Non-Citizen Offenders and Immigration Crimes: New Challenges in the Federal System

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Overlooked Areas of Federal Sentencing: Federal Enclaves, Indian Country, Transfer of U.S. Prisoners From Abroad

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Sport, genetics and the `natural athlete': The resurgence of racial science

This article explores the ethical implications of recent discussions that naturalize the relationship between race, the body and sport within the frame of genetic science. Many suggestions of a racially distributed genetic basis for athletic ability and performance are strategically posited as a resounding critique of the `politically correct' meta-narratives of established sociological and anthropological forms of explanation that emphasize the social and cultural construction of race. I argue that this use of genetic science in order to describe and explain common-sense impressions of racial physiology and sporting ability is founded on erroneous premises of objectivity and disinterest, and inflates the analytical efficacy of scientific truth claims. I suggest that assertions of a value-free science of racial athletic ability reify race as inherited permanent biological characteristics that produce social hierarchies and are more characteristic of a longer history of `racial science'

Relationship of maximum strength to weightlifting performance

Purpose: The primary objective was to assess the relationship of maximum strength to weightlifting ability using established scaling methods. The secondary objective was to compare men and women weightlifters on strength and weightlifting ability. Methods: Two correlational observations were carried out using Pearson\u27s r. In the first observation (N = 65) the relationship of dynamic maximum strength (one-repetition maximum (IRM) squat) was compared with weightlifting ability; in the second observation (N = 16), isometric maximum strength (midthigh pull) was studied. Scaling methods for equating maximum strength and weightlifting results were used (load * (Ht2 I6)- . load * kg-\u27, load * lbm-\u27, allometric, and Sinclair formula) to assess the association between measures of maximum strength and weightlifting performance. Results: Using scaled values; correlations betweeh maximum strength and weightlifting results were generally strong in both observations (e.g., using allometric scaling for the IRM squat vs the IRM snatch: r = 0.84, N = 65). Men were stronger than women (e.g., IRM squat, N = 65: men = 188.1 ± 48.6 kg; women = 126.7 + 28.3 kg); differences generally held when scaling was applied (e.g., IRM squat scaled with the Sinclair formula: men = 224.7 ± 36.5 kg; women = 144.2 ± 25.4 kg). Conclusions: When collectively considering scaling methods, maximum strength is strongly related to weightlifting performance independent of body mass and height differences. Furthermore, men are stronger than women even when body mass and height are obviated by scaling methods

The Relationship Between Coaches’ Rank and Explosive Strength Performance in Female Collegiate Athlete

Abstract available in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Researc