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A Brief History Of The Development Of Minnesota's Criminal Law, Bradford Colbert, Frances Kern

William Mitchell Law Review

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Graduate Showcase 2013: Education For The Future, The Graduate School, Grand Valley State University

Graduate Showcase Previous Years

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2013 Presentation Abstracts, Grand Valley State University

Academic Conference Fund Abstracts

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Criminal Law: Behind Closed Doors: Expanding The Triviality Doctrine To Intentional Closures—State V. Brown, Zach Cronen

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Social Disorganization In University Residence Halls, William Patrick Fennell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Social disorganization theory researchers have paid little attention to college and university campuses. To build on this limited research the current study attempted to analyze the incident rates on The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus to ascertain if social disorganization theory explained any variance between the rates of the different types of residence halls. The presence of three different types of residence halls during the 2012-2013 school year, with three different approaches to socialization, created a unique opportunity to study if halls that promoted environments that encouraged social control according to social disorganization theory would have lower incident rates. The …

Immigration Detention: Information Gaps And Institutional Barriers To Reform, Alina Das

Faculty Articles

This Article examines and critiques the institutional design choices underlying the civil immigration detention system in the United States. The stated objective of this system is to effectuate removal orders and ensure public safety during the removal process by detaining noncitizens who pose a flight risk or danger to the public. The design choices utilized to achieve this objective, however, hinder the effective acquisition and use of information regarding flight risk and danger. Reliance on mandatory detention, evidentiary limitations, and shifting burdens of proof create a presumption of detention. As a result, decision makers lack the means or the incentive …

Japanese Legal Reform In Institutional, Ideological, And Comparative Perspective, Frank K. Upham

Faculty Articles

The article presents an institutional, ideological and comparative perspective regarding Japanese legal reform. It discusses inevitable consequences of legal reform in a democratic country by comparing substantive and procedural justice in the Japanese and American legal systems. It informs that citizen participation in adjudication departs the rule of law ideals of neutrality and objectivity and accepts emotional, social, and political factors for rule of law.

Gideon At Fifty—Golden Anniversary Or Mid-Life Crisis, Kim A. Taylor-Thompson

Faculty Articles

Fifty years ago, Gideon laid an important foundation, but that foundational principle requires new responses to new challenges. There is much work to do to prevent this fiftieth anniversary from collapsing into a mid-life crisis and, instead, enabling this half-century mark to be the golden anniversary it ought to be. Part one of this essay examines the ways in which the states have veered from the path set by Gideon. To breathe life into the Gideon mandate, and to make the sort of course correction that honors the decision’s principles rather than weaken them to caricatures, we, and all who …

Policing Immigration, Adam B. Cox, Thomas J. Miles

Faculty Articles

Immigration enforcement is increasingly integrated with local policing. This trend accelerated four years ago when the federal government launched “Secure Communities,” a program designed to check the immigration status of every person arrested by local police. The government views the program as an innovation that enhances the efficacy of crime control and immigration enforcement, while civil rights groups have decried it as an invitation to racial profiling by local police. This paper, part of a larger project providing the first large-scale empirical evaluation of Secure Communities, uses the pattern of the program’s activation to explore a central feature of criminal …

License, Registration, Cheek Swab: Dna Testing And The Divided Court, Erin E. Murphy

Faculty Articles

Midway through the oral argument in Maryland v. King, Justice Alito spontaneously interjected: “[B]y the way, I think this is perhaps the most important criminal procedure case that this Court has heard in decades.” The juxtaposition between the breeziness of his comment and the solemnity of its content befit the case, which is best characterized as a sleeper in a Term overshadowed by monumental rulings on gay marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. What looked on its face like just another Fourth Amendment dispute – with civil libertarians on one side and law enforcement on the other – garnered no …

