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Assessing the Effectiveness of San Mateo County’s Vocational Rehabilitation Services in Reducing Recidivism
Get PDFWith a strong focus on reducing California\u27s high recidivism rates, Assembly Bill 109 encourages to consider alternatives to incarceration and to adopt evidence-based practices. As a result of the legislation, non-serious, non-violent, and non-sexual offenders being released from state prisons now face difficult challenges in securing housing and employment. Vocational rehabilitation programs can be helpful in a way to mitigate these problems to allow those who were formerly incarcerated to concentrate on adjusting to life after prison. The review of scholarly publications and practitioner studies include the (1) definition of vocational rehabilitation (VR); a brief background and history of VR, (3) the benefits and challenges of VR; (4) brief background of Assembly Bill 109 and its impact to VR; and (5) theories regarding motivating behaviors associated with committing crimes. Mixed methods were used in this study to collect quantitative data from 85 formerly incarcerated adults and qualitative data from 8 key informants, which included top management to line staff. Data collected in this research will further examine the effectiveness of San Mateo County\u27s Vocational Rehabilitation Services and hope to serve as an evidence-based model for other counties in helping formerly incarcerated adults reintegrate back into society
Can Implementing a New Development Pattern and City Policies on Smart Growth Transform a Retail Dependent Suburb Into a Fiscally Sustainable Community? A Case Study on the City of Citrus Heights, California
Get PDFThe City of Citrus Heights is a retail dependent suburb in California, home to nearly 90,000 residents. Declining revenues and increasing costs have constrained the city’s budget. Incorporation of Smart Growth principles into the city’s policies is a potential solution to address these challenges. A review of the relevant literature includes scholarly and practitioner studies on the fiscal benefits of implementation of Smart Growth principles in suburban environments. The literature review also provides insight into the key steps of implementation for other suburban agencies that have successfully stewarded Smart Growth principles into economic success. Data collected from surveys and key informants demonstrates the financial impacts of Smart Growth. The results of this study demonstrate that incorporation of and strict implementation of Smart Growth principles into city policies will improve the fiscal conditions in Citrus Heights
Nigeria\u27s Constitutional Pluralism: Implications for Peace, Security and National Development
No full textThe Nigerian 1999 Constitution was created under circumstances that encumber its capacity to respond adequately to the challenges of pluralism, federalism and constitutionalism. This has impeded the foundation of civil order in the country. Decades of military dictatorship have led to centrist federal structure and what the presidential constitutional review commission referred as “the curtailment of opportunities for political institutionalization and democratic consolidation” by the Report of the presidential Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, Volume 1, Main Report, February 2001. Any serious appraisal of the 1999 Constitution, including the courts and other political power players, must reckon with these realities. Neither the legitimacy of the federal constitutionalism nor the practice of federal constitutionalism is yet to be firmly entrenched in Nigeria. The Nigerian Judiciary has not fully woken up to the realities and demand of the transitional Nigerian polity. It has not fully made a clean break from a past tainted by complicit jurisprudence, and Nigerian national culture of ignoring the realities of it’s ignoble past. The study adopts doctrinal, analytical designs and comparative designs. Reliance will be placed on both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary source materials will include statutes, personal observations, oral interviews and comments of legal practitioners. The secondary source materials that were used include: case law, textbooks, journal articles, conference papers, the internet materials and other legal literatures. The study argues that there is a strong and direct correlation between the wanton disregards of the principles of constitutional federalism and pluralism in the Nigerian socio-political life and the failure to realize the promise of her great potentials, in terms of national cohesion and stability resulting in the current high level of religious, social and ethnocentric crises in the country. It recommends that failure to genuinely address the various pluralistic issues and positively exploit the attendant huge potentials for national development, peace and security has aggravated regional and religious conflicts, (as is seen in the Boko Haram scourge), encouraged centralized revenue system, (which has inhibited genuine regional economic growth), stimulated widespread and systemic corruption, and causing grand distortions throughout Nigeria’s political and socio-economic systems. It concludes that Constitutional pluralism is a sure way out of social malfeasance where people are treated with several bias stemming from the perceived differences amongst the other groups. At times these differences may not actually be seen but are just in existence in the minds of the people
William Barr, Letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Dated March 29, 2019
Get PDFI write in response to Chairman Nadler\u27s March 25, 2019 letter and Chairman Graham\u27s March 27, 2019 letter, which addressed the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III and the confidential report he has submitted to me pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c)
Perennial Beauty #1
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Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation: The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act Was Unveiled But Congress Still Has Work To Do
Get PDFSection I of this Note discusses the case’s procedural history. Section II discusses the Cassirer family story and looks at the history of America’s legislative efforts aimed at impacting Holocaust-era art restitution litigation since the end of WWII. Section III discusses the Ninth Circuit’s application of HEAR and compares it to subsequent interpretations of the Act. Lastly, section IV discusses changes that Congress could make to HEAR that would help ensure that the Act has the impact that the legislature intended
