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Expanding Public Safety In The Era Of Black Lives Matter, Nicole D. Porter

University of Miami Law Review

Traditional public safety responses to crime involve interactions with the criminal justice system. However, recent killings by police of unarmed black men, women, and children have led to a national dialogue on the fundamental strategy of public safety. The narrative of “Black Lives Matter” offers a new framework for policymakers, activists, practitioners, and other stakeholders to think about a public safety strategy that is not solely defined by arrests and admissions to prison. This essay provides an overview of evidence-based approaches for public safety interventions that exist outside of law enforcement interactions.

Tennessee Forestry Commission Fy 2015 Annual Report, Tennessee. Department Of Agriculture.

Forestry Commission Annual Report

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Tennessee Emergency Communications Board, Fiscal Year 2015, Tennessee. Department Of Commerce And Insurance.

Emergency Communications Board Annual Report

No abstract provided.

The Degradation Of Civil Society And Hyper-Aggressive Policing In Communities Of Color In New York City, Donna Lieberman, Kara Dansky

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hamilton V. State Of Idaho, Department Of Transportation Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43510

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Internalizing Private Prison Externalities: Let's Start With The Ged, David M. Siegel

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

Prison education is a remarkably good investment for society, yet an increasing proportion of inmates have no access to it because the operators of the prisons in which they are held have a powerful incentive not to provide it: they make more money that way. Critics and analysts of private prison operators have suggested various incentive structures to improve their performance, but most jurisdictions focus on the operator’s cost to the contracting entity. The social costs imposed by foregoing prison education are not part of the arrangement between a private prison operator and a jurisdiction with which it contracts. Although …

Best Practices For Establishing Georgia's Alzheimer's Disease Registry, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, Rui Bu, Amanda A. Brown

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Alien, Illegal, Undocumented: Labeling, Context, And Worldview In The Immigration Debate And In The Lives Of Undocumented Youth, David A. Caicedo

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

A key element of investigating attitudes towards unauthorized immigrants in the United States has been political orientation, yet few studies have examined the influence of such orientation on labels relevant to the immigration debate. The current dissertation project examined these attitudes among young adults using survey, focus group, and interview methodologies. Level of agreement on various statements regarding unauthorized immigrants was examined in Study I, definitions given for the labels ‘illegal’ and ‘undocumented’ were explored in Study II, and the lived experience of undocumented youth in two community colleges was investigated in Study III. It was hypothesized that: I) attitudes …

Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction, Michael Farbiarz

Michigan Law Review

Over and over again during the past few decades, the federal government has launched ambitious international prosecutions in the service of U.S. national security goals. These extraterritorial prosecutions of terrorists, arms traffickers, and drug lords have forced courts to grapple with a question that has long been latent in the law: What outer boundaries does the Constitution place on criminal jurisdiction? Answering this question, the federal courts have crafted a new due process jurisprudence. This Article argues that this jurisprudence is fundamentally wrong. By implicitly constitutionalizing concerns for international comity, the new due process jurisprudence usurps the popular branches’ traditional …

Process Matters: Specialization In Federal Appellate Review Of Noncapital Section 2254 Cases, Jyoti Rani Jindal

Duke Law Journal

This Note assesses the need for specialized review in the federal circuit courts of noncapital habeas cases brought by state prisoners under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. It first argues that the complexity of federal habeas law, the substantial disuniformity between circuits, the conflicting visions proffered by the Warren Court’s habeas jurisprudence and Congress’s recent statutory enactments—together with the greatest stakes possible at issue, liberty—are all factors warranting the creation of a national court of appeals that would hear only habeas cases. Recognizing, however, that creating such a court is a low priority for Congress at best and simply unfeasible at …

Unmanned Arial Systems (Uas) In The Local Public Safety Environment: A Review, Hiram Taylor, Blount-Hill Blount-Hill, Charles R. Jennings

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Fuzzy Logic Traffic Signal Controller Enhancement Based On Aggressive Driver Behavior Classification, Shaimaa Mohammed Hegazy

Theses and Dissertations

The rise in population worldwide and especially in Egypt, together with the increase in the number of vehicles present serious complications regarding traffic congestion and road safety. The elementary solution towards improving congestion is to expand road capacities by building new lanes. This, however, requires time and effort and therefore new methodologies are being implemented. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) try to approach traffic congestion through the application of computational and engineering techniques. Traffic signal control is a branch of intelligent transportation systems which focuses on improving traffic signal conditions. A traffic signal controllers’ main objective is to improve this assignment …

A Guide To Gathering And Using Legislative History In Massachusetts, Sean J. Kealy

Faculty Scholarship

Lawyers must have the ability to interpret statutory language. Whether during criminal or civil litigation, advising a client on recent statutory changes or appearing before an administrative agency, the importance of statutes to the modern legal world is unquestioned. Although some jurists, notably Justice Antonin Scalia, question whether there can be such a thing as "legislative intent" and disregard materials that may be instructive to the court, most jurisdictions not only accept evidence of legislative intent, but seek it out.

