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Carving An Indian Mosaic For Image-Based Sexual Abuse, Aanchal Kabra, Rohit Gupta

National Law School of India Review

In 2021, India crossed the threshold of the quantum of revenge porn cases, necessitating a public discourse on compartmentalizing the offence within pre-existing, yet outdated, legislations. Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, these reports come at the heels of the growing image-based sexual abuse in India, exemplified by other cases of voyeurism and sextortion. Despite the increasing statistics, image- based sexual abuse, as a systematic class of sexual crimes against women and children, remains virtually unrecognized in Indian scholarship and legislation. This paper proposes a comprehensive legislative framework for the battle against image-based sexual abuse. In doing so, it classifies each …

Forgiving Without Forgetting? Privacy In An Age Of Digital Permanence, Rock Park

Political Science Honors Projects

The 21st Century has been marked by increasing digital globalization, and an extensive, complete record of most individual’s public and private lives. This posed enough of a risk to privacy that in 2014, the European Union began to outline and articulate the digital privacy rights of European citizens in a set of policies known as “right to be forgotten” laws. As of 2018, these right to be forgotten protections had been codified into the General Data Privacy Regulation for the EU (GDPR). This paper explores the construction of privacy and subsequent adoption of the right to be forgotten specifically in …

Section Ii: Gender-Based Violence And The Law, Gavin Patrick Gray, Nidhi Shrivastava, Deepesh Nirmaldas Dayal

English Faculty Publications

This chapter is a transcript of an open-ended discussion that occurred between the authors when they met to discuss the subject matter of the second section of the book, which focuses on the effectiveness of legal responses to gendered violence. As with the previous introductory dialogue, the discussion takes place after preliminary drafts had been completed, and the authors share their thoughts on the subjects they will each discuss in more detail in the following chapters. These include the impact of cultural and gender bias within the Indian legal system, the insufficient impact of long-overdue reforms in Japan's sexual violence …

Genocidal Violence, Biopolitics, And Treatment Of Abducted And Raped Women In The Aftermath Of 1947 Partition In India, Nidhi Shrivastava

English Faculty Publications

As we reckon with the #MeToo movement, the gender-based violence that occurred during the 1947 Partition continues to remain forgotten in mainstream discourses and is an emotive and polarising issue within both India and its diaspora. Just like mainstream news in the United States covered the Gabby Petito case, causing a controversy as it led to the realisation that the rape and gender-based violence of missing indigenous women were not covered, it can be suggested that mainstream news channels both within India and in the diaspora construct narratives that privilege the stories of some over others – with issues of …

Delaware’S Multidisciplinary Teams For The Investigation Of Child Abuse: Communities Of Practice?, Lori Sitler

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Multidisciplinary teams (MDT) of professionals are mandated to respond to and investigate cases of child abuse in Delaware. Utilizing research and theory about interorganizational collaboration, my exploratory study considered how this mandate operated in practice. Five themes from interorganizational literature (IOC) on facilitators and barriers to collaborative practice--trust, commitment, communication, capacity, and change--were examined using the theories of Goffman and Weber. The concept of power underlies these themes.

The MDT was considered a motivating example to explore whether Lave and Wenger’s socio-cultural learning theory of Community of Practice (CoP) explained learning and practice among multidisciplinary professionals considering barriers and facilitators …

Challenging Reform: A Formerly Incarcerated Student Roundtable Discussion, Colby Williams, Phil Miller, Jordan Sudol

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cruel And Usual: Contaminated Water In New York State Prisons, Shannon Haupt, Phil Miller

City University of New York Law Review

People who are currently or formerly incarcerated in New York State prisons know that the water inside is often not safe to drink. However, when they advocate for access to clean water, they are regularly met with retaliation and denial.

This article brings together firsthand accounts, case law, and ongoing investigations regarding water quality in New York State prisons. Contaminated water is not an anomaly in prisons–it is one of many severe conditions that people in prison are forced to live under which threaten their physical, mental, and emotional health. The daily abuses and harms suffered by incarcerated people are …

The Implications Of Legalized Marijuana On Establishing Probable Cause For A Warrantless Search, Lauren Williams, Samuel D. Hodge Jr.

