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State Control Of Black Mothers, Donna Coker

Articles

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Positive Behavior Intervention And Support: An Alternative Approach, Lucy Bridges

Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of PBIS on behavior in relation to the number of office discipline referrals, suspensions, and expulsions. Because of the current school discipline policies, black male students have been overrepresented in the exclusionary practices of office discipline referrals, suspensions, and expulsions. PBIS offers a viable alternative to current school discipline practices.

An Eighth Amendment State Of Emergency - Prisoner Reduction Order As A Last Resort In Brown V. Plata, Neil Stockbridge

SMU Law Review

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Criminal Procedure: Confessions, Searches And Seizures, Michael E. Keasler, Michael J. Ritter

SMU Law Review

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Daubert Gatekeeping For Eyewitness Identifications, Sandra Guerra Thompson

SMU Law Review

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Roark Reed: The Quiet Innovator, Mike Mccollum

SMU Law Review

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The North Dakota United States Attorney's Office's Anti-Violence Strategy For Tribal Communities: Working To Make Reservations Safer Through Enforcement, Crime Prevention And Offender Reentry Programs, Timothy Q. Purdon

North Dakota Law Review

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Illness Management And Recovery: The Role Of Occupational Therapy, Crystal Brecht, Jenna Mcgregor

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Purpose: The Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) model is a collaborative program that focuses on living with a chronic mental illness by educating the client on management techniques that will facilitate goal setting toward recovery (Mueser et al., 2006).The purpose of this scholarly project was to review the occupational therapy (OT) literature and determine the role of OT in IMR programs.

Method: A comprehensive review was conducted on occupational therapy interventions appropriate for inclusion in the IMR modules. Sources utilized for the review included: United States and international OT journals, OT textbooks, and other publications authored by OTs from the …

Juvenile Male Sex Offenders: The Impact Of Family Involvement In Treatment, Irene Arande Guya-Allen

Theses and Dissertations

Factors that relate to the recidivism of adolescents who commit sexual crimes have received minimal attention in the literature. This study examined the impact of family involvement in treatment variables for adolescent male sex offenders as well as the relationships between family involvement and other treatment variables. The independent variables included a) family environment b) family status c) socioeconomic status d) living status e) levels of offense f) criminal records and g) family involvement in treatment. The dependent measure was recidivism. Data was collected from archival records provided by Hennepin County Home School in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The results indicated that …

The Invalidity Of A Plea Of Guilty To A Criminal Offense Made By Video Teleconferencing When The Defendant Is Not Present In Open Court, William R. Simpson Jr., Clint Miller, David Sudduth

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

A guilty plea by a defendant is more than an admission of conduct; it is the nail in the coffin that closes the case and results in conviction. Despite the critical importance of this moment, Arkansas district and circuit courts are more commonly taking guilty pleas from defendants by video teleconferencing (VTC) instead of requiring defendants to be physically present in the courtroom. This essay sets forth three separate arguments in support of the notion that a guilty plea to a criminal offense by VTC without the defendant being present in open court is invalid as a matter of Arkansas …

The Implications Of Fictional Media For Political Beliefs, Ken Mulligan, Philip Habel

Working Papers

Most research on media effects in political science deals with the news media or political campaigns. While some recent work looks at the effects of soft news on beliefs and opinions, little attention has been paid to the potential consequences of media that are fictional. Although viewers typically watch fiction for entertainment, the themes, plots, and dialogue may nevertheless influence their thoughts about politics. This paper examines the effects of fiction on political beliefs. We do this in the context of an experimental design, where subjects in the treatment group watched the outlandish movie, Wag the Dog. The results show …

Florida's Disregard Of Due Process Rights For Nearly A Decade: Treating Drug Possession As A Strict Liability Crime, Rachel A. Lyons

St. Thomas Law Review

This Article examines the United States Supreme Court's jurisprudence that constitutionally compels an analysis under the Due Process Clause for strict liability crimes, and how the Florida Legislature overstepped its due process limitations when it amended Florida's Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Law in 2002. Part I traces the evolution of mens rea in the criminal justice system. Part II provides a history of Florida's Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Law. Part III discusses the recent constitutional challenges to Florida's Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Law. Part IV explains why the United States Supreme Court cases addressing strict liability crimes …

Foreword, Jay Tidmarch

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Crime, Culpability, And Excuses, John Robinson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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The Geopolitical Context Of Chamorro Cultural Preservation In Guam, U.S.A., Maria-Elena D. Diaz

Ethnic Studies Review

An unincorporated Pacific Island territory of the United States, Guam has been under American rule since 1 898. While proudly "Chamorro," the descendants of indigenous islanders have been American citizens since 1 950. U.S. foreign policy, Americanization of island institutions, immigration flows from Asia and Micronesia, and economic uncertainty present challenges to the perpetuation of Chamorro culture-a syncretic blend of indigenous, Spanish, and American influences that has endured through centuries of foreign domination. As a gateway from the East to the United States and a frequent destination for Micronesian immigrants from the Compacts of Free Association, Guam regularly receives immigrants …