Sex Trafficking Legislation Under The Scope Of The Harm Principle And Moral Panic, Lesley Rae Hamilton

UC Law Journal

On May 20, 2014 the House of Representatives passed the Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2014 (“SAVE Act”). The SAVE Act would have amended the federal criminal code to prohibit “advertising commercial sex acts involving a minor or an individual engaged in such an act through force, fraud, or coercion.” In so doing, the SAVE Act would provide grounds for legal action against Internet content hosts for crimes—like sex trafficking—resulting from the postings of third-party users. This Note applies the social theories of the harm principle and moral panic to evaluate the means and ends proposed by the …

City Poems And Urban Crisis, 1945 - Present, Jeffrey Nathan Mickelson

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

City Poems proposes that twentieth-century American city poets hold important concerns, commitments, and strategies in common with urban theorists and city planners. The study situates canonical and lesser-read city poetry, including work by William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Wanda Coleman, among others, in relation to discourses of urban crisis. Following Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, and James Scully, it approaches city poetry as a form of social action that holds particular value for practitioners of progressive city planning. Because poetic representations of cities influence public perceptions, City Poems suggests, they have the potential to …

Adverse Childhood Experiences In The New Mexico Juvenile Justice Population, Yael Cannon, George Davis, Andrew Hsi, Alexandra Bochte

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Faculty from the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Law and the UNM School of Medicine, and New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) initiated a joint project to look at the prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) nationally and in New Mexico. The study was intended to better establish the association between early childhood trauma and delinquency, as well as to explore the role that law and medicine can play in ensuring better health and juvenile justice outcomes for children who have experienced ACEs.

Introduction: Broken Windows: Restoring Social Order Or Damaging And Depleting New York's Poor Communities Of Color?, Jonathan Oberman, Kendea Johnson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

How Bad Arrests Lead To Bad Prosecution: Exploring The Impact Of Prior Arrests On Plea Bargaining, Besiki Luka Kutateladze, Victoria Z. Lawson

Cardozo Law Review

Arrests and arrest records play an important role in the criminal justice system. Police agencies customarily use suspects' prior record for investigative purposes, and courts use this information to set bail. Yet many arrest practices, and particularly stop-and-frisk, have long been criticized for disproportionately targeting young black and Latino men, and for their overall negative effect on communities of color. Not surprisingly then, arrest practices have received much attention, including among legal scholars and social scientists. However, what effect a prior arrest record has on other decision points, including prosecutorial decision making, is relatively unknown. In particular, we have a …

The Free Press Vol. 47, Issue No. 13, 02-01-2016, Krysteana Scribner

Free Press, The

Students gather to weigh options abroad -- Workshop aims to dispel stereotypes around disabilities -- Governor LePage suggests Lewiston and Auburn merge into one city -- Professor’s showcase vast knowledge in their field by publishing books -- Potential changes coming to USM after Board of Trustees meeting -- USM Socialists analyze world refugee crisis through discussion -- Could cost of books lead to more theft in campus store? -- Academic horizons expanding for interested students

Investing Wisely In Investigative And Competitive Research, Suzanne R. Graham

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Law is a social science with many variables, not the least of which is the “human” element, and the work requires knowledge of the actors involved. This requirement leads to different kinds of research: investigative research and competitive or business intelligence research. While much personal and business data can be found online, it is not always current, reliable or free. This paper reviews rules governing what kinds of information can be found, some best-bet places to find information, and cautions about the many sites that promise big results.

Trust In Immigration Enforcement: State Noncooperation And Sanctuary Cities After Secure Communities, Ming H. Chen

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The conventional wisdom, backed by legitimacy research, is that majority of people obey most of the laws, most of the time. This turns out to not be the case in a study of state and local participation in immigration law enforcement. In the five years following initiation of the Secure Communities program, through which the federal government requests that local law enforcement agencies hold immigrants beyond their scheduled release upon suspicion that they are removable, a significant and growing number of states and localities have declined to cooperate with federal immigration detainer requests—ultimately leading to the demise of the Secure …

Second Chances For The Second City's Vacant Properties: An Analysis Of Chicago's Policy Approaches To Vacancy, Abandonment, & Blight, Elizabeth Butler

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Addressing the externalities of vacancy and blight is a major challenge for the Chicago metropolitan area. While neighborhoods on the South and West sides of Chicago struggle with blight, neglect, and abandonment, downtown Chicago and the northern neighborhoods and suburbs experience stronger market conditions. This crisis has amplified entrenched socioeconomic divisions and ultimately burdens the entire region by perpetuating a cycle of poverty, violence, and physical and social disorder that tarnish Chicago’s image.

This Note outlines Chicago’s vacant property challenge by discussing the history of urban decline in Chicago. It examines factors that led to a high level of vacant …

Congressional Dysfunction And Executive Lawmaking During The Obama Administration, Raquel Aldana

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Executive Power Of Process In Immigration Law, Jill E. Family

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This article, part of an AALS symposium on executive power during the Obama administration, focuses on the role of procedure in the president’s implementation of immigration law. The president undeniably has power over immigration law, but the exact contours of that power are not clear. At times, the president acts via delegation from Congress. The president also may have inherent power over immigration law that is not dependent on a delegation. Such inherent power would be subject to the president’s discretion. Even when acting pursuant to delegated immigration power, the president operates within a wide ring of discretion granted by …

The Setonian, January 28, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

No abstract provided.

Western News, Jan. 28, 2016, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Researcher garners $800,000 NSF grant; WMU, WMU Cooley ink new pacts and start law classes; Revised strategic plan draft released for public comment; On Campus with Jenaba Duymovic Waggy.

The Pacifican January 28, 2016, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Pulitzer Prize Winner Jose Antonio Vargas set to visit Georgia Southern
• Georgia Southern observes Stalking Awareness Month

Prospectus, January 27, 2016, Parkland College

Prospectus 2016

Parkland offers customizable degree; Forward Momentum software tool reaches Parkland; Parkland budget crisis leads board of trustees to cut scholarships;

Fs Transcript 2016-01-27, Northern Illinois University

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.