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Another Pro-Life Movement Is Possible, Emily Reimer-Barry

Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

From Playboy To Prison: When Pornography Use Becomes A Crime, Julie D. Garman, Lisa L. Sample, Sarah A. Steele

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This study explores pornography use across the lifespan for a sample of registrants convicted of child pornography related offenses. We conducted qualitative life history interviews with nine offenders to examine how offender, victim, and situational factors interact to produce pornography related criminal events. Using a hybrid analytic approach, themes related to persistence in pornography use and the social acceptability of pornography are identified. These themes relate to transitions from legal pornography use to illegal child pornography possession.

Volume 5 #2 Full Issue, Preeti Kamat

Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)

Volume 5 #2 Full Issue

Care Ethics: Morality With No Responsibility, Haley Mathis

Open Access Dissertations

Most of us assume we have free will and that we make free decisions all of the time. Yet, philosophers and scientists have provided significant worries about making this assumption. What I want to know, in this project, is how these debates (and the uncertainty and contentious nature of these debates) bear on normative moral theories about what makes an action right or wrong. I will argue that we should still be able to understand morality, regardless of whether it turns out we have free will or not. The challenges facing the free will debate just shouldn’t be a challenge …

Exploring Restorative Justice, Suspensions, And Expulsions With African American Males, Dorothy L. Mosby

Dissertations

Zero tolerance programs led to unequal consequences for African American males because the programs targeted behaviors African American students were more likely to receive discipline for, which resulted in an increase of disciplinary situations for the students. With the disproportionate suspensions and expulsions of African American male students in public schools, Illinois Senate Bill 100 addressed the discipline issues to reduce the number of long-term suspensions and expulsions. In the 2016–2017 school year, the state of Illinois implemented Senate Bill 100. The bill reconstructed the procedures on how school administrators suspended and expelled students; Restorative Justice was a technique used …

Increasing Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Through Critical Librarianship, Adrienne Gosselin, Mandi Goodsett

Collaborative Librarianship

Through the lens of critical librarianship, librarians are becoming increasingly involved in social justice, civic engagement, and human rights issues. This paper examines the collaboration between a subject librarian and a faculty member in an assignment that engaged in Public Sphere Pedagogy (PSP), a teaching strategy with the goal of increasing students’ sense of civic agency and personal and social responsibility by connecting their classwork to public arenas; and project-based learning, wherein students develop a question to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge, which they share with a select audience.

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) Protocol For The Urgent Care Setting, Jack J. Mayeux, Yeow Chye Ng

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an excellent HIV prevention medication. While PrEP use has increased, the urgent care has been reluctant and slow to embrace this prevention method due to a lack of guidance. This presentation presents a PrEP initiation protocol specific to the urgent care setting.

Should Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) Services Be Blamed For The Increased Rate Of Sexual Transmitted Infections?, Yeow Chye Ng, Jack J. Mayeux

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a lifesaving HIV prevention medication. Critics have shared their concerns for oral PrEP as it may be promoting unprotected sex among PrEP users, and indirectly may cause a new surge of sexual transmitted infections (STIs). This study suggests that information is inconclusive at this time.

Telemedicine Counseling Intervention For Rural Hiv Patients With Comorbid Depression, Anxiety, And Substance Use Issues, Safiya George Dalmida

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will discuss an intervention for PLWH with mental health and substance use issues, using: (1) peer education/support and (2) mental health and substance abuse group counseling via telemedicine/videoconferencing; among PLWH to support and improve medication adherence and retention in HIV care among PLWH.

Emotion Recognition Using Facial Feature Extraction, Demiyan Smirnov

Theses and Dissertations

Computerized emotion recognition systems can be powerful tools to help solve problems in a wide range of fields including education, healthcare, and marketing. Existing systems use digital images or live video to track facial expressions on a person's face and deduce that person's emotional state. The research presented in this thesis explores combinations of several facial feature extraction techniques with different classifier algorithms. Namely, the feature extraction techniques used in this research were Discrete Cosine/Sine Transforms, Fast Walsh-Hadamard Transform, Principle Component Analysis, and a novel method called XPoint. Features were extracted from both global (using the entire facial image) and …

The Influence Of Social Capital On Community Sustainability In Meacham Park, Missouri During 1996 -1999, Sheila Green-Samuels

Dissertations

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of social capital on the phenomenon of community sustainability in Meacham Park Missouri, a Black neighborhood located in south St. Louis county. It is believed that social capital influences the collective action needed to create structures which lead to economic growth essential to community sustainability (Farrell, 2007, Ginwright, 2015; Putnam, 1993). The core idea of Robert Putnam’s social capital theory is there is value in social networks (Putnam, 2000, 1993). Examined were experiences of current and past residents of Meacham Park using social capital constructs to analyze the significance …

State V. Johnson Respondent's Brief Dckt. 46500

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Tennant Appellant's Brief Dckt. 46762

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Developing Civically Engaged Citizens In An Introductory Criminal Justice Course, Tamara J. Lynn

eJournal of Public Affairs

Criminal justice programs are often considered a training ground for students’ future careers; however, that training often lacks a focus on civic engagement. This article highlights an experiential learning project in an introductory criminal justice course that was designed to develop the skills of civically engaged professionals. The project, combining research with service-learning, was implemented in an undergraduate criminology course to demonstrate the ways in which research and theory are necessary for implementing social and political change. Student participants achieved the desired learning outcomes and gained a deeper understanding of their role as change agents. The success of this project …

Engaged Research Pedagogy And Partnership Introduction, Darrell Hamlin

eJournal of Public Affairs

No abstract provided.

