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Mugshots In Oklahoma: Stigmatizing Native American Individuals And Communities, Karly L. Fisher

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Next Wave Of Legal Drug Production: What The Psychedelics Legalization Movement Can Learn From A Decade Of Cannabis Regulation, Ryan Stoa

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hispanics-And-Latinos And The U.S. Media: New Issues For Future Research, Santiago Arias, Lea Hellmueller

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Usage Statistics: Project Counter R5 Dr_D1 Report Fy2024 - Database Search And Item Usage, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Project COUNTER R5 Report DR_D1 for the University of Rhode Island for the period from July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. The DR_D1 report is defined as "Database Search and Item Usage." This report presents an annual total only and only includes those platforms successfully configured for automated harvesting via SUSHI.

File for download is Excel spreadsheet generated by Alma Analytics.

Results:

Searches Automated - 30,626

Searches Federated - 918

Searches Regular - 1,049,169

Total Item Investigations - 554,019

Total Item Requests - 235,329

Exploring Interpersonal, Sexual, And Moral Development Of Offending Clergy, Aaron Andrew Ghering

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study explored the lived experiences of offender clergy through their childhood development. It specifically looked at the social, moral, and sexual development of these individuals. This phenomenological qualitative study provided insight into what, if anything, in their early moral, social, and sexual development could help shed light on their future behaviors and actions. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory guided this study by providing an understanding of how social learning throughout development can influence the formation of social, moral, and sexual behaviors later in life. The data were collected from reviewing existing material from existing diaries, interviews, and previously published studies. …

Policymaking And Pretrial Fairness: Evaluating Illinois' Ban On Cash Bail Beyond Chicago, Kaitlyn M. Sims

Global and Public Affairs: Faculty Scholarship

Over 400,000 people are incarcerated awaiting trial each day in the United States. Many of these individuals are held because they are unable to post cash bail, generating substantial economic inequality between those who are able to be released and those who must wait. Illinois's Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA) banned cash bail in 2023 to reduce economic inequity and remove judicial discretion in pretrial decisions. I use daily roster data from multiple suburban and rural Illinois jails and a regression-discontinuity-in-time (RDiT) approach to test for changes to jail composition after the law went into effect. Jail population sizes decreased, though …

State Of Utah, Plaintiff/ Appellee V. Celestine Anastacia Torstenson, Defendant/ Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2020 –)

Appeal from a conviction for aggravated assault, a third - degree felony, in the Second Judicial District, Weber County, the Honorable Joseph M. Bean presiding

WILLIAM M. HAINS, DEREK BROWN, MATTHEW EARL, Counsel for Appellee

Exploring Interpersonal, Sexual, And Moral Development Of Offending Clergy, Aaron Andrew Ghering

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study explored the lived experiences of offender clergy through their childhood development. It specifically looked at the social, moral, and sexual development of these individuals. This phenomenological qualitative study provided insight into what, if anything, in their early moral, social, and sexual development could help shed light on their future behaviors and actions. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory guided this study by providing an understanding of how social learning throughout development can influence the formation of social, moral, and sexual behaviors later in life. The data were collected from reviewing existing material from existing diaries, interviews, and previously published studies. …

In The News: Faculty Insights On National Headlines, Jennifer Bancamper

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

Parallel Punishments: The School-To-Prison Transgender Pipeline, Rayna Momen, Lindsay K. Semprevivo, Cris Mayo

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

With increasing criminalization of transgender people, especially legislation targeting youth, researchers need to consider more closely the historical and continuing criminalization of gender non-normativity. We suggest in this article that closer attention to queer criminology in relationship to transgender and gender-related social justice education can help shape research agendas and school practices and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline for transgender youth. Our focus is specifically on how disciplinary practices requiring identification as well as those that ignore identification both contribute to the growth of punitive responses to gender diversity, especially in relationship to race and ethnicity.

Rethinking Immigration Enforcement, Peter L. Markowitz

Florida Law Review

As the nation turns the page away from the dark chapter of President Trump’s relentless assault on immigrants, it is time to take stock of the nation’s unprecedented immigration enforcement regime. During its relatively short existence, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has deported more than twice as many people as were deported in the entire previous history of the United States. The human and fiscal costs of ICE’s mass deportation agenda are astronomical, and there is almost universal agreement across the political spectrum that the United States’ immigration enforcement apparatus is badly broken. That, however, is where the …

Held At Gunpoint: Applying The Physical Restraint Sentencing Enhancement, Joshua Mccroskey

