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The System is a Circle: Juvenile Interrogation Abuse
Full text linkThe Reid technique involves forceful manipulative techniques which can result in false confessions, incorrect convictions, and long-term consequences in someone’s life. Juveniles are vulnerable to this technique due to their limited understanding of legal rights, vulnerability to authoritative figures, and difficulty comprehending and processing legal information. This research examines the effects of interrogation abuse in juvenile cases by exploring research that demonstrates how forced confessions affect court decisions and the accused’s long-term outcomes. The widespread use of the Reid Technique is rooted in other systemic failures in juvenile justice, which include a lack of legal representation for minors, a lack of supervision, and insufficient instruction on its effects for interrogators and officers. To ensure that minor rights are protected in the legal system, this project concludes by recommending changes to interrogation practices to protect juveniles and decrease the risk of wrongful convictions, creating a more peaceful and equal juvenile justice system.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1013/thumbnail.jp
Lives on the Line: Disabled Perspective and the Research Deficit on MAID
Full text linkMedical Aid in Dying (MAID) has become a highly debated issue within bioethics, commonly framed in terms of individual autonomy and pain relief. Yet vulnerable groups such as the disabled population are often sideline in this ethical debate. The lack of representation of the disabled community within ethical discussions and narratives raises concerns regarding the risks of normalizing MAID within a society where disabilities are often stigmatized. By examining the work of disability advocate Antia Cameron and related literature, this research seeks to explore the ethical debates on MAID and disability rights, how a lack of disabled voices within the broader ethical discourse on MAID may inadvertently perpetuate harmful stereotypes and enforce particular end of life care. The research underscores the intersection of disability, autonomy, healthcare policy and practice, thus calling attention to experiences of disabled individuals within bioethical conversations about MAID.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1014/thumbnail.jp
Rehabilitation Over Punishment: United States Federal Prisons
Full text linkThis project will analyze how United States federal prisons are places where punishment is prioritized over rehabilitation and the distinction between abuse and discipline are blurred. This issue can be traced back to the 1980s, with the passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act (CCCA) which prioritized punitive measures over rehabilitation and contributed to a sharp rise in incarceration rates. The discretionary power of prisons is far too entrenched. The Supreme Court’s rulings in Turner v. Safley (1987), Overton v. Bazzetta (2003), and Wilkins v. Gaddy (2010) reinforce this discretion by justifying abuse under the guise of discipline. This project will argue that these systemic flaws need to be addressed through clearer legal reforms and stronger judiciary oversight to protect the rights of incarcerated individuals and prevent further injustices from occurring.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1044/thumbnail.jp
Reevaluating the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Analyzing Its Shortcomings
Full text linkPrisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse is widespread in US male prisons, with inmates “turning each other out” by sexually assaulting each other. While the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) received unanimous support in Congress in 2003, motivated by the Human Rights Watch Report “No Escape: Male Rape in Prisons,” scholars argue the PREA fails to protect prisoners from prison rape. For example, its standards may be ineffective or criminalize consensual sex between prisoners. This project will examine the shortcomings of the PREA using current legal scholarship and argue for solutions to improve the law to better protect prisoners. The US government owes prisoners a safe environment for rehabilitation, which begins with adjusting the Prison Rape Elimination Act to better protect prisoners against prison rape. Future research should explore the implementation of legislation to improve the PREA.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1056/thumbnail.jp
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Path to Guaranteed Income: Examining His Motivations
Full text linkWith the recent surge in popularity of universal basic income, Martin Luther King, Jr. \u27s advocacy for a guaranteed income from 1965 until his assassination in 1968, has received heightened interest. Scholars including Tommie Shelby, Roger Bruns, and Jonathan Eig have pointed to numerous factors behind his support for the policy, including unrest due to the Vietnam War, the controversial Moynihan Report, and King’s work with the civil rights movement. Drawing on King’s public addresses, books, and essays, this paper argues for the importance of his evolving understanding of economic conditions and his direct work in impoverished urban neighborhoods as influential factors guiding King toward an embrace of guaranteed income. Discussing King’s distinctive arguments for a guaranteed income and collaborations with groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and National Welfare Rights Organization can teach us how to fight for a guaranteed income today.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1060/thumbnail.jp
“We Are Going!!!”: Understanding Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on Chinese Immigration Through Book Marginalia
