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Salvaging "Safe Spaces": Toward Model Standards For Lgbtq Youth-Serving Professionals Encountering Law Enforcement, Brendan M. Conner

Faculty Publications

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Using Thematic Hearings At The Inter-American Human Rights Commission To Advance U.S. Human Rights Accountability: A Resource For The Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network, Human Rights Institute

Human Rights Institute

As U.S. social justice advocates increasingly turn to the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (the “IACHR” or the “Commission”) as a tool to advance domestic social justice advocacy, there has been significant growth in the number of requests for thematic hearings. Thematic hearings offer a unique opportunity to raise‐awareness of human rights issues, build coalitions, strengthen the regional and international human rights record on the United States, and advocate for changes to law and policy, as well as to promote regional norms. To leverage this opportunity, it is useful to understand thematic hearings and how they function within the Inter‐ …

Newspapers; 2016-03-01; Women Of Western New York, Catherine Collins

Newspapers

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Keynote Address At The Southern Illinois University School Of Law And School Of Medicine Symposium: The President’S Task Force On 21st Century Policing: Procedural Justice, Policing, And Public Health, Ronald L. Davis

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Policing has changed significantly during the last thirty years and, although the current period involves many challenges, many changes have been successful. Community policing has advanced considerably and has been accompanied by advances in police technology.  The current period of crisis in policing also presents opportunities to create a new era of policing in the United States.  This generation’s civil rights movement does not have to involve conflict between police and activists, who should be working together to reform American policing.  The work of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing provides a framework for building a new era …

Reflections On Judging In A Mental Health Court And Challenges Beyond The Courtroom Doors, Kathryn E. Zenoff, Carl Norberg

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Mental illness poses unique challenges to the justice system, which the traditional model of criminal justice is poorly suited to confront.  In the last few decades, problem-solving courts specifically tailored to reflect this dilemma have emerged, and early research into the effectiveness of these courts has shown promising results.  The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 began the process of deinstitutionalizing people with mental illnesses, but the legislation was underfunded and only half of the proposed community mental health centers contemplated by the legislation were ever built.  In the absence of appropriate treatment, people with mental illnesses began to be …

Nigeria: The Matrix Between Fragility Of Livelihoods And Conflict, Abiodun Odusote

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

In recent times, there has been an increased outbreak of conflicts across the globe, particularly in areas experiencing livelihood fragility. Available literature suggests that in a society where livelihoods are threatened, minimal, or non-existent, the people are generally more overwhelmed and prone to violence and conflict. This paper consolidates the available literature on livelihoods and conflict, with the aim of identifying the nexus between the two concepts. The author particularly interrogates the matrix between fragility of livelihoods and armed conflicts, with emphasis on Boko Haram and the Niger Delta conflicts. The article notes that there seems to be a large …

Formal Controls, Neighborhood Disadvantage, And Violent Crime In U.S. Cities: Examining (Un)Intended Consequences, Allison Martin, Emily M. Wright, Benjamin Steiner

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Purpose This study examines the intended and unintended effects of formal social controls on violent crime within and across U.S. cities. Methods Using data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study, we assess whether greater police arrest activity and jail incarceration risk are associated with lower violent crime rates across cities. We also investigate whether greater use of these formal social controls exacerbates the relationship between extreme neighborhood disadvantage and violent crime. Results Results from multilevel analyses show that some formal controls (jail incarceration risk) reduce violent crime across cities, but other formal controls (police arrest activity) amplify the relationship between …

The Regional Center For Investigation And Adjudication: A Proposed Solution To The Challenges Of Title Ix Investigations In Higher Education, Gina Maisto Smith, Leslie M. Gomez

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

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Adolescent Non-Suidical Self-Injury: Analysis Of The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Kelly Emelianchik-Key, Rebekah J. Byrd, Amanda C. La Guardia

ETSU Faculty Works

Self-injury is a significant issue with a variety of psychological, social, legal and ethical consequences and implications (Froeschle & Moyer, 2004; McAllister, 2003; Nock & Mendes, 2008; White Kress, Drouhard, & Costin, 2006). Self-injurious behavior is commonly associated with the cutting, bruising or burning of the skin. It also can include trichotillomania, interfering with wound healing and extreme nail biting (Klonsky & Olino, 2008; Zila & Kiselica, 2001). In assessing severity, it is important to note that self-inflicted wounds typically do not require any medical attention, as those who engage in self-injury will usually care for any open wounds in …

The Bg News March 01, 2016, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. March 01, 2016. Volume 95-Issue 48.

