Debate as a tool for rehabilitation: a 8 week debate and public speaking course at Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center

Sanction based prison approaches help to prevent crimes, but newer studies have shown that they do not prevent recidivism. Conversely, rehabilitation based programs have been shown to reduce recidivism rates, sparking a resurgence in these types of programs. Further, sanction based practices cost significantly more than rehabilitation programs that use parole. While rehabilitation programs are more effective and cheaper, more studies need to be performed to determine which type of rehabilitation program is the easiest and most effective. Preliminary studies show that education and CBT based programs are among the most effective. In order to add to the knowledge about education based approaches, we conducted an 8 week debate and public speaking intervention developed and organized by Jessica Bullock and SPEAK Inc. We hope to show that debate programs can provide valuable rehabilitation skills to students in prisons and help to reduce recidivism rates.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1306/thumbnail.jp

Predicting the IQ of young children from early developmental markers

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Second thoughts are best: Edward Gordon Craig and an education through theatre design

Craig’s vision of theatre making was one of ongoing reinvention; to turn over what had been and to look for new ‘truths'. It required a mastery of the multiple domains of theatre practice: the visual, the performative and the technical as well as an acute engagement with the intangible, the poetic and perhaps the spiritual. This paper will focus on the UK; to provide a sense of the emergence and development of theatre design as a site of study and to place Craig’s vision of the ‘theatre athlete’ in the context of contemporary theatre design education. Perhaps a hundred years on from ‘On The Art of the Theatre’, this is a good time for ‘second thoughts’; to review and evaluate Craig’s legacy and influence and to consider what advice he might have for us in contemplating the next hundred

Invitation to John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: The Right to Life and Death

Invitation to The Right to Life and Death by Chief Justice Liam Hamilton of the Supreme Court of Ireland (1994-2000).https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/events_programs_sonnett_miscellaneous/1002/thumbnail.jp

Elizabeth Bouldin, Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1730

Review of Bouldin, Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1730. Available online at https://historywomenreligious.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/bouldin_temple_final_may20161.doc

Schwinger Model Mass Anomalous Dimension

The mass anomalous dimension for several gauge theories with an infrared fixed point has recently been determined using the mode number of the Dirac operator. In order to better understand the sources of systematic error in this method, we apply it to a simpler model, the massive Schwinger model with two flavours of fermions, where analytical results are available for comparison with the lattice data.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, talk given at the 33rd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 14 - 18 July 2015, Kobe, Japan. Reference adde