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Reforming The Juvenile Correctional Institution: Efforts Of The U.S. Children's Bureau In The 1930s, Marguerite G. Rosenthal

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The U.S. Children's Bureau, the federal agency responsible for social policy for children in the early part of this century, delayed studying the problems associated with the institutionalization of juvenile delinquents for nearly twenty-five years. In the 1930's, the Bureau undertook several projects and studies related to training schools for delinquents which were designed to create reform in an area long recognized as harmful to children. This article traces the history of the Bureau's work in the institutional field from 1912-54, analyzes the reasons for the agency's initial reluctance and later activity in this area, discusses the results of these …

Stability And Fluctuation In Juvenile Delinquency In Israel, Ram A. Cnaan, Itzhak Hocherman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A review of the literature indicates two major approaches in official crime rate analysis. The first approach postulates a positive correlation between recorded crime rates and a number of factors including police strength, organizational structure of social control agencies, opportunity, and social pathologies. The second postulate is based on Erikson's hypothesis of stability of deviance over time, namely that recorded crime rates in a given society will remain comparatively stable over time. We tested these approaches based on 15 years of juvenile delinquency statistics in Israel. Official statistics on both recorded juvenile delinquents and their recorded crimes were tested through …

Recidivism Of 17-21 Year-Old Misdemeanants Participating In A Prosecution Diversion Program, Gerald D. Snodgrass

Dissertations

Criminal activity involving the youthful offender is a serious problem in law enforcement. The monetary considerations of processing a criminal case in the established criminal justice system are not declining. Youthful crime, like all forms of criminal activity, is a considerable drain on the resources of this country. The personal costs to the 17-21 year-old offender may include curtailment of employment opportunities, limited educational prospects, and the establishment of adverse life patterns, leading to further criminal involvement. The youthful offender who resorts to crime again and is arrested because of such criminal activity adds additional costs to the criminal justice …

An Analysis Of The Effects Of A Low Glycemic Diet On The Antisocial Behavior Of Juvenile Offenders, James Edward Longhurst

Dissertations

The objective of this study was to determine if a low glycemic diet contributes to a reduction in the incidence of antisocial behavior among male juvenile offenders.

One hundred forty juvenile offenders at a residential treatment center were randomly divided into treatment and nontreatment groups. The treatment group ate from a diet which contained foods low in glycemic characteristics. There was no dietary alteration for the control group.

Three instruments were used to measure differences between groups in antisocial behavior following a 5-week experimental period. These instruments include: (1) the Unusual Incident Report--a systematic and objective observer report form, (2) …

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Degrees Of Exposure, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1987 Talisman yearbook includes these articles:

• Degrees of Exposure
• Smith, Sandy. Western, Canada, Homecoming . . . An UnCommon Bond
• It’s a SCREAM! – Halloween
• Binkley, John. Stroke by Stroke – Swimming Lessons
• Eaglesson, Leigh. Thunderbirds
• Jones, LaMont. Black by Popular Demand
• Strange, Jennifer. Not Just a Handout – Hands Across Western
• Strange, Jennifer. Pain in the Grass – High School Sweet Sixteen Tournament
• Spann, Kim. Heart Attacks – Valentine’s Day
• Kinslow, Gina. A Stable Career – Kelly Greenwell
• White, Fred. An Instrumental Career – Jim Daniel
• Saylor, Kim. On a Different Scale – Theatre & Dance
• Kinslow, Gina. Foreign …

Drug Addict And Non-Addict Offenders: A Comparison Of The Disparity In The Types Of Crimes, Sentencing Recommendations, And Formal Dispositions Of Each Group, Scott B. Courtney

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the type and severity of a crime and the offender's known history (past or present) of controlled substance abuse.

A random sample of federal cases between the years 1980-1985 was used to see if the offender's known problem with substance abuse had any impact on the severity of the recommended and actual sentence imposed on the offender.

Specific control variables such as race, age, educational level, and marital status of the offenders were also incorporated.

Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

In view of (1) escalating national attention and political and judicial activity centering on capital punishment during recent years and (2) concomitant changes in police killing rates, this paper investigates the impact of the death penalty on rates of lethal assaults against the police for the post-Furman period, 1973–1984. In keeping with recent investigations of deterrence and general homicides, multiple regression is used as a means of controlling for the influence of possible confounding variables in examining the capital punishment/police killings relationship. Consistent with previous investigations, the present analysis provides no indication that our national return to capital punishment …

How To Criticize The Death Penalty, David Dolinko

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Limiting Leon: A Mistake Of Law Analogy, Robert L. Misner

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Double Jeopardy Clause And Successive State Prosecutions: If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again, The--Fifth Amendment: Heath V. Alabama, 106 S. Ct. 433 (1985), Sean Richard Berry

