Letter from Geraldine Ferraro to New York Associate Justice Richard Brown

Reply from Geraldine Ferraro to Associate Justice Richard Brown, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_new_york/1008/thumbnail.jp

Evaluation of Kairos WWT Prison In-reach and Post release Floating Support Service for women,:Kairos Prison In-reach support

This report presents key findings of an evaluation of the Prison In-reach andFloating Support project delivered by Kairos WWT. The evaluation was carriedout alongside the project delivery over a three-year period, between June 2015and March 2018. The report details the evaluation framework, including the methodology, an overview of research participants and presents key themeswithin the data collected, concluding with reflections and recommendations.The purpose was to provide an independent evaluation of Kairos WWT Prison In-reach project at HMP Peterborough and Floating Support Service in thecommunity (Coventry). The Prison In-reach service involves a dedicated member of Kairos’ staff making monthly visits to HMP Peterborough, meeting with femaleprisoners with a link to Coventry (pre or post sentence) and a history of/or vulnerability to sex working. On release support is provided by Kairos Floating Support Service, offering a brokering service for mainstream agencies, providing a member of staff to advocate on behalf of the women. This service aims to enable service users to access health care (physical, mental and sexual), welfare agencies, housing agencies, substance misuse services, legal advice and provisions for furthering education and training. The evaluation evidences the work of this service that provides a link from prison to the community.The aim of the evaluation was to: .Examine the process by which the intervention is provided (including partnership working and training needs).• Explore service users’ (women’s) experiences of engaging with the support provided by the prison in reach project.• Identify the potential benefits associated with an intervention in a prison setting (and beyond) for service users, for prison staff, for HMP Peterborough, and other stakeholders• Identify potential challenges to the provision of the Prison In-reach intervention in a prison setting for service users, for prison staff, for HMP Peterborough,and other stakeholders• Explore potential frameworks to evaluate service users experience, e.g. readiness for desistance, recovery• Capture the perceptions of significant others/family on service users engagement with the intervention• Consider the need for future provision of a prison inreach intervention with this client group• Evaluate the benefits of linking the Prison In-reach service with the Post-prison Floating Support Servic

Urban Gun Crime from the Margins: An auto/biographical study of African Caribbean communities’ understanding and responses to ‘urban gun crime’

In this thesis I adopt an auto/biographical approach to explore the relationship between ‘race’ racialisation, racism and ‘urban gun crime’ (‘UGC’). I specifically focus on the views and experiences of community activists from African Caribbean communities (ACC) in two localities in the West Midlands. The auto/biographical approach reflects a central motivation for this focus: a concern about the normalisation and popular usage of the term ‘UGC’ within political and media discourse and the limited attention given to how it reproduces specific racialised notions of the Black criminal ‘other’ and their communities. Hence, despite, in the UK ‘UGC’ being put forward as a generic term to capture illegal possession and use of firearms arms (Silvestri, et al., 2009; Hallsworth and Silverstone, 2009), it is indelibly linked to Black communities, more specifically to young Black men, who are characterised as workless, fatherless and violent. I was concerned about how this image contributes to a specific understanding and a dominant conceptualisation that informs policy responses underway across a number of inner-city communities (Wood, 2010; Young, 2010; Joseph and Gunter, 2011). In the UK limited attention has been afforded to understanding how ‘race,’ racism and a process of racialisation are implicated in this specific construction of ‘UGC’ and ever present in terms of how they dominate the initiatives put forward (Joseph and Gunter, 2011). Utilising critical ethnography, my research presents an insider understanding of ‘UGC’, informed by meanings and the actions uncovered from men and women who, like me, share a racialised identity and genealogical link to the Caribbean. The empirical data is analysed through a Black feminist theoretical framework enabling an intersectional approach, which examines ‘race’ alongside social divisions such as gender, class and differences informed by religious belief. The research uncovered a number of insights related to ACC understanding and responses to ‘UGC’, illuminating the systemic failures that arise as a result of the unwillingness of the state and others in positions of power to consider alternative ways of understanding the relationship between ACC and ‘UGC’. The thesis sheds light on the ongoing attempt by ACC for self-definition and to fight racism and the challenges and tensions that exist between Black community organisations and statutory bodies. Thus this thesis offers a unique critical understanding about ‘UGC’ from the margins

The influence of composition on the optical properties of electrodeposited gold

In industry the colour of a gold alloy electrodeposit is checked by visual comparison with standard panels. The aims of the present work have been to access the application of spectrophotmetric techniques to the measurement of the colour of gold alloy electrodeposits and to examine the factors that influence the colour of thin deposits. The minimum thickness of deposit required to produce its final colour and completely hide the underlying substrate was measured and found to depend on the nature of the substrate, the plating solution and the operating conditions. Bright and matt electrodeposits were studied. The influence of alloying gold by adding copper, silver and indium to the plating solution were investigated. CIE chromaticity coordinates were calculated from spectrophotometric data using a computer programme written for the purpose. The addition of silver to a simple gold bath caused the colour of the deposit to change from yellow through green to near white in a smooth progression as the amount of silver in solid solution steadily increased. The colour of deposits formed when additions of copper were made was complicated by the formation of intermediate phases. À colour in the blue region of the spectrum was obtained in a few experiments investigating the influence of indium additions to the gold bath

Letter from New York Associate Justice Richard Brown to Geraldine Ferraro

Letter from New York Associate Justice Richard Brown, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, to Geraldine Ferraro. Brown\u27s spouse interested in helping campaign. Includes data entry form.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_new_york/1007/thumbnail.jp