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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 32, Number 2, Fall 2022, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

This issue highlights stories about Bridgewater students, alumni, and faculty. Included are articles on alumni helping to preserve the memory of veterans; praise for the landmark program at BSU offering free tuition to homeless students; the establishment of a "micro food pantry" by a BSU student; free speech endeavors; STEM initiatives; faculty initiatives; and artist Greg Wyatt and and the Greg and Fay Wyatt Sculpture Garden at BSU.

Senate Journal History, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

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The Green Police In The Golden State: An Analysis Of The Criminal Enforcement Of Environmental Law In The State Of California, Joshua Ozymy, Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

UC Law Environmental Journal

The use of criminal enforcement tools is necessary for deterring and punishing environmental offenses involving significant harm or culpable conduct. Yet we have very limited empirical knowledge of how the criminal enforcement of environmental laws has functioned historically in the Golden State. Through content analysis of prosecution summaries for every federal criminal investigation undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the State of California that led to criminal prosecution, 1983-2019, we are able to provide a comprehensive account of what laws are violated, how prosecutors charge environmental criminals, and how these criminals are sentenced, illustrating broader themes in …

What Can We Learn From The Federal Approach To The Prosecution Of Juvenile Crime?, Emily Buss

Articles

In a context of widespread concern over our bloated criminal justice system and growing awareness of the harm done to individuals and society by our excessive incarceration policies, any piece of the system that has remained infinitesimally small deserves some attention. In her article, The Federal Juvenile System, 1 Esther Hong highlights the success of the largely overlooked federal juvenile delinquency system in staying extremely small and suggests this system offers lessons for its bloated state and federal counterparts. Although I agree that the federal government’s prosecution of minors under the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act (“FJDA”) offers some valuable lessons …

Police Agencies On Facebook Overreport On Black Suspects, Ben Grunwald, Julian Nyarko, John Rappaport

Articles

A large and growing share of the American public turns to Facebook for news. On this platform, reports about crime increasingly come directly from law enforcement agencies, raising questions about content curation. We gathered all posts from almost 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by US law enforcement agencies, focusing on reporting about crime and race. We found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25 percentage points relative to local arrest rates. This overexposure occurs across crime types and geographic regions and increases with the proportion of both Republican voters and non-Black residents. Widespread exposure to …

Kids Are Not So Different: The Path From Juvenile Exceptionalism To Prison Abolition, Emily Buss

Articles

Inspired by the Supreme Court’s embrace of developmental science in a series of Eighth Amendment cases, “kids are different” has become the rallying cry, leading to dramatic reforms in our response to juvenile crime designed to eliminate the incarceration of children and support their successful transition to adulthood. The success of these reforms represents a promising start, but the “kids are different” approach is built upon two flaws in the Court’s developmental analysis that constrain the reach of its decisions and hide the true implications of a developmental approach. Both the text of the Court’s opinions and the developmental and …

Symposium Introduction: This Violent City? Urban Violence In Chicago And Beyond, Aziz Z. Huq, John Rappaport

Articles

To many, the city of Chicago conjures up a specter of unremitting urban violence. In 2014, the city was labeled the “murder capital” of the United States.¹ The following year, a video of the police shooting Laquan McDonald became a cynosure of public concern.² Commentators as disparate as Spike Lee and President Donald Trump agree: Chicago is uniquely bloody.³ Predictably, the empirical data about Chicago’s crime and policing trends belie the most dramatic of these claims.⁴ Yet if Chicago is not as violent as either Lee or Trump makes it out to be, the city’s experience …

Connections 2022: A Free Guide For Formerly Incarcerated People, Kate Heenan

Reentry Resources

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"You're Fired": Criminal Use Of Presidential Removal Power, Richard Painter

Articles

If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, his first order of business would be to use his power as president to halt the criminal investigations against him. In the case of federal indictments, he would likely begin by removing the special counsel, and then proceeding to remove anyone else who had control over the investigations or prosecutions. Such removal would likely constitute the crime of obstruction of justice. May a President do this? This Article addresses a narrow but critically important aspect of presidential authority: the intersection between the President’s power to remove executive branch officers and criminal laws that …

Public Undersight, Christina Koningisor

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

The laws governing transparency and accountability in government are deeply flawed, plagued by steep financial costs, high barriers to access, and widespread corporate capture. While legal scholars have suggested a wide variety of fixes, they have focused almost exclusively on legal solutions. They have largely overlooked a growing set of grassroots efforts that seek to reconstruct government information extralegally, rather than work through existing legal structures or remedy breakdowns in the formal transparency law regime.

