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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"convict"”.
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Optimal territory size in the convict cichlid (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum)
… predictions by measuring the growth rate of convict cichlids (Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum) defending food patches that differed in area by more than an order of magnitude. Groups of five fish competed for a food patch of a given size over a 10-day period. I assumed one large fish would defend …
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Offspring retrieval behaviors after brood loss in the convict cichlid
… of their young, including retrieval efforts. Convict cichlids (Amatitlania siquia) are an example of a monogamous biparental fish that show shared parental care of young. In the wild, these cichlids defend nests and search for missing young in response to complete or catastrophic brood loss. …
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Knowing the Prisoner and Knowing Oneself: the Bases for the Convict-Counselor Relationship
One of the difficult challenges to the helping professions is the high rate of crime and recidivism. Can prison counselors meet this challenge by establishing good relationships with their clients? An investigation of primary and secondary source material illuminated this question. A counselor who …
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Spawning and parental care in the pink convict variety of Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum (Gunther)
… each containing a pair of sexually mature pink convicts. Twelve different pairs were observed over a period of 120 days. Pre-spawning and post-spawning activities were noted. These were recorded in a pictograph form developed by the author. Eight of these activities were observed in the …
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Creative Writing Portfolio: The Priest, the Cop, and the Convict and Creative Nonfiction Selections
Screenplay/creative nonfiction
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"Freedom Wears a Cap": The Law, Liberty, and Opportunity for British Convict Servants in Virginia, 1718-1788
… the dangers presented by the introduction of convict servants into the colony. However, the significant demand for labor in Virginia resulted in the colony receiving a substantial share of those convicts transported to North America. Contemporaries argued that the importation of convict …
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Rights without law: The role of privileges in convict rehabilitation in early colonial New South Wales (1788-1819)
… the role of privileges in the rehabilitation of convicts in the British colony of New South Wales from 1788 until 1819. Privileges were special rights and benefits granted by the Crown to its subjects. They included pardoning a convict from serving the balance of their sentence. The Crown hoped …
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… In a brief examination of the early prison and convict lease system in the Southern United States, I explore how the racial and gendered ideologies surrounding black womanhood, carried over from slavery, affected the treatment of black women in prisons based on both their race and sex. This …
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Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
… well as scholarly research about the practice of convict leasing in Alabama, I explore dynamics of inheritance, economics, power, privilege, race, class, geography, history, family, and identity.</p>
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
This thesis examines convict transportation from the Madras Presidency to penal colonies across the Indian Ocean, particularly the Straits Settlements, between 1789 and 1860. It discusses the transportation of Indian convicts across the Indian Ocean as a carceral network, understanding it as a set …
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Eyewitness Recall of Noncriminal Events: An Examination of Demographic Characteristics with a Selected Population.
… Eyewitness testimony is frequently used to convict defendants each year. Many of these convictions are based solely on eyewitness accounts. While much has been written on the reliability of eyewitness testimony, little is known about demographic characteristic differences that may exist. A …
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John Bardwell Ebden : his business and political career at the Cape 1806-1849
… Exchange and Chamber of Commerce and of the Anti-Convict Association, supplied the necessary details which enabled a full-scale reconstruction to be made of his contributions in a variety of fields. All archival sources mentioned in this thesis are housed in the Cape Archives Depot except where …
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An analysis of circumstantial evidence in discharging the burden of proof: A critical review of the Zambian Jurisprudence
… and the courts have a big role to play to avoid convicting innocent people and must work hard in ensuring that justice is seen to be done, because in serious crimes such as murder of which the research is about, it is important to ensure that the right people are brought to justice. The paper is …
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We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty
… In Faulkner’s novella “Old Man,” the Tall Convict desperately desires to return to Parchman Prison because he has absorbed the effects of panoptic surveillance of prison. In Welty’s short story “June Recital,” female sexual awakening is inextricably linked to the judgmental and regulatory …
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A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905
… institution is the prison. The Breakwater convict station, a colonial prison in Cape Town during the nineteenth century, suited both my theoretical and empirical interests. I chose this particular institution because it was the prison from which the linguist W.H.I. Bleek drew his San …
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Juror Evaluation of Eyewitness Evidence
… that mock jurors would be more likely to convict the defendant when lineup instructions were unbiased, and the lineup was double-blind compared to either biased lineup instructions or single-blind lineups. Results indicated knowledge was lacking for several, but not all interview and …
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Representations of convicts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture
… non-fictional genres. This thesis analyses this ‘convict tradition’, and relates it to the emergence of industrial literature in France, with its resolutely reader-centred approach. It argues that convicts acquired a central cultural importance in the nineteenth century because they embodied a …
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"The Case of Mary Phagan,'A Story About the Story of a Murder': Constructing a Crime"
… her employer, Leo Frank, would be tried and convicted for her murder. Another employee, Jim Conley, a black janitor originally implicated in the crime, provided the evidence used to convict Frank. In my thesis, I explain the multiple identities created to describe the victim and her accused …
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… joints and moonshining stills and helped convict a number of liquor law violators, who had enjoyed prosperous business with the tacit consent of local officials. However, the vigilantes went too far. They took the law into their own hands and committed a variety of crimes during the raids. …
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… evidence were nearly twice as likely to convict the defendant than participants who did not see the gruesome evidence. In Experiment 1, gruesome evidence was manipulated in two ways: photographic evidence (low gruesome, highly gruesome, or control photographs) and verbal testimony (low …
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