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Scholarworks Statistics - July 2011, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of July 2011, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 12,075 full-text downloads and 8,389 page views.

She Blinded Me With Science: Wrongful Convictions And The “Reverse Csi-Effect”, Mark A. Godsey, Marie Alou

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Part I of this Essay explores the problem of "junk science" in this country that has led to a plethora of wrongful convictions of the innocent. In this Part, I suggest that, contrary to the beliefs of many CSIwatching jurors, the state of forensics in this country is far from how it is portrayed by Hollywood. Part II then discusses my anecdotal experience with cases in which jurors, who, while seemingly unaware of the problems that have been documented in this country with junk science, have convicted defendants on little more than what many in my field know to be …

Natural Resources Journal & New Mexico Law Review, School Of Law Annual Report 2010 - 2011, Kevin Washburn

NMLR & NRJ Annual Reports

The annual report for the University of New Mexico School of Law Natural Resources Journal & New Mexico Law Review for the period July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. Relevant information pulled from full School of Law Annual Report.

Suburban Poverty: Barriers To Services And Injury Prevention Among Marginalized Women Who Use Methamphetamine, Miriam W. Boeri, Benjamin Tyndall, Denise R. Woodall

Faculty Articles

Objective: This paper aims to identify the needed healthcare and social services barriers for women living in suburban communities who are using or have used methamphetamine. Drug users are vulnerable to injury, violence and transmission of infectious diseases, and having access to healthcare has been shown to positively influence prevention and intervention among this population. Yet little is known regarding the social context of suburban drug users, their risks behaviors, and their access to healthcare.

Methods: The data collection involved participant observation in the field, face-to-face interviews and focus groups. Audio-recorded in-depth life histories, drug use histories, and resource needs …

Bryant Alumni Bulletin, Volume 14, Number 3, Office Of Alumni Relations

Alumni Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Incarceration On Families: A Summary Of The Literature, Kolina J. Delgado

Psychology Student Publications

Since the mid-1970s, the United States (U.S.) has seen a continuous rise in the rates of incarceration. Prior to the 1970s, the rate of incarceration had remained relatively steady at an average of 110 inmates per 100,000 residents for over half a century (Tonry, 2001). Between 1980 and 2000, the U.S. incarceration rates have increased by a minimum of 35,000 each year, with the average year bringing in between 55,000 and 75,000 new inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2003). Contrasting the U.S. rates with those of other countries clearly demonstrates that the U.S. is a major outlier among its peers …

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 1, 2011, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

The Lab Report, Volume 05, Issue 02, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Student Spotlight: Marshall Opie
• Messages to You by Sunny da Silva at Studio Roanoke
• Guest Profile: W. David Hancock
• Reading of Hancock's SECONDS at Mill Mountain Theatre
• Elizabeth Heffron's Radio Play in SANDBOX RADIO Live!
• Overnight Sensations at Mill Mountain Theatre
• Adam Hahn's Adaptation of King Kong at Studio Roanoke
• Performance by Café Antarsia Ensemble
• Guest Profile: John Bergman
• 2011 Festival of Student Readings
• From the Director: Summer Session Recap

Using John Grisham's The Innocent Man To Create A Significant Learning Experience For Undergraduate Students In A Psychology And The Law Course, Emily Stark

Psychology Department Publications

Imagine a man, suffering from alcoholism and schizophrenia, drifting through his small town, known mostly for getting thrown out of bars. When a graphic murder occurs, this man’s name gets linked to the victim, and police focus on him as a suspect. Although there is no evidence against him, a combination of poor police work and a town’s desire for closure lead to this innocent man being convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Down to his last appeal, after spending 12 years on death row, a fair and honest judge is finally convinced to take a closer look …

Keynote: The Crisis And Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt

Articles

No abstract provided.

Granite State College 2011-2012 Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Uprooted Justice: Transformations Of Law And Everyday Life In Northern Thailand, David M. Engel

Journal Articles

Studies of law in everyday life tend to view law either as instrumental in shaping specific decisions and practices or as constitutive of the cultural categories through which humans apprehend their world and perceive law as relevant to a greater or lesser extent. This article, however, suggests that circumstances may arise in which law’s role in relation to everyday life is neither instrumental nor constitutive but instead becomes one of radical dissociation. Based on an analysis of injuries in northern Thailand, it examines two transformational episodes in Thai legal and political history. The first occurred at the turn of the …

Pleading For Justice: The Availability Of Plea Bargaining As A Method Of Alternative Resolution At The International Criminal Court, Kate Kovarovic

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This article serves to illustrate how the implementation of a plea bargaining process at the ICC would enable the Court to achieve both peace and justice. Part II begins by analyzing the history of plea bargaining in the international criminal arena, using the ICTY and the ICTR as models of the successful incorporation of plea bargaining into a court's adjudication process. Part III transfers these advantages to the ICC by examining how the plea bargaining process would advance the Court's goals of achieving peace and justice. Part IV moves from the theoretical to the practical by analyzing how the principles …

Forcing The Issue: An Examination Of Johnson V. United States, Daija M. Page

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Conversation With President Obama: A Dialogue About Poverty, Race, And Class In Black America, Joseph K. Grant

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Due Process And Crime Control Perspectives Using Rasch Measurement Analysis, Vanessa A. Edkins, Kenneth D. Royal

