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Use Of Prescription Drugs And Future Delinquency Among Adolescent Offenders, Tess K. Drazdowski, Lena Jäggi, Alicia Borre, Wendy L. Kliewer

Psychology Publications

Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) by adolescents is a significant public health concern. The present study investigated the profile of NMUPD in 1349 adolescent offenders from the Pathways to Desistance project, and whether NMUPD predicted future delinquency using longitudinal data. Results indicated that increased frequency and recency of NMUPD in adolescent offenders are related to some demographic factors, as well as increased risk for violence exposure, mental health diagnoses, other drug use, and previous delinquency, suggesting that severity of NMUPD is important to consider. However, ANCOVA analyses found that NMUPD was not a significant predictor of drug-related, non-aggressive, or …

Measuring & Monitoring Impact Of Community Engagement At Virginia Commonwealth University, Valerie Holton, Jennifer Jettner

Division of Community Engagement Resources

This report provides a summary of existing and developing enterprise data mechanisms that track and assess Virginia Commonwealth University’s engagement with our communities. The activities included here are limited to those efforts with which the DCE is actively involved.

The Division of Community Engagement (DCE) undertook this effort and published the original document in fall 2014. This 2015 report has been updated to reflect progress that has been made during the 14-15 academic year.

Richard G. Siegel : Distinguished Achievement In Public Service, St. Norbert College

Alumni Award Bios

Richard G. Siegel ’72 won the Distinguished Achievement in Public Service in 2015, his bio is archived from the SNC website.

No Caste Here? Toward A Structural Critique Of American Education, Daniel Kiel

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

In his famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice John Marshall Harlan argued that in the United States, there was "no caste here." Justice Harlan was rejecting the idea that American society operated to assign preordained outcomes to individuals based upon classifications, including racial classifications. This Article questions whether Justice Harlan's aspirational assertion accurately reflects contemporary American education. Identifying: (1) multiple classification mechanisms, all of which have disproportionate racial effects, and (2) structural legal, political, and practical impediments to reform, the Article argues that the American education system does more to maintain the nation's historical racial hierarchy than to disrupt …

International Criminal Law, Gail A. Partin

Faculty Contributions to Books

The Electronic Resource Guide, often called the ERG, has been published online by ASIL since 1997. Systematically updated and continuously expanded, the ERG is designed to be used by students, teachers, practitioners, and researchers as a self-guided tour of relevant, quality, up-to-date online resources covering important areas of international law. The ERG also serves as a ready-made teaching tool at graduate and undergraduate levels.

The Life Of Crimmigration Law, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This short essay introduces a collection of articles that arose from the Denver University Law Review’s symposium Crimmigration: Crossing the Border Between Criminal Law and Immigration Law, held in February 2015 at the University ofDenver Sturm College of Law. The essay borrows heavily from the Epilogue to my book Crimmigration Law.

Suffolk Journal, Vol. 75, No. 19, 3/25/2015, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Suffolk Journal, Vol. 76, No. 8, 11/11/2015, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Horizons Fall 2015, Nova Southeastern University

Horizons

• Features
  • Saving the Players 3
  • New Leaders 8
  • Finding Solutions14
  • #NSUsuccess 19
  • On Stage 20
  • Students Benefit from Academic Realignment 26
  • NSU’s Miami Campus 34
  • Changes Make the Grade 40
• Departments
  • Message from the President 2
  • Faculty Profiles
    • Leslie Tworoger 30
    • Jedidiah Siev 32
  • Alumni Profiles
    • Randall K. Williams 10
    • Noah Lee 12
  • Student Profile
    • Lauren Alfino 38
  • Athletics
    • Seven Is the Magic Number for NSU Sharks 42
    • Baseball Player Is the Heart of NSU 43
  • Scholarships
    • Donors Advance Scholarship Funds at NSU 44

An Overlooked Key To Reversing Mass Incarceration: Reforming The Law To Reduce Prosecutorial Power In Plea Bargaining, Cynthia Alkon

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

2015 Annual Report, Center For Applied Research On Substance Use And Health Disparities

Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Catalogue 2013-2015

Tennessee State University Undergraduate Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Stepping Beyond Nuremberg’S Halo: The Legacy Of The Supreme National Tribunal Of Poland, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

The Supreme National Tribunal of Poland (Najwyzszy Trybunal Narodowy (Tribunal)) operated from 1946 to 1948. It implemented the 1943 Moscow Declaration in the case of suspected Nazi war criminals. This article unpacks two of the Tribunal’s trials, that of Rudolph Hoess (Kommandant of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) and Amon Goeth (commander of the Krakow-Plaszow labour camp). Following an introduction, the article proceeds in four sections. Section 2 sets out the Tribunal’s provenance and background, offering a flavour of the politics and pressures that contoured (and co-opted) its activities so as to recover its place within the imagined spaces of international criminal accountability. …

Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, And Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis, Carol L.S. Trent

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Both elite deviance, committed by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in the literature by testing hypotheses derived from Simon’s symbiotic theory of elite deviance, which posits that direct and indirect relationships exist between elite deviance, organized crime, and conventional crimes exist (2008). The intervening effects of national culture and political economic ideology are also considered.

To test the research hypotheses, this study uses homicide rates, …

Critical-Incident Trauma And Crime Scene Investigation: A Review Of Police Organizational Challenges And Interventions, Richard D. Clark, Catherine Distelrath, Gloria S. Vaquera, Daniel Winterich, Ernest Dezolt

Sociology

It is hypothesized that exposure to critical-incident trauma affects crime scene investigators. Individual and organizational attribution factors are analyzed through the use of self-report data collected from crime scene investigators working in a large Midwestern state. This paper analyzes key variables in the job of a crime scene investigator in an effort to determine the level of stress related to CSI work and the nature of organizational support available to the investigator. Although initial findings suggest a high level of satisfaction with the job, the nature of the job can lead to high levels of both professional and personal stress, …

Winter Commencement, 2015, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the 2015 Winter Commencement of Marshall University.

