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An Assessment Of The Impact Of Intimate Victim-Offender Relationship On Sentencing In Serious Assault Cases, Laura J. Hickman

Dissertations and Theses

It is generally agreed that a criminal justice system reflects the values of the society within which it exists. The presence of patriarchal social values will likely affect the response of the criminal justice system to intimate violence. While the perpetration of violence against another is a violation of an important social norm, patriarchal values may function to discount the seriousness of such an act, if the violence is perpetrated by a man against his girlfriend or wife. This discount of seriousness may lead to less severe punishment for men who assault their intimates than to men who assault nonintimates. …

Indigent V. Non-Indigent Sex Offenders: An Analysis Of Sentencing In Clackamas, Multnomah And Washington Counties, Oregon, Dorelei Victoria Linder

Dissertations and Theses

The present paper is a descriptive study of sex offender sentencing in three Oregon counties in 1992. It examines the relationship between sentencing practices and indigent offenders. It focuses specifically on the question of offender indigent status and court ordered sex offender treatment. The study also provides information about the number of sex offenders in each of the three counties, how the offenders' sentences were determined by the courts through the use of the sentencing guidelines matrix, what type of plea was used, and what if any influence indigence had in the sentencing outcomes for the felony sex offenders in …

A Candidate Genetic Risk Factor For Vascular Disease: A Common Mutation In Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase, P. Frosst, H. J. Blom, R. Milos, P. Goyette, Christal A. Sheppard, R. G. Matthews, G. J.H. Boers, M. Den Heijer, L. A.J. Kluijtmans, L. P. Van Den Heuvel, Rima Rozen

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Hyperhomocysteinaemia has been identified as a risk factor for cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular, and coronary heart disease. Elevated levels of plasma homocysteine can result from genetic or nutrient-related disturbances in the trans-sulphuration or re-methylation pathways for homocysteine metabolism. 5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) catalyzes the reduction of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, the predominant circulatory form of folate and carbon donor for the re-methylation of homocysteine to methionine. Reduced MTHFR activity with a thermolabile enzyme has been reported in patients with coronary and peripheral artery diseases. We have identified a common mutation in MTHFR which alters a highly-conserved amino acid; the substitution occurs at a …

Judging Judgment: Assessing The Competence Of Mental Patients To Refuse Treatment, Grant H. Morris

San Diego Law Review

This Article concerns the due process requirements in determining a mental patient’s competency to make a decision refusing medical treatment. The Author discusses the California decision imposing a judicial hearing requirement and San Diego Superior Court rules for implementing this decision. The Author, a law-trained decision maker in hearings to determine mental patients’ competence to refuse medication, compiled a case report after each of his hearings. He presents and analyzes the data on the competency cases he decided and emphasizes the factors which may have influence his decisions. The Author argues that competency hearings should be conducted by law-trained decision …

United States V. Steinmetz: The Legal Legacy Of The Civil War, Revisited, Susan Poser, Elizabeth R. Varon

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

One of the enduring and yet unresolved issues concerning the Civil War is its legal nature: Was it an insurrection or an international war? During the war and since, the United States courts have repeatedly been called upon to determine the status of property which was under the control of the Confederacy and its agents during the Civil War. In the process of making such determinations, the courts have reopened questions about the war's legal status. United States v. Steinmetz is such a case.

Divisionews (Spring 1995/ Vol. 9, No. 1), American Society Of Criminology Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Fuzzifying The Natural Law—Legal Positivist Debate, Edward S. Adams, Torben Spaak

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

1995 Division On Women And Crime Membership List, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

List of Members

Substantive Due Process And Parental Corporal Punishment: Democracy And The Excluded Child, Mary Kate Kearney

San Diego Law Review

This Article questions whether parents have a right to corporally punish their children, and if they do, how this right should be defined. The author argues that parents should not receive the heightened constitutional protection conferred by a fundamental right. She argues that the political process already adequately protects the interests of parents in disciplining their children. To the extent that the political process chooses to permit parents to administer reasonable corporal punishment, this Article proposes a five-part test that courts can use to determine whether an act of corporal punishment fits within that reasonableness standard. This test is more …

Harris V. Forklift Systems, Inc. Victory Or Defeat?, Laura Hoffman Roppe

San Diego Law Review

This Casenote analyzes the significance and potential effects of the decision in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., a Supreme Court case decided in November 1993. This case promulgates a framework for analysis of "hostile environment" sexual harassment claims arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The author sets forth the historical backdrop of the case, as well as exploring and comparing the effect of the decision in general with the decision's effect in the Ninth Circuit in particular. The author concludes that the Harris case potentially reduces women's chances of winning sexual harassment claims in the …

Homosexual Rights And Citizen Initiatives: Is Constitutionalism Unconstitutional?, Richard F. Duncan, Gary L. Young

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Grassroots initiatives like Amendment Two are the product of a populist revolt against restrictive homosexual rights laws. These initiatives are an attempt by the people to protect their basic civil liberties and to promote equal citizenship values. Homosexual rights legislation stigmatizes, marginalizes, and fences out groups and individuals who hold traditional beliefs about sexual morality. Citizen initiatives operate to remove this stigma and its harmful consequences by restoring government to a position of benign neutrality regarding competing visions of human sexuality.

