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    Strengthening Neighborhoods by Creating Long-Term Multifamily Assets

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    Edited proceedings of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Symposium, NeighborWorks Training Institute, April 18, 2001, Chicago. Hosted by the NeighborWorks Multifamily Initiative.The five papers that follow were written by five lead presenters at the symposium and distributed in advance to symposium participants to provide a framework for each panel discussion. Reports of the panel discussions are also provided, which includes many valuable insights offered by audience members as well as panelists

    Management of Organisational Systems at Township Secondary Schools in the Free State Province

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    Published ThesisThis research project employed action research which is grounded in qualitative methodology in order to address the problem statement and the fundamental research questions. The purposive sampling was found to be effective to use in this research. All the groups that were purposefully selected collaborated with me to systematically and carefully examine their performance and practice by using dialectic, phenomenological and hermeneutic methods of research. This study identified a principal as an accounting officer who is authorised by law to coordinate the activities of the teaching personnel; school management teams; representative council of learners; school governing bodies; cleaners and factotums as well as the interviewing panels who are the parts or aspects of the secondary school. Each of the aforementioned persons are expected to pursue a different goal in order to ensure that a secondary school effectively attains its overall goal. However, the principal, including other persons attached to the towship secondary school as mentioned above, dismally perfom their duties. The primary contributory factor to the dismal performance of the township secondary schools in the Free State Province is the politicisation of these schools. This phenomenon gave rise to unionised teachers; as a result of this the South African Democratic Teachers Union which is aligned to the African National Congress collude with the School Governing Body to sell promotional positions/posts to their members. This illegal promotion of the teaching personnel is in contravention of section 7(1)(a) of the Employment of Educators Act No. 76 of 1998 which provides that when an appointment of the teaching personnel is made, the ability of the candidate must be taken into consideration. Not only at the school level are promotional posts sold; this practice is also carried out at the higher echelon of the education system in South Africa. What the study revealed suggests that this type of appointments exacerbates poor perfomance of township secondary schools. The politicisation of township secondary schools breeds a laissez-faire situation which is prevalent at these schools. For example, learners and educators leisurely come late to school and hounor their teaching periods only long after the bell has rung. The toilets and the entire school premises of the secondary schools understudy resemble a pigsty thereby flouting section 24(a) of the Constitution Act 108 of 1996. In addition to this the principal, educators and the school governing body fail to observe common law principles such as contra bonos mores, in loco parentis, bonus patrifamilias et cetera. As a result of this, learners contribute to the unsafe school environment by doing drugs and consuming intoxicating beverages during school hours. In most schools, learners have formed gangs that terrorise the neighbourhood of schools. All these result in them showing no respect to their educators who in turn, are also not showing respect to authority (principal, deputy principal, and heads of departments). Lastly and more importantly, the study also highlightes the fact that the Regulations for Safety Measures at Public Schools are not adhered to (cf. regulations 4(4) & 5 ). For example, learners go to schools armed with dangerous weapons; and in some instances kill each other, and put the life of their educators at risk. What is even more disturbing, is that the outsiders enter school premises at any time during school hours to carry out mischievious and illegal deeds. Apparently, the representative council of learners does not know what its mandate is

    The Future of Legal Services: Legal and Ethical Implications of the LSC Restrictions - Address: Interpretations of LSC Restrictions

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    The purpose of this talk is to set a framework for the discussions on the four panels. I will begin by discussing what has happened in the 104th Congress, describe what can and cannot be done under the restrictions imposed by that Congress, and then frame the context for the later discussions

