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Feminism In The Global Political Economy: Contradiction And Consensus In Cuba, Deborah M. Weissman

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Herding Cats: Role Ambiguity, Governance, And Law School Clinical Programs, Binny Miller

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justifying Diversity In The Federal Judiciary, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

This Essay thus scrutinizes Obama’s judicial selection effort, which confirms many ideas that Scherer espouses while showing how political deficiencies in the modern selection process erode diversity and legitimacy, and perhaps Scherer’s provocative solution. This response ultimately discusses some promising measures beyond Scherer’s recommendation that could enhance diversity and legitimacy in light of the threat that politicization poses

Death—Planning For The Inevitable: A Hybrid Honors Course, Jennifer Gresham, Betty Carlson Bowles, Marty Gibson, Kim Robinson, Mark Farris, Juliana Felts

Honors in Practice Online Archive

One of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s Basic Characteristics of an Honors Program is that “the program serves as a laboratory within which faculty feel welcome to experiment with new subjects, approaches, and pedagogies. When proven successful, such efforts in curriculum and pedagogical development can serve as prototypes for initiatives that can become institutionalized across the campus.” Four faculty members from the departments of nursing and respiratory therapy at Midwestern State University, a public liberal arts university in Wichita Falls, designed and taught a hybrid honors course called Death—Planning for the Inevitable. This course, which combined traditional in-class and online …

Convocation Video (2012), California State University, San Bernardino

CSUSB Sound and video recordings

No abstract provided.

Eastern, Fall 2012, Eastern Michigan University

Alumni News: Eastern Magazine

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Wet Chicago: Prohibition And The Development Of The Informal Alcohol Economy, Brian Doumeth Jolet

Dissertations

The Prohibition-era presents a story of both continuity and change. While the illegal alcohol manufacturing and selling that occurred during the period was not an aberration from the past, the resultant increased wealth and sway of the criminal underworld and the increasing disrespect for the law were new transformations. This dissertation seeks to understand the informal economy in alcohol by examining the multitude of men and women who participated in this black market in the city of Chicago, Illinois. The analysis describes the movement from small-time bootleggers operating within a narrow market to the development of a complex and hierarchical …

A Qualitative Exploration Of The Influence Of Racism On Identity Development For African American Adolescent Males, John Corey Steele

Dissertations

The life circumstances facing African American adolescent males are reported with a fair amount of frequency by numerous media outlets in our society. Reports generally communicate negative circumstances facing African American adolescent males in the educational, economic, social, and political arenas. These sorts of life experiences have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the lives and development, particularly identity developmental process of young African American men; however, few research efforts have been devoted to specifically exploring the identity development process of African American adolescent males. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the meaning of being …

Eastern Ichigan University Graduate Catalog, 2012-2013, Office Of The Registrar

Graduate Catalogs

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A Method For Analyzing The Accuracy Of Eyewitness Testimony In Criminal Cases, Richard A. Wise, Martin A. Safer

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Although no one knows precisely how many wrongful convictions occur each year, a study examining DNAexoneration cases estimated that in 3.3% to 5% of the capital rape-murder convictions in the U.S. from 1982-1989, the defendants were innocent. If this percentage of wrongful convictions applied to other types of crimes, there would be 33,000 to 50,000 wrongful felony convictions per year in the U.S.

Eyewitness error is the leading cause of wrongful convictions. In fact, Professor Gary Wells and other prominent eyewitness researchers stated that “cases of proven wrongful convictions of innocent people have consistently shown that mistaken eyewitness identification is …

Seeing Is Believing: The Impact Of Jury Service On Attitudes Toward Legal Institutions And The Implications For International Jury Reform

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

124 Seeing Is Believing: The Impact of Jury Service on Attitudes Toward Legal Institutions and the Implications for International Jury Reform.

