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H.O.P.E. Court, Rhode Island's Federal Reentry Court: The First Year, Patricia A. Sullivan, Michael J. Primeau, Timothy K. Baldwin

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Restoring The Character Evidence Rule: Reconsidering Evidence Of Crimes, Wrongs, And Other Acts In Rhode Island, Edward Pare Iii

Roger Williams University Law Review

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The Under-Policed, I. Bennett Capers

Faculty Scholarship

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Some Skepticism About Criminal Discovery Empiricism, Miriam H. Baer

Faculty Scholarship

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Course Catalogue 2016-2017, Mercer University School Of Law

Office of the Registrar

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SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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Equality Before The Law? Evaluating Criminal Case Outcomes In Canada, Michael Trebilcock, Albert Yoon

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

One of our most strongly held ideals is that individuals receive equal treatment under the law. Incidents of wrongful conviction or wide disparities in sentencing, however, challenge this premise. While legal scholars have recently examined this premise, our understanding remains largely normative or anecdotal. Scholars have begun to identify factors that influence legal outcomes, yet this question has remained largely unexplored in Canada. This article seeks to advance this inquiry. Using unique data from both the Ontario courts and Legal Aid Ontario during 2007–2013, we find that outcomes in routine criminal cases vary in ways not summarily explained by differences …

A Phenomenological Investigation Into The Experiences Of High-Achieving African American Male Student Athletes At Predominately White Institutions In The Southeast Region, Runell Jeremiah King

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study is an attempt to examine the academic experiences among high achieving African American male student-athletes at predominantly White NCAA Division I institutions in the Southeast region. Most existing literature regarding African American student-athletes at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs) have examined their experiences by highlighting major deficiencies of this groups academic abilities. Most studies emphasize these students’ lack of preparedness, low academic achievement, and high attrition rates (Harper 2005). As a result, little information is available regarding African American male student-athletes who actually excel, achieve at high levels academically, and accomplish goals in which their non-student athlete peers do …

The Application Of Prophetic Pragmatism: The Intersection Of The Theologically-Based Education Of The Black Church Leader, The Black Church, The Community, And Social Action, Errol K. Domingue

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study addressed how the academy (specifically theologically-based higher education), the Black Church, and typically oppressed communities can act as a coalition that produces positive social change. This is an investigation of the training and education that ministerial leaders receive in theologically-based institutions of higher education, how that training and education affects the philosophy and activities of the local church, and ultimately how those connections translate to advocacy and activity for social change. Benjamin Mays’ career in the academy and the church is shown as the type of socially conscious leader that is necessary for social change. Cornel West’s prophetic …

Examining Local Law Enforcement Public Relations, Lindsay M. Mccluskey

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This mixed-method dissertation 1) identifies and describes common local law enforcement public relations activities, including reputation management, community relations and engagement, media relations, social media management, and internal communications; 2) addresses perceived similarities and differences associated with local law enforcement public relations relative to peers within the same level of government (e.g., public relations in the parks department of the same municipality); 3) identifies distinctive and reinforces common government public relations environmental characteristics, challenges, and opportunities associated with local law enforcement; 4) provides insights regarding how local law enforcement are using online tools (e.g., websites and social media) for public …

The Present Of Newsworthiness, Amy Gajda

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Further Thoughts On Race, American Law, And The State Of Nature: Advancing The Multiracial Paradigm Shift And Seeking Patterns In The Area Of Race And Law, George A. Martinez

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In his article, the author seeks to use philosophical theory - state of nature theory - as a way to understand American law and issues of race. This project, consistent with a recent trend in legal scholarship, seeks to uncover hidden meanings in law through historical analysis, cultural critique, or philosophical contemplation.

