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Equity Achieved: What Cannot Be Said
No full textIn contemporary U.S. public discourse, calls for achieving equity abound. Many metrics now measure equity being achieved. I inquire into whether equity can be said to be achieved and still be equity. Inquiring as such leads me to excavating the menacing and actual cultural violence of developing such achievement. Simultaneously, this excavation shows the rhetoric of equity qua equity as a means of abolishing the conditions for that violence to take hold. I put forward that equity cannot be said to be achieved without the conditions of possibility equity offers being colonized. If a commitment to antiviolence speaks, it cannot say, Equity achieved
Abolishing the Evidence-Based Paradigm
Get PDFThe belief that policies and procedures should be data-driven and “evidence-based” has become criminal law’s leading paradigm for reform. This evidence-based paradigm, which promotes quantitative data collection and empirical analysis to shape and assess reforms, has been widely embraced for its potential to cure the emotional and political pathologies that led to mass incarceration. It has influenced reforms across the criminal procedure spectrum, from predictive policing through actuarial sentencing. The paradigm’s appeal is clear: it promises an objective approach that lets data – not politics – lead the way and purports to have no agenda beyond identifying effective, efficient reforms.This Article challenges the paradigm’s core claims. It shows that the evidence-based paradigm’s objectives, its methodology, and its epistemology advance conventional assumptions about what the criminal legal system should strive to achieve, whom it should target, and whose voices and interests matter. In other words, the evidence-based paradigm is political, and it does have an agenda. And that agenda, informed by neoliberalism and the enduring legacy of white supremacy in the criminal legal system, strengthens – rather than challenges – the existing system.The Article argues that, if left unchallenged, the evidence-based paradigm will continue to reproduce the system’s disparities and dysfunctions, under the veneer of scientific objectivity. Thus, it must be abolished and replaced with a new approach that advances a true paradigm shift about the aims of criminal legal reform and the role and definition of data and empiricism in advancing that vision
Empowering the Defense to Confront the Government\u27s Powers: Virginia Criminal Justice Legal Reform
Get PDFDuring the 2021 Session and 2021 Special Session, Virginia took steps to
restore the balance between individuals ensnared in the criminal legal system
and the government. These new laws allow people who are involved in
the criminal legal system to emphasize their humanity and to hold the government
to its various burdens at all stages of the case, including pre-trial,
trials, sentencing, and appeal. This article discusses four of the most important
changes to Virginia law that ensure a more level playing field between
the government and the accused.
First, eliminating the presumption against bail challenges the government’s
power of pre-trial detention, as no longer is a person automatically
considered dangerous just because of the name of their charge. Second, by
creating a rule of evidence allowing introduction of mental condition evidence
to negate intent at trial, people with mental illnesses and developmental
disabilities will not be placed into the all-or-nothing unrealistic category
of insanity. Third, jury sentencing reform will actually provide a meaningful
right to a jury trial as the government will not be able to force the accused
into a jury sentence. Finally, Virginians will join the rest of the country with
a right to a merits review by an appellate court after conviction of a crime.
While time will tell how effective these changes will be, all ensure that the
system is fairer and more just for those facing trial in Virginia
Global Health Education for the Post-Pandemic Years: Parity, People, Planet, Priorities, and Practices.
No full textGlobal health degree programs are now offered by institutions of higher education in most world regions. Based on our review of the curricula for many of these programs, we identified five domains that are central to current global health education. “Parity” emphasizes health equity as the ultimate goal of global health. “People” comprises the social, economic, cultural, and political contributors to health and access to medical care for individuals and communities. “Planet” encompasses various aspects of globalization and environmental health that affect population health. “Priorities” and “practices” include the values, data, and tools used to design, implement, and evaluate partnerships, policies, programs, and other global health interventions in countries of all income levels. The pandemic is likely to increase student demand for global health education from the undergraduate through the graduate and professional levels. Our “5 Ps model of global health education” provides a comprehensive framework for the core student learning objectives for global health today. Knowledge of each of these domains is essential for preparing students for meaningful experiential learning and skilled professional practice in global health
A Branching Path: Three Types of Friendship and Transitioning between Them
No full textFriendship is a concept that most people tend to associate with a single type of relationship
between different people; however, the reality of this idea is quite the opposite. The three types
of friendships established by Aristotle, Utility, Pleasure, and Goodness, offer a solid blueprint for
different variations present in our world that can be solidified through concepts by other
philosophers, such as Confucius. This notion is also expressed in different pieces of literature
and media, specifically in the recent film, Promising Young Woman. All of this is to show that
the idea of friendship is not as linear as people think, but rather an ever-diverging concept that
takes many forms