When initiatives like Amendment Two are approved by vote of the people, they are likely to be challenged under …

A Comparison Between Criminal Justice Electronic Monitoring Programs In Riverside And San Bernardino Counties In California, Kenneth A. Sousa

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Marine Corps Subculture, David Herman Marshall

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis analyzes the subculture within the United States Marine Corps. It attempts to bring the traditional literature of criminal subculture and the subculture of violence together with literature of occupational subculture to explain many of the behaviors exhibited by Marines.

Death Sentence Experience: The Impact On Family Members Of Condemned Inmates, Catherine Anne Vallejo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Self-Perceptions Of Women Who Kill, Maria Guadalupe Venegas

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Honest Scientist's Guide To Dna Evidence, Richard O. Lempert

Book Chapters

Thank you for your invitation to participate in the DNA symposium. As you know DNA has never been a prime research focus of mine, and I have been so preoccupied with my own work on ITPT (intertemporal personal transportation) that I thought I must decline. Happily, however, the two projects came together, for I recently had an amazing breakthrough during which by coincidence I stumbled across a book entitled A Century of DNA Testing and holocopied (a fancy form of Xeroxing) the following few pages for you.

The Problematics Of Representation In Community Mediation Hearings: Implications For Mediation Practice, Angela Cora Garcia

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

Empowering disputants to represent themselves and create their own agreement is a frequently cited goal of community mediation programs. This paper explores how disputants' positions and interests are represented in mediation, and investigates the implications of such representation for the negotiation process. This narrative analysis of transcripts of videotaped community mediation hearings shows that disputant self-representation in mediation is never unconstrained. The interactional organization of mediation and the actions of mediators work to limit and define how disputants formulate their utterances. Mediator representation of disputants varies in the degree of intervention or coercion applied. Mediators may limit themselves to rephrasing, …

Criminal Law And Criminology: Survey Of Recent Books, Juliet Casper Smith

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

1995 Financial Reports Of The Dwc, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

1995 General Correspondence Related To Proposals, Dwc Awards Nominations, And Other Memorandums., American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Nicole H. Rafter, Lynne Goodstein, Marvin E. Wolfgang

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Primarily correspondence between DWC chairs and members of the Executive Board, Committees and Task Forces

1995: General Correspondence Between Lynne Goodstein And Dwc Members., American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Lynne Goodstein

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

Primarily incoming and outgoing letters between DWC chairs and members of the Executive Board, Committees and Task Forces; Lynne Goodstein

Correspondence: 1995 Mentoring Committee And Project, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Nicole Rafter, Kimberly Vogt, Suzan Krumholz, Phyllis Gray-Ray

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Correspondence: 1995 Task Force On Women In Prison, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime, Evelyn Gilbert, Karlene Faith

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Under Penalty Of Death, William J. Fitzpatrick

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Headlines: Legal Upgrade, Paula Meseroll

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Honest Scientist's Guide To Dna Evidence, Richard O. Lempert

Articles

The honest scientist recognizes that she herself is a test instrument, and a fallible one at that. Subjectivity inescapably enters into any human endeavor, and should not be denied. DNA testing is rife with subjective elements, no place more so than at the crucial stage of deciding whether a match exists. On the one hand, non-matching extraneous bands may sometimes be properly disregarded and patterns that do not quite meet objective matching criteria may be appropriately regarded as incriminatory matches. On the other hand, band patterns that do meet objective matching criteria may be treated as exonerative depending on how …

Reforming Incompetency To Stand Trial And Plead Guilty: A Restated Proposal And A Response To Professor Bonnie, Bruce J. Winick

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Contemplating The Successive Prosecution Phenomenon In The Federal System, Elizabeth T. Lear

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Fifth Amendment--Responding To Abiguous Requests For Counsel During Custodial Interrogations, Thomas O. Levenberg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Should Courts Instruct Juries As To The Consequences To A Defendant Of A Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity Verdict, Randi Ellias

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.