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Finding A New Path: Using The Fifteenth Amendment To Protect The Voting Rights Of Returning Citizens, Ebony Love

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Mass Shootings, Legislative Responses, And Public Policy: An Endless Cycle Of Inaction, Jaclyn Schildkraut, Collin M. Carr

Emory Law Journal

Although mass shootings give rise to particularly visceral reactions and demands for action within the public sector, the corresponding response from legislators has failed to produce any meaningful change. With much of the discourse in the aftermath of these events centering on the polarized gun control-gun rights debate, two proposed solutions—assault weapons bans and universal background checks—often are at the forefront. Although varying by group and often higher immediately following a shooting, public support for these two proposals has yet to translate into legislative action. In this Article, we explore previous attempts by the federal government to regulate assault weapons …

Criminal Justic Reform And Guns: The Irresistible Movement Meets The Immovable Object, David E. Patton

Emory Law Journal

The number of people incarcerated for federal firearm convictions has increased ten-fold in the past 30 years. One of the biggest sources of the increase is a Department of Justice initiative known as “Operation Triggerlock” in which people who are arrested by state and local police for gun possession are prosecuted in federal court for the express purpose of imposing more severe prison sentences. The people prosecuted are overwhelmingly people of color. Both Republican and Democratic politicians have supported the prosecutions: the former as part of an overall law and order agenda and as a way to forestall broader gun …

Is "Policing For Profit" Really A Police Power Exception? Civil Asset Forfeiture As An Excessive Fine And The Police Power Exception To The Automatic Stay, Brittany Temple

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

Courts have long held that civil asset forfeiture falls under the police power exception to the automatic stay because of its goal to deter crime and the government’s presumed lack of monetary incentive. However, civil forfeiture has increasingly been criticized as excessive and unrestrained, while municipalities have been accused of utilizing it as a fundraising tool for law enforcement agencies. The author argues that civil asset forfeiture can unfairly punish the creditors in a bankruptcy proceeding and that, when the forfeiture constitutes an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, the police power exception to the automatic stay should not apply.

Evaluation Of An Interview-Based Internship Class In The Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study Of The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ali Karji, Stuart Bernstein, Mohammadsoroush Tafazzoli, Arash Arash Taghinezhad, Arefeh Mohammadi

Department of Construction Engineering and Management: Faculty Publications

Internships have been shown to be impactful tools to connect students’ learning in academia with real-world industrial needs. To help the students to get more out of their internship experience, some universities provide a summer internship class in which students do class assignments based on their experiences during their internship. There have been numerous studies on the benefits of internships. However, the benefits of a potential internship class for students in construction management (CM) programs at universities have not yet been investigated. This paper demonstrates the structure of an interview-based internship class and investigates its effectiveness. We have focused on …

Dual Allegiance: Federal And State Treason Prosecutions, The Treason Clause, And The Fourteenth Amendment, Alexander Gouzoules

Faculty Publications

The Treason Clause creates an individual right at a criminal trial that could have logically been placed within the Fifth Amendment rather than Article III: “No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.” It has effectively prevented expansive uses of the charge at the federal level. But states may also charge citizens with treason against state governments, and many such prosecutions have played important roles in American history.

This article reviews the parallel histories of state and federal treason prosecutions. It then analyzes …

The Stress Mechanisms Of Adolescent Physical, Mental, And Behavioral Health, Lisa Kort-Butler

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Although the mechanisms are complex, stress is a risk factor for compromised physical, mental, and behavioral health in adolescence. The stress paradigm posits a system of relationships among social structures, stressors, personal and social resources, and health outcomes, offering a framework for understanding how adolescents’ life problems and the means to cope with them affect well-being. This chapter reviews the theoretical underpinnings of the stress paradigm, drawing on the stress process model and general strain theory. The chapter briefly reviews the biological underpinnings of stress and the role of brain development. Then, the chapter focuses on the social aspects of …

International Law And Theories Of Global Justice: Remarks, Steven R. Ratner, James Stewart, Jiewuh Song, Carmen Pavel

Articles

International law (IL) and political philosophy represent two rich disciplines for exploring issues of global justice. At their core, each seeks to build a better world based on some universally agreed norms, rules, and practices, backed by effective institutions. International lawyers, even the most positivist of them, have some underlying assumptions about a just world order that predisposes their interpretive methods; legal scholars have incorporated concepts of justice in their work even as their overall pragmatic orientation has limited the nature of their inquiries. Many philospophers, for their part, have engaged with IL to some extent—at a minimum recognizing that …

