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Teaching 'The Wire': Fiction As Pedagogical Tool, Roger Fairfax
Teaching 'The Wire': Fiction As Pedagogical Tool, Roger Fairfax
Presentations
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Searching For Solutions To The Indigent Defense Crisis In The Broader Criminal Justice Reform Agenda, Roger Fairfax
Searching For Solutions To The Indigent Defense Crisis In The Broader Criminal Justice Reform Agenda, Roger Fairfax
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Gideon v. Wainwright decision, the nearly universal assessment is that our indigent defense system remains too under-resourced and overwhelmed to fulfill the promise of the landmark decision, and needs to be reformed. At the same time, fiscal necessity and moral outrage have prompted a historic reexamination of outdated policies that have led to an overreliance on incarceration and inefficiencies in the administration of criminal justice. This Essay argues that there are synergies between the indigent defense reform agenda and the broader criminal justice reform agenda, which places a premium on cost-effective, evidence-based, …
Addressing Sexual Violence Against Youth In Custody: Youth Workers’ Handbook On Identifying And Addressing Sexual Violence In Juvenile Justice Settings, Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi
Addressing Sexual Violence Against Youth In Custody: Youth Workers’ Handbook On Identifying And Addressing Sexual Violence In Juvenile Justice Settings, Brenda V. Smith, Jaime M. Yarussi
Reports
From 1999 to 2012, The Project on Addressing Prison Rape (the Project) at American University’s Washington College of Law had a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) to provide training to high-level correctional decisionmakers on key issues in addressing and investigating staff sexual misconduct. In 2003, with the enactment of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), the Project’s focus shifted to addressing prison rape—both staff sexual misconduct and offender-on-offender sexual abuse. In 2006, Smith Consulting began a collaborative effort with the Project and NIC to focus efforts on addressing sexual abuse of youth in custody. This handbook …
Panel Iv: Challenges To Proving Cases Of Torture Before The Committee Against Torture, Juan E. Mendez
Panel Iv: Challenges To Proving Cases Of Torture Before The Committee Against Torture, Juan E. Mendez
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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Confronting The Dead: The Supreme Court's Confrontation Clause Jurisprudence And Its Implications For Autopsy Reports, Reid R. Allison
Confronting The Dead: The Supreme Court's Confrontation Clause Jurisprudence And Its Implications For Autopsy Reports, Reid R. Allison
Criminal Law Practitioner
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