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A Phenomenological Study On How White Public Middle School Teachers Who Self-Identify As Racial Allies Experience And Navigate Their Implicit Biases, Joyce Faye Patton

Doctor of Education Dissertations

The teaching force in the United States is overwhelmingly White, while the student population is increasingly diverse, reaching a minority majority in 2014. The racial mismatch between a predominantly White teaching force and students of color in public schools presents barriers for those students as they navigate an educational system built on historical injustices and racism. The study examines the lived experiences of White middle school teachers who identify as racial allies in schools having a student population that is greater than 50% students of color. The interviews revealed that participants understood bias on a basic level yet continued to …

Restorative Justice Initiatives In Marin County: Mitigating The Impacts Of The School-To-Prison Pipeline On Youth, Gina Dudley

Social Justice | Senior Theses

My senior thesis project delves into Restorative Justice's role in addressing the school-to-prison pipeline in Marin County. Restorative Justice prioritizes repairing the harm caused by crime to individuals, relationships, and communities, advocating for offenders to take responsibility and make amends rather than solely facing punishment (Restorative Justice Exchange, 2022). My capstone aims to pinpoint factors driving student exclusion from schools and subsequent entanglement in the legal system while highlighting how restorative approaches can prevent such outcomes. Additionally, it discusses the benefits of removing police officers from schools and reducing reliance on law enforcement within educational settings. My research will use …

Minding The Gaps: How Intimate Partner Violence Legislation Is Failing To Address Coercive Control, Sydney Koehler

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Uneven Scales: How The Symbiotic Relationship Between Prosecutors And Judges Results In Unfair Criminal Proceedings, Edward S. Adams

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Unconcerned And Undertrained: The Indiana Jail Death Epidemic And The Need For Expanded Jail Officer Training, Sadie Rothrock

Indiana Law Journal

On October 4, 2018, Jerod Draper lost his life after two hours of torture by Harrison County jail officers. While in custody of the jail and suffering from an overdose, Jerod Draper was placed in a restraint chair for two hours and tased seven times in fifteen minutes. Jerod Draper’s story is one of the many stories demonstrating how a jail death epidemic is occurring throughout Indiana. In this Note, I discuss the history of incarceration in the United States, the statutes under which families of jail death victims can sue, and Indiana’s jail death problem. I then highlight Indiana’s …

Benched Judges, Anna Roberts

Indiana Law Journal

In multiple jurisdictions, if the prosecutor wants to attack the credibility of a person testifying in their own defense with that witness’s prior felony convictions, the judge has no power to say no. Judges decry their powerlessness. Their opinions reveal three types of concerns: that these convictions lack probative value on the issue of credibility, that they inflict unfair prejudice that jury instructions cannot ameliorate, and that the power transferred by these provisions from judge to prosecutor is undeserved and abused.

There is much that could be done to address these concerns. The rules could be reinterpreted or rewritten to …

Resource Map Of Expenditures For Tennessee Children And Youth, Annual Report To The Legislature 2025, Tennessee. Commission On Children And Youth.

Resource Map Report

No abstract provided.

Educators’ Perceptions Of The Components That Influence Student Behavior And The Impact Restorative Practices And Community Circles Have On Improving Overall Well-Being In Students, Catherine Dulovic

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Restorative Practices have been utilized in many schools as an alternative to traditional disciplinary methods. Traditional methods such as Out of School Suspension (OSS) and In-School Suspension (ISS) can lead to feelings of isolation and impact students’ attitudes towards school and community. Community Circles are often used in conjunction with Restorative Practices to support the development of the whole child, build relationships, promote positive discipline, and create a trauma sensitive environment that includes mindfulness practices. The current research examined educators’ perspective of the components that influence student behavior and the impact Restorative Practices and Community Circles have on improving behavior …

A Study Of The Tap In Center Movement: How Collaboration In The Legal System Is Reducing The Negative Impact Of Bench Warrants And Restoring Justice In Communities, Patrick C. Brayer

Nebraska Law Review

While many aspects of the criminal legal system have been criticized for the harm judicial institutions inflict on communities, a unique legal initiative is garnering praise from observers across the nation. What started as a local effort to help residents withdraw bench warrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic has blossomed into four independent legal service centers in three separate Midwest metropolitan areas called Tap In Centers. The primary mission of the Centers is the recalling of bench warrants issued when criminal defendants fail to appear for court or pay a fine; however, the needs of the individual and the community guide …

Front Matter

SMU Annual Texas Survey

No abstract provided.