Florida Law Review

Federal circuit courts of appeal often disagree about how to interpret the United States Sentencing Guidelines. One contentious guideline is the physical restraint sentencing enhancement. This enhancement increases the sentence of a defendant who physically restrained a victim during a crime. Circuit courts disagree about whether to apply this enhancement to a defendant who points a gun at a victim and tells that victim not to move. Four circuit courts interpret the physical restraint enhancement narrowly and only apply it when a defendant does something highly similar to tying or locking up a victim. Three circuits interpret the enhancement very …

Acquiring Ethical Ai, David S. Rubenstein

Florida Law Review

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how the federal government operates. Under the right conditions, AI systems can solve complex problems, reduce administrative burdens, improve human decisions, and optimize resources. Under the wrong conditions, AI systems can lead to widespread discrimination, invasions of privacy, and the erosion of democratic norms. A burgeoning literature has emerged to square algorithmic governance with the precepts of constitutional and administrative law. Federal procurement law, however, remains a dangerous blind spot in the reformist agenda. This Article pivots into that neglected space and emerges with comprehensive framework for acquiring ethical AI. Toward that end, the Article …

Perceptions Of Law Enforcement Spouses Regarding Officer Safety And Danger, Heidi Marie Rose

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Policing is a stressful and dangerous occupation that is imperative to a functioning society, and stress should be limited to ensure a healthy mind and body. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of law enforcement spouses regarding officer safety and danger, which was lacking in the research. Law enforcement spouses have a significant impact over the stress levels of their loved ones. The work–life balance and work–family conflict theories were the theoretical framework used to relate to the study and support the research. The generic qualitative design was used with semistructured interviews to gather research data …

Editor's Forward, Stephen Ruisi, Keagan Tolman

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ud In The News Jan. 4-10, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Academic Minute featured UD faculty all week. Treavor Bogard (teacher education) was among Inside Higher Ed's 'Higher ed pros share why they do the work.' NPR, The Associated Press and The Washington Post also sought faculty expertise.

Public Trials And Plain Error, Stephen Smith

Faculty Publications

Courts are divided on the question of how Sixth Amendment public trial violations should be evaluated on appeal when a criminal defendant fails to object at trial to a courtroom closure. Typically, failing to object triggers plain error review on appeal, which demands a higher threshold of harm to obtain reversal compared to when an objection has been made at trial. Should this type of review also apply in its usual form to public trial errors? The article concludes that it should, despite the fact that public trial violations are considered “structural,” and, when properly preserved, do not require a …

Guarding Against Informants In Wrongful Conviction Cases. “The Trust Of The Innocent Is The Liar’S Most Useful Tool.”, Marc Consalo

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

By some estimates, tens of thousands of individuals are currently wrongfully convicted and serving time in the United States’ prison system for crimes they did not commit. Further concerning is that one of the most common reasons for these unjust outcomes rests with the use of jailhouse informants who often lie in exchange for time off their own sentences. While many other reasons exist for this epidemic, curtailing corrupt jailhouse snitches in order to reduce the harm they commit against innocent citizens is within our grasp. This Article purports to offer several solutions to reduce and in some cases eliminate …

Public Trials And Plain Error, Krista D. Bordatto, Stephen E. Smith

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Courts are divided on the question of how Sixth Amendment public trial violations should be evaluated on appeal when a criminal defendant fails to object at trial to a courtroom closure. Typically, failing to object triggers plain error review on appeal, which demands a higher threshold of harm to obtain reversal compared to when an objection has been made at trial. Should this type of review also apply in its usual form to public trial errors? The article concludes that it should, despite the fact that public trial violations are considered “structural,” and, when properly preserved, do not require a …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, January 10, 2025, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Perceptions Of Law Enforcement Spouses Regarding Officer Safety And Danger, Heidi Marie Rose

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Policing is a stressful and dangerous occupation that is imperative to a functioning society, and stress should be limited to ensure a healthy mind and body. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of law enforcement spouses regarding officer safety and danger, which was lacking in the research. Law enforcement spouses have a significant impact over the stress levels of their loved ones. The work–life balance and work–family conflict theories were the theoretical framework used to relate to the study and support the research. The generic qualitative design was used with semistructured interviews to gather research data …

Tax Law Enforcement And Redistributive Politics, Yehonatan Givati, Andrew T. Hayashi

Florida Tax Review

The Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Biden on August 16, 2022, allocated $80 billion in additional funding for the IRS. While Democrats unanimously supported the bill, not a single Republican voted in favor of it. The first legislation advanced by the new Republican majority in 2023 was to repeal this increase in IRS funding. Given the diminished state of IRS enforcement capacity, increasing the resources devoted to tax enforcement seems like an obvious imperative without a clear partisan valence. One might think that political and ideological battles would be fought over what the tax law is, not whether the …