What Litigators Can Learn From B Movies, Leonard M. Niehoff

Articles

We litigators take our guidance when and where we can find it. Sometimes we stumble across it very late at night, on television. Weary, intellectually spent, and pining for entertainment that makes no demands on us, in "the wee small hours of the morning" we find ourselves watching a so-called B movie - a film that had a low production budget or that manages to be bad despite an ample one. And, lo, enlightenment ensues through this unlikeliest of messengers. Submitted for your consideration are some gems from half a dozen movies that most sensible people won't admit watching but …

Procurement Of Housing In Depressed, African-American Homeless Patients In A Large Urban Federally Qualified Health Center: A Pilot To Improve Workflow Processes, Identify Best Practices And Impact Outcomes, Asa Tavares Briggs

Yale School of Nursing Digital Theses

Homelessness is a chronic issue in the United States (US)-impacting individuals from every socio-economic class. African Americans in the US disproportionately experience rates of homelessness higher than those in the general population. These individuals are vulnerable to poor physical and chronic mental health problems, chief among them is depression. African-American homeless individuals have high rates of depression and experience disparities in utilization and access to health care. To address this problem within a healthcare systems level context, this Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) project examined the association between homelessness and depression in African-Americans. A pilot project focused on the targeted …

Admissions Viewbook, 2020-2021, Illinois State University, Office Of Admissions

Admissions Viewbook

Recruitment booklet created by Illinois State University's Office of Admissions

Nsu College Of Psychology Graduate Student Catalog 2020–2021, Nova Southeastern University

College of Psychological Services / College of Psychology Postgraduate Student and Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Exploring Young Acb Women’S Experiences Of Navigating Sexual Health In The Greater Toronto Area., Natasha Afua Darko

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis explores the experiences of young African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) regarding how they navigate sexual health. Young ACB women face challenges that put them at increased risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Despite this, few studies have focused on the social contexts that affect sexual health for ACB women in Canada. This Community Based Participatory Research ( CBPR) study (N = 24) utilized focus groups to examine young ACB women's experiences navigating sexual health. In the following thesis document, I present two manuscripts where I share a) a reflection …

Lgtbq+ Community Perceptions Of Police And Police Involvement In Pride Celebrations In A Small Ontario City: An Exploratory Study, Priscilla Ramjit

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

As literature and media findings suggest, the relationship between the LGTBQ+ community and the police is complex. This qualitative research study seeks to better understand the relationship between the Ruralcity LGTBQ+ community and the Ruralcity Police Service in a small city in southwestern Ontario—“Ruralcity”. Through the epistemological lens of symbolic interactionism and the critical approach of queer theory, I gathered the perspectives of five Ruralcity LGTBQ+ participants on the local police, including the kinds of interactions the participants have had with the police and how the police presence and absence at Ruralcity PRIDE events impact the participants’ sense of well-being. …

“There’S No Manual For This”
: A Multi-Case Study Exploring Familial Experiences Of Maternal Incarceration, Lauren Hawthorne

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Women are the fastest growing prison population in the world (ICPR, 2017). This holds true in the Canadian context, where 70% of federally incarcerated women are mothers to children under 18 (Sapers, 2015). Inevitably, the carceral experience is inherently familial: the experiences of criminalized women cannot be extricated from that of their families, and the experiences of children and caregivers cannot be extricated from that of the criminalized mother and other family members. Yet, there is a great deal that we do not know about incarceration and family life—particularly from the perspectives of caregivers, mothers, and children themselves. This multi-case …

Through The Lurking Glass: A Qualitative Media Analysis Of Traditional Gender Norms And Stalking Depictions In Film, Alexandra Baril

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis examines to what extent traditional gender norms are adhered to by the depiction of stalkers within films. Stalking has only recently been recognized as a social problem. Due to the relatively new attention, there has been a lack of research surrounding the way in which stalkers and stalking behaviours are being portrayed within popular media, particularly film media. This paper uses a qualitative ethnographic content analysis approach to examine these stalking depictions. Twenty films that had a high level of stalking portrayed behaviours, and thriller genres rather than horror genres, were collected and analyzed. It was found that …

Narrating A Conscientization Journey On Crime Prevention Through Social Development, Carlos Luis Zatarain