The Neuroscience Of Evidentiary Rules: The Case Of The Present Sense Impression, Christopher S. Sundby

SMU Law Review

The Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) play a critical role in federal trials by determining what evidence the jury will be allowed to hear. Nonetheless, the rules are largely premised on untested psychological assumptions. The Present Sense Impression Rule (PSIR), for example, is an exception to the general ban against hearsay based on the assumptions that statements about contemporaneous events have fewer memory errors; are less likely to be lies; and, when they are lies, that listeners are better able to detect the lie than if the declarant has had time to prepare.

The rule, in other words, is based …

Socially Responsible Ai In The Gpt Era, Yussuf A. Aleem

SMU Law Review

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) showcase its rapid evolution and promise, with the potential to profoundly transform decision-making, self-expression, and even the practice of law. However, AI also presents formidable challenges, including the further entrenchment of societal inequalities, widespread labor disruption, and existential threats to humanity. Modern AI systems show early signs of general intelligence, enabling them to perform a wide range of tasks beyond those of chatbots in both virtual and physical environments. Despite industry assurances of responsible AI development, these technologies are easily exploited and often exhibit troubling behaviors that even their creators struggle to understand.

This …

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2024-2025, Tennessee. Department Of Safety And Homeland Security

Annual Reports

This document is the annual report for the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security during the fiscal year.

The Beautiful Struggle: A Counter-Narrative Study Of African American Male School Leaders, Jamie Crosen Mr

Dissertations of Practice

This qualitative dissertation explores the lived experiences of African American male high school principals in urban and suburban schools across the Chicagoland area. Using critical race theory (CRT) and counter-narrative methodology, the study centers the voices of ten African American male principals to examine how race, systemic inequities, and social justice shape their leadership practices, professional identities, and navigation of racially charged educational environments. These leaders consistently confront institutionalized biases and racialized expectations that limit their professional advancement while reinforcing deficit narratives about African American leadership. Through semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, three primary research questions guided this study: (1) …

Black Single Men Facing Repeated Eviction Threats And Housing Instability In East New York, Brooklyn: Is There A Significant Correlation Between Repeated Eviction Threats, Housing Instability, And Black Single Men?, Gregory Colimon

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

An eviction threat phenomenon is currently unfolding in East New York, located in Brooklyn, NY, and is drawing attention to specific individuals who have been marginalized and overlooked within society: Black single men aged between 24 and 55. This particular demographic group is currently facing significant challenges associated with repeated eviction threats, and housing instability within East New York, which is renowned for being one of the regions with high population density and urbanization. While eviction is commonly understood as a consequence of the failure of tenants to meet their financial obligations or fulfill their responsibilities, this simplistic understanding overlooks …

The Underrepresentation Of African American Male Educators In K-12 Education, Nisa Lewis Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The American education system has struggled with a significant teacher shortage for years. Alongside this shortage is the underrepresentation of African American male teachers. Despite the increasing diversity of the student population, African American men make up less than 2% of teachers nationwide (Aftunion, 2020). This disparity denies all kids access to diverse perspectives in the classroom and limits the presence of role models for students of color. Research studies have shown that African American students who have African American teachers show improvement in their grades, standardized test scores, attendance records, and graduation rates (Breazeale, 2023). This study aimed to …

Opioid Settlements And Profitable Public Nuisances, Clayton J. Masterman

Touro Law Review

The global settlements between state and local governments and opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers require opioid defendants to transform their businesses and pay more than $40 billion to abate the ongoing opioid epidemic. The $40 billion in abatement funds is a substantial pool of money that is likely to help states combat opioid use and abuse. Large as the payments are, however, they are significantly smaller than the profits that the opioid defendants made over the course of the epidemic or the total harm that they caused. This Article argues that the global opioid settlements incentivize future defendants to create …

Louisiana Survey 2025, Lsu Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs

Reilly Center Louisiana Surveys

The 2025 Louisiana Survey is the latest in an annual series of statewide surveys from the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication.

