ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 2010 - 2011

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 2011 - 2012

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

2012- 2013 ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 2013- 2014

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 2014- 2015

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

ANNUAL REPORT OF LAWYER DISCIPLINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 2015- 2016

The Commission on Lawyer Conduct at the South Carolina Justice Department investigates complaints of lawyer misconduct and incapacity made against lawyers who are licensed to practice law in South Carolina. It annually publishes a report of activities. Included in the reports are status of complaints, disposition of concluded complaints and commission activities.

Knowing What to Do: School Focus, Teacher Morale, and Teacher Turnover

This study explored how schools’ focus – the collective perception among teachers of clarity and consistency regarding school goals, expectations, and priorities – related to schoolwide morale and school turnover rates. I examined the hypothesis that focus attenuates the deleterious effects of student misconduct on teacher morale and the contributory role of student misconduct leading to teacher turnover. In addition, I examined climate strength regarding perceptions school focus as an indicator of focus itself, as well a potential moderating effect of climate strength on the magnitude of school focus-school morale and school focus-turnover relationships. Data from a national sample of middle and high schools (N schools = 348, N teachers = 11,376) were analyzed using school-level multiple regression models. Schools with higher focus had significantly higher morale, independent of related perceptions of administrative leadership. No significant relationship was found between school focus and school turnover rates. The hypothesized moderating effect of focus on student misconduct and morale was not supported, though there was a significant indication that focus attenuated the positive relationship between student misconduct and turnover. Climate strength of school focus ratings significantly correlated with focus scores, but did not moderate relationships between focus and predicted outcomes. Findings suggest that school-level focus does represent a characteristic of schools that has a meaningful positive relationship with teacher morale but do not necessarily clarify how that relationship manifests in schools or if that relationship presents an avenue for intervention.

Study of depressive symptoms according to Zung's self-rating scale on men deprived of freedom in a city of Colombia

Objective: To assess depressive symptoms in men deprived from freedom in a prison in a Colombian intermediate city. Material and Method: A cross sectional study was performed on a sample of three hundred and three patients in the Medium Security penitentiary and Prison Facility of the city of Manizales between April and May 2014. The information was collected through the Zung self-rating depression scale (SDS), subsequently there were established the positive results for depression screening according to the final score of the scale. Results: 303 men deprived from freedom were evaluated, mean age of 32.96 years +/- 10.8 years, 43.5% were living in cohabitation, 38% were single and 10.2% married; 33.7% had a primary education, 58% had secondary or incomplete secondary education, 5.6% reported higher studies; 38.6% (95% CI: 35.8; 41.4) reported symptoms of depression, predominating in ages between 18 to 44 years, no statistically significant differences p> 0.05 between the variables analyzed were found. Conclusions: The results of this study give rise to clinical evaluation, by specialized staff in the area of psychiatry and his intervention, given the characteristics of self-reported depression for this population.

La pena de prisión y sus alternativas

[ES] el objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar las características generales de la actual realidad penitenciaria en cuanto a la pena de prisión y las penas alternativas. Se analiza la pena de prisión desde una perspectiva crítica dando a conocer las limitaciones que presenta la prisión en cuanto a los derechos de las personas presas y haciendo una descripción sobre los principales efectos negativos que genera sobre estas personas. Desde la consolidación del Código Penal de 1995 hasta la última reforma penal de 2015 se ha dado un incremento constante de la dureza de las penas, aumentando la duración de la pena de prisión y su cumplimiento dentro de la prisión. Consecuentemente, se reduce la aplicación de las penas alternativas a la prisión, contrariando así el principio constitucional descrito en el artículo 25.2 orientado a la resocialización del penado y el principio de intervención mínima o ultima ratio del Derecho Penal.

Bodies on the Line: Violence, Disposable Subjects, and the US-Mexico Border Industrial Complex

