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Not Demented Enough: Dementia and Competency to Stand Trial
No full textAlthough competency to stand trial holds a vaunted position among the due-process rights in our criminal justice system, its current application is a mere shadow of the original promise articulated in Dusky v. United States. The competency-to-stand-trial requirement is supposed to protect the mentally ill and the mentally impaired from criminal trial, but the requirement has been continually chipped away, both doctrinally and practically. As a result, it no longer protects the most vulnerable. People with dementia, most often elderly with cognitive impairments, face a perilous ordeal when caught in the criminal justice system. And, as dementia rates increase, more people with dementia are clashing with the law. The criminal justice system, however, has little experience with this kind of cognitive decline. Dementia itself has significant differences from mental illness, which is more commonly the subject of competency evaluation proceedings. These differences make it more likely that people with dementia will be misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and disbelieved, ultimately leading to their being found competent to stand trial when the requisite abilities are lacking. The impact of this finding on people with dementia can be especially devastating, speeding their deterioration and leaving them much worse off than when they entered the system. This turns a constitutional protection, the right to be shielded from trial when incompetent, into a weapon against the most fragile. In the end, our application of Dusky and our treatment of people with dementia in the competency evaluation process represent a jurisprudential, practical, and moral failure
Beyond the Playroom: A Focused Review and Composite Case Illustration of Child-Centered Play Therapy in High-Intensity Parental Disputes
No full textExposure to high-intensity parental disputes (HIPD) reliably predicts internalizing and externalizing difficulties for children (Davies & Martin, 2014; Rhoades, 2008; van Eldik et al., 2020). Despite growing recognition of HIPD’s developmental impact, guidance for early childhood clinicians remains limited. This paper has two aims: first, it provides a focused review of the literature on HIPD and the associated child outcomes, with an emphasis on early childhood and clinical applicability. Second, it illustrates clinical experiences and considerations through a de-identified composite case of a preschool-aged child chronically exposed to HIPD and treated using child-centered play therapy (CCPT). The composite case illustration demonstrates that in-session gains in regulation and symbolic processing were meaningful yet did not generalize well beyond the playroom while detrimental interparental conflict remained active, which aligns with the broader literature that child-only interventions rarely overcome ongoing HIPD without concurrent caregiver change (Rautio et al., 2025; Misurell & Schwartz, 2024; Schmidt & Grigg, 2024). Findings emphasize that even developmentally attuned child therapy has limited reach when entrenched parental conflict remains unaddressed. This underscores the value of systemic and integrative intervention models, as well as the importance of professional safeguards given the cumulative complexity of HIPD cases
Participant 13 – Spanish and English
Full text linkAn interview with Mina Khadem, a bilingual undergraduate student at the University of Denver, about the benefits and challenges of multilingualism in education as part of Professor Kamila Kinyon\u27s Multilingual DU study
Participant 18 – Kaonde, Bemba, Nyanja, English, and Tonga
No full textAn interview with a multilingual member of the University of Denver, about the benefits and challenges of multilingualism in education as part of Professor Kamila Kinyon\u27s Multilingual DU study
Participant 15 – Spanish and English
Full text linkAn interview with Professor Esteban Gomez, a bilingual faculty member at the University of Denver, about the benefits and challenges of multilingualism in education as part of Professor Kamila Kinyon\u27s Multilingual DU study
Building Trust with Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a relevant factor in the way the market perceives a company’s reputation and can have an influence on investors’ trust. The purpose of this thesis is to synthesize research around corporate social responsibility by assessing the positives and negatives of CSR as well as how these efforts can enhance or diminish the transparency of investor and manager behaviors that involve CSR
Surplus, Mobility, and Resistance: The Literary Forms of Psychoactive Plants
No full textThis article revises the existing Marxist accounts of plantation capitalism by exploring how literary forms of nineteenth-century psychoactive plants (i.e., plants that are used to make alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opium, etc.) could conversely contain agency and resistance. Putting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814) and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008) in dialogue, I look for moments when plant life acquires agency and transgresses the system of exchange in the exact contexts where mass production and wide circulation of psychoactive products endow their plants with exchangeability and logistical mobility. While ecocritical accounts often observe a parallel between environmental degradation in the Anthropocene and capitalism’s suicidal tendency, my reading shows that anti-colonial resistance can also emerge from the vitality—rather than the destruction—of the more-than-human world, which capitalism unexpectedly promotes but is not able to incorporate
Motion of Nitroxide Radicals
Full text linkA brief outline is presented of how motion of a nitroxide radical can be estimated from the continuous wave (CW) EPR line shape
Lab Practical: Transition Metals: EPR of a Vanadyl Complex
Full text link1. What information can you obtain from a spectrum of one orientation of a single crystal that is wide enough to encompass all of the vanadium hyperfine lines?
2. How does the spectrum change when you rotate the crystal? Look at both the position of the center of the spectrum and the hyperfine splitting