Panopti-Moms, Melissa Murray

Faculty Articles

The Panopticon’s shadow looms large in Camille Gear Rich’s Innocence Interrupted: Reconstructing Fatherhood in the Shadow of Child Molestation Law. There, Rich identifies the role that criminal child molestation statutes play in shaping the way that men provide intimate care to children. Specifically, Rich argues that child molestation laws are enforced and interpreted in ways that reinstantiate the traditional gender norms that surround caregiving. Focusing on criminal cases involving male caregivers who provide intimate care to a child (bathing, diapering, toileting, etc.), Rich demonstrates the way in which legal decision makers (judges, social workers, law enforcement officials) often rely on …

2013-2014 Lindenwood University Lcie Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University LCIE Course Catalog

Predictors Of Accessing Substance Abuse Services Among Individuals With Mental Disorders Released From Correctional Custody, Stephanie Hartwell, Xiaogang Deng, William Fisher, Julianne Siegfriedt, Kristen Roy-Bujnowski, Craig Johnson, Carl Fulwiler

Sociology Faculty Publication Series

Objective

In the context of an increasing correctional population and corresponding rates of mental illness and substance abuse among this population, this study focuses on describing the predictors of substance abuse service utilization for ex-inmates with dual disorders. Our aim is to assess the likelihood and characteristics of ex-inmates with mental disorders who access substance abuse treatment services within two years of correctional release.

Methods

Using merged administrative data on all ex-inmates with open mental health cases released from Massachusetts Department of Corrections and two County Houses of Corrections from 2007 to 2009 (N=2,280) and substance abuse treatment outcome data …

Policing Alcohol And Related Crimes On Campus, Andrea Nicole Allen

Theses and Dissertations

Research shows that college students drink alcohol frequently and heavily. This can compromise their health and well-being. Student drinking is also tied to crime. While prior work explores the nature and extent of crimes involving alcohol on campus, to date no study has examined how police handle these incidents or crime generally. This study fills that gap in the literature. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected by observing and interviewing campus officers at a large Southeastern university as they navigated through encounters with citizens. Findings include the following. Officers handle a variety of crimes, and do not have a single-faceted …

Assessing The Impact Of The Court Response To Domestic Violence In Two Neighboring Counties, Gillian Mira Pinchevsky

Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1970s, there has been a proliferation of research on domestic violence (DV). The majority of research, however, has focused on the correlates of DV and far fewer studies have examined the criminal justice system's approach to addressing DV. This is particularly concerning given that historically, the criminal justice system was rooted in English Common Law and tolerant of marital discipline to maintain household stability. Through the efforts of women's rights advocates, policy makers began devising innovative strategies for responding to DV, including provisions for mandatory arrests, no-drop policies, and the establishment of specialized DV courts. Although there has …

An Assessment Of Injury Presentation To Determine Elder Abuse Prevalence In South Carolina, Brittani L. Harmon

Theses and Dissertations

As the number of individuals age 60 years of age and older continues to rise in the United States, the care and safety of this population will be a growing issue. There are many contributing factors and reasons why elder abuse occurs. Elder abuse is an emerging issue; however there is limited research and understanding in the area. There are barriers to the detection and prevention of the issue. Emergency department staff is essential to the identification and detection of possible abuse, and it is important that these providers understand the risk factors and physical manifestations of abuse and neglect …

Child Sexual Abuse In The Media: Is Institutional Failure To Blame?, Jane Long Weatherred

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents a longitudinal content analysis study of child sexual abuse (CSA) in the United States national news media from 2002 through 2012. It finds that the U.S. national news media have shifted their focus from individual level causes to societal level causes for CSA. This shift has implications for changes in institutional policies and child protection laws throughout the country.

