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Item A Child in Every Way but One: Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility in Texas(2017-12-14) Albrecht, Annie F.At age 18, the federal government considers an individual an adult, and thus eligible to vote, sit on a jury, join the military, buy a cigarette, and serve time in an adult prison. The state of Texas follows similar policies, except in one respect. Texas sets the age of criminal responsibility, or the age at which one is considered an adult and eligible to be tried in criminal court, at seventeen. The state of Texas considers seventeen-year-olds mature enough to serve time in prison, but not mature enough to vote for the judges that may send them there. Over the past several years, there have been multiple attempts to raise the age of criminal responsibility from seventeen to eighteen. They have all failed. Those opposed to raising the age argue that the change will be too costly, that the current system is adequately serving both juvenile and adult offenders, and that such a change would be a threat to public safety. However, a case study of similar policy changes in the state of Illinois shows the exact opposite. After examining existing literature and data gathered following the state of Illinois’ recent law raising the age of criminal responsibility to eighteen, I will argue that Texas’ current policy is not only harmful to seventeen-year-olds incarcerated in adult prisons, but that the proposed policy change will also save money, improve public safety, and better serve both juvenile and adult offenders. I will then provide four policy recommendations to the Texas legislature: (1) raise the age of criminal responsibility to eighteen, (2) form a task force to recommend best practices for transition, (3) delay implementation for 2 years to allow time for transition preparation, and (4) create a matching grant program to fund the transition and ongoing costs.Item Cradle to Grave: Texas "Disproportionality" from Foster Care to Death Row(2009-01-01) James, JoyItem The Factors Behind Increased Incarceration(2020-10-05) Stambaugh, EmmaItem Fiches Politiques(1950) Fiches PolitiquesThe Fiches Politiques is a series of documents held at the National Archives in Rwanda.Item Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion(Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) James, JoyContributors include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Sundiata Acoli, Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., Dhoruba bin Wahad, Rita Bo Brown, Marilyn Buck, Safiya Bukhari, Angela Y. Davis, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Elizam Escobar, Linda Evans, George Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Raymond Luc Levasseur, Jalil Muntaqim, Michele Naar-Obed, Huey P. Newton, Leonard Peltier, Susan Rosenberg, Assata Shakur, Mutulu Shakur, Jose Solis Jordan, Standing Deer, Laura Whitehorn and Malcolm X.Item Introduction to Imprisoned Intellectuals(Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) James, JoyItem Introduction to The Angela Y. Davis Reader(Blackwell Publishers, 1998) James, JoyFor three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on feminism, anti-racism, political philosophy, and liberation theory. Her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced political and social thought, and contemporary struggles. The Angela Y. Davis reader presents interviews, essays, and excerpts from Davis's most important works, including her memoir, in four parts - Prisons, Repression, and Resistance; Marxism, Anti-Racism, and Feminism; Aesthetics and Culture; and Interviews - Davis examines progressive politics and intellectualism. The extensive introduction by Joy James both provides biographical background and contextualizes the intellectual development of Davis as one of the leading thinkers of our time.Item "Introduction: Democracy and Captivity" in The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings(State University of New York Press, 2005) James, JoyThe New Abolitionists presents a collection of essays and interviews that provide a frank look at the nature and purposes of prisons in the United States from the perspective of the prisoners. Written by Native American, African American, Latino, Asian, and European American prisoners, the book examines captivity and democracy, the racial "other", gender and violence, and the stigma of suspect humanity. Contributors to the volume include Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pancho Aguila, Charles Baxter, Alan Berkman, Philip Berrigan, Wayne Brown, Marilyn Buck, Holley Cantine, Tony Chatman-Bey, Angela Y. Davis, Susie Day, Leslie DiBenedetto, Bill Dunne, Antonio Fernandez (King Tone), Sylvester Gaither, David Gilbert, Amy Goodman, George Jackson, Geronimo ji Jaga (Elmer Pratt), H. B. Johnson, Jr., Heike Kleffner, Drew Leder, Raymond Luc Levasseur, Ed Mead, Mark Medley, Jalil Muntaqim, Viet Mike Ngo, Imari Abubakari Obadele I, Prince Imari A. Obadele (Shemuel ben-Yahweh), Bernard Phillips, Dachine Rainer, Little Rock Reed, Dylan Rodriguez, Susan Rosenberg, Paul St. John, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham), Jeremy Scahill, Assata Shakur, Donald Thompson, Selvyn Tillett, Karen Wald, Laura Whitehorn, John Woodland, Jr. and Yaki (James Sayles).Item Mass Incarceration in the United States: At What Cost? (Testimony of Sheila Jackson Lee)(U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007-10-04) U.S. GovernmentItem Proposing Interventions for Disabled Americans Pushed into Incarceration and Homelessness(2023) Seyer, Caroline; Thurman, WhitneyMass incarceration and homelessness are prevalent issues in the United States, affecting hundreds of thousands of people each year. Additionally, about a quarter of Americans have at least one disability (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022). While there is literature that documents the relationship between disability and homelessness and disability and incarceration, research has yet to connect the pipelines that push disabled Americans into both of those systems. The purpose of this literature review, therefore, is to synthesize existing research, news articles, and advocacy information into a diagram describing the factors that push disabled Americans into incarceration and/or homelessness over the life course. I then propose points of intervention to dismantle these pipelines. Disabled people face barriers to receiving a high-quality education, are more likely to be affected by the school-to-prison pipeline, and face discrimination in employment, housing, and community involvement. Additionally, the effects of homelessness and incarceration on disabled individuals have substantial overlap in the spheres of health, employment, housing, and community involvement. These challenges compound each other across the life course and are thus very important to dismantle. The points of intervention identified in this thesis have serious implications for expanding public policy to target disabled people affected by incarceration and homelessness in this country.Item Texas Undergraduate Law Review Journal Vol. III, Issue II Spring 2020(University of Texas at Austin, 2020) University of Texas at Austin; Dong, Jennifer; Javed, Samiya; Aguirre, Ruben; Ning, Hubert; Logan, Caleb