Saint Louis University Law Journal

A police officer pulled over a speeding automobile. As the officer approached the vehicle, the driver lowered her window, causing the unique odor of marijuana to escape into the air.[1] This smell immediately alerted the officer to the existence of a controlled substance and established probable cause to search the operator and car.[2] Not so fast! Sniff and search is no longer an automatic justification for law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search in those jurisdictions that have legalized or decriminalized cannabis.[3]

The Supreme Court has long recognized the “automobile exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against …

What Comes After Defund? Lessons From Police And Prison Abolition For The Animal Movement, Michael Swistara

Animal Law Review

As the mass incarceration crisis skyrocketed, the animal protection movement adopted many of the mechanisms of the carceral state. Improving the status of animals was equated with pushing for lengthier sentences for those who caused harm to animals, placing more people into cages for longer periods of time. This disproportionally harmed Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM) communities who are the most heavily policed, surveilled, and imprisoned. Allying with the carceral state has also harmed animals-advocates are labeled terrorists, potential allies are dissuaded from action, and companion animals are killed by officers of the state. This approach …

Pretrial Release In Domestic Violence Cases: How States Handle The Notoriously Private Crime, Jacquelyn Sicilia

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Domestic violence has plagued society for years. However, until 1994, domestic violence was not federally criminalized. Today, domestic violence affects over ten million Americans per year. Because of the criminal justice system’s slow reaction to domestic violence, how the criminal justice system handles domestic violence cases is far from ideal. Pretrial release in domestic violence cases is one area of domestic violence that is ripe for research, guidance, and change. Pretrial release brings to light a unique balance; defendants are presumed to be innocent, but at the same time, the fact of arrest may point to an ongoing risk of …

Modelling Pretrial Detention, Melissa Hamilton

American University Law Review

Pretrial detention has become normative in contemporary criminal justice, rather than the exception to a rule of release for individuals not convicted of any crime. Even the opportunity for release with a bond amount often eludes the many individuals who are unable to afford, to pay. Defendants detained, pending trial suffer numerous negative consequences to their own legal cases, such as being more likely to feel pressured to plead guilty and to receive a prison sentence. The high numbers of those detained appear to disproportionately impact minorities and. have contributed to mass incarceration. As a. result, of these issues, the …

The Sociological Eye 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Sociology Department

The Sociological Eye Student Journal

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Stacy Burns

Editor: Viannie Egbunike

Progressive Punitivism In Corporate Crime, Roberto Rodriguez

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Abolishing The Evidence-Based Paradigm, Erin Collins

Law Faculty Publications

The belief that policies and procedures should be data-driven and “evidence-based” has become criminal law’s leading paradigm for reform. This evidence-based paradigm, which promotes quantitative data collection and empirical analysis to shape and assess reforms, has been widely embraced for its potential to cure the emotional and political pathologies that led to mass incarceration. It has influenced reforms across the criminal procedure spectrum, from predictive policing through actuarial sentencing. The paradigm’s appeal is clear: it promises an objective approach that lets data – not politics – lead the way and purports to have no agenda beyond identifying effective, efficient reforms. …

Ensuring Black Lives Matter When The Penalty Is Death, Sidney Balman

Law Student Publications

"Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. These are several of the names that come to mind when we think about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. They are the faces of institutional oppression of Black men and women in their daily interactions with law enforcement. Thus far, the BLM movement has focused on police brutality against Black communities—the vagaries of violence perpetrated on minority communities by those whose duty is to protect them. But there is another place where Black Lives should Matter, but don’t—the death penalty." [..]

Why Not Both Nature And Nurture: Using Behavioral Genetic Markers As Sentencing Factors, Seely Kaufmann

Law Student Publications

"On the evening of July 1, 2013, Amos Wells was upset that his pregnant girlfriend, Chanice Reed, would not answer his calls. He then drove to where she, her mother Annette, and ten-year-old brother Eddie, lived. After arguing with Chanice and yelling at the top of his voice in a “bone-chilling scream,” Wells retrieved a handgun from his Chevrolet Tahoe parked in front of the house, and shot Chanice in the front yard as she screamed, “No, no, no.” Her mother then tried to bat the gun away before he shot her too. Further shots were heard before Wells finally …

University Profile: 2021, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

No abstract provided.

Student-Organized Cultural Events, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

No abstract provided.

