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0573 Colorado Legislator's Handbook, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

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Speech: Latinas And Their Families In Detention: The Growing Intersection Of Immigration Law And Criminal Law, Sandra Guerra Thompson

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

In this article, Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson explores the growing enforcement of immigration law within the interior of the United States and the growing intersection of the criminal justice system and immigration law. Through the use of worksite enforcement sweeps and immigration screening by state and local law enforcement, growing numbers of undocumented persons are being taken into custody by federal immigration officials. She examines the plight of women and families held in detention centers under what are often deplorable conditions. Ironically, immigration detention centers offer fewer resources than those available in most state prisons. The immigration law judicial system …

The Bg News February 1, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 1, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 95.

2008-2010 Wright State University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Wright State University

Browse All Course Catalogs

This is a Wright State University undergraduate course catalog from 2008-2010.

Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Grace Russell, David Ashley, Shane Bevell, Angela Sablan

Inside UNLV

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Forensic Science, Wrongful Convictions, And American Prosecutor Discretion, Dennis J. Stevens

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

A hot controversy exists about the reliability of forensic science as reported by prime-time drama television series in bringing violent criminals to justice. This exploratory research will show that neither forensics or its fictionalised (CSI Effect) accounts, nor substantial evidence secured by police investigators, shape prosecutor decisions to charge a suspect with a crime, which can often result in freeing guilty suspects and convicting innocent individuals. In the summer of 2006, 444 American prosecutors responded to a survey. The findings reveal that judges, juries, and defence lawyers are influenced more by prime-time American drama forensic accounts than by the substantial …

Expanding The Arsenal For Sentencing Environmental Crimes: Would Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Restorative Justice Work?, Carrie C. Boyd

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Public Policy, Women, And Confinement: A Plea For Reasonableness, Peter M. Carlson

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

This veteran correctional administrator reviews the explosion of numbers of female offenders confined in the United States today. The article explores the myriad causes and effects of this shift in public policy and notes the negative impact of today's policy outcomes on individual offenders, correctional systems, and our society. The author argues for a modification of policy to a more rational approach to judicial sentencing.

The Caged Canary, Elizabeth Alexander

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

The United States has experienced an explosion in the number of people in prison, an explosion that cannot be attributed to changes in the crime rate, but rather reflects changes in public policy, particularly sentencing policy regarding drug crimes. These changes have had a devastating impact on African-American communities. The changes have also adversely affected the social, economic, and political culture of the nation as a whole. The rate of increase in incarceration for women prisoners has been disproportionately high, although women are generally imprisoned for non-violent crimes and have lower recidivism rates than men. Once in prison, women are …

Women In Federal Prison: Pathways In, Programs Out, Kim White

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

One of the fastest growing populations in most correctional systems is female offenders and the impact of these rising numbers is significant. The author speaks to the rising female population numbers, the types of crimes and behaviors that lead to their incarceration, the characteristics of female offenders, the impact their incarceration has on their families and children, and how gender responsive programming is pivotal to their effective and successful reentry into society.

Women In Prison: International Problems And Human Rights Based Approaches To Reform, Jenni Gainsborough

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

The growth in prison populations is a world-wide phenomenon, and within the overall growth rate, many countries are seeing a disproportionate rate of increase among women. Despite differences in culture and resources, women everywhere face similar problems in prison systems, which have been designed primarily by and for men. These include sexual abuse, lack of appropriate medical care, loss of children and breakdown of families. The United States leads the world in both the overall size of its prison population and its rate of incarceration. Advocates for reform are increasingly turning to international human rights laws, standards and norms to …

Women And The Death Penalty: Racial Disparities And Differences, Harry Greenlee, Shelia P. Greenlee

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

The death penalty in America has been studied, discussed, and written about extensively. The vast majority of researchers, however, have focused their study of the death penalty, or capital punishment, on male prisoners. This article examines the data related to women on death row since 1973, with particular attention to similar problems that have been documented for men, while highlighting racial differences and/or racial disparities where found. The subjects were 157 women who received death row sentences, forty-nine women currently on death row, and the eleven women executed since 1973. The data demonstrated that some racial disparities do exist with …

Hard Labor: The Legal Implications Of Shackling Female Inmates During Pregnancy And Childbirth, Geraldine Doetzer

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

Despite international human rights guidelines that prohibit the practice, thirty-eight states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons currently allow corrections officials to shackle pregnant inmates during the third trimester of pregnancy. Of these, twenty-three states and the Bureau also allow restraints to be used during active labor. Only two state legislatures, Illinois and California, have addressed the issue of using physical restraints on pregnant inmates; the vast majority of states rely on corrections officials to craft policy.

