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Academic Motivation Of African American Male Students At Indiana State University, Nathan Harris

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

African American student academic performance is a topic of much concern in the U.S. (Allen, 1992; Cokley, 2000, 2002, 2003; Cokley & Moore, 2007; Cokley et al., 2015; Harper et al., 2012; Harper, 2015; Steele, 1992). Thus, the task of closing the academic achievement gap between Black and White students is a worthy assignment undertaken by many researchers. The purpose of this study is to perform a qualitative inquiry to learn more about the African American male psychological motivation of self-esteem, racial identity, and academic self-concept. Literature about African American student self-esteem and self-concept exists yet based on my observations, …

Restorative Justice For International Traditional Cultural Expression Ownership Disputes, Sandra H. Sulzer

Michigan Journal of International Law

Traditional cultural expressions (“TCE”), which include dances, songs, and pottery, and traditional knowledge (“TK”), which includes plant properties, agricultural practices, and artistic techniques, are inarguably valuable both to the groups that create them and to outsiders who wish to use or sell them. International law broadly, and intellectual property (“IP”) law more specifically, are not well-suited to protect the interests of creators of TCE and TK. A persistent pattern of exploitation of traditional expressions and knowledge has been well-documented. But responses have been dissatisfying, and sometimes begin from a place of disregarding the value of these contributions. At present, when …

Criminal Justice Update - January 2024, Delaney Rabenold

Criminal Justice Updates

The Criminal Justice Update is a monthly newsletter created by the Adams County Bar Foundation Fellow providing updates in criminal justice policy coming from Pennsylvania's courts and legislature as well as the US Supreme Court.

Contents:

• Updates from PA Governor's Office (no updates this month)
• Updates from the PA Legislature (no updates this month)
• Updates from the Courts
• U.S. Supreme Court (no updates this month)
• PA Supreme Court
• PA Superior Court

2024 Spring - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University

Veterans Upward Bound Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Barriers To Methadone For Hiv Prevention Among People Who Inject Drugs In Kazakhstan, Amanda Rachel Liberman

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Background: In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, HIV incidence and mortality continue to increase, and this epidemic is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID). In Kazakhstan, the prevalence of HIV among PWID is higher than for any other key population. Opioid agonist therapies like methadone are the only evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder and thus are crucial tools for HIV prevention. Though methadone has been provided for free in Kazakhstan since 2008, less than 1% of PWID currently access this service. An intervention to increase methadone scale-up is necessary, and the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) Framework …

Merrimack County New Hampshire Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2023, January 1st - December 31st, Merrimack County Representatives

Merrimack County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

2024-2025 - Etsu General Academic Operating Budget (July), Budget And Financial Planning, East Tennessee State University

ETSU General Academic Operating Budgets and Analysis

No abstract provided.

Ohio Northern University Catalog, 2024-2025, Ohio Northern University

University Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2024-2025 Factbook, Tennessee. General Assembly

Factbook

This Fact Book provides an overview of the state's budget for the fiscal year.

Policing Impacts On Racial And Regional Oppression In Appalachia, Grace Simpson

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Appalachians continue to face the lasting effects of generations of state violence. Residents are often met with economic, environmental, physical, and mental hardships that are specific to these regions. Namely, the intersection of race with these region-specific hardships creates unique issues for Black Appalachians. Black Appalachians have a distinct history connecting the cultural nuances of the Appalachian region with the overall history of racial inequality in the USA. The following highlights Black Appalachian experiences by exploring the relationship between state violence, policing, and race in the region. Utilizing qualitative interviews with Black individuals in Appalachians, results gain a more detailed …

Integrating Human Rights In Domestic Practice, Ryan Thoreson, Tamar Ezer, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Elizabeth Brundige

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Given that the human rights framework contains a rich and evolving body of norms and standards, integrating human rights law into clinical teaching provides new avenues to approach problem-solving. A human rights framework offers additional sources to ground moral and legal claims, as well as new strategies and advocacy targets. These alternatives work to foster creativity and lawyering skills, particularly in areas where domestic law is limited or constraining. Moreover, U.S. advocates have much to learn from global human rights struggles and advocacy efforts and can benefit from engaging in human rights discourse and practice. This article introduces readers to …

Sorry, Kid, You Have No Rights Here: How Can We Protect Unadjudicated Youth In Private Residential Treatment Facilities From Harmful And Unnecessary Strip Searches?, Amanda Simmons

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

The Promise Of Pell: Pell Grants For Justice System Involved Youth After The Fafsa Simplification Act, Mary Hornschemeier Bandstra

Children's Legal Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

False Confessions And Police Torture In Mississippi, Chloe Ard

Merge

No abstract provided.

Prisons As Laboratories Of Antidemocracy, Brandon Hasbrouck

Scholarly Articles

Prisons are woefully ineffective as tools to protect society from violence and exploitation, yet America’s prison population exploded in the twentieth century. On the outside, this devastated Black communities, Black opportunities, Black economic power, and Black voting power. Yet a similarly insidious development came from inside prison walls: prison administrators honed antidemocratic techniques for constraining and oppressing incarcerated persons, techniques that would later be deployed against the ostensibly free population. Jeffrey Bellin’s Mass Incarceration Nation provides a robust analysis of the ways state and federal policies have combined to create an explosion in the scope of American prisons in the …

International Law As A Tool For Reviving, Preserving, And Protecting The Tajik Language In Uzbekistan, Lindsay Saligman

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

Uzbekistan And The Autocrat’S Parchment Problem, Paul Mapara

International Program Papers

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2023-2024, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation

Annual Reports

This document is the annual report for the TBI during the fiscal year.

