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The Right To Cheesecake: Prisoners’ Rights Jurisprudence Through A Jewish Lens, Arielle L. Yacker

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Tesla, Let Me Fix My Car: The Right To Repair And The Need For A Balance Between Public And Private Enforcement, Emanuele S. Putrino

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prioritizing Oklahoma Mothers: Recommending Rehabilitation And Recovery Rather Than Punishment For Pregnancy, Alex B. Cox

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cyberflashing: Exposing Oklahoma’S Legal Loophole, Sara Wray

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Re/Descheduling Marijuana Through Administrative Action, Scott Bloomberg, Alexandra Harriman, Shane Pennington

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lawmakers And Economic Othering, Edward W. De Barbieri

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

“Facet” Or “Facets” Of Executive Privilege In Oklahoma? Vandelay’S Unclear Outcome, Nick Candido

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Taking Aim At Shotspotter: Gunshot Surveillance, The Fourth Amendment, And An Argument For Sonic Security, Emily A. Fogg

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Chronic Conditions And Reproduction In A Post-Dobbs World, Allison M. Whelan

Oklahoma Law Review

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Defending The Role Of A Principle Of Proportionality In Just Punishment, Emma Mecklenburg

Honors Theses

What makes a punishment just or unjust is a familiar topic that the public and scholars alike recognize as an important question. Many factors are involved in conversations surrounding the just length of sentences, but this paper will specifically investigate two central questions: First, what makes a punishment just, and second, what role does a principle of proportionality play in thinking about just punishment.

The Value Of Prison Education: Evaluating The Impact Of Education Through Desistance, Cheryl Chan

Honors Theses

The United States faces an epidemic of incarceration, draining resources, disrupting families, and hindering societal participation. Prison education emerges as a method to address this cycle, with vocational and academic programs being pivotal. While vocational programs are more common, their long-term efficacy remains uncertain. Academic education, exemplified by programs like the Bard Prison Initiative, provides incarcerated individuals with an opportunity to change. Typically, the success of these programs are measured using recidivism. However, recidivism has become too narrow of a measure to properly capture the nuances of an education. There has been an emerging body of scholarship studying desistance and …

The Constitutionality Of The Privatization Of The Prison Industry, Eric Gallant

Student Works

No abstract provided.

New York’S Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act: A Second Chance For Survivors Or An Unattainable Freedom?, Kaitlyn D’Onofrio

Student Works

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The Professionalized Violence Of Prosecutorial Power And Misconduct, Bina Ahmad

City University of New York Law Review

The U.S. legal system is a colonizer’s system constructed to uphold power and protect the powerful. For radical lawyers, it is the language of power we need to speak and understand to protect ourselves and our communities from this violence. As law enforcement actors, prosecutors are arguably the most powerful actors in our criminal legal system, able to ruin people’s lives at will and with absolute immunity to protect them from any accountability for any misconduct. Even with professional attorney ethics rules and state bar grievance committees tasked with holding attorneys to these ethics rules, prosecutors are still rarely disciplined. …

Combatting The Sexual Abuse To Prison Pipeline: Eliminating The Sex Offender Registration Requirement For Children Who Have Been Victims Of Sexual Abuse, Katherine I. Puzone

City University of New York Law Review

A recent study entitled The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story published by The Human Rights Center for Girls, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Ms. Foundation for Women highlighted the correlation between high rates of sexual abuse of girls and girls’ involvement in the juvenile justice system. Sexual abuse is one of the most accurate predictors of girls’ entry into the juvenile justice system. Girls under eighteen are at very high risk of becoming victims of sexual violence. One in four American girls will experience some sort of sexual violence before the age …

On Wings Of Hope, Volume 28, No. 3, 2024, Phadp, Esther Brown, Anthony Boyd, Jeff Rieber, Craig Newton, Bart Johnson, Earl Mcgahee, Jeffery Lee, Marcus Williams, Anthony Tyson, Bart Johnson

On Wings of Hope

July–September issue, featuring:

• Esther Brown on the duty of voting
• An introductory letter and news recap by Anthony Boyd
• A Brief Discourse on Unity by Jeff Rieber
• Let the Games Begin! by Craig Newton
• Execution Vigil, a poem by Esther Brown
• A Christian Perspective: essays and poetry by Earl McGahee, Jeffery Lee, Marcus Williams, Anthony Tyson and Bart Johnson

