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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

2010 Friends of the Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming of Judaeo-Christian Religion to Florida Michael Gannon
Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Pensacola James M. Denham
Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War Irvin D. S. Winsboro and William B. Mack
The Catholic Diocese of Miami and African American Desegregation, 1958-1977 Mark Newman
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms": Virgil Darnell Hawkins's Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle Larry O. Rivers
The nut with a Huey Long outlook versus the goblins of fear and distortion: Reubin Askew and the Campaign to Establish the Florida Corporate Profits Tax Gordon E. Harvey
Workers of the Sunshine State Unite!: The Florida Socialist Party During the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 R. Steven Griffin
Documents and Notes: Civil War Letters

• In the Aftermath of the Battle of Olustee: A Beecher's Surprise Visit to Florida Sarah Whitmer Foster andJohn T. Foster, Jr.
• "If It Was Not For You …

The Quality Of Life Of People Affected With Aids In River Nile State – Sudan, Majzoob Ahmed

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed to investigate the quality of life among People with AIDS in River Nile State – Sudan. And then to the effect of some variables, (Gender, case of social, duration of infection). The distributive analytical method was used in this study. The study sample consisted of (24) respondents who are (18) males and (6) females including year (2015, chosen by the stratified random sample, The researcher used the measurement of quality of life scales. The main results of this study are: The general feature of quality of life among AIDS patients was positive, as significant statistical differences in …

Fall Newsletter 2020 (Issue 9), Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

Inside This Issue

• CSUSB introduces winter intersession
• Essential workers discuss the dangers and fears of everyday life
• Opinion: Benefits to wearing masks
• Opinion: Teaching acceptance to better the mental health of autistic youth
• Students receive more guidance about grant writing
• Restrictions of virtual learning during a pandemic
• Vox pop: What are your thoughts on the credit/ no credit option for this semester?
• Advice: Six tips and tricks for finals week
• CSUSB gamers celebrate the third annual Coyote Cross-Up
• Vox pop: What are you thankful for?

Evaluating The Effects Of Perceived Student Race On Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Situation Severity And Requests For Student Assistance, Nashedra Barry

Theses and Dissertations

There is currently a gap in research related to the potential effects of student race on school consultation and teacher help seeking behavior. It is well documented in the existing research that racial/ethnic bias exists in education at many levels. These biases lead to negative systemic effects such as achievement gaps, disproportionality in discipline, and disproportionality in special education referrals. Biases can also have negative effects on classroom interactions between teachers and students. It seems plausible that if biases exist in other domains of education, that they may also exist in the school consultation process. The purpose of the current …

American Media Depiction Of Terrorism In The U.S After September 11 Attacks, Maria Thuy Trinh

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze perceptions of terrorism through the analysis of two newspapers’ news coverage of terrorism after the September 11 attacks, a popular Kentucky newspaper, the Courier-Journal and the New York Times (NYT). The social construction of terrorism was reflected as a problem through moral panics or something that a society believed as wrong that needed to be eradicated. Previous research had found that newspapers have contributed to moral panics by exaggerating the scope of social problems such as school shootings. I used the theoretical framework of moral panics; Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s (2009) two criteria …

Thou Shall Not Steal: Assessing Demographic And Neighborhood Predictors Of Shoplifting Through The Lens Of Social Disorganization Theory, Christina Loftin

Theses and Dissertations

The crime of shoplifting has received limited scholarly attention despite millions of shoplifting arrests that occur every year. Our understanding of shoplifting is limited because of this. This study assesses whether offenders arrested for shoplifting that reside in socially disorganized neighborhoods differ from their counterparts from less socially disorganized neighborhoods. Using arrest data from the Meridian Police Department and secondary data from the 2018 American Community Survey, analyses revealed that arrestees from neighborhoods with high levels of poverty were more likely to shoplift from dollar stores, liquor stores, and convenience stores. Demographic findings revealed few gender differences in shoplifting among …

From Japanese To Elvish: Comparing Different Writing Systems, Isabella Bumbera

The Compass

In terms of literacy, the combination of orthography – the conventional spelling system of a language – and second language (L2) acquisition is not widely studied. The research thus far comprises auditory or verbal acquisition - showing that an L2 learner studying a language phonetically similar to their own would have greater ease in acquiring the L2.1 While similar phonetics play a part in ease of L2 acquisition, the research focuses mainly on grammar and debates providing corrective input versus no input when learners make a grammatical error. Although many studies demonstrate how phonetics and grammar contribute to L2 learning, …

The Compass, Issue 7

The Compass

No abstract provided.