Bodies On the Line: Violence, Disposable Subjects, and the Border Industrial Complex explores the construction of identity and notions of belonging within an increasingly privatized and militarized Border Industrial Complex. Specifically, the project interrogates how discourses of Mexican migrants as racialized, gendered, and hypersexualized “deviants” normalize violence against border crossers. Starting at Juárez/El Paso border, I follow the expanding border, interrogating the ways that Mexican migrants, regardless of sexual orientation, have been constructed and disciplined according to racialized notions of “sexual deviance." I engage a queer of color critique to argue that sexual deviance becomes a justification for targeting and containing migrant subjects. By focusing on the economic and racially motivated violence that the Border Industrial Complex does to Mexican migrant communities, I expand the critiques that feminists of color have long leveraged against systemic violence done to communities of color through the prison industrial system. Importantly, this project contributes to transnational feminist scholarship by contextualizing border violence within the global circuits of labor, capital, and ideology that shape perceptions of border insecurity. The project contributes an interdisciplinary perspective that uses a multi-method approach to understand how border violence is exercised against Mexicans at the Mexico-US border. I use archival methods to ask how historical records housed at the National Border Patrol Museum and Memorial Library serve as political instruments that reinforce the contemporary use of violence against Mexican migrants. I also use semi-structured interviews with nine frequent border crossers to consider the various ways crossers defined and aligned themselves at the border. Finally, I analyze the master narratives that come to surround specific cases of border violence. To that end, I consider the mainstream media’s coverage, legal proceedings, and policy to better understand the racialized, gendered, and sexualized logics of the violence.

Some features of the law and order model in Spain

This research is based on the hypothesis that law and order model is displacing the procedura justice system in Spain. After a thorough review of the international literature, one can observe that the traditional structure of the penal system does not seem to be capable of containing the new forms of crime. The new penal model assumes that public opinion is alarmed and unwilling to understand rational approaches to crime, so it will be likely to accept measures aimed at calming the fear of crime, through extensive control policies and penal tools to manage uncivil behavior. Objectives and methodology A measuring instrument has been developed to confirm this hypothesis, consisting of ten features that characterize the law and order model. This instrument has been used to identify examples of its ten features in the rules and practices developed at each phase of the Spanish criminal justice system. The analysis has focused specifically on public discourse about delinquency, criminal policy decisions, legislative processes, police routines, judicial dynamics, and prison system practices. Main results The investigation has shown that there are many processes and practices indicating that the law and order model is consolidating itself in the Spanish penal system. Nevertheless this process has a different intensity at each phase, being stronger at the legislative stage and softer in the penitentiary enforcement phase. One of the main conclusions is, therefore, that the designed instrument is ideal for measuring the degree of penetration of the model throughout the system. Some of the most striking results of the reasearch will be presented at the conference. Finally, proposals arise that could prevent the new model is fully seated in our criminal justice system, finding that the trend toward more severe penalties shown already unsustainable.

La aplicación del principio interés superior del niño, niña y adolescente” en los procesos disciplinarios administrativos del ministerio de educación

La monografía titulada “La Aplicación del principio Interés Superior del Niño, Niña y Adolescente” en los procesos disciplinarios administrativos del Ministerio de Educación; analiza el cumplimiento del mismo principio, en relación a la aplicación de acciones educativas disciplinarias en los procesos instaurados en contra de los estudiantes, dependiendo de la gravedad de la falta cometida. Posteriormente se analiza la legislación ecuatoriana en cuanto a la clasificación de las faltas, la sustanciación y resolución del proceso, a través de la Ley Orgánica de Educación Intercultural, con su Reglamento General, y el Acuerdo Ministerial 434, cuerpos normativos que velan por el respeto y garantía de los principios y derechos constitucionales de este grupo de atención prioritaria. Serealiza un análisis jurídico de aspectos relacionados al ámbito disciplinario entre la normativa colombiana del departamento de Caqueta, con respecto de la Ley Orgánica de Educación Intercultural y su Reglamento General. También se consideran los procesos disciplinariosinstaurados en contra de los estudiantes del Colegio Nacional Juan Pio Montufar de la ciudad de Quito,desde el Auto Inicial hasta la emisión de la Resolución;fiscalizando que en cada una de sus etapas se respete el principio del Interés Superior de los niños, niñas y adolescentes, yel derecho al Debido Proceso.

O papel do perfecionismo no desenvolvimento de sintomas psicopatológicos numa amostra de jovens adultos

Dissertação de Mestrado, Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, 2016

Pelas mãos do socioeducativo : práticas disciplinares na medida socioeducativa de internação

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Serviço Social, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social, 2016.

Autism behind bars : a review of the research literature and discussion of key issues

Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience difficulties coping at all levels of involvement in the criminal justice system. Questions remain, however, regarding the presence and type of difficulties faced by individuals with ASD in the context of incarceration within prison settings. Despite the potential impact for community safety and concerns regarding justice, these issues have received very little academic attention. The research that does exist is generally limited by poor methodology and small sample sizes. The current paper provides a brief review and discussion of the limited extant literature regarding the experiences of prisoners with ASD with the view to summarising areas of difficulties potentially faced by such individuals. It is hoped that this brief review may highlight the need for academic attention in order to inform practice and policy regarding the criminal justice response to this potentially vulnerable population.