionalism and religious difference has suffered with the success of the story of legal tolerance and multiculturalism. Taking up the Canadian case, in which the conventional narrative of legal multiculturalism has such purchase, this piece asks how the interaction of law and religion - and, in particular, the practices of legal tolerance - would look if we sought in earnest to understand law as a component, rather than a curator, of cultural diversity in modern liberal societies. Understanding the law as itself a cultural …

Intuition, Morals, And The Legal Conversation About Gay Rights, Suzanne B. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

When lawyers and judges converse in litigation, factual and legal analysis typically takes center stage. Yet, when the legal conversation turns to the rights of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals, the ground shifts. Intuition and morals rationales often displace evidence-based reasoning. More specifically, arguments to limit the rights of lesbians and gay men tend to depend explicitly on intuition, and sometimes morality, in ways that contemporary arguments to restrict the rights of other social groups rarely do.

In addressing this dissonance, this essay has two central aims. The first is simply to observe the disproportionate openness to arguments based on …

The Role Of Faith-Based/Government Partnerships In Prisoner Reentry, Bridgette Bassford

SPNA Review

Every year, 650,000 individuals are released from prison in the United States. In the near future the number is expected to rise to 1.2 million. Of those released, statistics confirm that two-thirds will commit additional crimes and return to prison shortly after their initial release. This failure in prison reform comes at great expense to society not only in increased crime, but increased tax and spending. In recent years, the government has recognized this dilemma and called upon the faith-based community to partner with them in creating reentry programs aimed at reducing recidivism. In some circumstances the government is solely …

Toward Fiscal Sustainability In The New Economy: A Case Study Of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Louis Canfield

SPNA Review

Fiscal stress has confronted many American cities during the past six years, as global economic restructuring and reduced inter-governmental transfers undermined traditional revenue sources. Consequently, city governments have scrambled to implement fiscal policies that support core services within the constraints of available resources. The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan is examined as a case study of a Midwestern core city that is in the process of shifting from unsustainable to sustainable fiscal policies. Ultimately, the author concludes, the City should be able to achieve sustainability without relying upon outside resources (i.e., inter-governmental transfers, joint service provision, or large-scale privatization), although …

State Intentions And The Law Of Punishment, Alice Ristroph

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Rehabilitating Juvenile Sex Offenders With A Life Sentence, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 187 (2008), Adam Doeringer

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

William Huckins V. Nannette Rolfe, Bureau Chief Driver Control Bureau, Driver License Division, Department Of Public Safety, State Of Utah : Response Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appellate Case No. 20080108-CA

Michael Willden V. Duchesne County : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appellees' Answer Brief

Hyde Park City V. Jerald Rio Davis : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from an Order of the Honorable Clint S. Judkins Judge of the First Judicial District Court Cache County, State of Utah

Ron Benson V. Peace Officer Standards And Training Council, Department Of Public Safety, State Of Utah : Brief Of Respondent, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the Final Decision of the Council on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Judge Dredd: Hollywood Fiction Or Las Vegas Reality?, Michael J. Gayan

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

License To Discriminate: "Choose Life" License Plates And The Government Speech Doctrine, W. Alexander Evans

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Sellers Of Safe Products Should Not Be Required To Rescue Users From Risks Presented By Other, More Dangerous Products, James A. Henderson Jr.

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Children And Religious Expression In School: A Comparative Treatment Of The Veil And Other Religious Symbols In Western Democracies, Catherine J. Ross

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Whether and how to accommodate students' personal religious symbols worn in public schools are part of a mounting global debate. The competing claims of the body politic and the religious or cultural identity of minority groups came to a head in what the French called the "affair of the veil." This chapter examines the problem of the veil from a cross-cultural perspective, comparing the United States to several other western democracies. The comparison involves both legal and cultural premises. In each instance, the analysis must consider the fundamental values of the body politic, the laws and covenants that govern decision-making, …

An Empirical Taxonomy Of Incarcerated Male Sexual Offenders Using Finite Mixture Modeling: Adult Victims, Jamison D. Fargo

Psychology Faculty Publications

The sexual victimization of women remains an endemic social, criminal, and public health problem. Much research has sought to identify risk and protective factors related to the sexual victimization of women so that prevention and intervention strategies can be more informed and targeted. Modern criminology has recognized the heterogeneous nature of many criminal behaviors in terms of their etiology, offender-, offense-, and victim-related characteristics. Such an approach has been labeled criminal profiling or criminal investigative analysis and yields richer information about the nature of crime than reliance on aggregate statistics (Hazelwood & Burgess, 2001). Knight (1999, p. 304) stated that …