Teen Courts provide a forum in which juvenile offenders are sentenced by their peers. This system, based on principles of restorative justice, serves as an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system. Sentencing options typically include restitution, community service, jury duty, apologies, attendance at educational workshops, and tours of correctional facilities. Previous research h...

Youth Gangs: An Overview, the initial Bulletin in this series, brings together available knowledge on youth gangs by reviewing data and research. The author begins with a look at the history of youth gangs and their demographic characteristics. He then assesses the scope of the youth gang problem, including gang problems in juvenile detention and correctional facilities. A review of gang studie...

The conduct of research with human participants is facing increased scrutiny from government, media, and academic sources. Research oversight is consequently increasing dramatically as education and accreditation movements gain momentum. Institutional review boards themselves are undergoing significant changes in organization and accountability, implementing new tools to monitor investigator co...

HighereducationsysteminIndiahasbeenexpandedinaremarkableway,particularlyinthepostindependenceperiod,tobecomeoneofthelargestsystemsofitskindintheworld.However,the GrossEnrollmentRatio (GER) is farbelowwhencompared todevelopedandmanydeveloping countries.TheGovernmentofIndiahasfocusedonincreasingtheaccessandensuringequityduring successiv...

This report describes a unique undergraduate research and teaching collaboration between investigators at two institutions, one a relatively small, primarily undergraduate institution and the other a large, urban research-intensive university. The program incorporates three major facets. First, undergraduates participate in a weekly collaborative lab meeting involving instructors from both inst...

Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession—both juridical and ecclesiastical—with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne‘s Essays, with particul...

This paper presents our work on the development of a new methodology for automatic summarization of justice decision. We describe LetSum (Legal text Summarizer), a prototype system, which determines the thematic structure of a judgment in four themes Introduction, Context, Juridical Analysis and Conclusion. Then it identifies the relevant sentences for each theme. We have carried our an evaluat...

This paper presents our work on the development of a new methodology for automatic summarization of justice decision. We describe LetSum (Legal text Summarizer), a prototype system, which determines the thematic structure of a judgment in four themes INTRODUCTION, CONTEXT, JURIDICAL ANALYSIS and CONCLUSION. Then it identifies the relevant sentences for each theme. We discuss the evaluation of p...

The Church is synodal, which implies, from a participatory ecclesiology, the co-re- sponsibility of all faithful. In this perspective, qualification bodies proposed by Code Canon Law as «only consultative» problem- atic for modern democratic sensibility. After evoking anchoring synodality in mystery Church, author recalls that concept alludes both to style, habitus, and processes institutions i...