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How A Country Plagued With Corruption Leads To Lax Sex Laws For Women, Alexandra Angyalosy

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

This Comment addresses Romania's failure to statutorily define and prosecute sexual violence perpetrators. Throughout history, women in Romania have found a justice system that fails them due to lax laws, corruption, and negligence by police departments. Specifically, Romanian women who are victims of sexual violence, domestic violence, and forced prostitution are often unable to report their crimes, attain proper counseling, and get justice against their abusers. Since the Romanian Revolution, the country has struggled with corruption and human trafficking and has become a major European hub for prostitution. The lack of adequate and appropriate laws needed to protect women, specifically …

Should The United States Adopt Federal Artificial Intelligence Regulation Similar To The European Union, Jean Joseph

Loyola University Chicago International Law Review

Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize our everyday lives and how we approach all sectors of the economy and society. For the laundry list of benefits this form of technology provides, there is a concern as to the ways Al can produce troubling outcomes - including racial discrimination and social inequality. The United States House of Representatives introduced the National Al Initiative Act of 2020 (NAIIA) to ensure continued US leadership in Al research and development. However, the NAIIA leaves issues concerning the risk of biases and discrimination associated with using Al systems to federal agencies and state governments. While …

Spring Commencement, April 30, 2023, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University, Winter Commencement, December 17, 2023, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

No abstract provided.

Beyond 'Severe Mental Illness': A Comparative Analysis Of Bipolar Disorder And Schizophrenia In Correctional Solitary Confinement, Coreena A. Forstner

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Solitary confinement is heavily relied on in U.S. correctional facilities. Extensive research has discussed the negative psychological effects of solitary confinement on individuals, especially those with severe mental illness. However, existing literature tends to homogenize severe mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia under the “severe mental illness” umbrella. This study addresses this gap by examining the unique experiences of incarcerated individuals with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia during solitary confinement. By observing the utilization of solitary confinement for those with such disorders, this project aims to highlight potential discrepancies in the use of solitary confinement for these specific …

Prior Parental Incarceration And The Impact Towards Attitudes About Law Enforcement As Adults, Jennifer Spencer

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The number of incarcerations has been climbing drastically, especially in the United States. A forgotten minority which remains understudied is those children of incarcerated individuals. Many studies have found parental separation to be associated with problematic behavior in children. However, little to no information is known on the attitudes of offspring of incarcerated people toward law enforcement and the police. The current study examined just this, researching children of incarcerated parents’ attitudes towards legitimacy and confidence in the police during adulthood. Participants (N = 55) were undergraduate students at a small university who gained extra credit for voluntary participation. …

Through A Lens Of Genocide: A Different Approach For Hate Crimes Legislation, Bruce Ching

Journal Articles

Hate crimes perpetrators select their victims based on the victims’ identity groups. Policies underlying legislation against hate crimes recognize that such crimes inflict greater harm on society than do the same actions committed for non-biased motives. Genocide may be conceptualized as hate crimes writ large; conversely, a new model of hate crimes legislation might be patterned on legal concepts of genocide scaled down to state or local levels. This new recognition could successfully address criticisms from both liberal and conservative factions along the political spectrum, offering a model that state and local governments could invoke for dealing with bias-motivated incidents …

The Scarlet Letter "E": How Tenancy Screening Policies Exacerbate Housing Inequity For Evicted Black Women, Yvette N.A. Pappoe

Journal Articles

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented health and economic crisis in the United States. In addition to more than nine hundred thousand deaths in the United States and counting, another kind of crisis emerged from the pandemic: an eviction crisis. In August 2020, an estimated thirty to forty million people in America were at risk of facing eviction by the end of the year. Black women renters faced a higher risk of losing their homes than other groups. At the onset of the pandemic, the federal government implemented eviction moratoria to prevent the evictions of tenants who were unable …

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UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

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Climate Change And The Challenge To Liberalism, Jacob Eisler

