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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Criminal Legal System"”.
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Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices
… resources and information as they enter the criminal legal system (CLS). Their experiences, in particular how stress and vicarious trauma (VT) manifested for them in this unique setting within the criminal legal system, had not yet been examined. This phenomenological study sought to better …
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Unlocking Potential: The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities
… to be associated with future involvement in the criminal legal system and lower educational attainment. Disability was not found to mediate the relationship between suspension and future involvement in the criminal legal system or the relationship between suspension and academic outcomes. …
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Living with Serious Mental Illness, Police Encounters, and Relationships of Power: A Critical Phenomenological Study
The criminalization of mental illness has drawn and kept a disproportionate number of people living with mental illness in jails and prisons across the United States. The criminal legal system is ill-equipped or unequipped to provide meaningful mental health care. Police often serve as gatekeepers …
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DOES AGE DIFFERENCE MATTER?: AN EXAMINATION OF ARREST AND INITIAL CHARGING IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES
… some sexual assault cases proceed through the criminal-legal system while other cases do not. Despite research examining various factors that influence case processing decision making, few studies have examined the influence of suspect-victim age difference on sexual assault case outcomes. In …
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The Paradox Of Visibility: Anti-Blackness, Pathologization, And The Limitations Of Canadian Criminal Law
… nature of anti-Black racism within Canadian criminal law, contributing to the growing body of Canadian critical race theory (CRT) literature and advancing the field of race-conscious doctrinal work on Canadian criminal law. Each chapter engages the system along different axes: (a) the …
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Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality
… experiences relate to women's experiences of criminalization and incarceration? (3) How do women respond to criminalization, incarceration, and post-incarceration? By centering women's standpoint, I draw upon poststructuralist theories of the state to show how women experienced governance …
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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… my larger theoretical question: Why and how do legal systems, such as courts, shape victimhood for both the institution and the individual? To answer these questions, I draw from broader theories regarding interpretivism, victimology, labeling theory, social constructionism, feminist …
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A Systematic Review of Huikahi Reentry Circles: A Restorative Justice Process for Families Impacted by Incarceration
… of the reentry process. Historically, the criminal justice system does not meet the reentry needs of incarceration-impacted individuals. Lorren Walker and restorative justice practitioners attempt to fill this gap in reentry by facilitating restorative reentry circles to aid families in …
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Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing
… management and also funneled residents into the criminal-legal system. Writing against popular narratives of public housing as an inherent site of crime and violence, this project instead positions the police—and, by extension, the state—as a central contributor to violence in these spaces. That …
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Criminal legal contact and county-level health outcomes
… broader health outcomes to show how the criminal legal system, from prison incarceration to misdemeanors, contributes to health inequalities. Specifically, it seeks to understand how different forms of criminal legal contact, namely misdemeanors, jail incarceration, and prison …
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Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?: The Racially Coded Language of Professionalism and its Detriment to the Black Community
… overt racism is translated into cultural criminalization. Laws and policies that are seemingly non-sinister nonetheless target the black population by using non-descript language and images associated with blackness. Research has shown how the connections between criminality and blackness …
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The Heart of the Defense: Exploring The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Cultural Competence, And Client-Centered Lawyering In Public Defense
… lawyering (CCL) within the public defense system. Using a mixed-methods design, this study analyzed quantitative data from 96 White public defenders and qualitative data from a focus group of 7 experienced public defense trainers. Because of the disparate racialized impact of the criminal …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
… developments of crime fiction and the changes in criminal legal system over the span of one hundred and nineteen years. Utilising the methodology of comparative literature, I argue that the interiorized punishment - which I identify, after Foucault, as a new episteme - is a narrative thread that …
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This is not a prison: surrealism in transition from the perspective of staff implementing a restorative community in a carceral facility
… utilize restorative tools in the context of the legal system, which is by nature adversarial, produced a snapshot of an institution in the process of transition. The work of the corrections professional is traditionally focused on maintaining order within a carceral facility. Restorative justice …
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Prosecuting Sexual Assault in Chicago
The criminal legal system is an often-recommended resource for those seeking help and justice after being sexually assaulted. However, the research thus far indicates that sexual assault (SA) cases that are reported to police are unlikely to be prosecuted and convicted and that such attrition does …
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Suicide and Firearm Access among Legal System Involved Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
… suicide among perpetrators of DV involved in the legal system will provide knowledge to inform current policies and practice to prevent suicide and protect victim-survivors of DV. We used two populations of legal system involved perpetrators of DV to examine suicide-related behaviors. The first …
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Refusing Rehabilitation: Outlaw Epistemologies and the Carceral-Therapeutic State in NYC
… have been transformed at the intersection of criminal legal system reform and the overdose crisis. I take up how multiracial groups of criminalized women—thrown together by the state, not by choice—refuse forms of state control and violence, and imagine together alternative “outlaw” horizons …
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The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Criminal Judgement
… the influence of phenotypic variation on criminal judgment. This study had two phases. In the first phase, participants rated multiple headshot photographs on the degree to which African American men possess pronounced Afrocentric features (fuller lips, broader nose, curlier hair, darker …
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Jail diversion : the Michigan mental health code and assisted outpatient therapy
… are disproportionally represented within the criminal justice system (Waters et al., 2023). Mental illness occurs at higher rates among people in the criminal legal system when compared to the general population with 16% to 27% individuals in community supervision, 41% in jails, and 56% in …
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“They don’t help you here” a relational ethnography of domestic violence court
… a victim-centered alternative to the traditional criminal court setting. Domestic violence courts attempt to bring together the combined expertise of court actors (judges, lawyers, advocates, and social workers) to provide more enduring and less stigmatizing solutions to domestic violence …