Rural & Small-Town Police Crime: A National Scale Description And Comparison To Urban Places, Philip M. Stinson, John Liederbach, Adam Watkins, Chloe Wentzlof

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Scholarship on police misconduct has almost exclusively focused on urban police working within large cities. This study utilizes media-based data to describe 2,592 arrests for crimes committed by rural and small-town police officers working in non-metropolitan counties across the United States. We compared these cases of police crime to those committed by officers working within more urbanized metropolitan counties. Findings demonstrate: 1) the dispersion of cases of police crime across a continuum of geographic places and types of police agencies including the most rural counties, and 2) significant differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan cases of police crime including both type …

Town Of Weare, New Hampshire 2023 Annual Report, Reports Of The Selectmen, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Trustees, Departments, Boards, Committees, And Commissions For The Year Ending December 31, 2023., Weare Town Representatives

Weare, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

2024-2025 Catalog, Governors State University

Catalogs

The 2024-2025 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:
Degree Requirements
Course Offerings
Undergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulations

President's Report (5-16-2024), California State University, San Bernardino

President’s Office records

No abstract provided.

Report Of The County Commissioners County Treasurer And Other Officers Of Cheshire County, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2023, Cheshire County Representatives

Cheshire County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Is The Juridical Field Of Environmental Law In India Gendered? A Study Of Environmental Justice In Goa Through An Ecofeminist Lens, Shweta Dilip Singh Sinha

Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this study is to examine whether the “juridical field,” as defined by Bourdieu, of environmental law in India (Goa), is gendered. As per Bourdieu, the legal field is neither as neutral nor as autonomous as the legal profession asserts it is. It relies heavily on the juridical practices of universalization, appropriation, and naming or categorization in order to constantly reimagine and negotiate its own boundaries. This study examines these juridical practices including acts of symbolic violence committed in the process of ‘naming’ or ‘defining’ within legal terms extra-legal concepts, mainly environmental toponyms, such as, ‘“forest,” “CRZ” (Coastal …

Towards A Transparency-Based, Value-Sensitive Design Solution For Bias In Self-Driving Cars: An Ethical Violation Assessment And Risk Analysis Framework On Consumer-Held Values, Nada Ahmad Madkour

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Background: The rapid growth of automated systems and artificial intelligence (AI), particularly, self-driving cars (SDCs), has attracted significant investments and can potentially contribute to humanity’s flourishing. However, before widespread adoption, it is important to address ethical violations such as bias in AI, highlighted by many real-world cases of bias in AI leading to unfair outcomes in tools like facial recognition, hiring software, and pedestrian detection. Bias in AI can lead to potentially fatal outcomes in SDCs, emphasizing the need for a thorough examination of bias in SDCs.

Purpose: To enhance AI ethics by providing tools to support transparency and value- …

The Trajectory Of Romance Scams In The U.S., Ld Herrera, John Hastings

Research & Publications

Romance scams (RS) inflict financial and emotional damage by defrauding victims under the guise of meaningful relationships. This research study examines RS trends in the U.S. through a quantitative analysis of web searches, news articles, research publications, and government reports from 2004–2023. This is the first study to use multiple sources for RS trend analysis. Results reveal increasing public interest and media coverage contrasted by a recent decrease in incidents reported to authorities. The frequency of research dedicated to RS has steadily grown but focuses predominantly on documenting the problem rather than developing solutions. Overall, findings suggest RS escalation despite …

The Purpose And Practice Of Precedent: What The Decade Long Debate Over Stare Decisis Teaches Us About The New Roberts Court, Russell A. Miller

Scholarly Articles

The Supreme Court’s tectonic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health upended the Doctrine of Substantive Due Process by radically reinterpreting the doctrine of stare decisis. The Court’s established practice regarding stare decisis should have operated to preserve the fifty-year-old abortion jurisprudence. But we should have seen this change coming. Although there has been an intense and involved debate over the purpose and practice of precedent for generations, that debate shifted at the beginning of 2018. Four approaches to stare decisis emerged along a continuum, from complete abandonment of the doctrine and incremental erosion to modernized adherence to precedent. This …

Annual Financial Report, 2023-2024, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Annual Financial Report

No abstract provided.

Does Neglect As A Child Affect Later Life Loneliness?, Gina Barbera

Open Access Master's Theses

Individuals who experience neglect within the first eighteen years of their life are at risk of experiencing later life loneliness. This study aims to determine if the type of neglect experienced (emotional or physical) affects the relationship with loneliness later in life and to determine if there is a relationship between the age an individual experiences neglect and their level of loneliness later in life. This was accomplished by using a subsample of 169 women aged 18-86 who reported experiencing at least one form of neglect. Demographic indicators, the 17-item ACEs questionnaire (Felietti et al., 1998), and the UCLA Loneliness …

The Association Among Various Types Of Substance Use And The Perpetration And Victimization Of Physical And Psychological Intimate Partner Violence, Sam Ferreira

Open Access Master's Theses

The current study identified the association between substances and the perpetration and victimization of physical and psychological IPV. Due to limited data collected, the research questions were modified to specifically examine alcohol and cannabis use rather than various substances. Thus, the following questions were examined: (1) How are cannabis and alcohol use related to perpetration and victimization of physical IPV among adolescent females? and (2) How are cannabis and alcohol use related to perpetration and victimization of psychological IPV among adolescent females? These research questions were examined through four binary logistic regression models to examine the relationship between the predictors …