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Bastards! . . .. And The Welfare Plantation, Zanita E. Fenton

Articles

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A Racial Impact Analysis Of Hb 994: Human Trafficking, Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Staci Boone, Traci Deshazor, Selonia Miles, Katina Williams

L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Publications

Human Trafficking has become an international crisis that has caused a devastating impact on the Commonwealth of Virginia. The purpose of this report is to examine the racial equity impact of Virginia House Bill 944. HB 994 was introduced to the House by Delegate Barbara Comstock, along with 13 other members of the House and was passed by the House of Delegates and was Passed Indefinitely in Courts of Justice with letter in 2014. This Bill, as initially introduced, would have made it a felony to participate in Human Trafficking by expanding the definition of abduction/kidnapping. It also would have …

Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors, Hannah Mae Robbins-Johnson

Online Theses and Dissertations

Staff sexual misconduct in prison has received increased attention since passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act. As part of a larger investigation of violence and conflict in women's correctional facilities, over four thousand women prisoners from 15 facilities and 80 housing units rated the kinds of inmate and staff problems they felt existed in their housing units, including staff sexual misconduct. Due to the data being nested in housing units, we utilized multilevel regression analyses that regressed staff sexual misconduct scores on a range of individual and social climate variables. Social climate variables were found to be more influential …

Prism #76, January 2014, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

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Skepticism About Deterrence, Thomas S. Ulen

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

In this Essay I first review the standard law-and-economics model of how rational potential criminals decide whether to commit a crime, and how rational criminals might be deterred from committing crime by raising the expected costs of crime. I also show how that model has had a deep impact on criminal-justice-system policy in the United States since at least 1980. I then express deep skepticism about the continued effectiveness of this model and its policy implications. First, I show how modern empirical research on deterrence argues that we have gone much too far in our use of incarceration; in brief, …

Bridgewater State University Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog 2014-2015, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater State University Catalogs, 2010-

This 2014-2015 Bridgewater State University Catalog outlines programs of study.

The rules, regulations, policies, fees and other charges, courses of study, and academic requirements that appear in this catalog were in effect at the time of its publication. Like everything else in this catalog, they are published for informational purposes only, and they do not constitute a contract between the university and any student, applicant for admission or other person.

Whether noted elsewhere in this catalog or not, the university reserves the right to change, eliminate, and add to any existing (and to introduce additional) rules, regulations, policies, fees and …

Mimosa 2013/2014, Jacksonville State University

JSU Yearbooks

The JSU Yearbook Collection spans the years from 1926 to the present. The publication began in 1926 as the Teacola (some volumes spelled "Teacoala") and continued under this title through 1933. The yearbook appears to have ceased printing after that year; the student newspaper took the name Teacola (later changed to the Collegian and finally the Chanticleer) and began publication in 1934. The yearbook started up again in 1947 under the name Mimosa. The Library holds all volume years that were printed: 1926-1933, 1947-1950, 1952-present.

Vawa And Welfare Reform: Criminalizing The Most Marginalized Women, Ann Ann Cammett

Publications and Research

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Abortion Exceptionalism And Undue Burden Preemption, Caitlin Borgmann

Publications and Research

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U.S. Legal Profession Efforts To Combat Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing, Laurel S. Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article was prepared for the Symposium on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which was the first academic symposium of its kind, and included speakers from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the FDIC, and the IRS. It focuses on the legal profession and explains how the US has implemented the FATF Recommendations that address the role that "gatekeepers," including lawyers, can serve to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. After setting forth introductory material about the intergovernmental organization called the Financial Action task Force or FATF, the FATF Recommendations, and the degree to which the FATF Recommendations have …

Table Of Contents, Annals Of Health Law

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Foreword, Jamie E. Levin, Daniel G. Orenstein, James G. Hodge Jr

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Table Of Contents, Annals Of Health Law

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Monitoring The Law: Court Watch Programs In Maryland, Megan Griest

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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2014 Electronic Resource Usage Statistics, Jacqueline Radebaugh

Library Statistics

This usage report contains the FY 2014 Electronic Resource Statistics, which report the amount of items that were downloaded from Columbus State University's electronic resources from July 2013 - June 2014.