    Golden Anniversary

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    Medical schools, perhaps more than other institutions, seem to attract a succession of individuals of strong personality to their faculties. Some of these characters are remembered because of their warmth, generosity, and wisdom. Others are remembered for less endearing traits. Both types are commemorated in this book of the memoirs of Dr. Ed Holyoke. The author faithfully and very effectively served the Anatomy Department and the College through 50 years of dramatic changes and draws mainly from his own rich store of personal reminiscences to fashion this delightful book. At times only a thin disguise protects him from identification as the perpetrator of some of the more mischievous pranks. Here is an account of student high spirits, practical jokes, and the antics of members of faculty, sometimes quaint, often amusing, occasionally outrageous. These memoirs paint vivid pictures of colorful individuals who walked the halls of a College of Medicine and University Hospital in days gone by, and whose ghosts, so it is reported, still haunt these same corridors. The non-medical reader may ask, Was medical school really like this? , or perhaps somewhat more ruefully, Was the distinguished gentleman, who is now my trusted physician, once a student like those spotlighted in this text? Alas, it may be so. However, in spite of the high spirits of student days, it remains true that the College of Medicine at the University of Nebraska has over the years more than adequately fulfilled its responsibility to train high-quality physicians for service to the community. Indeed, the boisterous good humor of college days almost certainly contributed to those qualities of character required in the physician. A physician\u27s robust common sense, his sense of humor, his equanimity in facing stress, are amongst the ingredients necessary for his role as a comfortor of the sick and distressed, and as an adviser and supporter of those who face fear, loss or tragedy. Books describing medical faculty and student life have always held a fascination, but to none more than the individuals who lived these times and experiences themselves. Undoubtedly, therefore, this book will create special interest and nostalgia in alumni of the College. Richard Gordon pulled back the curtain on medical student education elsewhere, some years ago, with his Doctor in the House series of publications. Dr. Ed Holyoke has done a similar superb job in drawing back the curtain in Nebraska to reveal the effervescent sub-culture which makes up the life of medical students and faculty. Alastair M. Connell, M.D. University of Nebraska College of Medicinehttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/cent_com/1001/thumbnail.jp

    Confronting the “fraud bottleneck”: private sanctions for fraud and their implications for justice

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    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the ways in which contemporary organisations are imposing their own private sanctions on fraudsters. Design/methodology/approach – The research draws on primary data from interviews with counter fraud practitioners in the UK, secondary sources and case examples. Findings – Such developments have been stimulated, at least in part, by the broader limitations of the criminal justice system and in particular a “fraud bottleneck”. Alongside criminal sanctions, many examples are provided of organisations employing private prosecutions innovative forms of civil sanction and “pseudo state” sanctions, most commonly civil penalties comparable to fines. Research limitations/implications – Such changes could mark the beginning of the “rebirth of private prosecution” and the further expansion of private punishment. Growing private involvement in state sanctions and the development of private sanctions represents a risk to traditional guarantees of justice. There are differences in which comparable frauds are dealt with by corporate bodies and thus considerable inconsistency in sanctions imposed. In contrast with criminal justice measures, there is no rehabilitative element to private sanctions. More research is needed to assess the extent of such measures, and establish what is happening, the wider social implications, and whether greater state regulation is needed. Practical implications – Private sanctions for fraud are likely to continue to grow, as organisations pursue their own measures rather than relying on increasingly over-stretched criminal justice systems. Their emergence, extent and implications are not fully understood by researchers and therefore need much more research, consideration and debate. These private measures need to be more actively recognised by criminal justice policy-makers and analysts alongside the already substantial formal involvement of the private sector in punishment through prisons, electronic tagging and probation, for example. Such measures lack the checks and balances, and greater degree of consistency as laid out in sentencing guidelines, of the criminal justice system. In light of this, consideration needs to be given to greater state regulation of private sanctions for fraud. More also needs to be done to help fraudsters suffering problems such as debt or addiction to rebuild their lives. There is a strong case for measures beyond the criminal justice system to support such fraudsters to be created and publicly promoted. Originality/value – The findings are of relevance to criminal justice policy-makers, academics and counter fraud practitioners in the public and private sectors

    What happens when it all goes wrong? A study into the impacts of personal financial shocks

