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Perspectives - Susanna Fodor Of Scarola Malone Zubatov, James Hagy, Alicia Langone

Rooftops Project

In a recent visit with the Rooftops Project's Alicia Langone and Professor James Hagy, construction lawyer Susanna Fodor offers views on the tenant improvement process when a not-for-profit organization selects space to lease and on routine repair and renovation projects for properties a not-for-profit may own.

Developing A Federal Research Agenda For Positive Youth Development: Identifying Gaps In The Field And An Effective Consensus Building Approach, Allison Dymnicki, Suzanne Le Menestrel, Michelle Boyd, Lisa Lauxman

Journal of Youth Development

The field of positive youth development (PYD) is at an important crossroads in terms of defining its scope and directions for future research. This paper describes an effective consensus- building process that representatives from 16 federal agencies engaged in to develop a research agenda focused on PYD and the product that resulted from using this approach. During this process, the representatives identified and refined three research domains (conceptual issues related to PYD, data sources and indicators, and program implementation and effectiveness) and key research questions that could benefit from future research. We share lessons learned from our experience to emphasize …

The Constitutional Regulation Of Forensic Evidence, Brandon L. Garrett

Faculty Scholarship

The Constitution increasingly regulates the use of forensic evidence in criminal cases. This is a remarkable shift. In decades past, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to provide strong due process protection against destruction of forensic evidence or to obtain defense access to experts. In contrast, in recent years, the Court’s series of Confrontation Clause rulings tightened requirements to present live testimony in the courtroom. Perhaps far more significant, I will argue, the Court has strengthened obligations of defense counsel to litigate forensics, twice underscoring in little noticed opinions: “Criminal cases will arise where the only reasonable and available defense strategy …

Developmental Jurisprudence, Emily Buss

Articles

No abstract provided.

Haley Hasenstein - Black Hawk County Public Defender's Office, Haley Hasenstein

Robert and Yvonne Koob Fund for Student Community Engagement Recipients

I was able to collect data regarding the demographics of the arrestees and prisoners in Iowa’s major cities. This data will be used to attempt to reform Black Hawk County’s criminal justice system, as it will point to the overrepresentation of Black Hawk County residents in the Iowa Prison Systems.

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2016 Summer, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Summer 2016.

Enrollment Report, Summer 2016, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Summer 2016 for Illinois State University

The Relationship Between Accuracy Of Facial Emotion Recognition, Perceived Empathic Ability, And Cognitive Ability In Domestic Violence Offenders, Blair Nicole Nyline

Dissertations

The inability to decode emotional cues has been associated with violence in men. The purpose of the study was to learn more about the connection between emotion recognition accuracy as it related to self-identified empathy in adult men convicted of a domestic violence offense while accounting for any significant cognitive deficits and demographic factors. Domestically violent (n = 35) and non-violent (n = 35) men were asked to label pictures of facial emotion at different levels of intensity (30.0%, 40.0%, 60.0%, 70.0%, and 100.0%). In addition, they were given the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a brief empathy measure; the General …

The Trio Student Support Services Newsletter, Armstrong State University

TRiO Newsletter (Armstrong) (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Negotiating Constitutionalism And Democracy: The 262nd Report Of The Law Commission Of India On Death Penalty, Rajgopal Saikumar

Socio-Legal Review

The 262nd Law Commission of India (“commission”) report on death penalty has recommended the abolition of death penalty for all offences except those related to terrorism. Three members of the commission dissent from this majority view, taking a retentionist stand. The argument this essay makes is not whether or not terrorism ought to be the exception, but that within the commission’s framework of the argument for abolition, ‘terrorism’ appears as an arbitrary exception. The report carves this exception by the sleight of a hand, in shifting the register of its argument. That is, from making ‘Constitutionalism Arguments’ for abolition to …

Differential Effects Of Mental Health Problems Among Truant Youths, Richard Dembo, Jennifer Wareham, James Schmeidler, Rhissa Briones-Robinson, Ken C. Winters

Criminology Faculty Publications

Research indicates at-risk youth are more likely to experience emotional and psychological problems. Young people who are often truant from school represent a group of at-risk youth, but one for which mental health issues are understudied. This study examined heterogeneity of mental health problems among a sample of 300 truant adolescents using latent class analysis (LCA). LCA indicated the sample of truants was best represented by four latent subgroups of youth with low mental health problems; high depression, low mania; high mania, low depression; and high depression and mania. These subgroups were examined in relation to sociodemographic and psychosocial measures …