Scholarly Publications

In this editorial, we consider the ways in which liberal constitutionalism is challenged by and presents challenges to the climate crisis facing the world. Over recent decades, efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have generated a new set of norms for states and non-state actors, including regulatory norms (emission standards, carbon regulations), organising principles (common but differentiated responsibility) and fundamental norms (climate justice, intergenerational rights, human rights). However, like all norms, these remain contested. Particularly in light of their global reach, their specific behavioural implications and interpretations and the related obligations to act remain debatable and the overwhelming institutionalization of …

Police Brutality As Torture, Nadia Banteka

Scholarly Publications

If racial justice is the most pressing issue in America today, police brutality is the flashpoint. Incident after incident of police brutality during searches and seizures, and within jails and prisons reinforces the conviction within many communities that police harm with impunity those whom they have a duty to protect. Existing criminal statutes are filled with discretionary standards that give deference to officers while civil remedies require victims to surmount the doctrine of qualified immunity. To increase accountability for police brutality, legislatures and courts have so far focused on reducing or eliminating these procedural hurdles. But their changes have not …

Judicial Resistance To New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms, Angelo Petrigh

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

This Article seeks to examine judicial opposition to New York’s 2020 criminal justice reforms in the context of existing scholarship on judicial organizational culture to understand why judicial obstruction occurs and how it can be addressed. New York’s 2020 criminal legal reforms sought to reduce pretrial detention and to provide greater access to discovery for the defense by curtailing judicial discretion to set bail and judicial power to excuse prosecutorial discovery delays. But judges opposed the law both surreptitiously and openly through defiant opinions, administrative adjustments, and routine court actions that undercut the reforms’ intended effects.

Scholars such as Malcolm …

The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In The Practice Of Law, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held August 4, 2023.

Federal Civil Practice, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held May 3, 2023.

Adult Guardianship Training, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held December 1, 2023.

Advanced Elder Law, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held August 11-12, 2023.

50th Annual Midwest Estate, Tax And Business Planning Institute, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (Iclef)

Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum 2023

Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held June 8-9, 2023.

Adolescent Thc Usage In Virginia: Post-Legalization Challenges And Strategies For Schools, David Naff, Meg Sheriff, Jill Flynn, Marzia Farhana, Kris Herakovich-Curtis, Gerron Scott, Fred Gatty, Priyadarshini Pattath, Diane Williams, Kiana Bradford, Reena Desai, Lauren Powell, Lisa Gwyn

MERC Publications

Recreational marijuana was legalized for anyone over the age of 21 in Virginia in 2021. This research and policy brief explores evidence of the impact of such legalization on Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) usage in PK-12 aged youth, including smoking, vaping, edibles, and dabbing. It addresses the following questions: 1) What are the recent trends in marijuana usage among PK-12 aged youth? 2) What are the impacts of THC usage in schools, particularly after legalization? 3) How can schools and school systems effectively respond to THC usage? 4) What are relevant federal, state, and school division policies that guide responses to youth …

Queer Mediated Practices As A Method To Center And Sustain Critical Health And Media Literacies, Alexander N. Vera, Vanessa Kitzie, Travis L. Wagner

Faculty Publications

Queer communities experience challenges when accessing accurate and comprehensive health information. These challenges span across media and information environments and threaten queer health promotion. This paper explored how 11 queer community health workers (CHWs) in a Southeastern US state respond to, subvert, and resist these challenges when creating digital health information resources for their queer communities. This longitudinal action research occurred over two years and included multiple qualitative data types. We analyzed these data using qualitative coding, following deductive and inductive strategies. Findings demonstrate how queer CHWs: 1) identified risks and barriers to health promotion their communities experienced; 2) created …

2022-2023 Annual Student Assessment Report, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Assessment Center Reports

Annual Student Assessment Report produced by the SWOSU Assessment Center.

2023 Bachelor's Degree Exit Survey, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Assessment Center Reports

Exit Surveys produced by the SWOSU Assessment Center.

