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Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation, Honors College

Honors Convocation

The Elizabeth Gibson Drinko Honors Convocation Awards Program for Spring 2018, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Graduate Council Meeting, April 27, 2018, Marshall University Graduate Council

Graduate Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

2018 Celebration Of The Arts Program, Lynn University

Celebration of the Arts Programs

Celebration of the Arts 2018 Program

Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Spring Commencement ceremonies.

April 27, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Why Are We Still In Chains? Black Women In The Convict Lease System., La Toya Tanisha Francis, Bowdoin College

The Compass

No abstract provided.

The Compass, Issue 5, Arcadia University, Honors Program

The Compass

No abstract provided.

The Santa Clara, 2018-04-26, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, April 26, 2018, Seton Hall University

2018

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Subverting The Systems: Strength In Victimhood Through Malcom X'S Anti-Jeremiad, Carmen Sherlock

2018 Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award

The jeremiad is a rhetorical strategy found in countless fields—including the speeches of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr.—which laments a society’s current situation and calls for a return to the essentially good principles upon which it was founded. Some scholars have argued that the rhetoric of Malcolm X employs this strategy; however, through an analysis of his speech The Ballot or the Bullet, I argue that it in fact does the opposite: he uses the anti-jeremiad, a rhetorical pattern that fundamentally renounces the dominant ideals of, in this case, the twentieth-century United States. I reach this conclusion from …

Usa V. Jeffrey Miller

2018 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

The Effects Of Probation Stipulations On Employment Outcomes And Feelings Of Employability Among Probationers In Rhode Island, Jesse Capece

Doctoral Dissertations

Roughly 8,400 of the 24,000 people under the purview of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections are on active probation. These 8,400 people must regularly attend meetings with their probation officer, court appointments, drug treatment programs, mental health counseling, and various crime-specific stipulations (such as anger management groups). There is minimal evidence to suggest that mandating these stipulations reduce a probationer’s likelihood to be rearrested. There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that having a job does decrease the likelihood that a probationer will be rearrested. The effect probation stipulations have on a probationer’s employment outcomes is unknown. Also …

Using Electronic Monitoring To Enhance The Protection Offered By Civil Protection Orders In Cases Of Domestic Violence: A New Technology Offers New Protection, Nicole Allaband

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Domestic violence is a widespread epidemic in the United States. Each year, between 1.8 and 4 million domestic violence incidents are reported. One in three women will experience some form of domestic violence in her lifetime. Civil protection orders (also known as protection from abuse orders or restraining orders) are a common remedy employed by the courts to prevent future violence and protect survivors of domestic violence. These orders can be tailored to fit the circumstances, but frequently include no contact provisions. However, no contact provisions can be difficult to enforce because the abuser is usually intimately familiar with the …

The Bg News April 26, 2018, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 26, 2018. Volume 97-Issue 64.

2018-04-26 Caudill College Of Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences Program Review, Morehead State University. Office Of The Provost.

Faculty Senate Records

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Program Review update issued by the Office of the Provost on April 26, 2018.

Capitalizing On Criminal Justice, Eisha Jain

Duke Law Journal

The U.S. criminal justice system “piles on.” It punishes too many for too long. Much criminal law scholarship focuses on the problem of excessive punishment. Yet for the low-level offenses that dominate state court workloads, much of the harm caused by arrests and convictions arises outside the formal criminal sentence. It stems from spiraling hidden penalties and the impact of a criminal record. The key question is not just why the state over-punishes, but rather why so many different institutions—law enforcement institutions as well as civil regulatory agencies and private actors—find it valuable to do so. This Article argues that …

‘From Badness To Sickness’ And Back Again: The Use Of Medication In The U.S. School And Foster Care Systems, Sarah J. Nemetz

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

This article explores the over- and under-prescription of psychotropic medication to youth of color both in public schools and the foster care system. Under the umbrella of the schools-to-prison pipeline, there is a wide array of literature addressing the under-use of medication for treatment of children of color in the public school system when treating learning or behavioral disabilities. There is also, however, a great deal of literature in a totally different realm surrounding the under-use of medication in treating mental health disorders in the foster care system. This article aims to put these two pieces of discourse in conversation …

Love Is In The Airwaves: Contesting Mass Incarceration With Prisoners' Radio, Eleanor R. Benson

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

Building on bell hooks’ conceptualization of love as a mode of political resistance, this article explores how prisoners’ radio employs love to combat injustice. Through an examination of two prisoners’ radio projects—The Prison Show in Texas and Restorative Radio in Kentucky—I argue that incarcerated people and their loved ones appropriate the radio to perform public and revolutionary acts of love, countering the oppressive forces of mass incarceration in the United States. By unapologetically positioning their love for prisoners front and center, ordinary Americans subvert systems of oppression which mark incarcerated folks as incapable and unworthy of love. Love is an …