Cultural Considerations Of Gender-Based Violence In Jordan, Tara Sloan Jungersen

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

No abstract provided.

Group Interventions When Domestic Violence Is Present, Tara Sloan Jungersen

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

No abstract provided.

Todak Inducted Into The National Institute Of Justice Leads Program, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Professor Alex Reinert Named Max Freund Professor Of Litigation & Advocacy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2019

No abstract provided.

Cracked Windows, Broken Mirrors, And Closed Doors: A Critical Content Analysis Of African American Children's Books, Tiffany World

Doctor of Education in Elementary and Early Childhood Education Dissertations

ABSTRACT

There is a current shortage of culturally responsive African American children’s books. Culturally responsive literature provides a positive influence on children of all races and researchers have indicated that picturebooks that are diverse and culturally responsive can affirm cultural and social identities (Crowley, Fountain, & Torres, 2012). The purpose of this study was to examine how the life experiences of African American families are currently being depicted in recently published children’s literature. This study employed a qualitative research design to explore the topic of African American families in children’s literature. The study examined how African American families are represented …

The Institutional Repository As A Publishing Platform For Undergraduate Research, Elena Menendez-Alonso

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Guest editorial from Dr Elena Menendez-Alonso, Research Repository and Curation Manager, University of Plymouth

Medical Board Of California, Mason Bettencourt, Betsy Gopinath

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Independent - Jul. 23, 2019, Robin Bridges

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

The Kids Are Not Alright: Leveraging Existing Health Law To Attack The Opioid Crisis Upstream, Yael Cannon

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The opioid crisis is now a nationwide epidemic, ravaging both rural and urban communities. The public health and economic consequences are staggering; recent estimates suggest the epidemic has contracted the U.S. labor market by over one million jobs and cost the nation billions of dollars. To tackle the crisis, scholars and health policy initiatives have focused primarily on downstream solutions designed to help those who are already in the throes of addiction. For example, the major initiative announced by the U.S. Surgeon General promotes the dissemination of naloxone, which helps save lives during opioid overdoses.

This Article argues that the …

Hackathon Agenda, Matthew James Vechinski, Katie Elliott, Lynn E. Pelco

Community Engagement Institute

No abstract provided.

Retrying Leopold And Loeb: A Neuropsychological Perspective, David L. Shapiro

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

They called it the crime of the century; in 1924 in Chicago two brilliant, well-educated, and wealthy young men kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old boy and killed him "for the thrill of it". Expert testimony was presented by several well-known psychiatrists and psychologists, but even with all their clinical insights, none could reach a conclusion about the causal relation between their disturbed childhoods and a violent senseless crime. In fact, the well-known criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow made little mention of the extensive psychiatric and psychological workups, and the judge did not deal with it in his sentencing. A review …

The Salt Lake Tribune And Its Reporter, Matthew Piper, Plaintiff And Appellee, V. The Utah State Records Committee, Defendant, And Brigham Young University, Intervenor And Appellant., Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

Brief of Appellees the Salt Lake Tribune and Matthew Piper On Interlocutory Appeal from an Order in the Fourth Judicial District Court Case No. 160904365, The Honorable Laura S. Scott presiding

Examining The Help Seeking Experiences Of Youth In Extended Care: A Narrative Ethnography Study, Sarah M. Pennington

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This narrative ethnographic study examined the help-seeking experiences of foster youth as they transitioned into adulthood in extended care. The purpose of the study was to understand whether foster youth in extended care report a period of continued support which assisted in the development of their adult roles, relationships, and the knowledge and skills to become productive and satisfied adults. Survivalist Self-Reliance (Samuels & Pryce, 2008) asserts foster youth viewed their adult identities as grounded in independence and standing on their own, or are foster youth influenced by the relationships and the network of support embedded in the extended-care network …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

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Disciplinary Segregation’S Effects On Inmate Behavior: Institutional And Community Outcomes, Youngki Woo, Laurie A. Drapela, Michael F. Campagna, Mary K. Stohr, Zachary K. Hamilton, Xiaohan Mei, Elizabeth Thompson Tollefsbol

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Disciplinary segregation (DS) is practiced in a variety of correctional settings and a growing body of research explores its subsequent effects among offenders. The present study contributes to this literature by analyzing the impact of short-term DS on violent infractions and community recidivism among a sample of inmates in Washington State. We assessed the impact of DS on these outcomes from deterrence and stain theory perspectives while controlling for social support variables such as visitations and correctional programming. Mentally ill offenders were excluded, as their abilities to make rational choices may be inconsistent with deterrence theory. Results show DS does …