A Cyber Forensics Needs Analysis Survey: Revisiting The Domain's Needs A Decade Later, Vikram S. Harichandran, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili, Andrew Marrington

All Works

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The number of successful cyber attacks continues to increase, threatening financial and personal security worldwide. Cyber/digital forensics is undergoing a paradigm shift in which evidence is frequently massive in size, demands live acquisition, and may be insufficient to convict a criminal residing in another legal jurisdiction. This paper presents the findings of the first broad needs analysis survey in cyber forensics in nearly a decade, aimed at obtaining an updated consensus of professional attitudes in order to optimize resource allocation and to prioritize problems and possible solutions more efficiently. Results from the 99 respondents gave compelling …

Equity In American Education: The Intersection Of Race, Class, And Education, Pamela J. Meanes

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

“One Of The Worst:” The School-To-Prison Pipeline In Richmond, Virginia, Cassie Powell

Law Student Publications

Virginia tops the nation in the rate of referrals of students to law enforcement, at three times the national average. Students with disabilities and children of color are far more likely to be referred. Some Richmond area school districts and local government leaders are taking steps to counteract this trend.

Animal Abuse And Domestic Violence: Why The Connection Justifies Increased Protection, Olivia S. Garber

University of Memphis Law Review

No abstract provided.

Unites States V. Windsor, Obergefell V. Hodges And The Future Of Lgbt Rights In The Workplace, Sarah Wheeler

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Monroe Freedman's Influence On Legal Education, Peter A. Joy

Hofstra Law Review

Monroe Freedman’s influence on legal education was profound by any measure. He was much more than a gifted scholar and teacher, though he was all of those, as well as an accomplished lawyer. He was also the antithesis of a law professor disconnected from the practice of law who produces scholarship that has little to no relationship to the practice of law. Instead, Monroe Freedman’s scholarship was singularly focused on the difficult ethical issues lawyers face in the practice of law, and he was fully engaged with the practicing bar. Much of his scholarship was on the leading edge of …

Remarks At The Southern Illinois University School Of Law And School Of Medicine Symposium: The President’S Task Force On 21st Century Policing: Procedural Justice, Policing, And Public Health, Sean Michael Smoot

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Police officers are expected to play contradictory roles in society.  They are told that they are warriors—soldiers in the war on drugs, crime, and violence—but they are also expected to function as social workers, counselors, and peacekeepers.  These inconsistent roles create intense stress and mental struggle for officers.  Statistics can show the presence or absence of crime, but measuring the presence or absence of justice is far more difficult.  A comprehensive approach to officer training and practicing internal procedural justice in our law enforcement agencies is a critical step to establishing trust and improving performance.  The disease of addiction is …

Using Science To Advance The Police Profession, Howard Spivak, Maureen Mcgough, Nancy Rodriguez

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

A destructive rift exists between law enforcement and the people they are sworn to protect, and the American public is looking to law enforcement to improve performance standards and advance the field as a profession.  Essential in this process is the infusion of science into practice, ensuring that policies reflect the latest state of knowledge as to what works and what matters in policing.  This article explores how science can support and inform policing practice both in terms of developing solutions—such as the recommendations of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing—and furthering policing as a profession. The article …