Reflecting the continuing evolution of survey research, we use two approaches in this year’s survey:

1. In partnership with the research firm YouGov, we administered an online survey to a nonprobability sample of Louisiana residents who participate in the YouGov panel, selected to represent the state’s adult population geographically and demographically.
2. We use a traditional probability-sampling approach to draw landline and cell phone numbers for a live-interview …

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Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Public Attitudes Toward The Nigerian Police: An Examination Of Trust Indicators At Micro Levels, Bassey Kooffreh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation comprises three studies that collectively contribute to understanding public trust in the Nigerian police. The first study applies three major policing theories namely performance theory, procedural justice theory, and social capital theory to explain the factors that influence trust in the police. The second study offers a comparative analysis of the predictors of public trust in both the police and the courts. The third study examines how individual quality of life, neighborhood structural characteristics, and civic engagement affect public trust in the police. Using nationally representative data from Afrobarometer Round 9, the first study reveals that citizens who …

The Prison Life-Course And Correctional Misconduct, Zachary Nathanial Buckner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to apply a developmental and life-course perspective to the understanding of correctional misconduct for those serving long-term sentences by conducting three separate analyses that examine the development of misconduct over time, and the influence of personal and prison characteristics on misconduct. Data were provided by the Department of Corrections in a Northwestern state in the United States and included all adults in custody who were currently incarcerated and had been incarcerated for a minimum of 15 years consecutively at the point of data collection in March 2023. The first analysis used group-based trajectory modeling …

"I’Ll Wait Zero Seconds": Faculty Perspectives On Serials Access, Sharing, And Immediacy, Rachel Elizabeth Scott, Anne Shelley, Chad E. Buckley, Cassie Thayer-Styes, Julie A. Murphy

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

This study explores how faculty across disciplines access and share scholarly serial content and what expectations they have for immediacy. The authors conducted twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews with faculty of various ranks representing all Illinois State University (ISU) colleges. The findings, presented in the words of participants and triangulated with data from local sources, suggest that faculty use a variety of context-specific mechanisms to access and share serial literature. Participants discuss how they use library services such as databases, subscriptions, interlibrary loan, and document delivery, coupled with academic social networks, disciplinary repositories, author websites, and other publicly available sources to …

100 Years Of The Federal Arbitration Act, Paul Bland, John H. Chun, Linda A. Klein, Pamela K. Bookman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Innocence Loan Funds: A New Approach To Exonoree Support, Timothy Fisher

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

Wrongfully convicted persons face daunting life pressures when released after years of confinement. A patchwork of programs exist around the country to provide support, but the financial assistance that exonerees need is sparce. Some exonerees turn to finance companies, whose loans carry high interest rates. A better solution is an innocence fund: a non-recourse loan fund, repaid out of exoneree compensation or litigation recovery. This article details the structure of one such fund, which has made hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans with zero defaults. The article provides a guide to jurisdictions around the country on how to establish …

Echoes Before Language: A Written Thesis On Movement, Origin, And Becoming, Shadidja Parker

Dance (MFA) Theses

This thesis presents a body-based, lineage-informed approach to movement development into dance, honoring both scientific and spiritual knowledge systems. It engages in a blend of qualitative, embodied, and autoethnographic methods—including dance studies, developmental science, phenomenology, and cultural analysis—to examine how movement emerges, evolves, and carries meaning. Grounded in my lived experience as a dancer, mother, and Black woman, this research frames the body as both a site and source of knowledge. I use my own body as an instrument of movement, memory, and identity, positioning my embodiment as a form of inquiry. The thesis is organized in two parts: a …

Investigating Concealments In Infanticide: Incidents And Forensic Entomological Implications, Gillian L. Johnson