This article analyzes both states' justifications for shackling policies as well as the Constitutional and human rights arguments that have been posed by …

Fighting Terrorism: Assessing Israel's Use Of Force In Response To Hezbollah, Zachary Myers

San Diego Law Review

The Israel-Lebanon conflict has highlighted difficult questions surrounding military responses to terrorist attacks. While Israel's response was forceful, this Comment argues that it was legitimate under international law. There are inevitable problems that arise when a nation faces a terrorist militia that hides among civilians and generally operates outside the confines of international law. The wisdom of maintaining rigid laws of war given changing battlefield norms is a topic that is outside the scope of this Comment. Instead, this Comment will closely analyze Israel's controversial actions both under the international customary rules of war and the sometimes aspirational Protocol I …

Sw 434.01: Social Work And The Law, Doreen D. Antenor

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

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Psc 383.01: Montana Legislature - Role, Realities And Reform, David Ellerton Wanzenried

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Against the Grain

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Dissociation Predicts Later Attention Problems In Sexually Abused Children, Julie B Kaplow, Erin Hall, Karestan C Koenen, Kenneth A Dodge, Lisa Amaya-Jackson

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVE: The goals of this research are to develop and test a prospective model of attention problems in sexually abused children that includes fixed variables (e.g., gender), trauma, and disclosure-related pathways.

METHODS: At Time 1, fixed variables, trauma variables, and stress reactions upon disclosure were assessed in 156 children aged 8-13 years. At the Time 2 follow-up (8-36 months following the initial interview), 56 of the children were assessed for attention problems.

RESULTS: A path analysis involving a series of hierarchically nested, ordinary least squares multiple regression analyses indicated two direct paths to attention problems including the child's relationship to …

The Continued Relevance Of The Irrelevance-Of-Motive Maxim, Michael T. Rosenberg

Duke Law Journal

The irrelevance-of-motive maxim-the longstanding principle that a defendant's motives are irrelevant to criminal liability-has come under attack. Critics of this maxim claim that "motives," under any plausible conception of the term, are in fact relevant in the criminal law. According to these critics, the only way to defend the truth of the irrelevance-of-motive maxim is to render it true by definition, by defining motive as the subcategory of intentions that are irrelevant to criminal liability. This Note defends the irrelevance-of-motive maxim by applying a plausible conception of "motive" that conforms to the historical meaning of the term. With the proper …

Court-Ordered Restrictions On Trial Participant Speech, Jonathan Eric Pahl

Duke Law Journal

This Note considers court-ordered limitations on the extrajudicial speech of trial participants in high-profile cases. After providing a history of Supreme Court decisions, informative though not dispositive of the topic, it presents the divergent approaches lower courts take when faced with trial participants' extrajudicial speech. The Note highlights the extreme legal uncertainty facing trial participants who desire to speak publicly about court proceedings. Finally, it concludes that courts would better balance First Amendment and fair trial values by rejecting the reasonable likelihood of prejudice standard.

Openline Newsletter, February 2008, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXXII, Number 8, February 2008.

Speaking Against Norms: Public Discourse And The Economy Of Racialization In The Workplace, Terry Smith

American University Law Review

Free speech controversies erupt from reactions to outlier voices, and these voices are often those of subordinated citizens such as racial minorities. Employing the tools of narrative, interviews with litigants and subjects, and interdisciplinary analysis of case law, Professor Terry Smith probes whether the social inequality of government employees of color affects the rigor of the First Amendment protection afforded their speech. Professor Smith argues that all public sector employees lack sufficient protection because their speech typically does not receive the highest constitutional scrutiny and because of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which stripped public sector …

Earmstrong, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong News & Publications: e-Armstrong Newsletter (Archived)

No abstract provided.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

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Legislative Facts In Grutter V. Bollinger, Carl A. Auerbach

San Diego Law Review

In 1924, Henry Wolf Bikle, a Philadelphia lawyer who also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for twenty-eight years, published a pioneering article to show that the constitutional validity of legislative action often depended on generalizations about social, economic, political, scientific, medical, or psychological matters that reviewing courts, particularly the United States Supreme Court, accepted as true. One of the examples Bikle gave was the Lochner case, in which the Supreme Court held that a state law limiting the hours worked in bakeshops had "no substantial relation to the promotion of the public health."

Scholarship @ Rit Winter 2007-08, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center

RIT Digital Archives

The value of online social networks: a business perspective; Navigating digital research; Live virtual theatre; Sharing expertise and scholarship worldwide; Online learning: one successful approach; Designing and improving the quality of experiments; On the road with itinerant teachers of the deaf; Avoid redundant publication; Students off campus; Political science, a scientific enterprise; International business: it's all in the balance; RIT's newest journal launches; Advancing critical care skills; Holding tight sweetheart: a memoir of the 1920s and the great depression; Creating an online community of scholars; Introducing RIT's new legal counsel

The University Of San Francisco Fact Book And Almanac 2007, University Of San Francisco Office Of Institutional Research

USF Fact Book and Almanac

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Oxford Law Firm Gives $20,000 To Robert Langley Memorial Scholarship, Sonia Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Oxford law firm Tannehill & Carmean PLLC, has contributed $20,000 to the Robert Langley Memorial Scholarship endowment at the University of Mississippi.

The Murray Ledger And Times, January 31, 2008, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Spartan Daily, January 30, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 4