A Study of Juvenile Offenders of East Baton Rouge Parish Family Court Before and After Implementation of the Juvenile Delinquent Prevention Act of 1974

This study was conducted to compare the number and types of cases handled by the Family Court System during the period of June 1, 1975 through December 31, 1976. The case records of a random sample of this population was used. The variables used in this study were: age, race, sex, types of crimes committed, income, marital status of parents, whether the parents are buying or renting their homes, court time consumed in processing these cases, and school offender last attended to determine the area with the highest percentage of crime rate. A profile was developed on each case record based on the above variables. Frequency distribution, Chi Square, and Pearson product-moment Correlation Coefficient were used to determine significance for each of the hypotheses. The .05 level of significance was utilized as a level at which the hypotheses would be accepted or rejected. Analysis of the data revealed the following with regard to the null hypotheses: H0-] - There was no significant difference in time consumed by the Court procedure between Group A, B, nor C, HO2 - We found that profiles indicating furthur involvement with the Court between Group A and Group B reflected no significant difference, and HO3 - We found that there was significant difference in the number of case records in Group A and Group B

'Roots'?: the relationship between the global and the local within the Extreme Metal scene

Music's 'malleability' (Taylor 1997) has always facilitated its export and import from one location to another. Indeed, such processes are central to the creation and dissemination of new musical forms. Yet in our contemporary globalised world, such processes occur ever more extensively and rapidly giving rise to new forms of appropriation and syncretism. Record companies from the developed world find new audiences in the developing world (Laing 1986). Musicians from the West appropriate non-Western music, sometimes collaboratively (Feld 1994; Taylor 1997). Non-Western musicians and musicians from subaltern groups within the West create new syncretic forms drawing on both Western and non-Western music (Mitchell 1996; Lipsitz 1994, Slobin 1993). The resulting 'global ecumene' produces considerable 'cultural disorder' (Featherstone 1990, p. 6) whose results cannot easily be summarised

Putting the Nordic into Nordic Jewish Studies

Review of Jewish Studies in the Nordic Countries Today, edited by Ruth Illman and Björn Dahla (2016)

The 'Failure' of Youth Culture: Reflexivity, Music and Politics in the Black Metal Scene

This article examines an enduring question raised by subcultural studies: how youth culture can be challenging and transgressive, yet '��fail'�� to produce wider social change. This question is addressed through a case study of the black metal music scene. The black metal scene flirts with violent racism, yet has resisted embracing outright fascism. The article argues that this is due to the way in which music is '��reflexively antireflexively'�� constructed as a depoliticizing category. It is argued that an investigation of such forms of reflexivity might explain the enduring '��failure'�� of youth cultures to change more than their immediate surroundings

Chimneys and Fireplaces

Discusses chimney and fireplace design with an emphasis on safety and reducing hazards

A case study of a bio-science network : the Kansas City animal health and nutrition corridor

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on February 27, 2013).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Dissertation advisor: Dr. David J. O'BrienIncludes bibliographical references.Vita.Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2012."December 2012"The research combines network theory with aspects of social network analysis to identify and explicate the strong and weak ties in bioscience network. Data was gathered from personal interviews and a survey of 22 organizations to explore the economic interactions within a network of public, private and civic organizations engaged in commercializing animal health and nutrition products. The analysis shows that the patterns of relations follow a functional logic. That is, weak ties are more dominate in a network where access to knowledge and resources are important. These findings are consistent with previous network theory research from Mark Granovetter's strength of weak tie hypothesis that economic action is embedded in ongoing social ties.Includes bibliographical reference

Transgression and mundanity : the global extreme metal music scene

Extreme Metal musical genres have challenged conventional notions of 'music' by developing an impenetrable sound that verges on formless noise. Extreme Metal music is produced, disseminated and consumed by musicians and fans who shun publicity within a set of obscure institutions that ensure the music's global 'underground' circulation. Within the confines of obscurity, musicians and fans explore in a highly 'transgressive' manner such themes as death, war and the occult, sometimes flirting with neo-fascist and racist discourses. This thesis develops the concept of 'scene' as a method of investigating Extreme Metal music and practice. The concept is theorised through an engagement with a wide variety of literatures, notably subcultural theory, theories of community and critical theories of space. The concept is developed so as to provide an 'holistic' method of drawing on a wide variety of incommensurate literatures and conceptual frameworks. Through the concept of scene, this thesis examines how the Extreme Metal scene is 'experienced' by its members. Detailed ethnographic, interview and other data are presented from case studies in Israel, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It is argued that scene members explore transgressive experiences that constantly threaten to exceed the confines of the scene. Yet the scene is also a 'safe' space, within which members experience the communal pleasures of 'mundanity'. Members orient their practices so as to experience the pleasures of both transgression and mundanity. They manage the resulting tensions by the practice of 'reflexive anti-reflexivity' - the wilful refusal by members to explore the contradictory consequences of their practices. Reflexive anti-reflexivity also ensures that scene members never attend to power relations within the scene, leading to the marginalisation of women and those from certain ethnic backgrounds. The thesis concludes with some reflections about the problematic role of the Extreme Metal and other music scenes in providing means of experiential 'survival' within a fraught modernity

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America\u3c/em\u3e by Matthew E. Stanley

Interest in Civil War memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation has expanded greatly in recent years, as two 2016 historiographical essays attest.1 Matthew E. Stanley\u27s new book, The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America is thus well timed to make an important contribution to our evolving understanding of the process of sectional reconciliation in the decades following the Civil War. With his focus on Kentucky\u27s northern neighbors in the lower portions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, the editorial staff of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society believe Stanley\u27s book will help historians better understand the role Kentucky played in the events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which saw a white supremacist version of Civil War memory eclipse an emancipationist version nationally. We have asked four nineteenth-century historians to consider Stanley\u27s book from varying perspectives. M. Keith Harris teaches history at a private high school in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Across the Bloody Chasm: The Culture of Commemoration among Civil War Veterans (2014) and is currently writing a book on D. W. Griffith\u27s controversial 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation. Anne E. Marshall is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (2012). James Marten is professor and chair of the history department at Marquette University. His most recent books are Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America (2011) and America\u27s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace (2014). Kristopher Maulden is a visiting assistant professor of history at Columbia College in Missouri. He is completing a book manuscript on the influence of Federalist politics and federal policy in the Ohio River Valley, and he is engaged in a study of nineteenth-century Ohio newspaper editor Charles Hammond. Finally, the author of The Loyal West, Matthew E. Stanley, assistant professor of history at Albany State University, will respond to the reviews

A Human Capital Approach to Reduce Health Disparities

Objective: To introduce a human capital approach to reduce health disparities in South Carolina by increasing the number and quality of trained minority professionals in public health practice and research. Methods: The conceptual basis and elements of Project EXPORT in South Carolina are described. Project EXPORT is a community based participatory research (CBPR) translational project designed to build human capital in public health practice and research. This project involves Claflin University (CU), a Historically Black College University (HBCU) and the African American community of Orangeburg, South Carolina to reduce health disparities, utilizing resources from the University of South Carolina (USC), a level 1 research institution to build expertise at a minority serving institution. The elements of Project EXPORT were created to advance the science base of disparities reduction, increase trained minority researchers, and engage the African American community at all stages of research. Conclusion: Building upon past collaborations between HBCU’s in South Carolina and USC, this project holds promise for a public health human capital approach to reduce health disparities