Judges And Wrongful Convictions

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

132 Judges and Wrongful Convictions.

Gps Monitoring And More: Criminal Law Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2011-12 Term, Charles D. Weisselberg

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The United States Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 Term was big. The headline on the civil side of the docket was the Affordable Care Act decision.1 The blockbuster on the criminal side was United States v. Jones,2 the Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring case. In Jones, the Court showed that some old things can be new again—the justices gave us “new” ways of thinking about Fourth Amendment searches. There were other key criminal-law rulings as well, including on effective assistance and plea negotiations, confrontation, juries and criminal fines, juvenile life-without-parole sentences, and double jeopardy. And as in the previous Term, the Court …

Memory Conformity Between Eyewitnesses, Fiona Gabbert, Daniel B. Wright, Amina Memon, Elin M. Skagerberg, Kat Jamieson

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

More than a century of psychology research has shown that memory is fallible. People’s memory can be influenced by information encountered after an incident has been witnessed—so-called postevent information, or PEI. In everyday life, one of the most common ways to encounter PEI is when individuals who have shared the same experience discuss this with one another. In the case of witnessing a crime, individuals might be particularly motivated to discuss what happened, and who was involved, because of the significance of the event. The PEI encountered during this discussion with a co-witness might be largely consistent with one’s own …

Court Review, Volume 48, Issues 1-2 (Complete)

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Articles

4 Ready for the Psychologists: Learning from Eyewitness Errors (James M. Doyle)

14 Eyewitness-Identification Evidence: Scientific Advances and the New Burden on Trial Judges (Laura Smalarz & Gary L. Wells)

22 A Method for Analyzing the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Cases (Richard A. Wise & Martin A. Safer)

36 Memory Conformity Between Eyewitnesses (Fiona Gabbert, Daniel B. Wright, Amina Memon, Elin M. Skagerberg, & Kat Jamieson)

44 Repeated Information in the Courtroom (Jeffrey L. Foster, Maryanne Garry, & Elizabeth F. Loftus)

48 Jury Instructions on Witness Identification (Brian H. Bornstein & Joseph A. Hamm)

Departments

2 Editor’s …

Court Review, Volume 48, Issue 3 (Complete)

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Articles

60 GPS Monitoring and More: Criminal Law Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2011-12 Term (Charles D. Weisselberg)

74 Opinions as the Voice of the Court: How State Supreme Courts Can Communicate Effectively and Promote Procedural Fairness (William C. Vickrey, Douglas G. Denton & Wallace B. Jefferson)

86 Increasing Court-Appearance Rates and Other Benefits of Live-Caller Telephone Court-Date Reminders: The Jefferson County, Colorado, FTA Pilot Project and Resulting Court Date Notification Program (Timothy R. Schnacke, Michael R. Jones & Dorian M. Wilderman)

96 An Experiment in the Law: Studying a Technique to Reduce Failure to Appear in Court (Alan J. …

Increasing Court-Appearance Rates And Other Benefits Of Live-Caller Telephone Court-Date Reminders: The Jefferson County, Colorado, Fta Pilot Project And Resulting Court Date Notification Program, Timothy R. Schnacke, Michael R. Jones, Dorian M. Wilderman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

It is likely during our first jobs in the justice system when we realize the adjective “important” is a somewhat relative term as it relates to the issues that we face. Far from what we learned in college or law school—and further still from the topics typically reported in the media—often the most important issues we face will be found in the most common of cases. There is a saying in city government that the public’s idea of how well you are doing your job is only as good as how well you administer the water bills. That is because …

Ready For The Psychologists: Learning From Eyewitness Errors, James M. Doyle

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Over a century ago, Dean John Henry Wigmore published a famous demolition of pioneering psychologist Hugo Munsterberg in the Illinois Law Review. Munsterberg had complained in his best seller, On the Witness Stand, that while other disciplines and professions were hustling to learn the lessons about eyewitness memory that his new field of experimental psychology was beginning to teach, “the lawyer alone is obdurate.” Munsterberg charged that the lawyers chose traditional primitive ignorance over scientific enlightenment. Wigmore could not sit still for that. His satirical response is still remembered by psychologists as the bloodthirsty slaughter of psychology as …