An array of bottom-up movements to circumvent the formal transparency law and challenge the government’s monopoly on information have sprung up around the country in …

Introduction To Issue Two

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Introduction To Issue 3

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Graduate Bulletin 2022-2023, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2022-2023

Undergraduate Bulletin 2022-2023, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2022-2023

The Importance Of Emotional And Physical Safety In The Success And Development Of Public Spaces, Isabella Wilhelm

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Our day-to-day lives consist of formal and informal settlements in the built environment. As humans, we gravitate towards successful informal settlements (public spaces) to conduct activities such as socializing and recharging. Previous research has highlighted the importance of distinct factors in determining the success of public spaces. Still, research has failed to develop the foundation that makes all public places prosper. Through examining successful and unsuccessful public places through case studies, this research analyses the success and importance of our emotional and physical safety in public spaces through the presence or absence of sound, light, nature, boundaries, and order.

America To Me – A Public Nuisance Reparations Framework Through The Lens Of The Tulsa Massacre, 55 Uic L. Rev. 681 (2022), Kerri Gefeke

UIC Law Review

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Concerning Measures To Provide Resources To Increase Community Safety And In Connection Therewith, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning The Continuation Of The Domestic Violence Offender Management Board And In Connection Therewith Implementing The Recommendations Contained In The, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Fire Suppression Ponds And In Connection Therewith Making An, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Measures To Enhance Oversight Of Oil And Gas Operations Within The State, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning A Requirement That The Ballot Title And Fiscal Summary For Any Ballot Initiative That Increases Or Decreases State Income Tax Rates Include A Table Showing The Average Tax Change For Tax Filers In Different Income Categories, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Measures To Support Victims Of Violent Crime Who Suffer Brain Injuries As A Result And In Connection Therewith, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning The Procedure For Sealing Of Criminal Records For Nonviolent Offenses And In Connection Therewith Addressing Workforce Shortages, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Elimination Of The Requirement That Certain Businesses Licensed To Sell Alcohol Beverages For Consumption On The Licensed Premises Register A Manager Of The Licensed Premises With The State Licensing Authority, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Concerning Increased Alcohol Monitoring For Impaired Driving Offenders And In Connection Therewith, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Towards A Psychological Science Of Abolition Democracy: Insights For Improving Theory And Research On Race And Public Safety, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Phillip Atiba Goff

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that Du Bois (1935) articulated as the need to dissolve slavery while simultaneously taking affirmative steps to rid its toxic consequences from the body politic. Because the legacies of slavery continue to produce disparities in public safety in the U.S, both harming Black people and the institutions that could keep them safe, psychologists must take seriously questions of history and structure in addition to immediate situations. In the present article, we consider the state of knowledge regarding psychological processes …

Violating Human Rights: Chicago Law Enforcement’S Excessive Force Against Black Lives Matter Activists And Human Rights Defenders, Sarah Dávila A., Et Al.

Faculty White Papers

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On Proper[Ty] Apologies And Resilience Gaps, Marc L. Roark

Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

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Community Bonding For Ex-Offenders: The Importance Of Recreational Social Activities On The Post-Incarceration Reentry Process, Mfon-Obong Edet

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

Examining different factors that causes an individual, particularly an ex-offender, to re-engage in criminal activities (also known as recidivism) is a recurring topic when discussing the U.S. criminal justice system. Within the field of criminology, an individual's engagement in criminal activities could be due to biological, psychological, or sociological factors. For the purpose of this study, understanding the sociological factors related to criminal activity was further explored. This exploration focused on the importance of community building and how bonding with others can create a better reentry process for the ex-offender, post-incarceration. Additionally, with a better reentry process, ex-offenders’ may be …

Can It Heal And Hurt?: Survivors Of Sexual Assault Share The Benefits And Challenges Of Sexual Assault Support Group Participation, Brittni Gettys

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

Research exploring the relationships among trauma survivors is largely non-existent. This study aimed to explore the effects of relationships among individuals with a shared experience of sexual trauma within the group therapeutic context of sexual assault support groups. This study sought to examine the potential buffering and supportive effects of social support between sexual assault survivors, while also exploring the potential negative effects of shared trauma that may occur from the potentially triggering nature of seeking support from other sexual assault survivors. These complex dynamics were explored through examining the relationships and experiences of sexual assault survivors who have attended …