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All The World’S A Stage: The Implementation Of Creative Arts Therapy Utilizing Psychodrama In Prison Populations, Rachael A. Yeager

Psychology Doctoral Specialization Projects

Incarceration rates continue to increase in the United States every year. Federally, the FIRST STEP ACT was passed to assist in rehabilitative programming and to reduce recidivism rates. Psychology programs intervene in areas such as trauma, a highly prevalent concern amongst adults in custody, and utilize evidence-based recidivism programming. Creative Arts Therapies (CATs) have been implemented in prisons in the United States, while Psychodrama is a psychotherapeutic technique generally utilized in European and Asian countries. The World’s Stage (TWS) is a treatment modality that provides psychoeducation on trauma and trauma responses in a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy format and integrates the …

Forecast, 2025, Illinois State University, College Of Applied Science And Technology

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Magazine of the Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology

The Relationship Between Perceived Racial Stress And Academic Achievement Of African American Students, Jodie E. Felder

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

Educational institutions are not only places of learning, but they can be places of refuge and support for students. Academic engagement and performance can be negatively affected for ethnic students of color. This can lead to a disconnection between the education system of teachers, administrators, and students. Studies suggest racial stress contributes to negative environmental factors, to which African American (Black) students have been found to be especially vulnerable. Overlooked, ignored, and misunderstood environmental factors for African American students exacerbate educational obstacles, widening achievement gaps and increasing attrition rates. A lack of culturally guided knowledge among stakeholders lessens the opportunity …

The Transformation Of Correctional Facilities Using Artificial Intelligence Technology, Ruth Mokhtar

Student Works

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The Realities Of Sex Offender Treatment: What Is Not Being Shared, Pooja Mehta

Student Works

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Halfway Houses: Fixing A Struggling System, Ezra Rothenberg

Student Works

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Expungement Through Green-Colored Lenses: Examining Challenges In Petition-Based Expungement, Taylor V. Green

Student Works

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Tough Policies, Tougher Results: How Overly Punitive School Disciplinary Measures Feed The Education-To-Prison Pipeline, Nicol Vargas

Student Works

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Weakening The Criminal Justice Reform Act: The Risk “Complexity” Poses To New Jersey’S Detained Defendants, Maura Wester

Student Works

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The Applicability Of Federal Employment Discrimination Statutes To Incarcerated Workers: Requiring An Application Of The Baker Economic Reality Test And The Satisfaction Of Two Conditions For Employee Status, Cortney Colangelo

Student Works

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A New Circuit Split: The Fifth Circuit’S Categorical Ban On Geofence Warrants Amid Broader Trends In State Legislation And Big Tech Advocacy, Anna Juliano

Student Works

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The Undertreatment Of Patients With Chronic Pain Due To The Opioid Crisis, Nicole Ng

Student Works

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Prisoner’S Rluipa Claims: Access To Religious Exercise Behind Prison Walls, Jill Campione

Student Works

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile Minds: Insanity And Competency In Courts, Sarah Elsakhawy

Student Works

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Restoring Sovereignty: Advancing Tribal Jurisdiction Through Extradition Treaties, Sarah Elsakhawy

Student Works

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Investigating The Efficacy Of A Novel Law Enforcement Use Of Force Training Simulation, Justin D. Lane

Graduate Thesis and Dissertation post-2024

Realistic scenario based training (SBT) is an effective method used to prepare police officers for real world use of force incidents. Many law enforcement agencies are unable to host regular SBT due to time, cost, and facility constraints. A novel simulation training approach was investigated to determine if it may be a suitable alternative or supplement to traditional SBT at reduced cost, time, and increased frequency. This novel scenario based simulation training (SBST) environment combined physical and virtual elements into a single training scenario. A physical space, designed to depict the scene of a critical incident, was equipped with immersive …

Dordt University 2025-26 Catalog, Dordt University. Registrar's Office

Academic Catalogs

Academic Catalog for 2025-26

De/Reconstructing Delinquency, Eduardo R. Ferrer

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Hundreds of thousands of children are brought under the jurisdiction of delinquency courts every year in the United States. Despite the reality that most children engage in delinquent behavior during their adolescence, poor children, children of color, children with disabilities, and children who identify as LGBTQIA+ comprise a disproportionate number of those who become delinquency system-involved. These disparities exist by design. Their origins can be traced back to the flawed first principles upon which the juvenile court was built and, specifically, to the unduly expansive legal definition of delinquency that has undergirded the jurisdiction and power of the juvenile court …

War Courts: Fdr, National Security, And The War On Terrorism, Harvey Gee

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

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Machine-Learning Human Rights, Han‐Wei Ho, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-Chien Chang, Tom Ginsburg