Full text linkSince its beginning, Chinese immigration to America has been a contentious topic, marked by preventative laws like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. While such prejudice is historically evident, some works, such as Russell H. Conwell’s 1871 Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means They Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America, sought not entirely to judge, but also to understand. By exploring the inscription found in Binghamton University’s copy of this book—which marks this book as a Christmas gift—as well as by studying the people involved in its production and its marginalia, this project aims to uncover how Why and How was actually used by its readers, and compare this against Conwell’s own intentions. Ultimately, this research centers on how the study of ordinary people can provide nuance to what we currently believe to be historical sentiment, on top of (or contrary to) what existing evidence suggests.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1069/thumbnail.jp
Universal Basic Income as Indigenous Reparations: Connecting Economic Sovereignty and Land Justice
Full text linkIndigenous land dispossession by the United States has resulted in long-term economic marginalization, restricting access to wealth, resources, and self-determination. Land restitution is a central demand, but Universal Basic Income (UBI) is now considered as a potential tool for economic reconciliation. This research explores whether UBI could function to redress historic land loss, consistent with Indigenous ideas about shared resource and collective well-being. Drawing on Indigenous economic philosophies, such as land and resource sharing, policy tools like the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, and demonstrations of community-run financial initiatives in North Carolina and Canada, this project will consider whether UBI could further Indigenous sovereignty without constituting a replay of paternalistic state policy. Ultimately, this study argues that UBI alone cannot replace Land Back, but can hopefully serve as a tool to restore economic sovereignty and reverse historical injustices in forms amenable to Indigenous norms of mutuality and reciprocal aid.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1074/thumbnail.jp
Intraracial Conflicts: The Rise of ‘Gentrification of Color’ in Asian Ethnic Enclaves
Full text linkNew York City’s Chinatown is not what it used to be. The Asian ethnic enclave experienced a sharp decline in residents between 1990 and 2020 because of gentrification in the area, specifically gentrification of color. Gentrification of color is a recent phenomenon occurring across America where affluent ethnic minority populations gentrify enclaves of their own ethnicity. Scholars have focused on interracial conflicts induced by gentrification, but the consequences of gentrification of color, especially between socio-economic classes, remain unexplored. By analyzing newspaper articles, oral histories, and archival materials, this paper traces the socio-economic effects of gentrification of color in two of New York City’s most prominent Asian ethnic enclaves: Chinatown and Flushing. Among other things, this study finds that gentrification of color displaces lower-income residents while highlighting intraracial class disparities and exposing conflicting interests that are concealed under the notion of ethnic solidarity. It aims to inform future urban planning policies.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1078/thumbnail.jp
The Effects of Legislation and Denial on Climate Action
Full text linkResearch worth being explored is the effects of climate activism and denial of the American public on climate policies carried out by American politicians. Answers will be discovered as to why green parties have failed to gain political power, and how and why, psychologically and economically, politicians and fossil fuel executives choose to disregard the voices of American climate protesting. Resulting from this, inaction follows, leading to an output of groups’ unwillingness to change their actions and views based on fixed political stances. Sustainability hasn’t been a mainstream concern for Americans and many are not sufficiently educated on environmental matters. Additionally, lawmakers profit directly from the fossil fuel industry, delaying legislative progress. These findings are insightful and provide perspective as to why and how positive change has failed in the political and social spheres, so that activists can use that information and those findings to search for additional solutions.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1082/thumbnail.jp
The Influence of Food Insecurity on Neurobehaviors
Full text linkThe influence of demographic factors such as gender, income, location, academic level, and age on food insecurity is underexplored. Additionally, food insecurity may be associated with negative neurobehaviors which are detrimental health factors. This study includes demographic questions, questions on food insecurity, resilience, academic motivation, stress, and mental distress. An anonymous online survey was administered through iMessage, Instagram, and Snapchat. Data was analyzed using Pearson’s Correlation Analysis in SPSS version 28.0. Food insecurity is affected by demographic aspects and lower neurobehaviors impacting mental well-being. Results show that there is a negative correlation between the region you live in and the total income of your primary household (p \u3c 0.01), total household income and feelings of depression (p \u3c 0.01), and age and eating limited types of food due to lack of resources (p \u3c 0.01). These results can help establish further programs that can help decrease food insecurity\u27s effects.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2025/1088/thumbnail.jp