According to the focal concerns perspective, the concerns guiding judges’ sentencing considerations are blameworthiness and harm, community protection, and practical considerations. Regarding racial ...and other disparities in sentencing, focal concerns contend that various constraints, associations between defendants’ demographic characteristics, and the three focal concerns influence judicial decision-making. One association that is explored infrequently is the institutionalization decision of juveniles and how that decision is associated with race and various school-based metrics. Using a sample of adjudicated delinquent juveniles from one state over a 5-year period and merged with American Community Survey data, the present study explores how school factors alongside race serve as focal concerns for judges, impacting the decision to institutionalize juveniles.
The goal of this work is to provide researchers, preservationists, and historians with an in-depth look of the treatment of graves and gravesites over time by Bethel United Methodist Church and Old ...Bethel United Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. This data can hopefully be used by researchers in a broader sense to understand the treatment of white and African American burials over time. Gravestones and sites can reflect how we see people within society in the past, present, and future. Therefore, documentation of social and cultural history along with the documentation of the built environment that contains tangible artifacts such as cemeteries and gravestones is pertinent to our duty as preservations to preserve for future generations. The preservation of the history and culture of African Americans, so often considered ordinary people to the historic record, may have been overlooked in their lifetime in terms of contributing to the historic record, but they are memorialized after their death. This more nuanced interpretation and analysis of Bethel and Old Bethel’s cemeteries by exploring the gravesite monuments, and maintenance conditions of the cemetery, has shown intentional reflections of attitudes toward the graves of their congregation members as well as attitudes over time due to time period of activity. This, in a sense, has shown each cemetery’s style over time and a sense of identity. While they began as one, each cemetery has created an identity for itself through the acts of the congregations that are interred within its parameters.
Making sense of ‘consent’ in a constrained environment Larkin, Michael; Clifton, Elizabeth; de Visser, Richard
International journal of law and psychiatry,
May-June 2009, 2009 May-Jun, 2009-05-00, 20090501, Letnik:
32, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
This project investigates patients' and practitioners' experiences and understandings of the consent process, as it is governed by the Mental Health Act in Great Britain.
We aim to illuminate our ...respondents' experiences of the consent process, and to explore their attempts to make sense of that process.
Semi-structured interviews with 5 Responsible Medical Officers, and 7 of their consenting adult patients, were conducted at a medium-secure psychiatric hospital. We approached the analysis from the perspective of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
Our analysis begins with an account of some of the common phenomenological consequences of the consent process as our participants understand them, but then moves on to discuss some of the contextual constraints which are evident from their negotiation of these understandings.
We conclude by outlining a number of emergent issues relevant to the current development of new Mental Health legislation. These include: mechanisms to allow collaboration with user groups; a more consultative role for users in their own treatment decisions; formal training and support for those conducting competency assessments; and more flexible and transparent legislative frameworks.
