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Technological Triage Of Immigration Cases, Fatma Marouf, Luz Herrera

Florida Law Review

In the medical profession, triage refers to sorting medical resources in emergency situations based on the greatest need for immediate attention. Similarly, legal service providers talk about “triaging” cases to prioritize individuals with the most serious problems. But in the immigration field, the concept of triage is turned on its head. Noncitizens with the riskiest cases—those facing deportation—have the least access to legal assistance, especially if they are detained.

Technology has the potential to help with triage but is not yet being used effectively to assist with deportation defense. This Article argues that utilizing technology to facilitate access to representation …

The Algorithmic Divide And Equality In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Peter K. Yu

Florida Law Review

In the age of artificial intelligence, highly sophisticated algorithms have been deployed to provide analysis, detect patterns, optimize solutions, accelerate operations, facilitate self-learning, minimize human errors and biases, and foster improvements in technological products and services. Notwithstanding these tremendous benefits, algorithms and intelligent machines do not provide equal benefits to all. Just as the “digital divide” has separated those with access to the Internet, information technology, and digital content from those without, an emerging and ever-widening “algorithmic divide” now threatens to take away the many political, social, economic, cultural, educational, and career opportunities provided by machine learning and artificial intelligence. …

Police Funding, Stephen Rushin, Roger Michalski

Florida Law Review

A number of civil rights activists have called for the defunding or abolition of American police departments. These activists claim that the United States overinvests in police, leaving fewer scarce resources to support other government services. Activists also claim that overinvestment in policing contributes to higher rates of police misconduct and unnecessary criminalization, particularly in communities of color.

This Article considers these calls for the defunding of police. It ultimately cautions against widespread defunding of police and offers an alternative proposal. Part I brings together multiple national databases on local government expenditures to evaluate empirically how states and municipalities fund …

Unjustly Enriched Prisons: The Problem With Capitalizing On Captivity, Jazmen Howard

Florida Law Review

This Note sheds light on state practices that take advantage of vulnerable, captive consumers: inmates. States regularly negotiate contracts relating to services and benefits for inmates, using inmates—a captive market—to enrich themselves. States make key decisions, force changes, and earn profits by implementing contracts that affect inmates and explicitly block inmates from pursuing any standing to negotiate the contracts or to sue for any contractual breaches. A current controversy that provides an example of states’ consciously taking advantage of captive consumers involves giving, taking, and altering access to music and video devices. In that scenario, as a state continues to …

Unusual State Capital Punishments, William W. Berry Iii

Florida Law Review

This Article argues that many of the states that retain the death penalty currently violate their own state constitutions because their use of the death penalty is unusual. Specifically, an intrastate assessment of the death penalty in some states, particularly examining its use across counties, suggests that the rareness of its use might mean that it has become an unusual punishment. As a result, this Article explores the twenty-six capital states that proscribe “unusual” punishments and categorizes them based on the likelihood that their use of the death penalty violates their state constitutions.

Part I of this Article explains the …

Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform During Cycles Of Political Retrenchment, Carol S. Steiker

Florida Law Review

For the past decade or so, criminal justice reform in the United States has been having a moment. After decades of massive increases in incarceration rates around the country, advocates for serious rethinking of harsh criminal justice policies have begun to find more receptive audiences at the local, state, and federal levels. However, the 2016 presidential election brought into office a new administration that often embraces the perspective of earlier eras on crime and punishment. How might the momentum of criminal justice reform be maintained in this new political climate? Looking back at some of the drivers of change over …

Approved Programs 11-9-21, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Number 54, Fall 2021

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Who Are We? Highlighting Nuances In Asian American Experiences In Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, K. H. Nguyen, A. K. Akiona, C. C. Chang, V. B. Chaudhary, S. J. Cheng, S. M. Johnson, S. S. Kahanamoku, A. Lee, E. E. Deleon Sanchez, L. M. Segui, Richelle L. Tanner

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

"As ecologists and evolutionary biologists, it is important to recognize that issues surrounding AAPI do not exist in a vacuum and that these issues affect some of our students and colleagues in and outside of the classroom and lab. Recently, anti-Asian racism has been brought to the forefront of US society. Though media attention has primarily focused on how COVID-19 fears motivated both violent and nonviolent racist incidents against East Asians in 2020 (e.g., Chinese and Taiwanese Americans) (Tessler et al. 2020), attacks on other AAPI groups, such as South and Southeast Asians (e.g., Filipino, Pakistani, and Vietnamese Americans) (Truong …

Agenda, November 9, 2021, Programs Committee

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

November 2021 Minutes, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Say Her Name: The Narrative Afterlives Of Breonna Taylor, Tyler S. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Within the growing literature and media coverage of police misconduct and brutality, Black women and girls are functionally invisible. Since the Black Lives Matter movement began the names of only two women have stood out among the Black male victims we know by name: Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. Here, I will explore through a Black feminist analytic framework, how the intersectionalities of gender and race contributed to a delay in awareness and accountability for the death of Breonna Taylor. This content analysis looked at the media coverage of Breonna Taylor for the one-year period (3/13/20-3/13/21) to uncover the reasons, …

Exploring Interventions To Improve The Oral Health And Related Health Behaviours Of Adults Experiencing Severe And Multiple Disadvantage: Protocol For A Qualitative Study With Stakeholders, Emma C. Joyes, Laura J. Mcgowan, Emma A. Adams, Martha Paisi, Martin Burrows, Hosein Shabaninejad, Fiona Beyer, Kate Haddow, Aishah Coyte, David Landes, Suzanne Moffatt, Richard G. Watt, Falko F. Sniehotta, Clare Bambra, Dawn Craig, Eileen Kaner, Sheena E. Ramsay

