Leong and Silva have likened the sexually violent predator (SVP) laws to fictional serial slashers in horror movies. Like Jason in Friday the 13th, these cannot be vanquished and reappear in sequel after sequel, meaner and naughtier. The latest episode of the SVP trilogy premiered on January 22, 2002, in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. The analogy with serial slasher movies, although on...

Over the past 20 years increasing interest has been given to children's rights that grant special protections to children living apart from their biological parents. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 was promulgated to prevent unnecessary removal of children from their original families and to ensure permanency when return to their families could not be secured. The psychiat...

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This Article explores the institutional characteristics of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and places the court’s role in context. The most important institutional question facing the court today involves choosing between two approaches to implementing its special role in the patent system—in one, the court acts as a “decider” of cases, and in the other, it acts as a “manager”...

Today, quality is part of our practice. Anaesthetists are involved in a medical science and want to be excellent at it. Anaesthetists are also involved in departmental organisation and are providers of care, a service to the patients. Quality is a method to obtain efficiency (efficacy and economical advantages). We consider our patients no longer as such, but as health-customers. Anaesthetists ...

one of factors which distinguishes today’s organizations is having employees who are internally and psychologically empowered, so imcreasing it is an important program for all the pioneering organizations. in this research the effect of four-dimensional model of organizational justice - distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice and informational justice – on psychological ...

the purpose of this study barriers and challenges to the development of swimming in iran sports university has focuses on mental and physical health between students and academics. thus the existence of justice is essential to increase its quality in this critical environment. this study investigates distributive and interactive justice in athletic departments' countries universities. popu...

ACTUALIZING SOCIAL JUSTICE: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL MAY 2010 CAMILLE LEE, B.S., UNIVERSITY OF UTAH M.Ed., WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by Professor Pat Griffin Researchers and k-12 practitioners have been struggling with inequity and diversity issues for the past four decades. These struggles have produced multiple philos...

Youth incarceration is an international public health concern among developed and developing countries. Worldwide, youth are held in incarceration, detention, and other secure settings that are inappropriate for their age and developmental stages, jeopardizing their prosocial development, and reintegration into society. Youth incarceration lacks evidence and cost-effectiveness. The well-being o...