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Compensating Victims Of Crime, Douglas N. Evans
Compensating Victims Of Crime, Douglas N. Evans
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Victims of violent crime are often unable to access financial compensation to offset the costs of victimization (e.g., medical, lost wages, funeral expenses) despite the massive amounts of money set aside for just that purpose. Currently, there is about $11 billion in the federal Crime Victims Fund (CVF). Less than 10 percent of this amount is allocated to state victim compensation programs. This report explores the funding mechanisms used by federal and state governments to compensate victims of crime, and it describes the administrative and policy problems in these systems. The report offers several recommendations for improvement. States have their …
From Punishment To Treatment: A Providers’ Perspective On The Implementation Of 2009 Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms In New York, Robert Riggs, Jim Parsons, Qing Wei, Ernest Drucker
From Punishment To Treatment: A Providers’ Perspective On The Implementation Of 2009 Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms In New York, Robert Riggs, Jim Parsons, Qing Wei, Ernest Drucker
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Background: In 2009, New York reformed its “Rockefeller Drug Laws”, terminating mandatory imprisonment for many drug charges and expanding the availability of treatment alternatives to incarceration. The reforms occurred in an environment characterized by high incarceration rates, racial/ethnic disparities in drug convictions and incarceration rates, and expanded use of alternatives to incarceration. Early administrative data show a large impact on the criminal justice system. Few studies have considered the reforms from the providers’ perspective and none have sought to understand how providers are experiencing the reforms in their everyday practice.
Methods: To provide a providers’ perspective, we use a qualitative, …
Off The Record: The National Security Council, Drone Killings, And Historical Accountability, Douglas Cox, Ramzi Kassem
Off The Record: The National Security Council, Drone Killings, And Historical Accountability, Douglas Cox, Ramzi Kassem
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No abstract provided.
Deadbeat Dads & Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law, Ann Cammett
Deadbeat Dads & Welfare Queens: How Metaphor Shapes Poverty Law, Ann Cammett
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No abstract provided.
Storm Surges, Disaster Planning, And Vulnerable Populations At The Urban Periphery: Imagining A Resilient New York After Superstorm Sandy, Andrea L. Mcardle
Storm Surges, Disaster Planning, And Vulnerable Populations At The Urban Periphery: Imagining A Resilient New York After Superstorm Sandy, Andrea L. Mcardle
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In the aftermath of Sandy, the destructive superstorm that had a devastating impact in New York City and other parts of the Northeastern U.S. in 2012, ideas and data proliferate about how coastal cities, such as New York, can pursue strategies of resilience to help withstand the next weather-related onslaught. This article argues that whether the city in fact acts resiliently must take into account the extent to which its proposals respond to the needs of vulnerable people housed along its coastline. Superstorm Sandy put a face to vulnerability, including 6,800 evacuees assigned to shelters, 1,800 of whom were residents …
Abortion Exceptionalism And Undue Burden Preemption, Caitlin Borgmann
Abortion Exceptionalism And Undue Burden Preemption, Caitlin Borgmann
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No abstract provided.
Sunshine For Sale: Environmental Contractors And The Freedom Of Information Act, Sarah Lamdan
Sunshine For Sale: Environmental Contractors And The Freedom Of Information Act, Sarah Lamdan
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No abstract provided.
Dependent Relative Revocation: Presumption Or Probability, Richard Storrow
Dependent Relative Revocation: Presumption Or Probability, Richard Storrow
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No abstract provided.
Service Learning: A Tool To Develop Employment Competencies For College Students, Amy J. Ramson
Service Learning: A Tool To Develop Employment Competencies For College Students, Amy J. Ramson
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College students will face a workplace transformed even from the one that existed five years ago. Public and private organizations presently require employees to possess highly developed core competencies. This shift in expectations, exacerbated by high unemployment among recent college graduates, has made accountability a hot issue for higher education. Colleges have begun to integrate experiential approaches into the curriculum to impart work competencies. Internships, the classic form of experiential education, cannot develop all the required skills and knowledge, especially if students do not take part in a reflection activity. Service-learning, a more recent approach to experiential education, is high …
Realities Of Religio-Legalism: Religious Courts And Women's Rights In Canada, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Anissa Helie, Marie Ashe
Realities Of Religio-Legalism: Religious Courts And Women's Rights In Canada, The United Kingdom, And The United States, Anissa Helie, Marie Ashe
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Religio-legalism – the enforcement of religious law by specifically-religious courts that are tolerated or endorsed by civil government – has long operated against women’s interests in liberty and equality. In the 21st century, religious tribunals – Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim – operate throughout the world. Almost all are male-dominated, patriarchal, and sex-discriminatory. Harms to women produced by Muslim or sharia courts have come into focus in recent years, but present realities of religio-legalism operating through Christian and Jewish – as well as Muslim – religious courts in Western nations have been under-examined.
