This brief report presents a study undertaken to better understand the training needs of judicial officers related to military issues. A snowball sample of judicial officers and court-affiliated stakeholders were asked to identify the most critical training topics regarding military issues in juvenile and family court, as well as rate the importance of 13 potential training topics. The highest ...

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before the United States Sentencing Commission regarding alternatives to incarceration. My remarks are intended as practical observations based on: (a) experience gained in my current position as Director of a community corrections program that provides reentry services to persons formerly incarcerated in Federal prisons, and that also serves as an altern...

An important aim of organic animal production is to allow natural animal behaviour. Regarding reproduction techniques, artificial insemination is permitted but natural mating is preferred. The outdoor multi-sire system, where the sows are placed in large paddocks with a group of boars, is one example of a service system, which complies well with the organic ideals of facilitating natural animal...

The reasons for judicial mistrust of the drug courier profile are numerous and, I believe, compelling. Because many of the profile characteristics (e.g. nervousness, arrival from a source city, little or no luggage, cash purchase of ticket) are equally applicable to innocent persons, use of the profile by reviewing courts could lead to approval of wholesale seizures of innocent citizens by poli...

Can a court force on parents who are careful and conscientious a view of their child’s welfare which is rational, but quite contrary to the parents sincerely held but non-rational beliefs? The Supreme Court of Ireland has recently held that it cannot do so, and that the Irish Constitution requires that the right of the family to determine its own direction must be respected except in the most n...

Investigated were the effects of participation in the Title I Child-Parent Centers (CPC) on substantiated reports of child maltreatment for 1,408 children (93% of whom are African American) in the Chicago Longitudinal Study. The CPCs provide child education and family support services in high-poverty areas. After adjusting for preprogram maltreatment and background factors, 913 preschool partic...

Variations in the human karyotype have been found in association with a variety of congenital anomalies and also in the normal population (Miller and Mukherjee, 1962; Court Brown, 1967). Court Brown's population studies (1967) have revealed that between 2 and 3%o of the normal adult population has a karyotype with structural autosomal variations. Occasionally, homologous autosomes reveal differ...