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Utilizing a comprehensive panel dataset spanning from 1900 to 2020, this study introduces an innovative methodology for the analysis and categorization of legal documents, specifically national constitutions. Contrary to the predominant reliance on unsupervised methods within the field, this research incorporates a supervised machine-learning approach, notably the SEMMS method, alongside traditional unsupervised algorithms. This dual approach facilitates a nuanced analysis of the human rights provisions contained within national constitutions, resulting in the identification of both traditional and novel constitutional groupings. Broadly speaking, the more traditional common law-civil law divide does not seem particularly relevant in this context. Furthermore, our methodology …

Function Over Form In Federal Drug Sentencing, Alison Siegler, Grant Delaune

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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Pretrial Detention Without Counsel, Alison M. Siegler, Jaden M. Lessnick

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

In federal courts across the country, judges are locking defendants in jail before trial without first giving them a lawyer. This deprivation-of-counsel crisis not only violates the statutory, regulatory, and administrative right to counsel at initial appearance hearings, but may even contravene the Sixth Amendment. This article builds on our Freedom Denied report—the first nationwide study of federal pretrial detention—and new data collected since. It makes three primary contributions. First, we explain the sources and nature of the right to counsel at federal initial appearance hearings (the first bail hearing in federal court). Second, we provide a data-driven illustration of …

Ai And Positionality:A Guide For Learning Communities, Emese Ilyés

Open Educational Resources

This practical guide helps educators thoughtfully integrate AI tools while preserving what matters most—student voice and agency. Drawing on research with students navigating AI in higher education, it offers concrete activities and frameworks that position technology as an assistant rather than a replacement for authentic expression. Through adaptable classroom strategies and qualitative approaches, educators across disciplines will discover how to create learning environments where students recognize the value of their unique perspectives in an age of artificial intelligence.

Mini Research And Creativity Project, Amie Macdonald

Open Educational Resources

As part of a faculty development seminar on remixing Open Educational Resources philosophy professor Dr. Amie Macdonald created this creative research project in which students investigate "the jurisdictional maze regarding sexual assault of indigenous women," by reading and creating multimedia artifacts that they then present.

Analyzing Acid Rain And Industrial Activity, Jooyoung Jeon

Open Educational Resources

This assignment by Jooyoung Jeon asks students to explore the relationship between acid rain occurrences and industrial activity by analyzing open datasets. It was created as part of a workshop on OER-based Active Learning at John Jay College in 2025.

Connections And Contrasts Between “Enactments Of Power: The Politics Of Performance Space” By Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Kendrick Lamar’S 2025 Superbowl Performance, And Sunni Patterson’S “We Made It.”, Crystal Endsley Taylor

Open Educational Resources

This assignment by Dr. Crystal Endsley Taylor uses all Open, "low-tech" solutions to create an active learning module that prompts students to pause, retrieve, re-state and reconsider several texts, including The Politics of Performance Space” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Superbowl performance, and Sunni Patterson’s “We Made It.” It was made as part of a workshop on OER-based Active Learning at John Jay College in 2025.

"Expert" Versus "Subjugated" Knowledge In Political Sociology, Marisa Tramontano

Open Educational Resources

In this assignment, created for a 2025 seminar on OER-based Active Learning, Dr. Marisa Tramontano made an open, "low-tech" active learning module comparing excerpts from the book, "Poverty of Philosophy" by Karl Marx with the song of the same name by Immortal Technique. The assignment uses a remixable Google doc to guide students' analyses and comparisons of these texts. The assignment can easily be adapted to other courses or disciplines.

Asynchronous Trials: A New Approach To High-Volume Civil Adjudication, Henry Zhuhao Wang

Scholarly Publications

For thousands of years, trials were held in brick-and-mortar courthouses. Then COVID-19 ravaged the world, and many businesses and institutions, including judicial courts, went online. For the first time many people realized, accepted, and benefited from online trials held via videoconference software like Zoom. But Zoom fatigue is real. As the epidemic subsides, we must explore the next exciting growth point for judicial reforms.

Outside the courtroom, since the second half of the twentieth century, a revolution in communication methods has profoundly affected people’s daily life: we have switched from almost entirely real-time, synchronous human interactions, such as in-person meetings …

Rehabilitation Not Punishment: Adults In Custody Learning Skills Needed To Survive In Society, Kaitlyn J. Wanner

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Introduction: The U.S has one of the highest populations of incarcerated individuals in the world and must shift from the use of punishment to rehabilitation for these individuals (Huynh et al., 2015; Muñoz, 2019; Phelps & Aldrich, 2022). While in prison, these individuals are limited in their ability to participate in meaningful activities and lose skills needed to function in society (Lares & Montgomery, 2020). Occupational therapy assists individuals of a variety of populations engage in activities that are meaningful to them. The set of skills that occupational therapy has to offer results in a broad area of settings that …

Policing After Slavery: Race, Crime, And Resistance In Atlanta, Jonathon J. Booth

University of Colorado Law Review

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