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    This thesis examines the impact on individuals who suffer from significant financial loss. It also highlights broader environmental issues relating to financial provision for individuals, particularly in retirement. Such issues include regulation, financial literacy, the significant choice available, and the need for professional financial advice. These are particularly significant in the Australian context where financial self-sufficiency is promoted as a desired option in retirement. The collapse of Queensland-based Storm Financial is used as a casestudy to investigate these matters. A qualitative approach was taken with elements of grounded theory and narrative inquiry utilised when engaging with the available data. Available data from a 2009 Parliamentary Inquiry includes 823 pages of public hearing transcripts and 2879 pages of written submissions. Interviews with 15 different parties were also carried out, giving rise to 33 hours of recorded conversation. To mitigate issues of researcher and participant bias and a reliance on qualitative interpretation as the primary tool of analysis, various procedures including triangulation and member checking were adopted. It is apparent that sudden and significant financial loss is devastating. An individual's emotional wellbeing is a primary casualty, and one's mental health is also vulnerable. An individual's social world is also impacted, including relationships with family and friends, how one engages in community activities, and the ability to partake in familial and cultural roles. Financial victims also perceive a sense of judgement from society at large about their losses. A loss of trust may be the epitome of financial loss. Any financial promise requires trust in institutions, professional service providers, government via licensing and regulation, and others including oneself. Trust in all of these entities is impacted when loss occurs, and is highly dependent on not just the size but also the circumstances of those losses. The loss of trust and the loss of financial means leads in turn to a lack of control over one's life. Many of these impacts are reflected in other traumatic circumstances, and some are seen to be particularly exacerbated in the specific case of Storm. These impacts demonstrate that vulnerability exists when encouraging self-sufficiency in retirement. Greater individualisation in financial provision introduces risks that current regulation may not be equipped to mitigate, particularly in the areas of licensing and disclosure. Information asymmetry between informed and non-informed participants exacerbates these risks. This highlights the importance of ethical disposition when dealing with financial affairs. The current retirement 'pillars' of the age pension, superannuation and other savings describe 'mechanisms' of income, but an alternative pillared system of government, other institutions, and oneself is offered to highlight the underlying sources of trust. Storm's collapse highlights that money matters but not for its own sake - it is the subsequent loss of control and options that is tangibly impacted. Significant financial loss is therefore anything but trivial, and a strong dependence of overall wellbeing on financial wellbeing is highlighted. Any system which allows unnecessary risks upon the attainment of such financial wellbeing for individuals should therefore be subjected to critical scrutiny

    Complete Issue 19, 1999

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    The Transnationalization of Truth: A Meditation on Sri Lanka and Honduras

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    The present article is an elaboration of the text prepared for a lecture, delivered in London, England, on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, as part of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies’ annual Transnational Justice Lecture series. A prior version appeared as a working paper in the Osgoode CLPE Research Paper Series. The present Ethics in Action published version contains both a number of important edits and several substantive additions (notably to section III on Honduras) subsequent to the Osgoode CLPE Research Paper. The paper begins, in Section II, with general comments on a notion of “interactive diversity of knowledge” and how that connects up to a view about the nature of truth. Sections III and IV then present salient aspects of events in both Honduras and Sri Lanka over the last two years, with the coup d’ état of 28 June 2009, in Honduras and the bloody end to the civil war in Sri Lanka in spring 2009 as fulcrums of the narrative. In each case, emphasis is also placed on the establishment of truth-related commissions or panels in relation to each country. The paper ends with a discussion of three interconnected quandaries - the inside/outside quandary, the consistency and fairness quandary, and the timing quandary. The discussion of the timing (or staging) quandary offers some provisional thinking on the sequencing of processes related to truth, justice and reconciliation, offering some reasons not to fuse truth-seeking processes with either criminal justice or reconciliation processes - with special reference to the Sri Lanka context

    The Transnationalization of Truth: A Meditation on Sri Lanka and Honduras

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    The present article is an elaboration of the text prepared for a lecture, delivered in London, England, on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, as part of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies’ annual Transnational Justice Lecture series. The paper begins, in Section II, with general comments on a notion of “interactive diversity of knowledge” and how that connects up to a view about the nature of truth. Sections III and IV then present salient aspects of events in both Honduras and Sri Lanka over the last two years, with the coup d’ état of 28 June 2009, in Honduras and the bloody end to the civil war in Sri Lanka in spring 2009 as fulcrums of the narrative. In each case, emphasis is also placed on the establishment of truth-related commissions or panels in relation to each country. The paper ends with a discussion of three interconnected quandaries—the inside/outside quandary; the consistency and fairness quandary; and the timing quandary. The timing (or staging) quandary offers some provisional thinking on the sequencing of processes related to truth, justice and reconciliation, offering some reasons not to fuse truth-seeking processes with either criminal justice or reconciliation processes—with special reference to the Sri Lanka context
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