Digital Commons Network^™

Gsu Assistant Provost Named Fellow By American Council On Education, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Dr. Sandra Mayfield, Assistant Provost and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at Governors State University, has been named an ACE Fellow for the 2011-2012 academic year. Dr. Mayfield is one of 50 Fellows named last month by the American Council on Education (ACE).

The ACE Fellows Program, established in 1965, is designed to strengthen institutional capacity and build leadership in American higher education by identifying and preparing promising senior faculty and administrators for responsible positions in college and university administration.

Reference Database Usage Statistics 2010-2011, Michael A. Cerbo Ii, Sarah Bannister

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics on the use of online reference databases at the University of Rhode Island during the period from July 2010 through June 2011. Includes COUNTER-compliant data on sessions, searches, turnaways, full text articles downloaded, cost per search, and other metrics.

Gardner-Webb University Summer Commencement Set For Aug. 8, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University will award 273 degrees during the 2011 summer commencement exercises on Monday, Aug. 8. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. David K. Wells, who will receive his Master of Science in Nursing, will give the commencement address.

The Death Of Dr. Hugo Spadafora: Human Rights Investigative Responsibility Is Past Due, Judith K. Furukawa

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lynx Tale, August 2011, Lindenwood University

Lynx Tale

The Lynx Tale was a Lindenwood University-Belleville student centered newspaper that informed students on upcoming events and news on campus.

2011-2012 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

After 2003 the University of Dayton Bulletin went exclusively online. This copy was printed from the web and scanned by the Registrar’s Office.

Gsu View, 2011-08, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

The Risk Factors Of Alcohol Abuse Among College Athletes, Jacob Jones

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Self-concept theory was used as a theoretical basis to investigate the utility of social norms alcohol prevention programs designed for college athletes. The predictive relationship among alcohol use and athletic identity, competitiveness, drinking game participation, and level of sport participation was investigated. It was discovered that drinking game participation is a significant predictor of total weekly alcohol use above and beyond the other predictors. In addition, drinking game participation and organized recreational sport participation were significant predictors of total binge drinking episodes. While controlling for drinking game participation and competitiveness, no significant differences were found in the amount of alcohol …

Mole Street Journal, July 2011, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dept. Of Chemistry And Biochemistry

Mole Street Journal

No abstract provided.

Liberated Voices: Juvenile Offenders’ Perceptions Of The Therapeutic Relationship, John S. Ryals

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - August 2011, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of August 2011, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 11,617 full-text downloads and 8,881 page views.

Sequence Detection And Comparative Analysis Of The Hv1 And Hv2 Control Regions Of Human Mitochondrial Dna By Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, Sarah E. Lewis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research was the evaluation and forensic validation of Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (DHPLC) as a sequencingindependent means of detecting the presence of sequence differences in pair-wise mixtures of non-concordant amplicons of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The reproducibility and efficacy of DHPLC results, including amplification reproducibility, injection reproducibility, and column-to-column reproducibility were measured, showing negligible assay-to-assay variability. In addition, cross-contamination on the DHPLC columns demonstrated very low level DNA carryover between a high-abundance sample and subsequent zero-volume injections.

The accuracy with which DHPLC technology can be used to screen both evidence and control samples in the context …

New Faculty Appointments, 2011-2012, Lindenwood University

New Faculty Booklets

No abstract provided.

Explicating Correlates Of Juvenile Offender Detention Length: The Impact Of Race, Mental Health Difficulties, Maltreatment, Offense Type, And Court Dispositions, Christopher A. Mallett, Patricia A. Stoddard Dare, Mamadou M. Seck

Social Work Faculty Publications

Detention and confinement are widely acknowledged juvenile justice system problems which require further research to understand the explanations for these outcomes. Existing juvenile court, mental health, and child welfare histories were used to explicate factors which predict detention length in this random sample of 342 youth from one large, urban Midwestern county in the United States. Data from this sample revealed eight variables which predict detention length. Legitimate predictors of longer detention length such as committing a personal crime or violating a court order were nearly as likely in this sample to predict detention length as other extra-legal predictors such …

Lawyers Judging Experts: Oversimplifying Science And Undervaluing Advocacy To Construct An Ethical Duty?, David S. Caudill

Working Paper Series

My focus is on an apparent trend at the intersection of the fields of evidentiary standards for expert admissibility and professional responsibility, namely the eagerness to place more ethical responsibilities on lawyers to vet their proffered expertise to ensure its reliability. My reservations about this trend are not only based on its troubling implications for the lawyer’s duty as a zealous advocate, which already has obvious limitations (because of lawyers’ conflicting duties to the court), but are also based on the problematic aspects of many reliability determinations. To expect attorneys—and this is what the proponents of a duty to vet …

Did I Do That? An Argument For Requiring Pennsylvania To Evaluate The Racial Impact Of Medicaid Policy Decisions Prior To Implementation, Michael Campbell

Working Paper Series

In Pennsylvania, Medicaid is a critical source of health insurance for people of color, far more so than for white persons. Currently, 38.7% of black or African American Pennsylvanians and 32.4% of Hispanics rely on Medicaid to pay their medical bills, compared to only 12% of white non-Hispanics. With the advent of national health care reform, Medicaid promises to take on an expanded role in opening doors to the health care system for people of color, by extending coverage to many who previously lacked insurance. But while Medicaid facilitates access to health care for those who might otherwise do without, …

Lindenwood University Student Handbook, 2011-2012, Lindenwood University

Student Handbooks

Information and guidelines for Lindenwood University students.

Graduate Bulletin | 2011-2012, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 33, No. 1 (August 2011). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Editor’S Statement, David Polizzi

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Is Capital Punishment Just? Assessing The Death Penalty Using Justice Theory, Matthew Robinson

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Essential Criminology 3rd Edition, Roger Schaefer

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Guest Editor's Statement, Roger Schaefer

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Understanding Others’ Experience: Phenomenology And/Beyond Violence, Joshua Freistadt

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Redefining Genocide: The International Criminal Court’S Failure To Indict On The Darfur Situation, Simeon Sungi

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Conflict In Darfur: Calculation And Inadequate International Response, Bob Zaremba

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

No abstract provided.

Social Science Research Center Brochure, Jordan Lear, Laura R. Walton, M.B. Humphrey, Kyle Schooler

SSRC History

This brochure for the Social Science Research Center (SSRC) features details about the SSRC's history, projects, research questions, internal and external sponsors, and features a letter from the director, Dr. Arthur Cosby.

Detention And Deportation With Inadequate Due Process: The Devastating Consequences Of Juvenile Involvement With Law Enforcement For Immigrant Youth, Elizabeth M. Frankel

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

No abstract provided.

Ineffective Assistance And Drastic Punishments: The Duty To Inform Juveniles Of Collateral Consequences In A Post-Padilla Court, Riya Saha Shah, Lisa S. Campbell

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

No abstract provided.

The Abas Approach To Juvenile Justice Reform: Education, Eviction, And Employment: The Collateral Consequences Of Juvenile Adjudication, Christopher Gowen, Lisa Thurau, Meghan Wood

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

No abstract provided.

Juvenile Incarceration And The Pains Of Imprisonment, Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

After legislatures criminalized a major portion of juvenile delinquency in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of incarcerated youth began serving their sentences in adult correctional facilities. To understand the ramifications of this practice, prior research studies compared the correctional experiences of youth in juvenile and adult facilities. Yet this research often minimized the pains of imprisonment for youth in juvenile facilities, based on the contrast to adult facilities and the toxic conditions of confinement within them. In this Article, we contribute to this literature by analyzing data from interviews with 188 young men incarcerated in juvenile and adult facilities …