An Experiment In The Law: Studying A Technique To Reduce Failure To Appear In Court, Alan Tomkins, Brian H. Bornstein, Mitchel Norman Herian, David I. Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Neeley

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

It would be ideal if we knew the best ways to structure the judicial system, the best processes to use to ensure fairness for litigants, and the best incentives to ensure compliance with the law. Unfortunately, as all of us who work in or with the system and those of us who study such issues well know, we do not. So what should we do?

As social scientists trained to examine the judiciary and judicial processes from the perspectives of economics, law, political science, psychology, and sociology, we suggest that systematic experimentation should be used whenever feasible and warranted to …

Eyewitness-Identification Evidence: Scientific Advances And The New Burden On Trial Judges, Laura Smalarz, Gary L. Wells

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

An increasingly strong case can be made for the argument that mistaken-eyewitness identification is the primary cause of the conviction of the innocent in the United States. The strongest single body of evidence in support of this proposition is the collection of cases in which forensic DNA testing was used to exonerate people who had been convicted by juries and were serving hard time (some on death row). These cases are well documented and tracked at the Innocence Project website and, as of this writing, there were 267 fully exonerated cases, of which 203 (76%) were cases involving mistaken-eyewitness identification.

Book Review, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Twenty-First Century Fingerprints: The Third Circuit's Approval Of Dna Collection Upon Arrest In United States V. Mitchell, Megan Pownall

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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No Justice In Utah's Justice Courts: Constitutional Issues, Systemic Problems, And The Failure To Protect Defendants In Utah's Infamous Local Courts, Samuel P. Newton, Teresa L. Welch, Neal G. Hamilton

Utah OnLaw: The Utah Law Review Online Supplement

Utah’s justice of the peace courts look and feel exactly like district courts, yet they lack the benefits and protections afforded to citizens charged with more serious offenses. Utah should strongly consider abolishing its justice courts in order to integrate them into a statewide system of justice that would “keep the peace” for all of the state’s citizens. If Utah does not abolish its justice courts, then it should implement the procedures and reforms outlined in this Article. Utah continues to have an opportunity to provide meaningful, and constitutional, justice administered at its local level. Once these reforms were implemented, …

Deconstructing The "Power And Control Motive": Developing And Assessing The Measurability Of Internal Power, Shelly Marie Wagers

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Despite the increased social recognition, law and policy changes within the criminal justice system, and the widespread use of court mandated batterer intervention programs (BIPs) domestic violence continues to be a persistent problem. The lack of significant decline in incidence rates along with a growing body of empirical evidence that indicates BIPs are, at best, only moderately effective raises serious concern. Effective policies and programs are based upon empirically tested theory. The assertion "the batterer's motive is power and control" has become fundamental to almost all of our currently used and accepted mainstream theoretical explanations regarding domestic violence. However, the …

Cognitive Warfare And Young Black Males In America, Perry L. Moriearty, William Carson

Articles

The result was a veritable feedback loop whose cognitive output, the mental imprint of "morally impoverished" "super- predators,"14 continually fed its input. [...]even as crime rates among black youth have dropped steadily since the mid-1990s, these selfreinforcing associations and dissociations have prompted lawmakers and their constituents to continue to support laws and policies that they know disproportionately punish and incapacitate young black males. [...]is the apparent extent to which even subliminal racial primes can influence our perceptions of individuals.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission's Best Response To Booker Is To Do Nothing, Michael Tonry

Articles

No abstract provided.

No Exit: The Financial Crisis Facing State Courts, G. Alan Tarr

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Advancing Feminist Positioning In The Field Of Transitional Justice, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Community Prosecutor: Questions Of Professional Discretion, Bruce A. Green, Alafair S. Burke

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

Covers the academic year 2012-2013