Historical Revelation For Present-Day Liberation: What The Most Famous Prison Uprising In Us History Can Teach Us About Social Change, Dylan Martin Bontrager

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, in which prisoners held control of the facility for four days, ended with an assault on the prisoners gathered in D yard. When the tear gas cleared, 29 prisoners and 10 of the guards they had taken hostage were dead, and 128 more men were wounded—all at the hand of the state. The retaking was historically significant not only for the magnitude of the bloodshed but for the cover-up that followed. Investigations were stymied; what investigators ultimately did discover was redacted or sealed. In this paper I examine the Attica Uprising through a lens …

Violence And Silence: The Prison Rape Elimination Act And Beyond, Elizabeth Eggert

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

Connecting the #MeToo movement to sexual abuse in prisons, this paper analyzes the flaws of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. Examining the genesis behind PREA, the lack of enforcement and accountability, and the remaining unresolved issues, I argue that the law fails to meaningfully combat the pervasive and multifaceted problem of sexual abuse in US prisons. The racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies that gave rise to PREA, as well as its focus on prison efficiency rather than prisoners’ lives, only serve to further entrench harmful biases within United States prisons and broader society.

Editorial Collective Biographies

Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities

These authors are featured in Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities, volume 7.

How Research Becomes Impact: Librarians Helping Faculty Use Scholarly Metrics To Select Journals, Marc Vinyard, Jaimie Beth Colvin

Pepperdine University Libraries

Many librarians support faculty with the publishing process, which includes journal selection and evaluating the impact of their scholarly output. While large universities have the resources for entire departments devoted to bibliometrics, the authors of this article give strategies for faculty publishing support at a smaller liberal arts university. The authors created a LibGuide with publishing resources and presented the initiative to several academic divisions. Faculty were surveyed, and the results indicated that the majority of respondents were interested in assessing journal quality and viewed the library as a resource for help with the publishing process.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Campus Chronicle, Victoria Story, Taylor Burns, Bailey Perkins, Anthony Arroyo, Sarah Bogaards, Ben Newell, Drew Powers, Josh Sevde, Allie Brackett, Andy Langager

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Pre-K Effectiveness At A Large Scale, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein

Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Homicide And The Effect Of Racial And Ethnic Heterogeneity: Determining Individual Homicide Counts Within The Aggregate Population, Kayla Rachel Toohy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Recent literature suggests that the effect of racial and ethnic heterogeneity on homicide varies by aggregation. The current study intends to fill an important gap in the existent literature. The purpose of this research is to achieve a better understanding of how racial and ethnic heterogeneity impacts homicide by examining data at two different levels of aggregation in three different cities (Chicago, Memphis, and Baltimore). Racial and ethnic heterogeneity’s relationship to homicide is examined at both the census tract and block group levels using data from the Chicago Data Portal, Memphis Police Department, and Baltimore Data Portal. Findings show that …

Gender, Race And Justification: The Value Of Critical Discourse Analysis (Cda) In Contemporary Settler Colonial Contexts, Caroline Hodes

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper outlines an approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that can be used to examine multiple forms of textual data as part of decolonial practice in any national context that is struggling to acknowledge both its colonial past and its ongoing colonial present. The author provides an explanation of what CDA is followed by a discussion of the methods used in a larger multi-level analysis focused on the impact of the defense witness testimony in a Canadian Pacific salmon fisheries case. The larger project has recently been published in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice. This paper will …

Death Penalty: An Overdue Exemption For The Severely Mentally Ill, Josephine Marino

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

This Note takes the position that an exemption for severely mentally ill offenders from the death penalty is not only warranted, but also long overdue. Part I will use the Supreme Court’s own opinion in Hall v. Florida to make the argument that the Supreme Court has theoretically carved out such an exemption in its prior opinions, which it must now follow. This Note heavily relies on Hall for two reasons. First, in Hall, the Court was addressing intellectually disabled offenders and much of its opinion can be applied to severely mentally ill offenders. Second, the Court delivered the …

Approved, Sociology/Anthropology, April 24, 2018, Program Review Committee

Program Review Committee

No abstract provided.

Restoring A Mapuche World: Resistance To Settler Colonialism In Chile's Child Protection System, Maxine Freedman

Political Science Honors Projects

How do Mapuche families engage with and resist settler colonialism in order to move toward decolonization? I argue that Mapuche families, especially youth, who are subjected to settler colonialism, envision and fight for a decolonized world. Grounded in the dispossession of indigenous land, settler colonialism permeates Chilean institutions including the child protection system, SENAME. SENAME targets indigenous families with tactics such as child removal, confinement, and criminalization, and its attempts at intercultural reform further assimilate families into settler culture. Yet, Mapuche people sustain their indigenous world. Youth promote Mapuche autonomy and knowledge through their discourse. Their vision might serve to …