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Right To Inquire Into Jurors' Racial Prejudices--Sixth Amendment: Turner V. Murray, 106 S. Ct. 1683 (1986), Maria Wyckoff

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Constituitional Rights Of The Insane On Death Row, The--Eighth Amendment: Ford V. Wainwright, 106 S. Ct. 2595 (1986), Sanford M. Pastroff

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Supreme Court Limits The Right To Privacy, The--Fourteenth Amendment: Bowers V. Hardwick, 106 S. Ct. 2841 (1986), Gary S. Caplan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Crime Severity On Perceptions Of Fair Punishment: A California Case Study, The , William Samuel, Elizabeth Moulds

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Legal Sanctions And The Consensus Of Crime Seriousness, William Dalton Cole

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Ua12/8 Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1987.

Contributions Of Victimization To Delinquency In Inner Cities, Jeffery Fagan, Elizabeth S. Piper, Yu-Teh Cheng

Faculty Scholarship

The relationship between victimization and criminality has been widely cited in recent years. Early thinking and public perceptions about crime intuitively presumed that criminals were distinct from their victims. Crime control policies resulted which promoted the physical separation of victims from predatory offenders through "target hardening" and "defensible space." Such distinctions, however, ignored the empirical evidence on the considerable overlap between offender and victim profiles and distorted the reality of events in which persons are labelled as victims or victimizers based only on the consequences of the event. Given the homogeneous relation between victim and offender, theories of crime that …

An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Crime And Chemical Use: A Study Of Jail Intake Data, Mariesha L. Pearson

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Research was completed on a 300-person sample of 1985 arrestees in Jacksonville, Florida. The original focus of the study was to explore the possible relationship between crime and chemical use. Data was obtained from forms that were routinely used in the jail booking and interview process. Two booking/intake forms were used: The Arrest and Booking Report and the Medical Screening Information (P-075) form. Only 24 arrestees in the 300-person sample admitted to using chemicals. Hence, the data did not support the hypothesis of this thesis that a correlational relationship exists between crime and chemical use. This researcher observed and interviewed …

Constitutionality Of Warrantless Aerial Surveillance, The--Fourth Amendment: California V. Ciraolo, 106 S. Ct. 1809 (1986), Laura L. Krakovec

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Changing The Balance Of Miranda--Fifth And Sixth Amendments: Moran V. Burbine, 106 S. Ct. 1135 (1986), Horace W. Jr. Jordan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Right To Counsel: Limited Postindictment Use Of Jailhouse Informants Is Permissible--Sixth Amendment: Kuhlmann V. Wilson, 106 S. Ct. 2616 (1986), Bruce D. Lundstrom

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Swain Song Of The Racially Discriminatory Use Of Peremptory Challenges, The--Sixth And Fourteenth Amendments: Batson V. Kentucky, 106 S. Ct. 1712 (1986), Michael W. Kirk

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Reexamining Judicial Vindictiveness--Fourteenth Amendment: Texas V. Mccullough, 106 S. Ct. 976 (1986), Glenn H. Kobayashi

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Ua1c11/91/2 Wku Police Department Photograph, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

Composite photograph of members of the WKU Police Department. Top row l to r: Edward Wilson, Paul Bunch, Horace Johnson, Richard Kirby. 2nd row l to r: Gene Whalen, Hugh Heater, Joe Gentry, Jerry Phelps. 3rd row l to r: Eugene Hoofer, Charles Wallace, David Gordon, Mike Howard, Paul Joiner, Jerry Alford, David Dunn, Todd Holder, Tamela Maxwell. 4th row l to r: Larry Pearl, Jim Schaeffer, William Stephens, Linda Boards, Howard Kirby, Pam Pryor, Pat Murphy, Kim Burton, Vicki Wingate.

Erosion Of Defendant's Right To An Impartial Jury And A Fundamentally Fair Trial--Sixth And Eighth Amemdments: Darden V. Wainwright, 106 S. Ct. 2464 (1986), Hillary L. Pettegrew

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

The Rape Shield Paradox: Complainant Protection Amidst Oscillating Trends Of State Judicial Interpretation, Andrew Z. Soshnick

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Due Process Rights At Sentencing--Fifth Amendment: Mcmillan V. Pennsylvania, 106 S. Ct. 2411 (1986), Anthony J. Dennis

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Effective Assistance Of Counsel: A Defense Attorney's Right To Refuse Cooperation In Defendant's Perjured Testimony--Sixth Amendment: Nix V. Whiteside, 106 S. Ct. 988 (1986), David L. Jr. Beckman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Waiver After Request For Counsel--Sixth Amendment: Michigan V. Jackson, 106 S. Ct. 1404 (1986), Thomas Echikson

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Restitution, Criminal Law, And The Ideology Of Individuality , Richard C. Boldt

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.