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

There is an increasing interest among municipalities to address crime through prevention as social development (CPSD) that acknowledges the underlying social conditions that influence the occurrence of crime. This requires a critical consciousness among community members and decision-makers of the root causes of crime and critical action that reflect that understanding. This, in turn, implies both a significant mental and cultural shift requiring personal transformation. Only then can the appropriate actions towards a preventative approach to crime be effectively fostered. For this purpose, the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council developed a community course titled Reframing Crime, Justice, and Prevention that …

Risk Factors Related To School Shootings, Best Anaele

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

School shootings have become a major issue in the United States for over the past 20 years, contributing to the resurgence of the debates surrounding gun control policies. However, further research is needed to better understand the risk factors of school shootings. The FBI constructed the Four-Pronged Threat Assessment Model, a risk assessment specifically applied to school shooters (O’Toole, n.d). Within the current study, the Four-Pronged Threat Assessment Model will be applied to five school shooters: Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold (both Columbine school shooters), Seung Heung Cho (the Virginia Tech School Shooter), Adam Lanza (the Sandy Hook School Shooter), and …

Victimized And Criminalized Black Women’S Experiences With The Police In The Context Of Intimate Partner Violence, Patrina Duhaney

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This qualitative, multi-manuscript dissertation examines the experiences of Black women who live in the Greater Toronto Area and other southwestern Ontario regions who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV), some of whom were also charged with an IPV-related offence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 Black women to better understand the meanings they attach to their experiences. Critical race feminism (CRF) was employed to help conceptualize women’s narratives. In addition, the dissertation includes a review of the relevant literature, the methodology that was utilized for the study followed by three self-contained manuscripts. The purpose of the first manuscript is to …

The Incentives Of Private Prisons, John F. Pfaff

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

International Dispute Resolution And Access To Justice: Comparative Law Perspectives, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Criminal Histories And Criminal Futures, Youngjae Lee

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Conceptualizing Legal Childhood In The Twenty-First Century, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The relatively simple framework established in the Progressive era, in which parents had primary authority over children, subject to limited state oversight, has broken down over the past few decades. Lawmakers started granting children some adult rights and privileges, raising questions about their traditional status as vulnerable, dependent, and legally incompetent beings. As children emerged as legal persons, children’s rights advocates challenged the rationale for parental authority, contending that robust parental rights often harm children. And a wave of punitive reforms in response to juvenile crime in the 1990s undermined …

Toward An Independent Administration Of Justice: Proposals To Insulate The Department Of Justice From Improper Political Interference, Rebecca Cho, Louis Cholden-Brown, Marcello Figueroa

Faculty Scholarship

The rule of law is undermined when political and personal interests motivate criminal prosecutions. This report advances proposals for ensuring that the federal criminal justice system is administered uniformly based on the facts and the law. It recommends a law preventing the president from interfering in specific prosecutions, another law establishing responsibilities for prosecutors who receive improper orders, and new conflict of interest regulations for Department of Justice officials.

This report was researched and written during the 2018-2019 academic year by students in Fordham Law School’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic, which is focused on developing non-partisan recommendations to strengthen …

A Document Analysis Of Leadership Language That Enhances Family-School Collaboration In Efforts To Narrow The Achievement Gap, Andrew Johnson, Daryl Wright

Educational and Organizational Learning and Leadership Dissertations

Complex problems such as the achievement gap need to be presented to all the stakeholders in the school community to utilize their combined expertise. This requires a specific language to encourage all the stakeholders in the process. Effective leaders achieve this through the principles of transformative leadership by communicating in a way that motivates, challenges, and encourages cooperation. This qualitative comparative case study utilized a document analysis to understand the barriers and solutions to family–school collaboration and leadership solutions to narrow the achievement gap in a highly resourced district. This district recently passed an equity initiative that called for the …

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Graduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Graduate Course Catalog

Overrepresented Yet Overlooked: Lgbtq Survivors Of Trafficking And The Imperative For The Nordic Approach To Sex Trafficking Laws In The United States, Claire Mooney

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note argues that LGBTQ survivors of human trafficking are disproportionately affected by inadequate legal frameworks and societal discrimination. It advocates for the adoption of the Nordic Model in the U.S., which criminalizes the purchase of sex while decriminalizing its sale, to better address the needs of LGBTQ survivors and align with international human rights standards.