Contraindications Criminal Responsibility According To The Jordanian Penal Code In Force In The West Bank And The Palestinian Draft Penal Code, Mustafa Abdelbaqi, Alaa Hammad

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The exclusion of criminal responsibility reasons are the causes why a person doesn’t bear the criminal responsibility of committing a crime because he/she was unconscious, or unwilling, or both of them. The exclusion of criminal responsibility reasons don’t nullify the criminal description of the conduct (still considered a crime), but the person committed the crime will not be punished because of subjective reasons according to the criteria determined by the legislature. Since the reasons of exclusion of criminal responsibility are subjective, no other person who commits a crime will enjoy the exclusion of criminal responsibility. According to the Jordanian Penal …

Racism And Criminal Justice Book Discussion: November 2020, Central Washington University, Roger Schaefer

Brooks Library Events

Monthy book discusion on racism and criminal justice. The book for this month is The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson.

Law School News: 'Law Isn't A Foreign Language Anymore' 11/24/2020, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Childhood Maltreatment And Lead Levels In Middle Adulthood: A Prospective Examination Of The Roles Of Individual Socio-Economic And Neighborhood Characteristics, Anthony Carpi, Valentina Nikulina, Xuechen Li, Cathy Spatz Widom

Publications and Research

Background Lead is a common environmental hazard because of its past use as an additive to gasoline and household paint. Some evidence suggests that children with histories of child abuse and neglect are at elevated risk for residence in communities and households with less desirable characteristics and high levels of exposure to environmental hazards and toxins.

Objectives To understand whether childhood maltreatment leads to higher levels of household dust lead and blood lead in adulthood and the extent to which characteristics of a person’s physical environment or individual level socio-economic status (SES) (based on unemployment, poverty, and receipt of public …

Care And The Standards Of Proficiency For Social Care Workers, Majella Mulkeen

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This paper examines the Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers (Social Care Workers Registration Board (SCWRB), 2017b) in light of the scholarship of care. It does so by setting out some key strands of care scholarship and their significance for social care, followed by a critical assessment of care and its relational and emotional dimensions in the Standards of Proficiency (SoP) (SCWRB, 2017b). Given the centrality of care in the title Social Care Worker and the prevalence of the term in legislation and policy, the word is often ill-defined or not defined at all. Discussion of care within social …

Critical Issues In Policing Ccj 480, Karen Morse

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Dual Disadvantage: An Examination Of Racial Disparities In Victim And Suspect Criminal Justice Treatment, Paige Vaughn

Dissertations

During the past several decades, American criminal justice legal systems appear to have been over-punishing Black individuals as perpetrators of crime, and neglecting them as violent crime victims, perpetuating disparities that simultaneously repress and alienate Black citizens. Such complex processes of racial inequality are difficult to capture in studies that focus on single criminal justice stages and limited sets of variables. After presenting a working conceptualization of case processing that can be used across criminal justice systems, the current study uses data from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, and U.S. Census to assess racial …

Student Life E-Newsletter November 23, 2020, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

No abstract provided.

2020 Fall Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Harding University Commencement on November 21, 2020.

Commencement Speaker: Bill Richardson

Beyond Compare: A Codefendant's Prison Sentence As A Mitigating Factor In Death Penalty Cases, Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier

Florida Law Review

This Article addresses whether the U.S. Constitution requires courts to permit capital defendants to submit, during sentencing, the mitigating factor that a codefendant for the same murder was sentenced to prison instead of to death.

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed the important of mitigating factors in capital cases. For the most part, litigation since the reintroduction of capital punishment in the 1970s has clarified what circumstances are to be weighed as mitigating. But the Court has not addressed the current divide among lower courts regarding whether the Eighth Amendment requires courts to allow juries to consider a codefendant's …

The Kids Are Not Alright: Leveraging Existing Health Law To Attack The Opioid Crisis Upstream, Yael Cannon

Florida Law Review

The opioid crisis is now a nationwide epidemic, ravaging both rural and urban communities. The public health and economic consequences are staggering; recent estimates suggest the epidemic has contracted the U.S. labor market by over one million jobs and cost the nation billions of dollars. To tackle the crisis, scholars and health policy initiatives have focused primarily on downstream solutions designed to help those who are already in the throes of addiction. For example, the major initiative announced by the U.S. Surgeon General promotes the dissemination of naloxone, which helps save lives during opioid overdoses.

This Article argues that the …

Reconceptualizing Criminal Justice Reform For Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, E. Lea Johnston

Florida Law Review

Roughly 14% of male inmates and 31% of female inmates suffer from one or more serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Policymakers and the public widely ascribe the overrepresentation of offenders with serious mental illness in the justice system to the “criminalization” of the symptoms of this afflicted population. The criminalization theory posits that the criminal justice system has served as the primary agent of social control over symptomatic individuals since the closure of state psychiatric hospitals in the 1950s and the tightening of civil commitment laws. The theory identifies untreated mental illness as …

Addressing Due Process Concerns: Evaluating Proposals For Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform, Kelly Milliron