The author argues that there is a tendency for the dominant group to relate to racial minorities as if they were in the state of nature - i.e., a tendency to act as if they were in a situation without legal or moral constraints. The article examines this …

Table Of Contents, Public Interest Law Reporter

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Nothing Is Ever Black & White: The Criminal Justice System And Its Expansion Into "Criminal Alien" Enforcement, Yolanda Vázquez

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Chicago Has The Blueprint For Lasting Police Accountability Reform, But Can The City Build The Future It Needs?, Austin Spillar

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Retired With Nothing To Retire On: A Proposal For Social Security Credits For The Burge Exonerees, Katie Burnett

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

The Death Row Ten: Interrupting Illinois' Death Machine, Alice Kim

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Public Interest Law Reporter

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Are We Contradicting Ourselves?: How The Stanford Rape Case Illustrates The Conflict Between Mandatory Sentencing And Judicial Discretion, Kristine Ruhl

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Well-Intended Federal Drug Policies May Leave Minorities Behind, William Ryan

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Inverted Quarantine: Individual Response To Collective Fear, Katherine Parker Moncure

Honors Papers

In his 2007 book Shopping Our Way to Safety, sociologist Andrew Szasz coined the term inverted quarantine to describe a phenomenon in the way that Americans react to the changing natural environment. Inverted quarantine, or the impulse to remove one’s self from perceived environmental dangers, often manifests in consumption behavior such as consuming only organic food, drinking filtered or bottled water, moving from a city to a suburb, or even being enclosed in a gated community. Although inverted quarantine may result in some form of protection, in the long run it is unsustainable in the face of the changing natural …

Storytelling, Community And Dialogue: The Making Of And Yet We'll Speak At Grafton Reintegration Center, Lillian W. White

Honors Papers

This honors thesis examines the purpose, process and intellectual framework of an original theater project devised with incarcerated men. Through analysis of the ethnographic and theatrical approaches used in the creation process, the author and lead artist of the project examines the artistic, political, and ethical dimensions storytelling as social practice in the context of the American prison system.

Toward A Civilized System Of Justice: Reconceptualizing The Response To Sexual Violence In Higher Education, Hannah Brenner, Kathleen Darcy

Faculty Scholarship

The reporting, investigation, and prevention of sexual violence in settings that are closed off from the greater community and subject to their own laws, rules, norms and biases present special challenges for survivors of sexual violence. This essay builds on our existing scholarship that explores the pervasive problem and exceedingly high incidence of sexual violence perpetrated against women in closed institutional systems like prison, the military, and immigration detention centers. Survivors in these contexts are routinely denied access to justice internally and from the external criminal justice system; they also face major limitations (imposed by both federal law and Supreme …

Arbitrary Law Enforcement Is Unreasonable: Whren'S Failure To Hold Police Accountable For Traffic Enforcement Policies, Jonathan Witmer-Rich

Case Western Reserve Law Review

Part I frames the problem in Whren with a story. Part II sets forth the fundamental Fourth Amendment principle underlying this article— the prohibition against arbitrary search and seizure. Part III explains how arbitrariness applies to Whren, and to police enforcement policies. Part IV describes pretextual traffic stops as a form of entrapment. Part V addresses the Whren Court’s concern that the Fourth Amendment should not vary from place to place. Part VI notes that arbitrariness is distinct from discrimination, and acknowledges that ending arbitrariness would not necessarily end discriminatory law enforcement.

Starting From Scratch: Reasserting "Indian Country" In Alasky By Placing Alaska Native Land Into Trust, William H. Holley

Florida A & M University Law Review

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was enacted for the purpose of promoting economic development in remote Alaska Native villages. ANCSA has fallen short of this goal. ANCSA dissolved the trust relationship between Alaska Native tribes and the federal government by transferring former tribal lands to state-chartered, Native corporations. As a result, ANCSA severed Alaska Native tribal authority from tribal lands. Today, tribal governments in Alaska are without the resources necessary to address issues that threaten the survival of their communities. Tribal governments throughout the lower 48 states have long used federal land-into-trust provisions to expand and consolidate former …

From Jones To Jones: Fifteen Years Of Incoherence In The Constitutional Law Of Sentencing Factfinding, Benjamin Priester

Journal Publications

For over 15 years, the United States Supreme Court has struggled to define the constitutional constraints upon a ubiquitous practice in contemporary American criminal justice: the exercise of factfinding authority by sentencing judges in the course of determining the specific punishment to be imposed upon an individual convicted of a criminal offense. While the Court has permitted much sentencing factfinding to continue unabated, its decisions have identified certain scenarios in which an offender's constitutional rights are violated when a fact found at sentencing creates particular impacts on the punishment. Unfortunately, from the beginning this new constitutional doctrine in criminal procedure …

Commencement Program 2016, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth University in May 2016.

The Bumpiness Of Criminal Law, Adam Kolber

Faculty Scholarship

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