The Role Of Criminal Mediation In Achieving Criminal Justice For Juveniles (A Comparative Analytical Study Between Palestinian And Jordanian Legislations), Issam Al-Atrash

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This study aimed to identify the role of criminal mediation in achieving criminal justice for juveniles. To achieve this purpose, the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach, the comparative approach and the historical approach. The study also addressed the provisions of criminal mediation in the Palestinian Juvenile Law No. 4 of 2015, and the Jordanian Juvenile Law No. 32 of 2014 regarding the parties of the criminal mediation of the juveniles, the conditions of criminal mediation for the juveniles, and the consequences thereof. The study concluded that the most prominent result was that the criminal mediation of juveniles in the …

Discretionary Immigration Detention, Mary Holper

Duke Law Journal

Immigration detainees challenging immigration judges’ bond decisions are hitting a jurisdictional wall—federal courts are given license to ignore errors that immigration judges make in determining dangerousness and flight risk, because such decisions can be categorized as “discretionary.” This license comes from a 1996 amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act that removed federal courts’ jurisdiction over discretionary decisions to detain for immigration purposes. Detainees’ important liberty interests are left to the whims of a single immigration judge, who determines bond under conditions representing an implicit bias minefield.

This Article explores the justifications for unreviewable discretion and for stripping federal court …

Hell Comes With High Water: Hurricanes, Climate Change, And Louisiana's Dire Warning About The Erosion Of Our Speedy Trial Right, Robert F. Cerise

Duke Law Journal

The Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial Clause purportedly protects against undue delays in criminal cases. In order to obtain relief for a speedy trial violation, a defendant must show that a delay has lasted so long as to trigger the four-factor test in Barker v. Wingo (1972). Over time, however, states have codified procedural barriers to this speedy trial analysis. Simultaneously, courts have eroded Barker itself, namely by excusing “neutral” delays and by shifting the burden of proving prejudice resulting from such delays onto defendants. Louisiana is a particularly egregious example of these concerning trends, partly because hurricanes regularly disrupt the …

Access To Algorithmic Justice: Defending A Right To Expert Assistance For Indigent Defendants, Meghna Melkote, Madhavi Nambiar

Duke Law Journal Online

No abstract provided.

Factors Associated With Parental Substance Use And Child Welfare In Nevada 2019-2021, Lisa Christine Lee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Substance use is a growing public health concern that is adversely impacting reproductive-aged individuals and families (Bruzelius & Martins, 2022). Parental substance use is increasingly driving family separation through the child welfare system. Substance use and family separation intersect with trauma and adverse childhood experiences in a variety of ways. Risk factors and race/ethnicity may contribute to family surveillance, bias, and disproportionality in child welfare and impact reunification and cause further trauma. This study explored associations between household characteristics and risk factors and services provided to families with reunification goals for families with child welfare involvement due to substance use …

Influence Of Psychological Evaluators’ Demographics, Perceptions Of Bias, And Juvenile Defendants’ Race On Competency Decisions, Elizabeth Zaito

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Recent large-scale studies and reviews have revealed inconsistent findings regarding the role of evaluator characteristics, bias, and characteristics of juveniles in judging competency to stand trial as adults in juvenile cases using Dusky standards. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of psychological evaluators’ education and experience, cognitive bias, and race of juveniles on decisions involving competency to stand trial. The attribution theory was used as the theoretical framework to explain how internal years of education and experience as well as beliefs about bias can influence decision-making. Data were collected from 84 forensic and clinical professionals and …

Factors Associated With Parental Substance Use And Child Welfare In Nevada 2019-2021, Lisa Christine Lee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Substance use is a growing public health concern that is adversely impacting reproductive-aged individuals and families (Bruzelius & Martins, 2022). Parental substance use is increasingly driving family separation through the child welfare system. Substance use and family separation intersect with trauma and adverse childhood experiences in a variety of ways. Risk factors and race/ethnicity may contribute to family surveillance, bias, and disproportionality in child welfare and impact reunification and cause further trauma. This study explored associations between household characteristics and risk factors and services provided to families with reunification goals for families with child welfare involvement due to substance use …

Influence Of Psychological Evaluators’ Demographics, Perceptions Of Bias, And Juvenile Defendants’ Race On Competency Decisions, Elizabeth Zaito

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Recent large-scale studies and reviews have revealed inconsistent findings regarding the role of evaluator characteristics, bias, and characteristics of juveniles in judging competency to stand trial as adults in juvenile cases using Dusky standards. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of psychological evaluators’ education and experience, cognitive bias, and race of juveniles on decisions involving competency to stand trial. The attribution theory was used as the theoretical framework to explain how internal years of education and experience as well as beliefs about bias can influence decision-making. Data were collected from 84 forensic and clinical professionals and …