The Road Less Traveled By: The Decision Of Whether To Bend To Societal Change In Revocation Of Pretrial Release For Medical Marijuana Use, Kathryn Larkin

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

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Criminal Law—The Cruel And Unusual Practice Of Sentencing Young Adults To Life Behind Bars—People V. Parks, 987 N.W.2d 161 (Mich. 2022), Catherine Treseler

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

The Long View Of Racial Disparities In Dangerousness Determinations, Joseph R. Spadoni

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Rhymes To Crimes: Massachusetts Courts’ Use Of Rap Lyrics As Evidence – An Unconstitutional Practice Rooted In Racial Bias, Julia Mitrano

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Protecting Title Ix’S Promise: The Injustice Of Indifference In Title Ix Peer Sexual Harassment Cases, Emily Harvey

Emory Law Journal

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 promised dramatic measures to address sex-based discrimination in education. In the context of civil suits against schools involving peer sexual harassment, these measures have yet to live up to their promise. Under the existing standard, student victims of peer sexual harassment must demonstrate that their educational institutions responded to their reports of harassment with “deliberate indifference.” This standard favors institutions over students as it imposes liability only in the most egregious cases. A deepening conflict between the circuit courts regarding what deliberate indifference actually requires compounds concerns over the standard’s ineffectiveness. Courts …

Defensive Rule Of Law, Jon Smibert

Emory Law Journal

The rule of law has been tested over the past decade, not only in developing countries but also worldwide. The rule of law community has, in the past, focused mostly on improving the rule of law but has not emphasized building resilience into those rule of law gains. This Article will explore how development programs might encourage more robust features in their partner countries to withstand attempts to undermine the rule of law. This exploration will draw upon an umbrella concept of guardrails and norms, often associated with protecting democracy, and look at four approaches that might be used for …

2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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2024-2025 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Adolescent And Young Adult Gun Violence In Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Stewart

Selected Social Change Portfolios in Prevention, Intervention, and Consultation

Goal Statement: The goal of this social change portfolio is to raise awareness of the factors that contribute to adolescent gun violence in low socioeconomic communities by developing strategies on the grassroots level.

Significant Findings: Gun violence is the leading cause of death for African Americans aged 15 to 24 (American Public Health Association, 2020). The crude rate of gun violence in Maryland is higher than the national average (CDC, 2024b). Growing up in a neighborhood where violence is prevalent leads individuals to engage in more risky behavior (Maroufi, 1999; Milam et al., 2016).

Objectives/Strategies/Interventions/Next Steps:

Increase awareness of how …

Annual Report 2024, Tennessee. Department Of Correction.

Annual Report

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Guido Calabresi’S “Other Justice Reasons”, Adam Davidson

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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The Shadow Of The Law Of The Police, Adam Davidson

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Joanna Schwartz’s Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable is, in many ways, a triumph. It catalogues the laws regulating police with a breadth and depth unexpected from a book targeted to a popular audience, and it does so in gripping style. Although her ability as a researcher is well known to those who have encountered her earlier work, it is Schwartz’s ability as a storyteller that sets Shielded apart and makes the stakes of these doctrinal discussions clear. Admittedly, for those lawyers, judges, and academics who come to Shielded already familiar with Schwartz’s academic work, there is little new analytical …

Forfeiture By Wrongdoing In Domestic Homicide Cases: Where Are We Now?, Caren Myers Morrison

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

One of the few common law exceptions to the rule that every criminal defendant enjoys the right to “be confronted with the witnesses against him” is if the defendant has deliberately caused a witness’s unavailability. That a defendant could forfeit his confrontation rights through his own wrongdoing developed from the equitable concept that “no man shall profit from his wrong.” When the Supreme Court narrowed the common law doctrine of forfeiture by wrongdoing in Giles v. California, it seemed like it had dealt a serious blow to the prosecution of domestic homicide cases. Rather than being able to introduce …

Confrontation, The Legacy Of Crawford, And Important Unanswered Questions, Paul F. Rothstein, Ronald J. Coleman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The right to confront has a long history. In the United States, the Confrontation Clause provides: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right… to be confronted with the witnesses against him[.]” One of the most troublesome areas of Confrontation Clause jurisprudence has been the Clause’s application to “hearsay statements offered against a criminal defendant pursuant to a hearsay exception or exemption[.]” The Supreme Court’s confrontation analysis in this situation once hinged on the statement’s reliability, with the traditional hearsay rule and its exceptions and exemptions as a guide. But in Crawford v. Washington, the Court considered …