School of Nursing and Midwifery

The number of individuals in England experiencing homelessness, substance use, and involvement with the criminal justice system is increasing. These issues, referred to as severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), are often interlinked and co-occur. Health inequalities, particularly poor oral health, persist for those facing these inter-related issues and are closely linked with high levels of substance use, smoking, and poor diet. However, evidence for interventions that can improve these health outcomes for those experiencing these issues is limited. This paper outlines the design of a qualitative study which aims to explore the perspectives of stakeholders to understand what interventions can …

The Utah Statesman, November 8, 2021, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Usa V. Malik Nasir

2021 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Asking The Menstruation Question To Achieve Menstrual Justice, Margaret E. Johnson

All Faculty Scholarship

Menstruation is a situs of discrimination, oppression, harassment, and microaggression. Employers fire workers for bleeding and experiencing period pain. Schools control menstruating students’ access to bathrooms, products, and menstrual education. Prisons control their residents’ free access to menstrual products. There are both “obvious and non-obvious relationships” between menstrual discrimination and discrimination on the basis of race, gender, class, gender identity, and disability. This Essay suggests we ask the “menstruation question” as part of our examination of all forms of intersectional oppressions and to achieve menstrual justice. For example, if we see something racist, we should ask “where is the menstrual …

Vol. 61, No. 11 (November 8, 2021)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 8, 2021, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 8, 2021, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (November 8, 2021), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on November 8, 2021.

Graduate Student Shares Her Love Of Law Enforcement, Lauren Lucas

University of Mississippi News

Megan Suprenant continues her criminal justice education through the School of Applied Sciences

The Language Of Political Genres: Inaugural And State Speeches Of New York City Mayors And Us Presidents, David C. Hoffman, Tiffany Lewis, Don Waisanen

Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association

This study provides empirical evidence for the predictions of genre theorists concerning two genres of political speech: inaugural addresses and state addresses (state of the union and state of the city speeches). Using a combination of computer-aided textual analysis and regression analysis, we analyzed 132 speeches from US presidents and NYC mayors to see whether nine dependent variables varied according to genre. The results of our regressions indicated significant differences between the genres: inaugural addresses are more inspirational and unifying than state speeches and state speeches use more policy-related language and language concerned with the past than inaugurals. This paper …

Hon. Timothy Corrigan, Gerald B. Tjoflat

Special Collections

A discussion with Judge Tjoflat regarding his involvement on the Judicial Conference Committee — probation, sentencing, bail reform (1973-1989).

Cardozo Law News Brief: November 5, 2021, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2021

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Pamela Foohey
• Myriam Gilles
• Anthony Sebok
• Kyron J. Huigens
• Barbara Kolsun
• Kathryn Miller
• Alexander A. Reinert
• Gabor Rona
• Michel Rosenfeld
• Stewart E. Sterk

Events:

• The COVID-19 Pandemic, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Practice of Law
• Getting Started in Tech Law: How to Build Your Career
• Attica: Screening and Conversation
• Supporting Mental and Public Health Prevention Work in Atrocity Settings
• “Dupe Influencers” and Fraudulent Advertising: Trademark Infringement on Social Media
• 2021 Lemkin Award Ceremony
• Book Talk with Professor Carissa Byrne Hessick on "Punishment Without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining Is a Bad Deal"

Continuity Of Offending In Young Adulthood: A Test Of Moffitt’S Snares Hypothesis, Alex O. Widdowson, J.W. Andrew Ranson, Anna M. Kyser

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Moffitt’s snares hypothesis posits that snares—such as addiction to drugs and alcohol, time spent incarcerated, unemployment, teenage parenthood, high school dropout, and disabling injuries—can trap individuals into persistent patterns of offending during periods in the lifecourse when desistance is normative. We test this hypothesis using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine the associations and mechanisms between snare exposure and criminal offending during young adulthood. Results indicate that snare exposure was associated with increased offending and that this was in part due to snare exposure undermining a successful transition to adulthood, harming health, and producing social …

The Need For More Exacting Assessment Of The Individual Rights And Sovereign Interests At Stake In Federal Court Interpretation Of "Detention" Under The Indian Civil Rights Act's Remedy Of Habeas Corpus, Andrew M. Seielstad

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

"Constitutional Inquisitors:" The Pragmatic Roots Of Federal Prosecutorial Power, Scott Ingram

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Carpenter V. United States, Ellen S. Podgor

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Vol.49 N.16 November 4th 2021, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

The Montclarion, November 4, 2021, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Preventing Substance Abuse Among Pregnant And Gestating Mothers In Texas State, Latosha Belton

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Nationally, substance use during pregnancy “…increased from 1.19 to 5.63 per 1,000 hospital births.” (SAMHSA, 2016) Infants born with substance withdrawal symptoms leading to a diagnosis of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) affect infant mortality rate (IMR) data. Statewide research shows that in 2015, Texas’ PHR 2/3’s IMR surpassed that of the state and national average. Gleeson, (2017) Further research documents the concentration of high IMR averages being located in communities at or below the poverty line representative of underrepresented, minority populations. Bishop, Borkowski, Couillard, et al., (2017) In efforts to reduce the amount of infants born with substance ab/use diagnoses …