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Introduction: Re-Stating The Standard Of Practice For Death Penalty Counsel: The Supplementary Guidelines For The Mitigation Function Of Defense Teams In Death Penalty Cases, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Review

This is the Introduction to the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases, and summarizes its thirteen articles.

A central - indeed, arguably the central - duty of defense counsel in a capital case is to humanize the client in the eyes of those who will decide his fate. The daunting task of imagining, collecting, and presenting such mitigation evidence pervades counsel's responsibilities from themoment of detention on potentially capital charges to the instant of execution.

A truly multi-disciplinary team, with skills in eliciting and documenting sensitive …

The Indispensable Role Of The Mitigation Specialist In A Capital Case: A View From The Federal Bench, Helen G. Berrigan

Hofstra Law Review

This article appears in the Hofstra Law Review symposium issue on the Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty cases.

Writing from the perspective of a federal trial judge, the author, who is Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, describes the crucial importance of mitigation development in the trial of a capital case in accordance with the ABA's Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases reprinted in 31 Hofstra L. Rev. 913 (2003) and the Supplementary Guidelines that are the subject …

The Corruption Of Civilizations, Timothy K. Kuhner

Faculty Publications By Year

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Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …

Government Support For Terrorism Insurance, Thomas Russell, Jeffrey E. Thomas

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Oncolog Volume 53, Number 06, June 2008, Karen Stuyck, Virginia M. Mohlere, David Stouter, David Jenkins

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Psychotherapy Extends Cancer Care Beyond the Physical
• House Call: Understanding How Cancer Spreads
• DiaLog: Teaming Spiritual and Medical Care, by Rev. David Stouter, Chaplain, Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education, and Rev. David Jenkins, Director, Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education
• Radical Trachelectomy: A Fertility-Sparing Option for Invasive Cervical Cancer

Identifying Issues In Acquired Brain Injury Recovery That Lead To A Productive And Fulfilling Life, Margaret Calvert

Master's Theses and Capstones

Primary objective. To establish and report the shared characteristics of survivors who have demonstrated successful recovery from ABI and who indicate that they live productive lives.

Main outcomes and results. Four major themes emerged from the interviews: (a) development of support networks, (b) learning strategies to cope with emotional issues, (c) acceptance of injury and redefinition of self, and (d) empowerment.

Conclusions. The issues raised in these interviews may serve to inspire other survivors and provide them with hope and motivation as they progress through the recovery process. Suggestions on how clinicians can help to facilitate this process are discussed.

Priority Lincoln: Budgeting For Outcomes

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

As a centerpiece to its 2008-09 budget determination process, the City of Lincoln invited the community to provide input about how the City should prioritize budget items. Several thousand residents provided input over a period of approximately 90 days, starting in February 2008 and ending in May 2008. This Report presents the results from the City’s public participation process.

Accumulation Of Trauma Over Time And Risk For Depression In A Twin Sample, V. V. Mccutcheon, A. C. Heath, E. C. Nelson, K. K. Bucholz, P. A F Madden, N. G. Martin

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Department Of Education: Fy2008 Annual Report, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Department of Education

No abstract provided.

Muslim Women In America: Characteristics, Implications, And Practical Steps For Ministry, Charissa Baldwin

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

State Agency Promising Practice: Washington - Collaborating With A Community College And A Supported-Employment Agency To Facilitate The Transition From High School To Community Employment, Jean Winsor, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

Beginning in 2006, the Shoreline Public School District in King County, Washington partnered with Shoreline Community College to offer an off-campus transition program for young adults with intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) residing in the Shoreline School District. While participants are still in high school, the Community Based Transition Program offers a structured transitional step between their traditional day and post-secondary education as well as employment in the community. Funding for the classroom space on the college campus, the special education teacher and the education support staff are all provided by the school district. The school also proposed that …

State Agency Promising Practice: Wisconsin’S Job Development Mentors Project, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston

ThinkWork! Publications

Sponsored by Wisconsin’s Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) through the use of Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) funds, Wisconsin’s Job Development Mentors Project (JDMP) pairs three seasoned job developers with four community-based employment support providers that cover 12 counties throughout the state. JDMP is designed to create a state-wide infrastructure for professionals who are responsible for developing jobs for individuals in supported employment while at the same time, working towards increasing the pool of well-trained job developers around the state of Wisconsin.

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.

Evaluation Findings: School And Workplace Strategies 2005-2007, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Stephanie Herbers, Sarah Shelton, Jenine Harris, Nancy P. Mueller, Douglas A. Luke, Sarah F. Schell, Peg Allen, Stephanie H. Herbers, Tanya P. Montgomery

Center for Public Health Systems Science

This report is an evaluation developed to provide updates on the progress of the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative (TPCI). The report provides an overview of the activities and outcomes regarding school and workplace strategies that occurred between 2005 and 2007.

Law School Catalog 2008, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Law School Catalogs

No abstract provided.

