656 research outputs found
[Review of] Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell, eds., Buried lives: the incarcerated in early America
No full textTeaching the carceral crisis: an ethical and pedagogical imperative
No full textPersons convicted of criminal offenses are strikingly absent from typical law school curricula. With the exception of sentencing courses and a few limited clinical offerings in capital punishment, law students have few opportunities to consider the fates of those upon whom the state has levied its most severe sanction—a criminal conviction. Even those courses that purport to explain the myriad mechanisms by which the state administers criminal punishment rarely delve into considerations of the consequences of conviction. And yet, while law students are pedagogically insulated from thinking seriously about the 2.3 million people currently incarcerated in this country—or the millions more who have a criminal conviction in their “background”— hordes of convicted persons continue to live under a cloud of scrutiny and proscription, and the troubling trends of mass conviction and mass incarceration in the United States remain largely unchecked and unexamined as a matter of law. Given the range of possible explanations for the emergence of the American carceral crisis—and its implications for several areas of law, it is useful to consider seriously the treatment of this phenomenon in law school curricula. This Article considers whether and how to incorporate mass conviction and incarceration into standard law school courses, and is intended to foster a conversation about this curricular silence.Law reviews, the preferred publication outlet for law faculty nationwide, are generally student-edited. Article selection is highly competitive and the editing process is rigorous. While some law reviews utilize faculty peer review to assist with the article selection process, this is an exception, not the norm
Racial fortuity, rights sacrifice, and the promise of convergence in prison and policing policy
No full textContemplating Professor Bell’s theory of “racial fortuity,” Professor Henderson argues that in criminal justice policy – specifically, incarceration and policing – minorities remain only fortuitous beneficiaries of reform. Using as examples California’s Assembly Bill 109, which functions to reallocate offender responsibility to the local level in the wake of the Supreme Court’s affirmance of the three-judge panel prison reduction order in Brown v. Plata, and the public campaigns being waged against police misconduct and brutality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Henderson argues that, while robust efforts to address racialized harms have been eschewed in favor of policies which stand to further entrench racial disparities and inequality, there remains for advocates a window of opportunity yet to be seized.One of several essays written by New York City-area law professors who gathered to pay tribute to the late Derrick Bell’s scholarship and teaching at an event hosted by Columbia Law School on December 10, 2011, entitled “A Living, Working Faith: Remembering Our Colleague Derrick A. Bell, Jr.” Professors who presented at the conference developed essays reflecting their comments on three central themes: the Permanence of Racism, Bell’s unique teaching pedagogy and his Interest Convergence Theory. These essays were later published by the Columbia Journal of Race and Law as a special on-line feature named after the conference
The ironic promise of the Thirteenth Amendment for offender anti-discrimination law
No full textPolicymakers and legal scholars agree that persistent private discrimination against persons convicted of crimes is a significant public policy concern. Persons convicted of crimes are routinely shut out of legitimate labor and housing markets, precipitating recidivist behavior and other social ills. In an attempt to curtail these practices, local and state governments have enacted anti-discrimination legislation designed to protect offenders’ access to these markets. Local legislative efforts have, however, proven inadequate to quell discrimination against this group, prompting calls for a federal response. This Article identifies a source of law supporting broad-ranging federal anti-discrimination legislation in this area—the Thirteenth Amendment. The goal of this Article is to provide a historical basis for linking market exclusion to slavery and other forms of citizen subordination. Its scholarly contributions lie at the intersection of two previously disparate academic projects: The call to expand the categories of private conduct that Congress is empowered to curtail under Section 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment and the call to consider seriously the historical antecedents in civil death, slavery, and Jim Crow for modern trends of hyper-conviction and incarceration, and collateral and incidental consequences. This Article links these important scholarly conversations and posits that the anti-subordination principles explicit in the Amendment’s text and history can inform more aggressive efforts to dismantle some of the private barriers to reintegration for convicted persons. By examining the pernicious effects of private discrimination on offenders, it shows that these forms of discrimination mimic characteristics of American chattel slavery and warrant swift
federal intervention
Nouns with the formative -nia
No full textThe author has described a number of semantic types with their common
formative -nia (nomina loci, nomina instrument!, nomina actionia, ' nomina
acti, nomina collectivi etc.). The types have been divided into productive
and non-productive. The aim of the analysis was to define the function of the
formative -nia in contemporary language and what words it forms.
Hie author statès in conclusion that of all types with the formative -nia
only two are semantically clear i.e. nomina loci and nomina instrument!. She
has also noticed the retrogression of the formative function in space nouns
and its special function in forming new names of large separate units.Zadanie pt. Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk
S20, E01: Federalist 51 (Aired 9/5/2025)
No full textAughie and Nia discuss Federalist Paper 51, which lays out checks and balances in the proposed federal government. James Madison is the author of Federalist 51. Centinel 1, by Samuel Bryan, responds.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1281/thumbnail.jp
How fast has Chinese industry grown?