Development Of Authentication-Based Captcha Mechanism On Touch Screen Environment, Nilobon Nanglae

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

CAPTCHA is a simple security test that was introduced to distinguish among humans and bots for decades. CAPTCHAs have been widely used on commercial sites, such as email service, and social networking sites, for protecting the system from automated software attackers. However, various techniques have been invented to break CAPTCHA, and one of these techniques is the 3rd party attacks. So, the design of CAPTCHA is unable to distinguish between human users and illegitimate human attackers. Thus, this research proposed a new type of CAPTCHA that is individually generated for an individual user. The proposed technique merges between biometrics and …

แนวทางการพัฒนารูปแบบการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติ, จักรี กันธิยะ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาปัญหาและอุปสรรคของการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดและเพื่อศึกษาแนวทางการพัฒนารูปแบบการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติในประเทศไทย โดยการวิจัยครั้งนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพและการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณโดยการศึกษาเอกสาร การสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก การประชุมกลุ่มย่อยและการเก็บแบบสอบถามจากบุคลากรในกระบวนการยุติธรรม เครื่องมือในการวิจัยได้แก่ แบบสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกแบบมีโครงสร้าง แบบประชุมกลุ่มย่อยและแบบสอบถามและผู้วิจัยวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยการวิเคราะห์เนื้อหารวมถึงสถิติพรรณนา ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) ปัญหาและอุปสรรคของการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดในประเทศไทยประกอบด้วย 1.1) ด้านนโยบายและยุทธศาสตร์ที่ยังขาดยุทธศาสตร์ที่มีประสิทธิภาพและขาดนโยบายในการป้องกันและปราบปรามคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติอย่างจริงจัง 1.2) ด้านกฎหมายและการลงโทษซึ่งการบังคับใช้กฎหมายและการลงโทษยังขาดประสิทธิภาพและไม่มีการนำมาตรการมาใช้อย่างจริงจัง 1.3) ด้านหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องการปฏิบัติงานในการสืบสวนสอบสวนแต่ละหน่วยงานแตกต่างกัน ตลอดจนไม่ได้รับความร่วมมือจากหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องในการให้ข้อมูลที่เป็นประโยชน์ต่อรูปคดีและ 1.4) ด้านบุคลากร เจ้าหน้าที่รัฐขาดประสบการณ์ในคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติและ 2) แนวทางการพัฒนารูปแบบการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติในประเทศไทยภาครัฐต้องมีแนวทางการพัฒนาในด้าน 2.1) นโยบายและยุทธศาสตร์โดยการพัฒนานโยบายและยุทธศาสตร์ให้สอดคล้องกับสถานการณ์ยาเสพติด 2.2) ด้านกฎหมายและการลงโทษ เช่น การแก้ไขกลไกทางกฎหมาย/แนวทางการปฏิบัติระเบียบที่เกี่ยวข้องให้เหมาะสมให้เจ้าหน้าที่เข้าถึงข้อมูลต่าง ๆ ได้อย่างรวดเร็ว 2.3) ด้านหน่วยงาน สร้างความร่วมมือกับภาคเอกชนในการเข้าถึงข้อมูล ตลอดจนหน่วยงานภาคีทั้งในและต่างประเทศและ 2.4) ด้านบุคลากร เช่น ความรู้ความเข้าใจ ความเชี่ยวชาญ ตลอดจนการจัดสรรทรัพยากรบุคคลให้เหมาะสมทั้งนี้การพัฒนาดังกล่าวเพื่อให้การดำเนินการสืบสวนสอบสวนคดียาเสพติดในลักษณะองค์กรอาชญากรรมข้ามชาติในประเทศไทยมีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้นและนำผู้กระทำผิดมาลงโทษตามกฎหมาย

The Sanctuary Of Prosecutorial Nullification, Zohra Ahmed

Scholarly Works

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, the shortcomings of existing sanctuary protections came sharply into focus.1 Historically, cities enacted sanctuary protections to extricate their law enforcement agencies from activities related to federal immigration enforcement. In sanctuary cities, local government agencies are typically restricted from sharing information with federal immigration authorities or from cooperating in apprehending individuals targeted for removal.2 After the White House issued an Executive Order (EO) in late January 2017, many immigrant rights advocates recognized that external facing policies that proscribed direct cooperation would not suffice.3 The EO announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would prioritize …