Immigration Control In An Era Of Globalization: Deflecting Foreigners, Weakening Citizens, Strengthening The State, Valsamis Mitsilegas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In stark contrast to the field of legislation on the rights of third country nationals or to the requirements and conditions for access to the territory of states, the field of the enforcement of immigration control has been increasingly subject to legal harmonization: either by the adoption of global law on immigration control or by the convergence of domestic law and policy in the field. This convergence is particularly marked when one compares legal responses to immigration control in the United States and the European Union, where globalization has been used to justify the extension of state power-by proclaiming state …

Troubling The Victim/Trafficker Dichotomy In Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking: The Unintended Consequences Of Moralizing Labor Migration, Kay Warren

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This analysis examines the violent predator/innocent victim paradigm employed by many governmental and nongovernmental organizations active in monitoring and combating transnational human trafficking. One common treatment of the issue moralizes victims as innocent women and children who have been deceived and coerced into exploitative sex work; another constructs human trafficking as modern day slavery which takes a variety of forms and requires foreign intervention to organize rescues and redemption. Both views see human trafficking, most especially sex trafficking, as an exceptional crime with distinct predators and victims and cultivate moral outrage as a strategic tool to combat coerced labor. This …

A Comparative Analysis Of Machine Learning Techniques For Foreclosure Prediction, Dexter Randell Brown

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

The current decline in the U.S. economy was accompanied by an increase in foreclosure rates starting in 2007. Though the earliest figures for 2009 - 2010 indicate a significant decrease, foreclosure of homes in the U.S. is still at an alarming level (Gutierrez, 2009a). Recent research at the University of Michigan suggested that many foreclosures could have been averted had there been a predictive system that did not only rely on credit scores and loan-to-value ratios (DeGroat, 2009). Furthermore, Grover, Smith & Todd (2008) contend that foreclosure prediction can enhance the efficiency of foreclosure mitigation by facilitating the allocation of …

Crawford And Beyond: How Far Have We Traveled From Roberts After All?, Brooks Holland

Journal of Law and Policy

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Defeating An Erisa Lien With The Statute Of Limitations, Roger Baron, Anthony Lamb

Faculty Publications

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Turner V. Rogers And The Right Of Meaningful Access To The Courts, Laura K. Abel

Denver Law Review

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Reflections On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions And The Duty To Seek Justice, Alex Kreit

Denver Law Review

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The Purpose Of The Youth Court: Exploring The Recent Trend Away From Juvenile Delinquent Rehabilitation In Mississippi, The Resulting Consequences, And The Possible Solutions, Hillary Blalock

MC Law Review

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Safe Localities Through Cooperation: Why The Secure Communities Program Violates The Constitution, Ana Getiashvili

Hofstra Law Review

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Against Certainty, Shawn J. Bayern

Hofstra Law Review

In legal argumentation, appeals to certainty and predictability have enormous rhetorical power. This Article argues that their use outstrips their legitimate role in legal analysis. The Article is not literally “against certainty” in the sense that it promotes uncertainty as a good thing in itself; it is just a skeptical consideration of the role of appeals to certainty in legal theory. The Article’s principal contention is that arguments about certainty are often mistaken, that certainty itself is often misunderstood, and that many defenses of certainty in legal rules are tautological, irrelevant, or substantively overstated.

Are The Principles Of Substance Abuse Treatment Transferable To Sex Offenders? A Review Of The Methods And Effectiveness Of Sex Offender Treatment Programs, Hon. Steven W. Brockett

Hofstra Law Review

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Sovereignty In Theory And Practice, Winston P. Nagan, Aitza M. Haddad

UF Law Faculty Publications

Our study moves into the sovereignty idea in the context of international law with reference to the work of Grotius, the Dutch international lawyer of the early 17th century. Grotius took the sovereignty discourse to another level by considering the problem of sovereignty in an environment of multiple sovereigns. This was an environment, which required law and legal skills and therefore provided a framework within which reasoned legal elaboration would provide a mechanism to coordinate sovereign relations and thereby provide international restraints on sovereign absolutism. The Article then considers a significant 17th century juridical event in the practice of international …

Theorizing Mental Health Courts, E. Lea Johnston

UF Law Faculty Publications

To date, no scholarly article has analyzed the theoretical basis of mental health courts, which currently exist in forty-three states. This Article examines the two utilitarian justifications proposed by mental health court advocates—therapeutic jurisprudence and therapeutic rehabilitation—and finds both insufficient. Therapeutic jurisprudence is inadequate to justify mental health courts because of its inability, by definition, to resolve significant normative conflict. In essence, mental health courts express values fundamentally at odds with those underlying the traditional criminal justice system. Furthermore, the sufficiency of rehabilitation, as this concept appears to be defined by mental health court advocates, depends on the validity of …

Expectations Of Privacy In Social Media, Stephen E. Henderson

Faculty Articles

This article, which largely tracks my remarks at Mississippi College’s Social Media Symposium, examines expectations of privacy in social media such as weblogs (blogs), Facebook pages, and Twitter tweets. Social media is diverse and ever-diversifying, and while I address some of that complexity, I focus on the core functionality, which provides the groundwork for further conversation as the technology and related social norms develop. As one would expect, just as with our offline communications and other online communications, in some we have an expectation of privacy that is recognized by current law, in some we have an expectation of privacy …

Law School Of The Future: Centre Of Cutting-Edge Practice?, Clark Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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