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background: The biases jurors possess may influence everything from the interpretation of case evidence to impressions of the defendant to, ultimately, verdict and recognition of this has led to a number of juror attitude scales attempting to tap into important biases. A common ideology discussed in legal research is that individuals attitudes toward the law and the legal system differ along a continuum moving from due process (a concern for the preservation of individual rights) to crime control (a focus on swift and harsh punishment for those who break the law) although an agreed upon assessment of these perspectives has …

Utpa Commencement – Summer 2011, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

What Great Writers Can Teach Lawyers And Judges: Precise, Concise, Simple And Clear, Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

Despite some imperfections across disciplines, advice from well-known fiction and non-fiction writers can serve lawyers and judges well because law, in its essence, is a literary profession heavily dependent on the written word. There are only two types of writing - good writing and bad writing. As poet (and Massachusetts Bar member) Archibald MacLeish recognized, good legal writing is simply good writing about a legal subject. "Lawyers would be better off," said MacLeish, "if they stopped thinking of the language of the law as a different language and realized that the art of writing for legal purposes is in no …

The Eleventh Circuit's Selective Assault On Sentencing Discretion, Adam Shajnfeld

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

2011 - 2012 University Catalog, Loma Linda University

University Catalog (2005 - present)

Volume 101, Number 1, July 2011

Published once a year, July 2011

The Framers' Intent: John Adams, His Era, And The Fourth Amendment, Thomas K. Clancy

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Public Interest Law, Scott L. Cummings

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Obstacles To Accessing The State Justice System In Rural Afghanistan, Kara Jensen

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

The United States' mission in Afghanistan is to create a stable, democratic country that will no longer serve as a stronghold for terrorist organizations. Since the U.S. takeover in 2001, most rule-of-law promotion has focused on urban centers, allowing the Taliban to gain traction in rural areas by creating its own alternative justice system. This Note discusses the primary obstacles preventing citizens in rural Afghanistan from accessing the state justice system and suggests solutions to those obstacles.

Not The Crime But The Cover-Up: A Deterrence-Based Rationale For The Premeditation-Deliberation Formula, Michael J. Zydney Mannheimer

Indiana Law Journal

Beginning with Pennsylvania in 1794, most American jurisdictions have, at one time or another, separated the crime of murder into two degrees based on the presence or absence of premeditation and deliberation. An intentional, premeditated, and deliberate murder is murder of the first degree, while second-degree murder is committed intentionally but without premeditation or deliberation. The distinction was created in order to limit the use of the death penalty, which generally has been imposed only for first-degree murder.

Critics have attacked the premeditation-deliberation formula on two fronts. First, they have charged that the formula is imprecise as a measure of …

The Pluralism Of International Criminal Law, Alexander K. A. Greenwalt

Indiana Law Journal

This Article develops a pluralistic account of substantive international criminal law (ICL). Challenging the dominant assumption among theorists and practitioners, it argues that the search for consistency and uniformity in ICL is misguided, that the law applicable to international crimes should not be the same in all cases, and that those guilty of like crimes should not always receive like sentences. In lieu of a one-size-fits-all criminal law, this Article proposes a four-tiered model of ICL that takes seriously the national laws of the state or states that, under normal circumstances, would be expected to assert jurisdiction over a case. …

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Fall 2011), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Fall 2011 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates
• Mindfulness: Helping Patients Reduce Stress, Accept Life’s Challenges
• International Practice Rights for Osteopathic Physicians: Room for Global Growth
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• My Turn Essay

Jury 2.0, Caren Myers Morrison

UC Law Journal

When the Framers drafted the Sixth Amendment and provided that the accused in a criminal case would have the right to a speedy and public trial by an “impartial jury,” it is unlikely that they imagined the members of that impartial jury becoming Facebook friends during deliberations, or running the defendant’s name through Google during trial. But in the past few years, such cases have increasingly been making headlines. The impact of the Internet on the functioning of the jury has generated a lot of press, but has not yet attracted scholarly attention. This Article is the first to focus …

Race Audits, R. A. Lenhardt

UC Law Journal

The persistence of the problems that attend the American color line makes clear the need for greater experimentation and innovation in the area of race. For years now, we have looked primarily to courts for solutions. But current jurisprudence offers very little that is useful in dealing with the modern realities of durable racial inequality and segregation. As cases such as Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Ricci v. DeStefano make clear, it limits dramatically the tools available to address racial inequality, regarding as “bad cities” localities that try affirmatively to grapple with matters …

Network Accountability For The Domestic Intelligence Apparatus, Danielle Keats Citron, Frank Pasquale

UC Law Journal

A new domestic intelligence network has made vast amounts of data available to federal and state agencies and law enforcement officials. The network is anchored by “fusion centers,” novel sites of intergovernmental collaboration that generate and share intelligence and information. Several fusion centers have generated controversy for engaging in extraordinary measures that place citizens on watch lists, invade citizens’ privacy, and chill free expression. In addition to eroding civil liberties, fusion center overreach has resulted in wasted resources without concomitant gains in security.While many scholars have assumed that this network represents a trade-off between security and civil liberties, our study …

Ucf Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter Summer 2011, Megan M. Haught

UCF Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter

This is the Summer 2011 edition of the UCF Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter which celebrates the accomplishments and community activity of the faculty, staff, and students from the University of Central Florida Cocoa and Palm Bay campuses.

• The Palm Bay campus hosted the 3^rd Annual SPC 3513 Debate Tournament
• Palm Bay Early Childhood Development and Education hosted a Teacher Appreciation reception for local teachers who supervised student teaching
• Four Nursing students were recognized for Honors in the Major
• Cocoa campus chapter of National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association held a children’s festival in honor of Better Speech and Hearing Month