Florida Law Review

Civil asset forfeiture compromises criminal due process protections for the sake of allowing the government to take property from citizens and pocket the profits. Within the last decade, several news outlets have reported instances where law enforcement agencies took property from citizens–without arresting or convicting them–and spent the proceeds from seized cash, homes, or vehicles on their own agencies. Because the government is often only required to prove that the property was associated with criminal activity by a preponderance of the evidence, many citizens are left without the resources or ability to defend their property, even when they are innocent. …

A Threat Assessment Framework For Lone-Actor Terrorists, Melissa Hamilton

Florida Law Review

Lone-actor terrorist attacks are on the rise in the Western world in terms of numbers and severity. Public officials are eager for an evidence-based tool to assess the risk that individuals pose for terroristic involvement. Yet actuarial models of risk validated for ordinary criminal violence are unsuitable to terrorism. Lone-actor terrorists vary dramatically in their socio-psychological profiles and the base rate of terrorism is too low for actuarial modeling to achieve statistical significance. This Article proposes a new conceptual model for the terroristic threat assessment of individuals. Unlike risk assessment that is founded upon numerical probabilities, this threat assessment considers …

Coordinating Community Reintegration Services For “Deportable Alien” Defendants: A Moral And Financial Imperative, Amy F. Kimpel

Florida Law Review

Recidivism rates for individuals who are convicted of illegal entry and re-entry (U.S.C. §§ 1325 and 1326) are quite high despite post-sentencing deportations. The “holistic defense” model developed in New York City at the Neighborhood Defender Services and Bronx Defenders has been instrumental in achieving better outcomes for criminal defendants and their communities, in large part due to an emphasis on re-entry or reintegration services for defendants being released from incarceration. However, that model is difficult to implement when applied to noncitizen defendants who are to be deported. This Article argues that some attention to re-entry services for deportable non-citizen …

Taming Self-Defense: Using Deadly Force To Prevent Escapes, Robert Leider

Florida Law Review

The modern fleeing felon rule permits police officers to use deadly force when necessary to prevent the escape of a person who has committed a violent felony. To justify this rule, the Supreme Court has relied on self-defense and defense of others. This Article argues against the self-defense justification. Fleeing felons—even those suspected of violent crimes—are not imminent threats to others solely by virtue of their flight. Stretching self-defense doctrine to justify the fleeing felon rule undermines critical limitations on private self-defense and has not produced an effective set of rules to limit police violence.

This Article further argues that …

Experiences Of Transgender Men Who Joined National Pan-Hellenic Council Sororities Pre-Transition, Sydney Epps

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) - affectionately known as The Divine Nine - are places of support and leadership development for students. However, these groups espouse traditional gender role themes that align with sexual orientation and gender rigidity. This paper explores how four NPHC members negotiate their identity as both nonbinary or transgender, and Greek. Using the narrative inquiry approach, the researcher will explore how sorority members who no longer identify as cisgender women are treated post-gender transition by other sorority members.

Police Crime Against Black Victims, 2005-2014, Philip M. Stinson, Chloe Wentzlof, Steven L. Brewer

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This study reports the findings of a pilot study to add new variables on race of victims to a larger existing data set of police crime arrest cases from years 2005-2014. The purpose of this study is to improve policing and inform the public about patterns of police crimes perpetrated against Black victims at state and local law enforcement agencies across the United States. This study aims to identify characteristics and associations of police crime arrest cases and victim race. Bivariate analyses found statistically significant associations between violence-related police crimes against black victims. CHAID regression models explored multivariate relationships.

Presented …

A Mixed-Methods Investigation Of Recidivism Among Ex-Offenders In Missouri, Norman James Vick

Dissertations

Ex-offenders return home to family and friends every day in the United States of America; seeking to reintegrate with family and society. Ex-offenders recidivate as well due to numerous reasons and fail at reintegration with family and society. The purpose of the investigation was to learn if substance abuse treatment and obtaining an education in the form of a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) would help the ex-offender avoid further recidivating The investigator was also interested in learning if trust played a vital role in gaining a GED and completion of substance abuse treatment with reintegration of the family for the …

The Price Of Justice: Fines, Fees And The Criminalization Of Poverty In The United States, Lisa Foster

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

No abstract provided.

I Can’T Breathe: Assessing The Role Of Racial Resentment And Racial Prejudice In Whites’ Feelings Toward Black Lives Matter, Emmitt Y. Riley Iii, Clarissa Peterson

Political Science Faculty publications

Since 2014, public opinion data suggests that whites have become more supportive of the Black Lives Movement. The recent murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have prompted a national debate about the need to address systemic racism in policing within the United States. Recent studies have shown how racial resentment has spilled over into a wide range of political issues that are not associated with race; however, no current research examines how racial resentment might shape whites’ views toward Black Lives Matter. Employing the racial reaction theory and the 2016 American Election Study Survey, we hypothesize and confirm that …