Non-Offending Mothers Of Sexually Abused Children: How They Decide Whom To Believe, Lynn Mcmillan

Theses and Dissertations

Professionals continue to study and refine their understanding of the complex dynamics of child sexual abuse and the role of the non-offending mothers. Of particular clinical and research interest is the response of the mother once she learns that her child disclosed being sexually abused and named the mother's intimate partner as the perpetrator. This qualitative study (n=20) uses in-depth interviews and constructivist grounded theory methods. The focus is how women decide about believing their children's disclosures of sexual abuse, both in terms of what happened to the children and who perpetrated the abuse. The study addresses various factors that …

An Examination Of Significant Factors Distinguishing Successful, On-Time High School Graduation Rates Among Black Males At A Large South Carolina High School, Sherry Mitchell Eppelsheimer

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine what students see as significant factors that impact their successful high school on-time graduation rates, particularly among Black males in a large South Carolina high school with respect to No Child Left Behind requirements. Through a comparative case study, qualitative research methods were used to identify significant factors, supports and/or barriers to Black male success and achievement of on-time graduation. Through individual interviews and observations of a subgroup of 7 Black males between the ages of 17 to 19, commonalities emerged that led to high school graduation. A comparison using a grounded …

Novel Techniques For Automated Dental Identification, Nourdin Al-Sherif

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Automated dental identification is one of the best candidates for postmortem identification. With the large number of victims encountered in mass disasters, automating the process of postmortem identification is receiving an increased attention. This dissertation introduces new approaches for different stages of Automated Dental Identification system: These stages include segmentations, classification, labeling, and matching:;We modified the seam carving technique to adapt the problem of segmenting dental image records into individual teeth. We propose a two-stage teeth segmentation approach for segmenting the dental images. In the first stage, the teeth images are preprocessed by a two-step thresholding technique, which starts with …

Foreign Affairs Federalism: A Revisionist Approach, Daniel Abebe, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Beccaria's 'On Crimes And Punishments': A Mirror On The History Of The Foundations Of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Women In Prison In Argentina: Causes, Conditions, And Consequences, Sital Kalantry

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Law School Catalog, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

Law School Catalogs/Bulletins, 1926-present

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Europe, Marie Tedesco Scott, Samantha Munroe, Nikolas De Bremaeker, Patrick Del Duca, Wojciech Baginski, Michal Bernaczyk, Sofie Bille-Steenberg, Trevor Bridges, Alexander Darraby, Emma Doherty, Pat English, Anders Etgen Reitz, Maryna Ilchuk, Florian S. Jörg, Manfred Ketzer, Virginia Keyder, Rikke Line Lyngaae Rasmussen, Oline Nowicki, Wolfram Rehbock, Elena Sabkova, Marc Shelley, Richard Silberstein, Irene Siurana Sieiro, Stefano M. Viola, Anne Wagner-Findeisen, Larry White, Michal Zolubak

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

2013-2014 Law School Catalog, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

Law School Catalogs/Bulletins, 1926-present

No abstract provided.

The Quad (The 2013 Alumni Magazine), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

The Quad (Law Alumni Magazine), 1988-present

• The Honorable Antonin Scalia: Jurist in Residence
• President George W. Bush visits Professor Lackland Bloom's Constitutional Law Class
• Ray Hutchinson '59
• Jill Abramson, first female Executive Editor of The New York Times visits SMU Dedman Law as Raggio Endowed Lecturer
• Travis Tygart '99 speaks to students on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and "Playing Fair and Winning"

Re-Arrest Among Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: An Examination Of The Static And Dynamic Risk Factors, Jun Sung Hong, Joseph P. Ryan, Yu-Ling Chiu, Bushra Sabri

Social Work Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to investigate the static and dynamic risk factors for re-arrest among detained youth by examining gender, race/ethnicity, age, special education and mental health variables (i.e., anger/irritability, depression/anxiety, somatic complaints, suicide ideation, thought disturbances, and traumatic experiences). The demographic profiles of detained youth with one admit were also compared with those with multiple admits to the juvenile detention center. With regards to static risk factors, older, white, and special education were significantly at risk of re-arrest. Concerning dynamic risk factors, only anger/irritability predicted re-arrest. Practice implications are also discussed.

Stepping Into The Gap: Violent Crime Victims, The Right To Closure, And A Discursive Shift Away From Zero Sum Resolutions, Blanche Bong Cook

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Jurisdiction And Human Rights Accountability In Indian Country, Kristen Matoy Carlson

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.