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Forensic entomology plays a critical role in estimating the minimum postmortem interval (mPMIs), based on insect evidence. When victims are concealed, this can complicate mPMI estimates. Utilizing data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) from 2018 to 2021, I found that victims of infanticides and neonaticides are often concealed. I first investigated the demographics of offenders and victims, how often victims are concealed, and the most common means of concealment. I found that victims of infanticide were likely to be concealed 5% of the time, and neonaticides 50% of the time. Next, I investigated how concealment alters insect …

Transient Lives: Trans & Non-Binary People’S Encounters With The Harms Of Work, Siggi Auerbach

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences Theses

This ethnographic criminological research aimed to address several theoretical gaps in the existing literature surrounding trans people, vulnerability, and victimisation. The overarching objective of this study was to offer a revised account of the harms trans people encounter in relation to their work via a new theoretical framework which is informed by ultra-realist criminology, critical hate studies. The theoretical framework was informed by contemporary criminologies of the harms of work, as opposed to the harms the institution of work is argued to inflict upon intersectional aspects of the individual’s social identity. This thesis aimed to reconceptualise the harms trans workers …

การเข้าถึงบริการด้านสุขภาพและความต้องการในวาระท้ายของผู้ต้องขังสูงวัยในเรือนจำ, ปริญญา หวันเหล็ม, ภาวิกา ศรีรัตนบัลล์

Journal of Social Sciences

บทความฉบับนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสภาวะของบริการด้านสุขภาพ และการเข้าถึงของระบบราชทัณฑ์ไทยในการดูแลแบบประคับประคองและการดูแลในวาระท้าย โดยอาศัยแนวคิดสิทธิมนุษยชน สิทธิผู้ต้องขัง แนวคิดการดูแลแบบประคับประคอง และกรอบข้อบังคับระดับสากลและข้อกฎหมายระดับประเทศ ทั้งนี้ ยังมุ่งศึกษาแนวทางการให้บริการด้านสุขภาพในมิติของการดูแลในระยะท้าย ความต้องการของผู้ต้องขังสูงวัยในเรือนจำ และรูปแบบการจัดการกับการตายในเรือนจำ ผ่านกลไกของราชทัณฑ์ไทยที่มีทีมสหวิชาชีพต่าง ๆ เข้ามาให้บริการผู้ต้องขังในระยะท้าย การศึกษาครั้งนี้อาศัยการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ และมีข้อค้นพบประการสำคัญว่า สภาพความเป็นอยู่ของผู้ต้องขังป่วยต้องเผชิญความยากลำบากในเรือนจำ ซึ่งส่งผลให้เกิดความเสี่ยงต่อความเจ็บป่วยได้ง่าย สภาพแวดล้อมของเรือนจำไม่สอดรับกับวัยสูงอายุ อย่างไรก็ตาม ผู้ต้องขังสูงวัยในวาระท้ายของชีวิตได้รับบริการทางการแพทย์ที่มีมาตรฐานสากลเทียบเท่าการรักษาในโรงพยาบาลภายนอก ด้วยทีมสหวิชาชีพที่มีความเชี่ยวชาญ ทั้งยังมีบริการระบบการให้เยี่ยมออนไลน์สำหรับผู้ต้องขังในวาระท้ายในเรือนจำ และความต้องการในวาระสุดท้ายของชีวิตผู้ต้องขังในเรือนจำ คือ การได้ “กลับบ้าน” ที่นับเป็นข้อค้นพบสำคัญ และเป็นความหวังสุดท้ายก่อนสิ้นลมหายใจ

ตัวคูณทางการคลัง มาตรการกระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจของประเทศไทย, ภาวิน ศิริประภานุกูล