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1 Summer 2016, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

References To Television Programming In Judicial Opinions And Lawyers’ Advocacy, Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

"Think of the poor judge who is reading ... hundreds and hundreds of these briefs," says Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. "Liven their life up just a little bit. . . with something interesting." Lawyers can "liven up" their briefs with references to television shows generally known to Americans who have grown up watching the small screen. After discussing television's pervasive effect on American culture since the early 1950s, this Article surveys the array of television references that appear in federal and state judicial opinions. In cases with no claims or defenses concerning the television industry, judges often help …

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Police Services

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

2016 - 2017 University Catalog, Loma Linda University

University Catalog (2005 - present)

This is a one-year Catalog, effective beginning Summer Quarter 2016.

Volume 105, Number 1, July 2016

Social & Legal Perspectives On Underuse Of Medication-Assisted Treatment For Opioid Dependence, Barbara Andraka-Christou

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in combination with counseling is considered the most effective treatment for opioid dependence by the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and American Society of Addiction Medicine. Two MAT medications, buprenorphine and methadone, are considered essential medicines by the World Health Organization. Despite MAT’s effectiveness, it is severely underused in U.S. treatment settings, including physicians’ offices, hospitals, the Veterans Administration, residential treatment centers, prisons, and drug courts. The dissertation examines social and legal reasons for under-use of MAT in the U.S., including dominance of abstinence-only treatment methods, separation of addiction treatment from mainstream …

Why Silence Shouldn't Speak So Loudly: Wiggins In A Post-Richter World, Eliza Beeney

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Alumni Connect Coast To Coast, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Lawyers Connect

Brian Murray, ’11 J.D., Named Quattrone Center Research Fellow

NDLA News New Blog, Becoming a Different Kind of Professional

Faculty in the News

• Professor Mark McKenna and Nicole Garnett Top-Cited Scholars
• Notre Dame Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus Conrad Kellenberg
• Professor McAward Appointed Director of Center for Civil and Human Rights
• Professor Jimmy Gurulé Testifies Before Congressional Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing
• Professor Nicole Garnett Receives Social Justice Award

Students

• Claudia Tran, Rising 3L, Ramps Up Alumni and Student Networking
• Law Students Honored at Prize Day Ceremony

Alumni

• Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard Achieves $1 Billion in Verdicts and …

Political Violence And The Mediating Role Of Violent Extremist Propensities, Nele Schils, Lieven J.R. Pauwels

Journal of Strategic Security

Research into violent extremism is lacking integrated theoretical frameworks explaining individual involvement in politically or religiously motivated violence, resulting in a poor understanding of causal mechanisms. Building on situational action theory, the current study moves beyond the dominant risk factor approach and proposes an integrated model for the explanation of political/religious violence, distinguishing between direct mechanisms and “causes of the causes.” The model integrates mechanisms from different but complementary traditions. Following previous work, this study focusses on the causes of the causes influencing direct key mechanisms, violent extremist propensity, and exposure to violent extremist moral settings that explain political/religious violence. …

Bad Hair: The Legal Response To Mass Forensic Errors, Brandon L. Garrett

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Three Studies Examining The Mechanisms Linking Stress Exposure To Delinquency And Substance Use Among North American Indigenous Adolescents, Dane Steven Hautala

Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Objective: The purpose of this dissertation research was to examine in three separate studies the mechanisms linking a variety of stressors to delinquency/substance use among North American Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian First Nations) youth.

Method: Data for the three empirical chapters come from an eight-wave longitudinal study of 676 Indigenous youth and their caretakers from three U.S. reservations and four Canadian First Nations reserves.

Study 1 Results: The objective was to examine the intergenerational transmission of problem behavior from female caretakers to their children via caretaker stress exposure, psychosocial functioning, and parenting practices. Early caretaker …

Rubbing The Rabbit's Foot: Gallows Superstitions And Public Healthcare In England During The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Roberta M. Harding

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Superstitions possess an ancient pedigree. With the passage of time thematic superstitions developed; for example, some solely addressed the public’s health care needs. In fact, as far back as the fifth century many English subjects believed magical spells and jewels had curative properties. Law was another context that generated a body of superstitions. Capital punishment was one area that generated many superstitions. In fact, so many that a specific category was established: gallows superstitions. With hanging as the primary method of execution in England for centuries, this group of superstitions became a relatively large one. By merging the health care …

