A new beginning. The first time this course was offered. First time acting for all … for one last time. Excitement, anticipation, and anxiety as the outside meets inside one last time. First one, and then another. Until finally, the last appears. Much later than the rest. Concern that he might not show sparks conversations. One can never know when the rules require revoking privilege.A hat. A simple article of clothing one would think. But inside a prison, a place to hide one's eyes or oneself, contraband. Through one gate and then another with the item, then back again because no proof of clearance. To the class it was a prop. A simple item to aid in 'Waiting for Godot'. Without it, a paper hat would have to do, but how realistic would that be? Really, how surreal the entire experience. Acting behind the bars. Acting.The performances though not Broadway worthy were spectacular in many respects. Inmates of a medium secure facility with a couple of lifers thrown in and university students working together, and apart. Memorizing their lines, working the scene together. Pretty amazing. As I have seen in other graduation performances, the inside students seemed a bit more prepared. Maybe because it is an escape from doing time. Perhaps because they felt the privilege of being part of the class more so than the outside students. All performing much better than I can ever imagine myself under any circumstances, let alone behind the prison walls, within a system of arbitrary rules where 'security' needs dictate the limits to everything, even human contact, even among family members.Acting through the walls, beyond the outside noise, despite the inside noise. The social worker's radio blasts incomprehensible muffled voices and could not be turned off. Repeatedly, loudspeakers paged workers at random intervals. But the plays went on. Applause.Certificates awarded. Professor near tears, knowing the end is near. Students, faculty, and guests line up for celebratory sandwiches, juice, and really delicious pastries -inmate made. Sitting down to chat one last time, about life, school, work, justice, people, and relationships … not much talk of the finality of the newly formed bonds.I nearly cried many times, though that would not be surprising to those who know how easily my tears flow. But the reasons they may not guess. My eyes swelled for the lives interrupted -by the crimes and the punishment -for the inmates who gained life-long 11 week friends, for the students whose lives I
The prologue begins with the rhyme that many readers, including myself, grew up repeating. ''Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her
intimate partner violence. Of important note in this chapter is the need to look at sexual assault and intimate partner violence together because it often occurs simultaneously instead of addressing them separately.Cassia Spohn and Katherine Tellis focus on the intricate process of decision making in sexual assault cases is though provoking, troubling as well as inspiring. As the title of the last chapter states, it is time to take sexual assault seriously. Although their research captures how intimate partner and sexual assault violence is often misconstrued in the justice system, it provides advice as how to make it better. The suggestions of more training and specialized units are wonderful recommendations that any city should embrace. It illustrates why so many cases do not go through the system and how it relates back to fundamental issues surrounding sexual victimization such as ''real rape'' stereotypes and personal perceptions of how a survivor must act in order to be considered a legitimate victim. This work could be the catalyst to change perceptions within the justice system as well as to start implementation of training for those who work within the justice system.
Infanticide refers to the intentional killing of a child before his or her first birthday. Infanticide has occurred throughout history. Different countries approach infanticide differently; some countries consider infanticides as lesser offenses than murder for women who exhibit psychiatric disorders relating to childbirth. Parents tend to be the perpetrators in infanticides, and boys and girls are nearly equally likely to be the victims. Young, poor, single, underemployed women tend to be the perpetrators in infanticides of newborns less than one day old. In communities with restrictions on abortions, parental consent laws, parental involvement laws, and mandatory delay laws, the risk of child homicides increases.
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