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Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2015], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Civil Rights In Crisis: The Racial Impact Of The Denial Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Richard Klein

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Future Of The Fourth Amendment: The Problem With Privacy, Poverty And Policing, Kami Chavis Simmons

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why “Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key” Isn’T A Humane Or Workable Solution For Society, And How Prison Conditions And Diet Can Be Improved, Melanie Reid

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Elections, Power, And Local Control: Reining In Chief Prosecutors And Sheriffs, Janet C. Hoeffel, Stephen I. Singer

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Rockingham County, State Of New Hampshire, 2014 Annual Report Year Ending December 31, 2014., Rockingham County Representatives

Rockingham County, NH Annual Reports

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

Mass Incarceration: Why Are Solutions So Difficult In California?, Michael Vitiello

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Education Not Handcuffs: A Response To Proposals For The Criminalization Of Birth Control Sabotage, Nickeitta Leung

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

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University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Hungry In The “Land Of Pleasant Living”: Combating The Effects Of Baltimore’S Food Deserts On Childhood Education Through Eminent Domain, Gabriel H. Rubinstein

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Enriching Course Development: The Use Of An International Faculty Development Experience, Anna K. Lee, Naomi M. Hall

Pedagogy and the Human Sciences

This paper discusses the use of an international faculty development experience in the development of an Introduction to Black Psychology course. Faculty attended an 11-day seminar in South Africa to learn about the country’s history and transformation into a multiracial, multicultural society. The seminar included lectures and site visits designed to provide faculty with an intercultural experience that could be used to enhance curricula and increase students’ global understanding of social issues. A highlight of the training pertains to the parallel made between the historical similarities in the Black South African and Black American experience. Transformative learning forms the theoretical …

Signal Vs. Noise: Some Comments On Professor Stein's Theory Of Evidential Efficiency, Emily Spottswood

Scholarly Publications

In this Essay, I examine Professor Stein's intriguing new theory of evidential efficiency, which posits that judges should admit evidence whenever it has a sufficiently high "signal-to-noise ratio." I explore a slightly different definition of the concepts of "signal" and "noise" than Stein, based upon likelihood ratio values rather than the underlying probabilities of events, and I explain why these altered concepts may be analytically superior. Additionally, I call into question the strength of the connection between the signal-to-noise ratio of a piece of evidence and the costs of admitting it at trial. Nevertheless, Stein's project is worthy of great …

Government Retention And Use Of Unlawfully Secured Dna Evidence, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

“When Mercy Seasons Justice”: Interstate Recognition Of Ex-Offender Rights, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

To the great relief of many, states are now rethinking their draconian criminal justice policies of the past several decades. In addition to shrinking prison and jail populations, reforms are underway to expand opportunities for relief from the collateral consequences of conviction, such as the loss of the right to vote, serve as a juror, or work in certain occupations, which can impede the ability of ex-offenders to successfully reintegrate into society. In coming years, as states seek to reduce their high recidivism rates, such relief efforts will likely continue to grow in number; as they do, we should expect …

2015-2016 Louisiana Tech University Catalog, Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University Catalogs

The Louisiana University Catalog includes announcements and course descriptions for courses offered at Louisiana Tech University for the academic year of 2015-2016.

Latinos And The Colorline, Clara E. Rodriguez, Nancy Lopez, Grigoris Argeros

Sociology Faculty Publications

This essay reviews the issues and current literature on how “race,” skin color, and/or phenotype operate as stratifying agents among Latinos in the United States. We review the trends and emerging issues in this area with regard to health, housing and segregation, and socioeconomic status (SES), including education and criminal justice.We do so in the context of the Census Bureau’s release of its 2010 Alternative Questionnaire Experiment (AQE) study. This 5-year study focuses on how to best ask the race question. One of the key findings of the study was that including “Hispanic/Latinos” as a race in the combined questionnaire …

Building Community-Engagement Infrastructure At Warp Speed: Leveraging Enterprise Data And Partnerships, Valerie Holton, Kathleen Shaw

Division of Community Engagement Resources

This was presented at the pre-conference workshop on November 16, 2015 at the annual meeting of IARSLCE in Boston, Massachusetts.

Scientific Advances In Eyewitness Identification Evidence, Nancy K. Steblay

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Oil And Water: How Legal Education's Doctrine And Skills Divide Reproduces Toxic Hierarchies, Lucille A. Jewel

Scholarly Works

The longstanding categorical distinction that elevates doctrinal teaching over skills teaching continues to harm the profession of law. In this Article, I consider two distinct effects produced by the doctrine/skills dichotomy. First, the dichotomy is responsible for reinforcing class, gender, and race segmentation in legal education, which limits the quality of instruction that law schools can provide and abets the reproduction of existing power relations in the legal profession and society at large.

