Via LLRX.com – Juror Behavior in the Information Age: Ken Strutin focuses on the impact of social media on jurors who increasingly try to stay connected to work and home while performing their civic duty, and the resulting impact of the power of individual jurors to virtualize a trial by going online. His article collects recent and notable examples of juror online misbehavior and highlights scholarship and practice resources concerning its implications for voir dire, trial management and the administration of justice.
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Daily Archives: December 26, 2010
Deepwater Horizons Final Hours Documented with Charts, Photos, and Testimony
Follow up to previous postings on the Deepwater oil spill via the NYT: Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours: “Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.” Video and graphic and Photo slideshow – Firestorm Aboard… Continue Reading
NPR Interactive Map: The Economy Where You Live
“The fallout from the recession has cut deeply into the housing security, employment and income of many Americans. But some parts of the country are clearly faring better than others. Here, three interactive maps – Foreclosure Rates | Unemployment Rates | Median Household Income | show foreclosure and jobless rates as well as household income… Continue Reading
Center Presents New Approach to Improve the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs
News release: “Georgetown Public Policy Institutes Center for Juvenile Justice Reform released a paper titled Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice…The paper is co-authored by Mark W. Lipsey, James C. Howell, Marion R. Kelly, Gabrielle Chapman, and Darin Carver. The paper presents a new approach to evidence-based practice… Continue Reading
Links to Free Kindle Books
Free Kindle Books: A Guide, by Lauren Indvik “Project Gutenberg: 33,000 free e-books, including all of the classics, available in Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. Google E-Bookstore: The free section is filled with thousands of free, scanned copies of books, available in Kindle-friendly PDF formats. Internet Archive: Millions of primarily rare, out-of-print works in… Continue Reading
Principles and Guidelines for Deficit Reduction -The Roosevelt Institute
Principles and Guidelines for Deficit Reduction, Joseph E. Stiglitz | The Roosevelt Institute, December 2010 “Median income has declined by some 5% over the past decadeand was even in decline before the recession. Poverty has increased from 11.9% in 1999 to 14.3% in 2009.1 Median income of males with only a high school education has… Continue Reading
Obama Administration Releases December Housing Scorecard
News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury [December 22, 2010] released the December edition of the Obama Administrations Housing Scorecard. The latest housing figures show continued home affordability in the housing market, with interest rates near record lows, but the market remains fragile, as… Continue Reading
Senior Supervisors Group Issues Report on Risk Appetite Frameworks and IT Infrastructure
Federal Reserve Bank of New York: “Senior financial supervisors from ten countries collectively, the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) issued a report on December 23, 2010 that evaluates how financial institutions have progressed in developing formal risk appetite frameworks and in building out highly developed IT infrastructures and firm wide data aggregation capabilities. The… Continue Reading
Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants
Urban Institute – Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration – Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants, Elizabeth T. Boris, Erwin de Leon, Katie L. Roeger, Milena Nikolova, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, October 2010: “The recession crippled the budgets of many nonprofits just as demand for their services rose.… Continue Reading