The Experience Of Older Men Living Alone: A Phenomenological Perspective, Leslie Susan Yetter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to uncover older men's experience of living alone. This study was pursued because much of the literature reports that older men who live alone face the highest risk of death, mental illness, physical disability, and social isolation in our country. Based upon this literature, nurses appeared to be ignoring the needs of this vulnerable population. Using Giorgi's phenomenological method, 14 men 60 years and older who lived alone were interviewed and asked about their experience living alone. In the data analysis, the themes of self-growth, self-determination, structure, balance and sense of purpose emerged. Essentially, …

St 620 Emotions, Feelings, And Passion, Lawrence W. Wood

Syllabi

WELCOME to this class on the role of emotions, feelings, and passion in shaping our personal theology of God and Christian beliefs. I can assure you on the basis of past student evaluations that this class will inspire you to a better self-understanding of your own faith development, as well as help you to understand that the affective resources of faith are as essential as the intellectual and logical. If this class has been perceived to be beneficial to students in the past, it is because our primary resource has been the writings of Frank Lake, Clinical Theology.

Su People, Amy Speach, Kathleen Haley, Carol Ball, David Marc

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Interaction Of Metropolitan Area Costs And The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All?, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey P. Thompson

Center for Policy Research

The Federal Earned Income Tax Credoit (EITC) contributed to increasing employment rates for single women during the 1990s. This paper expands on what is known about the labor supply response to the EITC by exploiting differences in the cost-of-living faced by potentially eligible recipients in different geographic areas. Using the 1993 EITC expansion, we demonstrate that the labor supply response varies considerably with metropolitan area cost-of-living. We identify an increase in labor force participation among single mothers of as much as 10 percentage points in the lowest cost metropolitan areas. There is no discernable participation response in metropolitan areas with …

Testing For Heteroskedasticity And Spatial Correlation In A Random Effects Panel Data Model, Badi H. Baltagi, Seuck Heun Song, Jae Hyeok Kwon

Center for Policy Research

A panel data regression model with heteroskedastic as well as spatially correlated disturbance is considered, and a joint LM test for homoskedasticity and no spatial correlation is derived. In addition, a conditional LM test for no spatial correlation given heteroskedasticity, as well as a conditional LM test for homoskedasticity given spatial correlation, are also derived. These LM tests are compared with marginal LM tests that ignore heteroskedasticity in testing for spatial correlation, or spatial correlation in testing for homoskedasticity. Monte Carlo results show that these LM tests as well as their LR counterparts perform well even for small N and …

New Evidence On The Dynamic Wage Curve For Western Germany: 1980-2004, Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, Katja Wolf

Center for Policy Research

Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) reported that they have found an 'empirical law of economics'--the Wage Curve. Our paper reconsiders the western German Wage Curve using disaggregated regional data and is based on almost one million employees drawn from the Federal Employment Services of Germany over the period 1980-2004. We find that the wage equation is highly autoregressive but far from unit root. The unemployment elasticity is significant but relatively small: only between -0.02 and -0.04. We also check the sensitivity of this elasticity for different population groups (young versus old, men versus women, less educated versus highly educated, German native …

Note, Eugenic Feminism: Mental Hygiene, The Women's Movement, And The Campaign For Eugenic Legal Reform, 1900-1935, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

It is well for every woman, however, to think this matter through and to realize that any women’s movement that is correlated with sterility is doomed to fail and annihilation. What shall it profit us eugenically to have women delve in laboratories, or search the heavens, or rule the nations, if the world is to be peopled by scrubwomen and peasants? – Anna M. Blount, Eugenics, in Woman and the Larger Citizenship, 2847, 2904-05 (Shailer Mathews ed., 1913).

Part I of this article examines the evolution of eugenic thought and policy in the United States between 1880 and 1935, …

Social Impact: Social Work Reaches Out To Returning Veterans, Researches Ways To Help., Susan Thompson

Social Impact Publication

It has become a truism that this new global war on terror is a different kind of war, open-ended in time and place. But all wars are different, and as this snapshot of today's returnees from Afghanistan and Iraq shows, so are the men and women who come home from them.

The Bulletin, Undergraduate Catalog 2008-2009 (2008), Minnesota State University Moorhead

Undergraduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

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The Silent Witness, January-February 2008

Silent Witness, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Washington, D.C.

The Silent Witness Finding Aid

Seeking Shelter In Tough Times: Securing Housing For Youth Who Age Out Of Foster Care, Dale Margolin Cecka

Law Faculty Publications

Across the country, everyone is talking about a "housing crisis." For youth who age out of foster care, just finding a place to sleep each night is always a struggle. We know that nationally, 54% of recently aged-out youth are homeless or unstably housed. In addition, these youth face higher rates of unemployment, undereducation, teen pregnancy, and incarceration. In the last few years, lawmakers, advocates, and child welfare practitioners have finally started paying attention to adolescents discharged from foster care. This article focuses on laws and programs that target housing issues facing youth aging out of foster care. It also …

History Of Contemporary Social Policy: Introduction, Richard K. Caputo

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

As the contributions to this special issue of ]SSW attest, much can be said about the nature of social welfare policies and programs over the past quarter century. Some changes are allegedly beneficial, some not, in regard to the welfare of the nation in general and to economically needy people in particular. The welfare program in the form of cash assistance primarily to lowincome mothers and their children as we had understood and implemented it since 1935 ended. Work effort became the sine qua non of cash assistance for all low-income families. Further, the very notion of the welfare state …

Community Reintegration For Ex-Offenders?, Nancy Levenburg

Seidman Business Review

I was recently in an Ottawa County courtroom when a man was called to appear before a judge on a charge of non-payment of six months of past-due court costs and fines. Thinking he must owe a massive amount of money, I was stunned when the judge indicated that the total amount due was $128.

Editorial Comment, Danny L. Balfour

SPNA Review

No abstract provided.