An Examination of Contextual and Organizational Factors Influencing Police Use of Force: A Multilevel Model

The current study attempts to bridge this gap in research between contextual factors and police use of force. It also deepens our understandings of the association between organizational factors and use of force by incorporating police training into the analytical model. Finally, this study expands prior research by including multiple police agencies in the sample, thus producing research findings that can be more easily generalized

Conducting a community needs assessment: a student-client approach to clinic research

This paper will discuss how to create a research team and conduct a community needs assessment. The focus will be primarily on the process of conducting such research. The process is adaptable to either an international team of academics, professionals and students or it can be conducted by a clinic in its community without outside collaboration. Results of the research will be discussed on a minimal basis.The goals of a law school legal aid clinic should include at least two things. One is to improve the education of students. The other is to provide access to justice for members of the community. These goals may be met in many ways and through many different projects. Forming a research team of academics, professionals and law students to study a legal issue, develop a survey and find out what the community needs are in terms of legal assistance provides many excellent learning tools for students.Students develop research and writing skills over the course of a research project that includes conducting a literature review, interviewing skills when they survey the community, best practices in being client/community centered and presentation skills if they present their results at a conference as was the case in the study to be discussed here. We often think we know what is needed in our community, or by our client, from our experience; but best practices and professional responsibility point toward finding out what the community or client wants in order to serve their legal needs

Bayesian Exploration of Multivariate Orographic Precipitation Sensitivity for Moist Stable and Neutral Flows

Abstract Recent idealized studies examined the sensitivity of topographically forced rain and snowfall to changes in mountain geometry and upwind sounding in moist stable and neutral environments. These studies were restricted by necessity to small ensembles of carefully chosen simulations. Research presented here extends earlier studies by utilizing a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to create a large ensemble of simulations, all of which produce precipitation concentrated on the upwind slope of an idealized Gaussian bell-shaped mountain. MCMC-based probabilistic analysis yields information about the combinations of sounding and mountain geometry favorable for upslope rain, as well as the sensitivity of orographic precipitation to changes in mountain geometry and upwind sounding. Exploration of the multivariate sensitivity of rainfall to changes in parameters also reveals a nonunique solution: multiple combinations of flow, topography, and environment produce similar surface rainfall amount and distribution. Finally, the results also divulge that the nonunique solutions have different sensitivity profiles, and that changes in observation uncertainty also alter model sensitivity to input parameters

Applied learning through international collaboration: Using research on domestic violence as a learning tool

[EN] This article describes how applied learning may be achieved through a research project on an international scale. The research for this article was conducted by three Missouri Western State University (MWSU) exchange students in collaboration with the MWSU professor in charge of managing the project. This research involves an analysis of Domestic Violence. The main purpose of this study is to show what can be learned in the academic field through research from the perspective of advanced level students. This article will go over the processes the students followed to conduct good investigative work as well as the skills and abilities the researchers have mastered by working on this project. Such investigative work is comprised of three different approaches. The students were free to develop the research to explore the legal perspective, a sociological approach, and the area of prevention of Domestic Violence. Each approach goes into the analysis of Domestic Violence to give a multidisciplinary understanding of this phenomenon. Lastly, the paper offers examples of the results obtained from surveys conducted in Nepal by the MWSU professor and Nepal NGO, which were coded and interpreted by the three international students from Spain.Gamez Hernandez, JL.; Hidalgo López, C.; Surian Barrios, MDLA.; Tushaus, D. (2017). Applied learning through international collaboration: Using research on domestic violence as a learning tool. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 248-258. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.5162OCS24825

An Application of Sales Analysis and Market Measurement to the Marketing Problems of Newspapers

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The Myanmar Shwe: Empowering Law Students, Teachers, and the Community Through Clinical Education and the Rule of Law

Myanmar\u27s attorneys, judges, law officers, and law teachers are slowly emerging from the isolated world they inhabited during decades of military authoritarianism. Almost a decade ago, the country triumphantly burst into an era of disciplined democracy under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto head of state. Yet, the legal education system continues to be marked by hierarchical and bureaucratic practices, infrastructural and pedagogical neglect, and low confidence in the formal justice sector. The authors-two American law professors and practitioners and two students-discuss the direction of legal education in Southeast Asia and how clinical legal education (CLE) methodologies can be used to empower law students, teachers, and their communities, with an emphasis on the rule of law and access to justice. They draw on their experience in developing and piloting Community Teaching and Externship Preparation law school curricula in 2017-19 under the auspices of non-governmental organization BABSEACLE (formerly Bridges Across Borders South East Asia Clinical Legal Education Initiative). They highlight two teaching modules: Community Needs Assessments and peer-to-peer CLE English classes at university law departments in remote regions of the country and the outskirts of Yangon. Along with receptiveness for new approaches to teaching, learning, and mentoring by international experts, the authors faced centralized decision-making and planning, no culture of faculty collegiality or autonomy, risk aversion, reluctance to stand out amongst peers, frequent teacher transfers, inadequate research skills, rote learning, undue reliance on distance education, and limited English proficiency. Lastly, the authors comment on the future potential of this educational initiative and the Development Industry. Warning against a Project World mentality, unwelcome imposition of liberal ideals of individualism, and neocolonial tendencies, they highlight the importance of consultation with educational institutions, awareness of the role of local intermediaries and informal justice sector, and the need for genuine coordination and partnership amongst donor agencies and NGOs