No full textData for recent years indicate an acceleration of Chinese industrial growth, from the annual rates of about 10 percent recorded in the quarter century before economic reform to figures approaching 15 percent in the mid- and late 1980s. Evaluating the statistics underlying these reports requires an appraisal of how economic reform has affected the ability of China's statistical system to measure economic performance. Erroneous information about the rate and pattern of industrial growth could distort measures of productivity change considered to be central indicators of the effectiveness of Chinese industrial reform. The author describes the statistical materials and procedures used to provide information on the growth of industrial output. He investigates sources of bias in the official statistics to indicate, whenever possible, how these biases affected reported output totals, and to appraise the impact of adjustments to reported output growth on measures of industrial productivity. The specific consequences of decentralized decisionmaking, growing price flexibility, inflation, dual pricing systems, the emergence of enterpriseswith few or no ties to the system of state planning, and other emerging features of the industrial system may be unique to China but the broader issues raised are relevant in many countries. The author finds considerable evidence of an upward bias in measures of China's real industrial output in the past decade. The issue is not whether such bias exists but whether its presence substantially alters our perception of the rate and pattern of Chinese industrial growth. To clarify this issue requires investigating the extent of possible upward bias. This in turn calls for an analysis of possible links between upward bias - which is itself difficult to observe - and other economic patterns that may be more readily measurable.Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Economic Theory&Research
Beyond Adaptation: Decolonizing Approaches to Coping With Oppression
No full textHow should one respond to racial oppression? Conventional prescriptions of mainstream social psychological science emphasize the idea of coping with oppression—whether via emotional management strategies that emphasize denial or disengagement; problem-focused strategies that emphasize compensation, self-efficacy, or skills training; or collective strategies that emphasize emotional support—in ways that promote adaptation to, rather than transformation of, oppressive social structures. Following a brief review of the literature on coping with racism and oppression, we present an alternative model rooted in perspectives of liberation psychology (Martín-Baró, 1994). This decolonial approach emphasizes critical consciousness (rather than cultivated ignorance) of racial oppression, a focus on de-ideologization (rather than legitimation) of status quo realities, and illumination of models of identification conducive to collective action. Whereas the standard approach to coping with oppression may ultimately both reinforce and reproduce systems of domination, we propose a decolonial approach to racism perception as a more effective strategy for enduring prosperity and well-being
Water, Works and Wages The everyday politics of Irrigation management reform in the Philippines
No full textWater, Works and Wages gives an in-depth assessment of the world-famous ‘Philippine experience’ in water resource management. It unravels the socio-political dimensions of large-scale irrigation management and shows the impact of turnover policies, the change to a financially autonomous irrigation agency (the NIA), and the dramatic downsizing of the agency’s workforce. Following a ‘state-in-society’ perspective, Oorthuizen show how people organize in the rough environment of the Philippine countryside. Boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘administrative’ are blurred and give way to alliances brought together by interpersonal relations based on political patronage and friendship. The author emphasizes the importance of finance for sustainable management. He puts forward a perspective that shifts away from mistrust of the government, towards an understanding of the circumstances under which public servants and farmers become accountable and committed actors
Women in midlife: experiences of the mind and body movement of Nia.
No full textMidlife is a time when many women encounter life changes. Mind and body exercise programs such as t'ai chi and yoga continue to increase in popularity as a way to manage with life stressors and enhance well-being. A new form of exercise called Neuromuscular Integrative Action, ...also known as Nia, has been added to the mind and body paradigm. I used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to better understand the role Nia has as a mind and body movement form with eight women in midlife and its potential for counselors to consider, as an adjunctive therapeutic means to aid in managing and enhancing greater well-being. The findings were set within the reflective interpretations across the four lifeworld existentials of time, body, relationship, and space. The women's narratives revealed: 1) reflections through time in representations of stories of the past - childhood, shifting and tragic, living in the moment, and future glimpses, 2) the body's wisdom ~ the body's movement in representations of body being ~ body listening, music ~ movement ~ emotions, and energetic connections ~ spiritual connections, 3) transforming relationships were understood through representations of self-discovery ~ self-acceptance, self-expression ~ self-care, and compassionate responses, and 4) living well-being in midlife spaces emerged as representations of a welcoming and safe space, making connections with other women, and well-being in midlife ~ lived as a life style. Further synthesis and discussion focuses on an overarching theme of how the revisioning of self-identity of midlife women practicing Nia leads to a sense of wellness through reconstructions of the reflective self, the connected self, the authentic self, and the contextualized self. Finally, considerations related to aligning social identity with well-being are also discussed.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b159896
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