Uno Academic Integrity Survey To Charis & Directors 2016, Office Of Institutional Effectiveness University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Student Learning

Academic Integrity Frequency Table

Closing Impunity Gaps For The Crime Of Aggression, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Chicago Journal of International Law

As stated at Nuremberg, the crime of aggression is the “supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” International instruments clearly and repeatedly have outlawed initiating wars of aggression and other illegal uses of armed force. States parties recently have defined and codified the crime in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and delineated the scope of the ICC’s jurisdiction over aggression. Although the ICC is an important mechanism for accountability and justice, it is not certain when it will be able to adjudicate …

Retail Knockoffs: Consumer Acceptance And Rejection Of Inauthentic Retailers, Mark S. Rosenbaum, Mingming Cheng, Ipkin Anthony Wong

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

This study extends the counterfeit product paradigm by examining an unexplored area in services – namely, the existence of inauthentic retail establishments, or so-called retail knockoffs. These fake establishments mimic the service and product offerings of genuine establishments, such as Starbucks, McDonald's, 7-Eleven, Apple, and others, prevailing across Southeast Asia, primarily in China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. By employing grounded theory methodology, this study offers an original framework that illustrates why consumers accept and patronize both authentic and inauthentic retail establishments. The model shows that many consumers are satisfied with counterfeit servicescapes and that some fake retail and service establishments are …

Communiqué: College Of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine,Volume 5, Summer 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts, And Sciences.

Communiqué: College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine

Contents:

-- Dean's Message
-- Candid: Fortepan Iowa
-- News in Short
-- Art + Science = "Big Bang"
-- Frontline Philosophy: Herrera
-- Pressing Forward: North American Review
-- CHAS Applause
-- Book Nook
-- Away in the Alpine
-- Printing Press
-- Nepal
-- Expanding Horizons
-- Donor Feature: Gary Sholten
-- National Science Foundation Funding
-- Metal Casting Center Moves
-- Transitions
-- Yager Awards
-- Students in the News
-- Coding Against Cancer
-- Dean's Fund Donor Listing
-- Alumni News

Mckee Minute Summer 2016, Southern Adventist University

McKee Minute – McKee Library This Month

The Summer 2016 McKee Minute announces updates to the library website and scheduling tools along with other library updates and events. This edition's features include the books Rules of Thumb by Tom Parker and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weshcler. the films The Supreme Court and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, and the periodicals Mother Earth Living and Clean Eating. This month's feature is on counseling.

A Phenomenological Study Of Justice-Involved Veteran Experiences Of Veterans Court, Tanya Watson

Dissertations

As of 2015, over 300 veterans treatment courts have opened across the nation in the United States, providing an alternative to incarceration to eligible justice-involved veterans. Despite the proliferation of veterans courts around the country, research on veteran experiences in veterans court is minimal at best. This study sought to examine veteran experiences in veterans treatment court through interpretive phenomenological analysis. Eight veterans from five western U.S. veterans treatment courts were interviewed regarding the circumstances of their referral to court, the treatment they received, their interactions with their treatment team, and how veteran identity impacted their receipt of treatment. Four …

Cyberbullying And The Law, Jamie Mosser

Northern Illinois University Law Review

Laws are created to regulate behavior and criminalize actions. Sometimes those laws have unintended consequences when it is applied to behavior not anticipated to be covered by those laws. Most states do not have laws specifically directed towards the punishment of cyberbullying behavior. However, the laws that have been created to punish Internet behavior are being used to punish cyberbullying. This essay, which has been written for the Northern Illinois University Law Review's Symposium on the Legal Implications of Social Media, explores the different civil and criminal laws that have an intended or unintended regulation of a student's use of …

Prosecuting Threats In The Age Of Social Media, Enrique A. Monagas, Carlos E. Monagas

Northern Illinois University Law Review

Social media has opened new avenues for perpetrators to threaten and intimidate. No longer does someone need to physically stalk their prey to deliver a message; they can now threaten anyone, anywhere with just one click of their cell phone. And because the threatening communications are often prepared in private and can be delivered anonymously, they are not regulated by social norms that would harshly condemn such behavior. Thus, it should come as little surprise that threats are increasing every year and online threats are fueling that growth. This Article considers the challenges facing prosecutors in charging and prosecuting online …