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Noble Intent Is Not Enough To Run Veterans Court Mentoring Programs: A Qualitative Study of Mentors’ Role Orientation and Responsibilities
Get PDFMentoring is a key component of veterans treatment courts, a diversionary problem-solving court for justice-involved military veterans. Mentoring programs are unique to veterans’ courts; no other problem-solving courts systematically include them as critical components of their court programming. Despite their prominence in veterans courts, little is known about mentor program operations and court expectations for mentors’ roles and responsibilities. This study examines mentors’ roles and responsibilities as perceived by mentees, mentors, and veterans treatment court staff. Using in-depth interview data from respondents from each of these groups, supplemented by observational data from court hearings and pre-court meetings, we identify three types of mentoring styles: enforcers, sponsor/advocates, and friend. We find a lack of clarity in mentors’ roles and responsibilities, which negatively impacted mentor-mentee relationships and mentors’ relationships with the court. The three mentoring styles identified in this study offer veterans treatment courts a framework to shape and refine the mentor role and guide future efforts to provide standardized training for mentors
A Trifecta of Challenges for Veterans Treatment Courts
No full textThis chapter examines veterans treatment court operations15 years after the first veterans court appeared to recommend three areas of focus for development to improve procedural justice and increase implementation fidelity
They Call Us Caribou Eaters’: Negotiating Tłı̨chǫ Dene Relationships with Caribou
No full textIn 2013 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, a group of Dene and Inuit hunters and elders gathered along with Canadian government wildlife biologist for three days to discuss the decline of the Bathurst and other caribou herd populations. I attended the gathering and listened as many Dene and Inuit participates spoke of the need to respect the caribou and the importance of their indigenous traditions. Many were also critical of the Government of the Northwest Territories\u27 implementation of strict caribou hunting regulations on the caribou herds three years prior, and participants questioned the accuracy of scientific claims regarding caribou viability. [excerpt
Featured Pieces
Get PDFThis year’s feature pieces were written by Michael J. Birkner and Ian A. Isherwood, both professors in the History Department. Prof. Birkner’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, especially the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower, as well as on the history of Gettysburg College. Prof. Isherwood specializes in memory studies and the history of World War I, and directs a digital history project on First World War letters
Cryotherapy
Get PDFRest and recovery are vital for athletes to give their bodies time to repair and strengthen between workouts. Whole-body cryotherapy involves exposing the body to vapors that reach ultra-low temperatures, ranging from -200°F to -300°F. There are several possible beneficial mechanisms from whole-body cryotherapy that support a fast recovery such as muscle temperature decrease, reduction in muscle damage, reduction in inflammation, reduction in heart rate and cardiac output, peripheral vasoconstriction, reduction in peripheral edema formation, and pain-relieving effects. This paper dissects the adaptations cryotherapy provides in athletic recovery, and additionally notes some draw backs of this cooling technique
What is a Situation?
No full textSometimes we “walk into a situation” without even realizing it and do not know how to walk out of it. While we often “encounter a situation” that we must immediately “face,” at other times we may be able to sit back and “see how it unfolds” before taking any action. All these idioms, expressive of our conventional understanding, suggest that a situation is something that exists before our encounter with it; something that is out there before we can even notice and acknowledge it; something that, in sum, possesses a separate and independent existence with identity and boundaries of its own. [excerpt
Colonial/Modern Gender System & Femicides
Get PDFThe research paper addresses how a decolonial feminism framework has been applied to the anti-femicides movement that are happening in Ciudad Juarez. Furthermore, the paper argues that due to the cheap and exploitative labor force status that has been imposed upon black and brown female bodies, such women have been disproportionately impacted by gender violence
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Get PDFA review of Richard Flanagan\u27s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This paper looks at the background, the themes, the story, and the contribution of this novel to the conversations on the Burma Railway, war, legacy, and love. The usage of the novel form by Flanagan contributes greatly to the power of his novel which becomes a major analytical point of this paper
The Physiology of the Circadian Rhythm
Get PDFThis paper discusses the importance and origin of the Circadian Rhythm. First recorded by Jean Jacque d’Ortous de Mairan in 1729, the Circadian Rhythm is understood to be a fundamental biological system that is tailored to Earth’s axis. Having impacts on peripheral organs, sleep patterns, and hormonal balances, this process influences almost every aspect of the human body and several other mammals. Focusing on the Circadian Rhythm is vital to further understanding the “clock-like” patterns of the human body and future research and development of treatments could be the solution to current detrimental diseases and disorders
Criminal Justice Update - July 2021
Get PDFThe Criminal Justice Update is a monthly newsletter created by the Adams County Bar Foundation Fellow providing updates in criminal justice policy coming from Pennsylvania\u27s courts and legislature as well as the US Supreme Court.
Contents: Updates from PA Governor\u27s Office (no updates this month) Updates from the PA Legislature (no updates this month) Updates from the Courts U.S. Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure PA Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure PA Superior Court: Criminal Law & Procedur