Second, the antipodal positioning of doctrine and theory over skills and practice harms law schools’ ability to prepare a new generation of law students to engage in …

Que Ondee Sola - Winter-Spring 2015, Juan Morales

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: What Did We Bury in the Park?, Millennial Puerto Ricans - Where Do We Go Next?, Puerto Ricans at the Dawn of the New Millenium, Re-Imagining Puerto Rican Identity In the Age of The Diaspora, On the Passing of Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano, Asi So mos/ Who We Are, Vieques 12 Years Later: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Poor, Black And "Wanted": Criminal Justice In Ferguson And Baltimore, Michael Pinard

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

"And If Your Friends Jumped Off A Bridge, Would You Do It Too?": How Developmental Neuroscience Can Inform Legal Regimes Governing Adolescents, Michael N. Tennison, Amanda C. Pustilnik

Faculty Scholarship

Legal models of adolescent autonomy and responsibility in various domains of law span a spectrum from categorical prohibitions of certain behaviors to recognitions of total adolescent autonomy. The piecemeal approach to the limited decision-making capacity of adolescents lacks an empirical foundation in the differences between adolescent and adult decision-making, leading to counterintuitive and inconsistent legal outcomes. The law limits adolescent autonomy with respect to some decisions that adolescents are perfectly competent to make, and in other areas, the law attributes adult responsibility and imposes adult punishments on adolescents for making decisions that implicate their unique volitional vulnerabilities. As developmental neuroscientists …

The Navigate Program For First-Episode Psychosis: Rationale, Overview, And Description Of Psychosocial Components, K. T. Mueser, D. L. Penn, P. Meyer-Kalos, S. R. Mcgurk, C. Cather, S. Saade, D. G. Robinson, N. R. Schooler, R. A. Rosenheck, J. M. Kane, +6 Additional Authors

Journal Articles

Comprehensive coordinated specialty care programs for first-episode psychosis have been widely implemented in other countries but not in the United States. The National Institute of Mental Health's Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) initiative focused on the development and evaluation of first-episode treatment programs designed for the U.S. health care system. This article describes the background, rationale, and nature of the intervention developed by the RAISE Early Treatment Program project-known as the NAVIGATE program-with a particular focus on its psychosocial components. NAVIGATE is a team-based, multicomponent treatment program designed to be implemented in routine mental health treatment settings and …

Memorabilia 2015, Kean University

Memorabilia Yearbooks

Yearbook of Kean University

Doctalk Newsletter Jan/Feb 2015, Maine Department Of Corrections

DOCTalk Newsletter

In this issue:

• Staff Recognitions
• DCF Work Crew Restores Solid Bronze Cannon
• Meet the Central Office Service Center Accounts Payable Team
• Department of Graduates New Probation Officers

Criminal Law Ii: Youth Justice (Volume I): 2014-15, Ronda Bessner

Osgoode Course Casebooks

Course number: 2240K.03

Creating Activating Events For Transformative Learning In A Prison Classroom, Cheryl H. Keen, Robert Woods

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

In this article, we interpreted, in light of Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning, interviews with 13 educators regarding their work with marginalized adult learners in prisons in the northeastern United States. Transformative learning may have been aided by the educators’ response to unplanned activating events, humor, and respect, and assumed roles of role model, and counselor. Teachers presented activating events they perceived supported resistant learners to alter their meaning schemes and revise their frames of reference. Administrators of educational programs for marginalized adult learners can help prison educators develop these pedagogical practices. Practitioners and researchers may wish to explore humor …

Series 14_Lelend Center Archives, Mickey Leland Center For Environment Justice & Sustainability

Series 14 : The Mickey Leland Audio Video Collection – Documents

Mickey Leland Papers & Collection Archives at Texas Southern University (www.lelandcenter.org) Series 14: The Mickey Leland Audio Visual CollectionThe Mickey Leland audio-visual collection includes audio recordings, films and video recordings, and a photographic collection.The Film/Video Collection. Films and videos in this collection range in viewing length from 10 seconds to more than an hour. The videos have been indexed by speakers, those spoken about, bills discussed, government agencies named and specific historic events. Keywords have also been applied in “Notes” to give the user the broadest possible access to the Collection.The Video Collection has been processed into four categories: 1. …

Sullivan County, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2015., Sullivan County Representatives

Sullivan County, NH Annual Reports

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

On Law-Breaking And Law's Legitimacy, Aliza Plener Cover

Articles

No abstract provided.