Let’S Get R.E.A.L.: Developing A Shared Definition Of Structural Racism Is The First Step Towards Health Equity, Deann Butler

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Recent events bought to the forefront the need to address structural racism in the US, specifically within the institution of healthcare. Organizations such as the American Public Health Association (APHA, 2021), American Medical Association (AMA) (O’Reilly, 2020), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Walensky, 2021) recognize racism as a fundamental driver of persistent health disparities in minority populations. Additionally, healthcare accreditation organizations such as National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA, 2022) launched initiatives that strategically work to achieve health equity. More so, organizations across healthcare are creating roles such as Chief Health Equity Officer or Chief Diversity Officer to …

A Case Study Analysis Of Alternative Out-Of-School Suspension Strategies Used In Title I Elementary Schools In A Large Urban School District, Jonathan Brooks

Doctor of Education Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compile or detail alternative out-of-school suspension (OSS) strategies using a qualitative method. Within this study, I evaluated the overall thoughts and perceptions of stakeholders, including teachers, school staff, and administrators as it relates to the strategies being used in Title I elementary schools in a large urban district. The following terms or word combinations were searched: alternative, elementary school, decreasing, reducing, attendance, restorative practices, principal, assistant principal, perceptions, stakeholders, teachers, strategies, out-of-school suspension (OSS), elementary, urban school, multi-tiered system of support, restorative practices, positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS), and zero tolerance. After …

Kids Count State Of The Child 2021, Tennessee. Commission On Children & Youth.

The State of the Child in Tennessee

No abstract provided.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1999 Spring

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "Lasting Impressions" by Elizabeth Jane Walker

Dr. Stephen Pruitt helps members of the Memphis Print Club learn about and acquire fine art. Cover photo: Dunes Oceano, California by Ansel Adams, 1963.

Also featured, "Super Bowl IX" by Greg Russell

Billions of people watch the annual Super Bowl, one of the world's premier sporting events. The UofM has produced nine players who have appeared in the championship game, with five coming away with Super Bowl rings.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1998 Spring

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "Cliff Hanger" by Elizabeth Walker Marshburn

Ranger Jim Detterline (M.S. '82, Ph.D. '89) lives on the edge.

Also featured, "Socks Rocks" by Greg Russell

Elliot Perry rocks the NBA. By overcoming adversity, the Tigers' second all-time leading scorer has worked his way from the minor leagues to the NBA.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2000 Winter

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "Quake-Up Call" by Greg Russell

Turkey, China, California - Many people think that major earthquakes happen other places - not at home! But UofM researchers studying a quake in Taiwan returned to campus with warnings for inhabitants of the new Madrid seismic zone.

Also featured, "Accessing Aristotle" by Olivia Miller

Alumna, Marla Johnson, has parlayed a triple major in international relations, urban studies and political science into a successful cyberspace career.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1999 Fall

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

Cover Story, "Innkeeper to the Campus" by Elizabeth Jane Walker

Because of Kemmons and Dorothy Wilson's beneficence, the University will soon have a magnificent building to house its new hospitality and resort management program. (Photo by Don Reber)

Also featured, "A Sampling of UofM Research"

by Greg Russell and Elizabeth Jane Walker

"Scholar in Service": Dr. Joann Keyton; "Grading School Reform": Dr. Steven M. Ross; "Aid for the Addict": Dr. Charles Williams; "Innocence Lost": Dr. Phyllis Betts Partners; "Saving Lives": Dr. Michael Neuman; "Voice of Reason": Dr. Shelley White-Means; "Room with a View": Dr. Robert …

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1998 Fall

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1999 Winter

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "Babylon's 3" by Carol Penn-Romine

Three former roommates at the University of Memphis team up on an award-winning science fiction television program.

Also featured, "Special Delivery" by Branna Beavers

Letters donated to the University give a heartwrenching glimpse into the Holocaust. With postmarks nearly 60 years old, scores of letters have arrived at the Ned R. McWherter Library - a special delivery from the past. These fragile epistles provide a heart-wrenching glimpse into the realities of the Holocaust.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2013 Spring

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "Patent Pending" by Greg Russell

A new breed of scientists at the U of M is aggressively pursuing inventions that are already affecting millions around the world.

Also featured: The Columns Alumni Review

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2015 Spring

University of Memphis Magazine

Cover Story, "The Next Big Thing" by Greg Russell

Is there another Frederick W. Smith waiting to burst onto the scene in Memphis? Five UofM students might have the answer via innovative projects they are working on in the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship.

Also featured: The Columns Alumni Review

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2016 Winter

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual President's Report.