Journal of Social Sciences

งานศึกษานี้ประเมินค่าตัวคูณทางการคลังโดยอาศัยกระบวนการทางเศรษฐมิติที่เป็นที่ยอมรับวงกว้างในปัจจุบัน โดยทดลองใช้ข้อมูลสะท้อนการใช้จ่ายของรัฐบาลที่แตกต่างกัน 5 ลักษณะ งานศึกษาพบว่าค่าตัวคูณการใช้จ่ายของรัฐบาลอยู่ที่ 0.25-0.49 ซึ่งมีค่าต่ำกว่า 1 อย่างชัดเจน ค่าตัวคูณดังกล่าวสะท้อนความไม่มีประสิทธิภาพของมาตรการกระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจของประเทศไทย ซึ่งเป็นประเทศเศรษฐกิจเปิดขนาดเล็กและมีสัดส่วนของภาคเศรษฐกิจนอกระบบในระดับสูง ทั้งนี้ ค่าตัวคูณการใช้จ่ายของรัฐบาลดังกล่าวประเมินขึ้นจากข้อมูลการเบิกจ่ายงบประมาณประจำปีของรัฐบาลที่มิได้คำนวณรวมการเบิกจ่ายงบประมาณในส่วนของการชำระคืนต้นเงินกู้และรายจ่ายเพื่อชดใช้เงินคงคลัง/ชดใช้ทุนสำรองจ่าย ซึ่งมีความสอดคล้องการดำเนินมาตรการรักษาเสถียรภาพทางเศรษฐกิจของรัฐบาลในทางปฏิบัติมากกว่าข้อมูลที่ถูกนำมาใช้ประเมินค่าตัวคูณทางการคลังในงานศึกษาในอดีต

การสังเคราะห์ภาวะความเป็นเจ้าบ้านบนพื้นฐานของการวิจัยสังคมเชิงประจักษ์ : กรณีศึกษามุมมองเกี่ยวกับผู้อพยพเข้ามาในพื้นที่ปลายทางยอดนิยมของทวีปยุโรป, ศิริพงศ์ ปาลกะวงศ์ ณ อยุธยา

Journal of Social Sciences

จุดมุ่งหมายหลักของงานวิจัยนี้คือการสังเคราะห์นิยามและองค์ประกอบของแนวคิด “ภาวะความเป็นเจ้าบ้าน” ซึ่งมีรากฐานจากผลการวิเคราะห์ความสัมพันธ์เชิงพหุระหว่างทัศนคติต่อผู้อพยพเข้ามาในประเทศของตนกับภูมิหลังทางประชากร การเมือง และสังคม ของเจ้าบ้านในพื้นที่ปลายทางยอดนิยมของทวีปยุโรป โดยใช้ข้อมูลจากฐานข้อมูลการสำรวจทางสังคมชาวยุโรป ผลการสังเคราะห์แสดงให้เห็นว่าภาวะความเป็นเจ้าบ้านคือภาวะทางจิตสังคมอย่างหนึ่ง ซึ่งมีลักษณะเป็นทั้งสำนึกร่วมทางสังคมและความพึงพอใจส่วนบุคคลในฐานะเจ้าบ้าน เกี่ยวกับการยึดถือและปฏิบัติตามเป้าหมายและแนวปฏิบัติว่าด้วยการอาศัยอยู่ร่วมกับผู้อื่นในสังคมอย่างสันติ เพื่อนำไปสู่การเปิดใจยอมรับและให้การต้อนรับผู้อพยพอย่างมีไมตรีจิต นอกจากนี้ บุคคลที่มีทัศนคติเชิงบวกต่อผู้อพยพหรือมีภาวะความเป็นเจ้าบ้านอย่างเด่นชัด ประกอบด้วยคุณสมบัติสำคัญ 6 ประการ ได้แก่ 1) การมีส่วนร่วมทางการเมือง 2) การได้รับการตอบสนองความต้องการพื้นฐานอย่างเพียงพอ 3) การมีทักษะการคิดเชิงวิพากษ์อย่างรอบด้าน ตลอดจนรู้เท่าทันอารมณ์และความรู้สึก 4) การคำนึงถึงผลประโยชน์สาธารณะและผลประโยชน์ส่วนตัวอย่างสมดุล 5) การไม่ยึดติดกับอัตลักษณ์ของตน/พวกพ้องมากเกินไป และ 6) การมีความเห็นอกเห็นใจ/เข้าใจความรู้สึกของผู้อื่น รวมถึงมีมนุษยธรรมและให้ความสนใจแก่สิ่งรอบตัว