This essay by Ashe and Helie documents …
J. Mcintyre And The Global Stream Of Commerce, Frank Deale
J. Mcintyre And The Global Stream Of Commerce, Frank Deale
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No abstract provided.
Lessons For New York: Comparative Urban Governance And The Challenge Of Climate Change, Andrea L. Mcardle
Lessons For New York: Comparative Urban Governance And The Challenge Of Climate Change, Andrea L. Mcardle
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No abstract provided.
Standing In The Shadow Of Tax Exceptionalism: Expanding Access To Judicial Review Of Federal Agency Rules, Lynn D. Lu
Standing In The Shadow Of Tax Exceptionalism: Expanding Access To Judicial Review Of Federal Agency Rules, Lynn D. Lu
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No abstract provided.
Gender Neutrality And The “Violence Against Women” Frame, Julie Goldscheid
Gender Neutrality And The “Violence Against Women” Frame, Julie Goldscheid
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The challenge of sustaining a progressive framework that continues to resonate in the complex aftermath of a generation of reforms lies at the heart of many current debates about gender violence legal and policy reform. This Article addresses one longstanding issue: the way gender violence is framed in law, policy, and popular rhetoric. Many initiatives continue to use the gender-specific “violence against women” frame as a default description. That “woman-specific” frame, developed in service of feminist goals such as foregrounding and challenging gender bias and fostering more inclusive delivery of social and other services, now raises empirical, theoretical, political and …
Vawa And Welfare Reform: Criminalizing The Most Marginalized Women, Ann Ann Cammett
Vawa And Welfare Reform: Criminalizing The Most Marginalized Women, Ann Ann Cammett
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No abstract provided.
Prosecutorial Discretion The Duty To Seek Justice In An Overburdened Criminal Justice System, K. Babe Howell
Prosecutorial Discretion The Duty To Seek Justice In An Overburdened Criminal Justice System, K. Babe Howell
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No abstract provided.
In Abortion Litigation, It’S The Facts That Matter, Caitlin Borgmann
In Abortion Litigation, It’S The Facts That Matter, Caitlin Borgmann
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No abstract provided.
The Constitutionality Of Government-Imposed Bodily Intrusions, Caitlin Borgmann
The Constitutionality Of Government-Imposed Bodily Intrusions, Caitlin Borgmann
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No abstract provided.
The Lost Archives Of Noriega: Emancipating Panamanian Human Rights Documents In U.S. Military Custody, Douglas Cox
The Lost Archives Of Noriega: Emancipating Panamanian Human Rights Documents In U.S. Military Custody, Douglas Cox
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No abstract provided.
The Growth Of Incarceration In The United States: Exploring Causes And Consequences, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, F. Stevens Redburn
The Growth Of Incarceration In The United States: Exploring Causes And Consequences, Jeremy Travis, Bruce Western, F. Stevens Redburn
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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration in the United States was established under the auspices of the National Research Council, supported by the National Institute of Justice and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to review evidence on the causes and consequences of these high incarceration rates and the implications of this evidence for public policy.
Our work encompassed research on, and analyses of, the …
Bombing For Justice: Urban Terrorism In New York City From The 1960s Through The 1980s, Jeffrey A. Kroessler
Bombing For Justice: Urban Terrorism In New York City From The 1960s Through The 1980s, Jeffrey A. Kroessler
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From the mid-1960s into the 1980s New York City experienced a wave of political violence and urban terrorism. Groups planted bombs, hijacked airliners, and engaged in assassination and attempted assassination to advance political, racial, or nationalist agendas. They included the Jewish Defense League, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, FALN and other advocates of Puerto Rican independence, the United Freedom Front, Omega 7 and other anti-Castro Cubans, and Croatian nationalists. Juries often failed to convict these individuals, and others received light sentences. Judges scrutinized police actions for abuses of constitutional rights, and attorneys like William Kunstler …