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Juries and Prior Convictions: Managing the Demise of the Prior Conviction Exception to "Apprendi"
No full textarticle published in law reviewThis essay offers a menu of procedural alternatives for coping with the potential, some would say inevitable, abandonment of the prior conviction exception to the rule in Apprendi v. New Jersey. It compiles options states have used for years to manage jury prejudice when proof of prior conviction status is required, including partial guilty pleas, partial jury waivers, bifurcation of the trial proceeding, stipulations, and rules limiting what information about the prior conviction may be admitted. These options belie the claim that the exception must be preserved to prevent jury prejudice against defendants. For courts and legislatures interested in anticipating this development in Apprendi law, or interested in joining the states that already recognize that a prior conviction must be proven like any other element whenever it increases the penalty range beyond the range allowed without the conviction, this essay provides a handy reference to existing rules and statutes that could serve as blueprints for reform
Parent-Child Communication and Self-Efficacy Among Families of Children with Sickle Cell Disease
No full textThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Honors Research, under the direction of Dr. Chase Lesane-Brown. It examines parent-child communication and self-efficacy in families of children with sickle cell disease. (PSY-PC-2990: Honors Research)This study examined how parent factors (education and income), child factors (age and sickle cell disease severity), and parent and child self-efficacy ratings related to parent-child communication and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). In this cross-sectional study, 10 Black adolescents (ages 10 to 17 years) with SCD and one of their parents each completed a battery of measures related to SCD pain, communication, and self-efficacy. The results suggest that family income and parent education are associated with child-rated parent-child communication, and parent-rated parent-child communication is associated with parent self-efficacy ratings.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychologyCollege of Arts and ScienceThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Science
Recognizing Trauma, Expanding Treatment: Toni Morrison’s Portrayal of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in *Sula*, *Beloved*, and *Home*
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis.I argue that one of the most major focuses in Toni Morrison’s novels is the exploration of trauma, specifically the forms of trauma that have afflicted the African American community. Although Morrison’s novels predominantly feature African American characters and communities, the traumatic events she explores, including active combat, domestic abuse, and deadly accidents, transcend racial boundaries. Trauma can be universal, and thus the arguments about trauma that emerge from Morrison’s novels, while certainly having significance in a racial discussion, should be thought about in universal terms as well. Morrison’s novels are thus tools with which to reflect on the implications of trauma in a global sense, and to investigate how descriptions of trauma are informed by—and even respond to—the historical moment in which they were written.
While there are many ways of expressing and relating trauma, I will focus on Morrison’s literary portrayal of mental illness, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I will evaluate this issue in three of Morrison’s novels: Sula, Beloved, and Home. Morrison’s novels feature an abundance of mentally ill characters, which can be explained by the fact that mental illness is both a common physiological byproduct of trauma and a means of psychological detachment from unbearable traumatic realities. Morrison does not depict trauma merely to show its insidious presence in the African American psyche, and does not explore mental illness merely to demonize the systems and prejudices that instilled it. Instead, her novels offer complex meditations on the network of factors that give rise to mental illness over time, the treatment options available to victims of mental illness at the narrative present, and the impact of mental illness on both the individual and the community.Vanderbilt UniversityEnglish DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Israel's Expanding Borders: The Transformative Impact of the Six-Day War on the American Jewish Community
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2014. Awarded: Highest Honors.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
Position of the southern church in relation to slavery : as illustrated in a letter of Dr. F.A. Ross to Rev. Albert Barnes ; with an introduction by a constitutional Presbyterian
No full textRemediation to Success: Martin Methodist College
No full textLeadership Policy and Organizations Department Capstone ProjectDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Student Handbook 2014-2015: First Edition
No full textThe Vanderbilt University Student Handbook is produced by the Office of the Dean of Students for student reference. This document contains policies and guidelines for students at the University
Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability After Calabresi
No full textarticle published in law journalCalabresi’s theory of tort liability (1961) as a risk distribution mechanism established insurance as an objective of tort liability. Calabresi’s risk-spreading concept of tort has provided the impetus for much of the subsequent development of tort liability doctrine, including risk-utility analysis and strict liability. Calabresi’s analysis remains a powerful basis for modern tort liability. However, high transactions costs, correlated risks, catastrophic losses, mass toxic torts, shifts in liability rules over time, noneconomic damages, and punitive damages affect the functioning of tort liability as an insurance mechanism. Despite some limitations of tort liability as insurance, tort compensation serves both a compensatory and deterrence role. Tort liability retains a valuable risk-spreading function in many situations and may be superior to alternative institutional mechanisms in fostering incentives