Ce 550 Syllabus: Addiction Counseling: Introduction To The Field, Mitch Moore

Counselor Education Syllabi

This course provides students with an overview of the transdisciplinary foundations of alcohol and drug counseling, including theories of chemical dependency, recovery and the continuum of care, and the process of change from a wide range of perspectives. Students will become familiar with the process for screening clients to determine program appropriateness and eligibility. They will be introduced to program admission, intake, orientation, processes and procedures, case management functions, and record-keeping requirements. Referring clients for additional supports and wrap-around services will be considered.

Ce 658 Syllabus: Microskills, Karen Cathey

Counselor Education Syllabi

This is a practice course, which provides a systematic skills approach to developing basic counseling skills. Students will have the opportunity to practice micro-skills (e.g., rapport building, attending, paraphrasing, etc.) on a weekly basis.

Ce 658 Syllabus: Microskills, Mary Fawcett

Counselor Education Syllabi

This is a practice course, which provides a systematic skills approach to developing basic counseling skills. Students will have the opportunity to practice micro-skills (e.g., rapport building, attending, paraphrasing, etc.) on a weekly basis.

"Some Of My Best Friends Are Librarians": A Case Study Of Community College Faculty Perceptions And Usage Of The Academic Library, Nancy A. Deegan

Dissertations of Practice

Studies have shown that student use of the academic library’s resources and services contributes towards increased student success indicators. Unfortunately, students tend to avoid using the library unless they are required to do so. Existing literature shows that many faculty members do not incorporate the academic library’s resources and services in their courses even though they claim to have positive feelings about the library and librarians. This qualitative case study explored how ENG102 faculty members at a community college perceive and use the academic library. The findings confirmed that there are contradictions between faculty members’ positive perceptions and limited usage …

Like Putting Lipstick On A Pig: Why The History Of Crime Control Should Compel The Prohibition Of Incentivized Witness Testimony Under Fundamental Fairness Principles, Caleb Linton

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Among Western nations, American courts remain uniquely permissive to the routine law enforcement practice of offering witnesses incentives to testify for the State in criminal trials. Despite laws and ethical rules roundly prohibiting the practice and recurrent skepticism of incentivized testimony in the English common law tradition, American judges have excused the practice based on pragmatism, developing legal fictions to exempt prosecutors from the general prohibition. However, basic common sense, backed by recent empirical scholarship, should alarm participants in the criminal legal system to a severely heightened risk of perjury wherever the prospect of reward compels testimony. Whether law enforcement …

Organizational Access Points And Substance Use Disorder Treatment Utilization Among Black Women: A Longitudinal Cohort Study, Sugy Choi, Amanda Bunting, Talia Nadel, Charles J. Neighbors, Carrie B. Oser

Sociology Faculty Publications

Introduction Health and social service organizations, including the emergency department (ED) and public assistance programs, constitute a social safety net that may serve as an “access point” for substance use treatment utilization. Racialization of substance use disorder (SUD) and gender disparities in access to treatment contribute to differences in health and social service utilization, including substance use treatment for Black women. We therefore explored the role of various access points in facilitating the use of substance use treatment among Black women with substance use and involvement in the criminal justice system.

Methods We used data from the Black Women in …

Success Stories In Community Courts: Listening To Participants' Voices, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, Tali Gal

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

Between Cooperation And Conflict In Second Look Sentence Review, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

A Mathematical Model Of Juvenile Delinquency In The New York State, Oluwasegun Micheal Ibrahim

Articles

This report presents a mathematical model of juvenile delinquency in the New York State. In particular, we develop a juvenile delinquency system of non-linear differential equations using the mathematical epidemiology framework. In constructing this model, we assume that juvenile delinquency can be studied as a socially infectious disease. The stability of the juvenile delinquency-free equilibrium of the model is examined using the standard non-linear dynamical systems theory technique. We carried out a data fitting based on real-life data from the New York State Criminal Justice Services. The research result reveals that the formulated model conforms with the available data and …