News/Publicity: 2014-03-21, Spring Arrives In The Arboretum, Buffalo State College

Maud G. Holmes Arboretum

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Toward A Redefinition Of The U.S. Sweatshop, Jacqueline Hayes

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Other Graduate Student Scholarship

A significant amount of policy and research is based on a definition of the sweatshop that understands it as a worksite in violation of multiple labor and safety laws. Based on an extensive literature review of research on neoliberalism, sweatshops, immigrant labor and immigration law this position paper argues that contemporary changes to the global economy and U.S. immigration policy require a reconceptualization of the U.S. sweatshop. A redefinition would allow policymakers and researchers to consider undocumented workers, farm work, domestic work and workplaces not currently protected by contemporary labor laws to be considered as potential locations of a new …

Teachers' Perceptions Of Technology Effectiveness In High School, Heather L. Gianfagna

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine high school teachers' perceptions of technology in the classroom, including technology access, usage, and effectiveness. This study was conducted by administering a survey to high school teachers, Grades 9 through 12, in Indiana. The survey, entitled Teachers' Perceptions of Technology Effectiveness in High Schools was used with high school teachers' to determine their perceptions of technology access, usage, and effectiveness in classrooms. A total of 343 teachers submitted complete responses to the Teachers' Perceptions of Technology Effectiveness in High Schools. A developed survey was used to quantitatively measure the perceptions of teachers …

Gender Neutrality And The “Violence Against Women” Frame, Julie Goldscheid

Publications and Research

The challenge of sustaining a progressive framework that continues to resonate in the complex aftermath of a generation of reforms lies at the heart of many current debates about gender violence legal and policy reform. This Article addresses one longstanding issue: the way gender violence is framed in law, policy, and popular rhetoric. Many initiatives continue to use the gender-specific “violence against women” frame as a default description. That “woman-specific” frame, developed in service of feminist goals such as foregrounding and challenging gender bias and fostering more inclusive delivery of social and other services, now raises empirical, theoretical, political and …

Prosecutorial Discretion The Duty To Seek Justice In An Overburdened Criminal Justice System, K. Babe Howell

Publications and Research

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Deadbeat Dads & Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law, Ann Cammett

Publications and Research

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Strict, Stricter, And Strictest: An Analysis Of Prison Sentencing In California Before And After “Three Strikes”, Vallerye Mosquera, Drew Wagner-Weir

California Initiative Review (CIR)

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2014 - Etsu Fact Book, Institutional Research, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Fact Books

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Language Is The “Lens” To Our Understanding, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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2014-2015 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (October), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

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2014-2015 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (July), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

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Ohio Northern University Catalog, 2014-2015, Ohio Northern University

University Catalogs

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Criminal Procedure-Juror Misconduct And Bias-Assessing The Prejudicial Effect Of Extra-Judicial Communications By Jurors In A Technologically Advanced Society, Racquel Martin

Tennessee Law Review

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Workshop Report: Exploring The Integration Of Data-Intensive Analytical Skills In Public Affairs Education, Sharon S. Dawes, Natalie Helbig, Sreekumar Nampoothiri

Center for Technology in Government

While much is being said and written about big data and data science, much less attention has been given to the skills required of the current and next generation of public managers, policy analysts, and informed citizens who are expected to use new data resources and tools effectively. To begin to address this gap, on May 9, 2014, the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany hosted a one-day National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop (Grant # 054069) to explore the integration of data-intensive analytical skills in public affairs education. The event represented the convergence of two streams …

Anti-Justice, Melanie D. Wilson

Tennessee Law Review

This Article contends that, despite their unique, ethical duty to "seek justice," prosecutors regularly fail to fulfill this ethical norm when removed from the traditional, adversarial courtroom setting. Examples abound. For instance, in 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified information revealing a government-operated surveillance program known as PRISM. That program allows the federal government to collect metadata from phone companies and email accounts and to monitor phone conversations. Until recently, prosecutors relied on some of this covertly acquired intelligence to build criminal cases against American citizens without informing the accused. In failing to notify defendants, prosecutors violated the explicit statutory directives …