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Selected AbstractsTHE MIRACLE OF THE CELLS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE PAYMENT OF COURT-ORDERED FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS,CRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, Issue 1 2008DAVID WEISBURD Research Summary: In this article, we present findings from an experimental study of an innovative program in fine enforcement developed by the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) of New Jersey, termed Project MUSTER (MUST Earn Restitution). The project was initiated by the New Jersey AOC as a response to concerns among probation personnel that probationers sentenced to monetary penalties often failed to meet their financial obligations. The program sought to increase payment of court-ordered financial obligations among probationers who are seriously delinquent in paying fines, penalties, and restitution, and was designed to "strengthen the effectiveness of restitution and fine sanctions by forcing those offenders who have the ability to make regular payments to do so." Project MUSTER relied on a combination of intensive probation, threats of violation to court and incarceration, and community service. We find that probationers sentenced to Project MUSTER were significantly more likely to pay court-ordered financial obligations than were those who experienced regular probation supervision. However, probationers sentenced to a second treatment group, in which the only intervention was violation of probation (one part of the MUSTER program), had similar outcomes to the MUSTER condition. These findings suggest that the main cause of fine payment was a deterrent threat of possible incarceration, which is often termed the "miracle of the cells." Policy Implications: Our study shows that it is possible to gain greater compliance with court-ordered financial obligations and that such compliance may be gained with a relatively simple and straightforward criminal justice intervention. Threats of violation of probation are an effective tool for gaining compliance with financial obligations. Given the growing interest in monetary penalties as an alternative to incarceration, these findings have particular policy importance. [source] MAKING FAMILIES AND CHILDREN A HIGH PRIORITY IN THE COURTSFAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 4 2002California's Center for Families, Children & the Courts This article describes the California Administrative Office of the Court's (AOC's) Center for Families, Children & the Courts (CFCC). CFCC is an interdisciplinary unit that brings together all of the AOC's work on statewide policies and practices related to families and children in the court system. CFCC thus models the unified family court model within the state AOC. CFCC's projects and activities are described to show the effectiveness of its multidisciplinary and collaborative approach in addressing complex policy and practice issues. It is hoped that readers may discover aspects of CFCC's work that could be adapted to their own jurisdiction or practice. [source] Keeping Our Ambition Under Control: The Limits of Data and Inference in Searching for the Causes and Consequences of Vanishing Trials in Federal CourtJOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES, Issue 3 2004Stephen B. Burbank This article offers some reflections stimulated by Professor Galanter's materials, which were the common springboard for the Vanishing Trials Symposium. It suggests that other data, quantitative and qualitative, may be helpful in understanding the vanishing trials phenomenon in federal civil cases, notably data available for years prior to 1962, and questions whether it is meaningful to use total dispositions as the denominator in calculating a trial termination rate. The article argues that care should be taken in using data from state court systems, as also data from criminal cases, administrative adjudication, and ADR, lest one put at risk through careless assimilation of data or muddled thinking a project quite difficult enough without additional baggage. The article describes the limitations of data previously collected by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and highlights unique opportunities created by the AO's switch to a new Case Management/Electronic Case Files system. It argues that Professor Galanter may underestimate the influence of both changing demand for court services (docket makeup) and of changing demand for judicial services (resources) on the trial rate. Finally, the article argues that conclusions about either the causes or consequences of the vanishing trials phenomenon in federal civil cases are premature, suggesting in particular reasons to be wary of emphasis on "institutional factors" such as the discretionary power of first-instance judges and the ideology of managerial judging. [source] Read Lining: UHD9 RenovationJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2003MARC SWACKHAMER For a University of Houston downtown (UHD) campus renovation, the school's administration asked us to convert the entire ninth floor of a 1929 cotton warehouse into executive administrative offices, including those of the president, vice president, provost, and human resources department. In response to this task, we posed two primary questions: How can we combine "high-end" and "low-end" materials to alter typical expectations of how a university administrative office should and should not appear? How can we challenge assumed differences between use and appearance, part and whole,and, ultimately, between student and administrator,to produce a space that suspends hierarchical preconceptions and produces a more open "etiquette" for dialogue? [source] The Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1760: Some Previously Unpublished Drawings by Louis-Alexandre GiraultJOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, Issue 4 2009JOHN GOLDER For Donald Roy and in memory of David Illingworth and Graham Barlow Abstract Built in 1548, the Hôtel de Bourgogne was in almost continuous use as a theatre for 235 years. We have, until now, had only an approximate idea of the internal layout of the auditorium and virtually no idea at all of the way in which the outbuildings were arranged. Recently, however, a series of architectural plans has come to light in the French National Archives. They date from 1760, which was when Papillon de La Ferté, who was in overall charge of the Royal Entertainments Department (les Menus-Plaisirs), ordered that the auditorium be both extensively refurbished and made more attractive, in order to increase audiences and to rescue the Italian players from a financially parlous position. Louis-Alexandre Girault, an architect attached to the Royal Entertainments, was put in charge of the work. The five plans and the longitudinal section which he has left us , and which are published and discussed here for the first time , allow us not only to visit the various different parts of the auditorium and stage, but also to have access to the public spaces, the actors' dressing rooms and their administrative offices, and even to go down into the store-rooms below the auditorium and the stage. [source] Read Lining: UHD9 RenovationJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2003MARC SWACKHAMER For a University of Houston downtown (UHD) campus renovation, the school's administration asked us to convert the entire ninth floor of a 1929 cotton warehouse into executive administrative offices, including those of the president, vice president, provost, and human resources department. In response to this task, we posed two primary questions: How can we combine "high-end" and "low-end" materials to alter typical expectations of how a university administrative office should and should not appear? How can we challenge assumed differences between use and appearance, part and whole,and, ultimately, between student and administrator,to produce a space that suspends hierarchical preconceptions and produces a more open "etiquette" for dialogue? [source] Recruitment and Admission of Students with DisabilitiesNEW DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENT SERVICES, Issue 91 2000Barbara J. Palombi This chapter focuses on the role of student affairs professionals and other administrative offices in assisting students with disabilities in their journey from high school to institutions of higher education. [source] | ||||||||||