Nip It In The Bud: Compassionate Use Of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act Does Not Provide Employees A Legal Remedy For Adverse Action Based Upon Use In Compliance With The Statute, 49 J. Marshall L. Rev. 193 (2015), Tyler Duff

UIC Law Review

This legal dichotomy, the federal illegality and state legality, is the reason why Illinois, with its passing of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (“the CUA”), and its promises of protection for patients, may not prevent an employer from terminating an employee for marijuana use in compliance with the CUA. This comment provides that the CUA does not, and could not, provide registered users a viable cause of action for such discipline.

2015 Maine Crime Victimization Survey: Informing Public Policy For Safer Communities, Robyn Dumont Mppm, George Shaler Mph

Maine Statistical Analysis Center

Executive Summary:

The purpose of the Maine Crime Victimization Survey (MCVS) is to understand the extent of criminal victimization in Maine. This study includes findings from the most recent MCVS and features comparisons with other MCVS surveys done in 2006 and 2011. Several states do their own crime victimization surveys because findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), cannot be analyzed at the state level. As of July 2014, 14 states had developed and administered their own crime victimization surveys. Utah and Idaho have administered their surveys six and four times respectively. The MCVS supplements other crime findings, most …

Immigration Law By Proxy: The Case Of Colorado’S Human Smuggling Crime, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Despite the federal government’s well known expansive reach in creating and enforcing immigration law, the states retain substantial authority to play an important role in migrants’ lives. Through their traditional powers to adopt criminal statutes and police their communities, states can indirectly — but intentionally — inject themselves into the incidents of ordinary life as a migrant. Colorado’s human smuggling statute, currently being challenged before the state supreme court, illustrates this type of state regulation of migration. This essay addresses the statute’s reach, its shaky constitutional footing, and places it in a broader context in which states criminalize immigration-related activity.

Dignity And The Eighth Amendment: A New Approach To Challenging Solitary Confinement, Laura L. Rovner

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails has come under increasing scrutiny. Over the past few months, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy all but invited constitutional challenges to the use of solitary confinement, while President Obama asked, “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day for months, sometime for years at a time?” Even some of the most notorious prisons and jails, including California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and New York’s Rikers Island, are reforming their use of solitary confinement because of successful litigation …

Domestic Violence And The Confrontation Clause: The Case For A Prompt Post-Arrest Confrontation Hearing, Robert M. Hardaway

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Part I and Part II of this article discuss the consequences of Crawford v. Washington for domestic violence victims and detail the problem of domestic violence in America, including the current prosecution strategies and challenges in domestic violence cases. Part III reviews the evolution of confrontation law jurisprudence. Part IV sets forth a proposed Crawford-compliant procedure that also protects domestic violence victims. Part V addresses anticipated objections to the prompt-post arrest confrontation hearing.

Connections, January 2015, University Library

Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Open Educational Resources Presentation For Librarians With Notes, Tucker T. Taylor, Amie Freeman

A repository of copyright educational resources for higher education

This presentation is created for faculty. students or librarians. It contains an overview of Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks, and also describes several projects including MERLOT and Openstax. Descriptive notes are included in the slides to assist future presenters.

Table Of Contents, Volume 53, Number 1, Winter 2015, Duquesne University School Of Law

Duquesne Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Two-Sided Speedy Trial Problem, Brooks Holland

Washington Law Review Online

This article is a response to Shon Hopwood, https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol89/iss3/3/">The Not So Speedy Trial Act, 89 Wash. L. Rev. 709 (2014).

Disquieting Discretion: Race, Geography & The Colorado Death Penalty In The First Decade Of The Twenty-First Century, Meg Beardsley, Sam Kamin, Justin F. Marceau, Scott Phillips

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This Article demonstrates through original statistical research that prosecutors in Colorado were more likely to seek the death penalty against minority defendants than against white defendants. Moreover, defendants in Colorado’s Eighteenth Judicial District were more likely to face a death prosecution than defendants elsewhere in the state. Our empirical analysis demonstrates that even when one controls for the differential rates at which different groups commit statutorily death-eligible murders, non-white defendants and defendants in the Eighteenth Judicial District were still more likely than others to face a death penalty prosecution. Even when the heinousness of the crime is accounted for, the …

"A Perfect Storm": Minnesota's Sex Offender Program—More Than Twenty Years Without Successful Reintegration, Lucy Massopust, Raina Borrelli

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Efficacy Of The Sexually Violent Predator Act In Florida, Daniel Montaldi

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

2015 Presentation Abstracts, Grand Valley State University

Academic Conference Fund Abstracts

No abstract provided.

‘The Greatest Wealth Is Health’: Patient Protected Health Information In The Hands Of Hackers, 31 J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 657 (2015), Samantha Singer

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

This comment will analyze the specific requirements and stages that EPs/EHs must comply with in order to receive its Medicare and Medicaid incentives, how EHR technologies are being implemented, how EHR technologies are affecting patients' privacy with regard to hacking a patient‟s PHI, and what EHR technology vendors and EPs/EHs should be doing to improve patient privacy and security to prevent hacking and other breaches.

Part I of this comment will address hacking of PHI. Part II will analyze the security measures that EHR vendors must currently incorporate into EHR technology and how the lack of required security measures impacts …