Racism Creates Barriers To Effective Community Policing, Robette Ann Dias

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Robette Ann Dias has been the executive co-director of Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training since 2002.  Crossroads is a national organization that works in institutions and communities to create antiracist policy, practice and culture.  In this article Ms. Dias briefly reflects on four barriers to building trust and legitimacy in community policing that are created by racism: US society is built on a foundation of racism, every system including the legal system and law enforcement were originally designed to perpetuate white supremacy; denial of racism as a continued problem and policing as part of the problem, the prevalence of violence …

Ucc Minutes March 15, 2016, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

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Thinking Outside The Jury Box: Deploying The Grand Jury In The Guilty Plea Process, Roger Fairfax

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

There is near-universal agreement that the engine of the modern American criminal justice system is plea bargaining.'Given the ubiquity of plea bargaining, the Supreme Court and the rest of the legal community have begun setting their sights on how the practice might be better regulated. At the same time, many hold the view that the grand jury has outlived its usefulness in the administration of criminal justice and is a relic of a time gone by. Even before recent calls for the abolition of the grand jury in the wake of high-profile cases that seemed to cast the institution in …

Invisible Inequality: The Two Americas Of Military Sacrifice, Douglas L. Kriner, Francis X. Shen

University of Memphis Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Lawyers And The Inter-American Court’S Varied Authority, Alexandra Huneeus

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

The International Criminal Court And The Paradox Of Authority, Leslie Vinjamuri

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

International Courts In Atypical Political Environments: The Interplay Of Prosecutorial Strategy, Evidence, And Court Authority In International Criminal Law, Ron Levi, John Hagan, Sara Dezalay

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Can Rehabilitative Programs Reduce The Recidivism Of Juvenile Offenders?, Tyneshia Renee Thompson Ms.

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Since the founding of the juvenile justice system, minimal attention or research effort has been contributed to the understanding of factors affecting the rates of juvenile arrests, detainment, and return to community. Over time, studies have seen juvenile recidivism rise and fall. Counties and states do not keep solid empirical data on recidivism because minors are constantly reentering juvenile detention centers. States and counties only keep compacted empirical data on arrest of minors. It makes it hard for counties and states to differentiate who has been arrested multiply times.

The following study investigates the juvenile justice and questions the rehabilitative …

An Exploratory Analysis Of The Commitment-Turnover Intentions Relationship: The Moderating Effects Of Embeddedness, Michael Eugene Sisikin

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

This study was designed to investigate the moderating effect of embeddedness on the commitment and turnover intentions relationship. Embeddedness was examined as a key variable that links the commitment and turnover literatures together. Job embeddedness was expected to moderate the relationship between job commitment and job turnover intentions, while organizational embeddedness was expected to moderate the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational turnover intentions. Responses from 154 employed individuals were collect for this study. Data was collected using a web-based survey format. Psychometric data was collected with the use of a demographics questionnaire, as well as embeddedness (job and organizational), …

Reconceptualizing The Eighth Amendment: Slaves, Prisoners, And "Cruel And Unusual" Punishment, Alexander A. Reinert

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prior Inconsistent Statements And Substantive Evidence—Federal Rule 801(D)(1)(A): The Compromise, Stephen A. Saltzburg

Fordham Law Review

Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(A) is a compromise. The Supreme Court’s version of the Rule, which it submitted to Congress in 1972, would have made all prior inconsistent statements of a witness present in court for cross-examination admissible as substantive evidence. The Court’s proposal was strongly favored by the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence (or “the Advisory Committee”) members who drafted the Rule. They submitted it to the Court knowing that it was consistent with the approach taken by some states and favored by authorities like John Henry Wigmore, Edmund Morgan, and Charles McCormick. But the Court’s …

Federalism Anew, Sara Mayeux, Karen Tani , Professor Of Law

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused on individual actions and local circumstances, but quickly expanded to a broader set of injustices. Brown died just days before he was scheduled to start college, a significant accomplishment in his local context. His school district's graduation rate was less than 62 percent, compared to 96 percent in a wealthier district down the road, belying Missouri's constitutional commitments to public education and equal …