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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"criminal justice reform"”.
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From rule of law towards human rights-based approached to criminal justice reform in Mozambique the case of pre-trial detention
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Racialized Reality: Crime News and Racial Stereotype Framing
… news media influences negative attitudes towards criminal justice reform and Black identity. Utilizing Framing Theory, this study focuses on whether negative stereotypes in crime news triggers racial prejudice and bias towards African Americans. Participants of this study will consist of current …
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Pretrial Reform Efforts and their Use in Texas
… can truly provide unbiased evaluations. In turn, criminal justice agencies have begun utilizing other strategies to curb the detention of those imprisoned due to unaffordable bail. This thesis seeks to document pretrial reform efforts that have taken place across Texas while focusing specifically …
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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &
… to articulate and aestheticize the social justice aims of her project (community outreach, racial justice, and criminal justice reform).</p> <p>Drawing on Piotr Woycicki's concept of post-cinematic performance, I explore Schaal’s deconstruction of sitcom aesthetics within live theater. My …
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Building the new Europe : soft security and organised crime in EU enlargement
… organised crime in Bulgaria and its EU-guided criminal justice reform. The thesis looks at these developments from both internal and external perspective and focuses on the practicalities of the policy itself such as the development of legislative changes, institutional reform and direct …
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Managing Prosecutorial Discretion Through Victim Participation in Prosecutions – a Comparative Study of the United States, Japan and Taiwan
… discretion is emerging as an important criminal justice reform issue in the United States. Several high-profile non-indictment decisions sparked mass protests and severely damaged the reputation of the nation’s criminal justice system. Although police officers are often implicated in …
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The racial composition of prisons and the conditions of confinement
… of social control. Despite a generation of criminal justice reform, many argue that the social inequities of our past are too deeply interwoven in the social fabric to be extricated, resulting in discrimination which has become institutionalized. Of sociological interest is the manner in …
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Parents on trial : jailing for child support nonpayment
Although the child support enforcement and criminal justice systems have divergent purposes, they are connected when courts jail parents who owe child support debt. Jailing for child support nonpayment is one of many possible mechanisms of child support enforcement, but little is known about how …
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Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets
… consequence of a decarceration policy in the criminal-justice system by linking the ex-criminal re-entry issue and homelessness. Lastly, the third chapter concentrates on how the tenure of elected law enforcement agents contributes to the jail-crowding environment, leveraging term limits …
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Cooperation and Non-Cooperation in Indonesian Criminal Case Processing: Ego Sektoral in Action
In recent years, Indonesian reformers have called for greater cooperation among criminal justice actors when processing a case. Indonesia has a specific term to label the failure of criminal justice actors to cooperate, which is “ego sektoral,” literally translated as sectoral or institutional ego. …
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A Critique of Human Rights Protection for Suspects in the Chinese Criminal Justice System: An Examination of the Extent to which There Is and Could in Future Be Compatibility between Chinese Law and Practice and International Human Rights Norms
… human rights protection for suspects in the criminal justice system of China, evaluating them from the view of international human rights law and practice, in particular, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights(ICCPR) and European Convention of Human Rights(ECHR). The theme …
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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 …
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Barriers to Trust Between Police and Disadvantaged Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Officers' and Residents' Perspectives in San Antonio, Texas
… a lack of accountability, and procedural justice failures. Applying Procedural Justice Theory and Social Capital Theory, this study finds that procedural justice failures degrade police-community relations, while weak bridging and strong bonding social capital perpetuate cycles of …