RACIST TORTURE AND THE CODE OF SILENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
John Hagan ◽  
Bill McCarthy ◽  
Daniel Herda
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Social System ◽  
Structural Theory ◽  
Legal Cynicism ◽  
Code Of Silence ◽  
Criminal Charges ◽  
Legal Equality ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
Chicago Police

Abstract We join Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s structural theory of the racialized U.S. social system with a situational methodology developed by Arthur L. Stinchcombe and Irving Goffman to analyze how law works as a mechanism that connects formal legal equality with legal cynicism. The data for this analysis come from the trial of a Chicago police detective, Jon Burge, who as leader of an infamous torture squad escaped criminal charges for more than thirty years. Burge was finally charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, charges that obscured and perpetuated the larger structural reality of a code of silence that enabled racist torture of more than a hundred Black men. This case study demonstrates how the non-transparency of courtroom sidebars plays an important role in perpetuating systemic features of American criminal injustice: a code of silence, racist discrimination, and legal cynicism.

scholarly journals Preventing Violent Encounters Between Police and Young Black Men: A Comparative Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. S88-S94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda Jones-Webb ◽  
Collin Calvert ◽  
Sonya S. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Comparative Case Study

scholarly journals The role of conservation physiology in mitigating social-ecological traps in wildlife-provisioning tourism: a case study of feeding stingrays in the Cayman Islands

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Christina A.D. Semeniuk
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Physiological Indicators ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Effective Selection

In feeding marine wildlife, tourists can impact animals in ways that are not immediately apparent (i.e. morbidity vs. mortality/reproductive failure). Inventorying the health status of wildlife with physiological indicators can provide crucial information on the immediate status of organisms and long-term consequences. However, because tourists are attempting to maximize their own satisfaction, encouraging the willingness to accept management regulations also requires careful consideration of the human dimensions of the system. Without such socio-ecological measures, the wildlife-tourism system may fall into a trap—a lose–lose situation where the pressure imposed by the social system (tourist expectations) has costs for the ecological system (maladaptive behaviours, health), which in turn feed back into the social system (shift in tourist typography, loss of revenue, decreased satisfaction), resulting in the demise of both systems (exhaustion). Effective selection and communication of physiological metrics of wildlife health is key to minimizing problem-causing and problem-enhancing feedbacks in social-ecological systems. This guiding principle is highlighted in the case study presented here on the socio-ecological research and management success of feeding southern stingrays (Hypanus americanus) as a marine tourism attraction at Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Situation Understanding for Operational Art in Cyber Operations

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuija Kuusisto ◽  
Rauno Kuusisto ◽  
Wolfgang Roehrig
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social System ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
System Modeling ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Capability Development ◽  
Emergent Phenomena ◽  
Operational Art

This paper presents a theoretically motivated framework and methodology that has been designed for finding out the emergent phenomena and information needs for planning and decision-making. The approach is based on complexity thinking, system modeling, communication and cognition philosophy, social system theories and content analysis research technique. It provides results with the analysis of quite small sets of information. The paper demonstrates the approach with a case study. The study was performed in an international cyber experiment of the Multinational Capability Development Campaign (MCDC) 2013-2014. The case study shows that the proposed approach is plausible for increasing understanding about complex situations. This is needed in operational art for creating such compositions and resources that enable success in military operations.

“But I Know How to Google”

2020 ◽  
pp. 305-333
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hostetler ◽  
Kim Pinckney-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Social System ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Learner Analysis ◽  
The Social

An up-front analysis is crucial to ensuring a need is learning-related and the resulting intervention actually meets that need for learners. The current case study explores how two instructional designers adopted a systems approach for their performance analysis, with a major focus on learner analysis as a means to understand the underpinnings of the social system within the client organization, which more clearly revealed potential motivations of the learners. As a result, the two designers delivered an eLearning module that 1) combats an actual gap in knowledge and skill, 2) is relevant to the intended audience, and 3) is compatible with the organizational culture and infrastructure.

Length of Time to Resolve Criminal Charges of Child Sexual Abuse: A Three-County Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy A. Walsh ◽  
Tonya Lippert ◽  
Meredyth Goldberg Edelson ◽  
Lisa M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Criminal Charges

scholarly journals Society Survival in Areas Prone to Landslides in the Village of North Tandikek Patamuan Sub-District, Padang Pariaman District

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Al Fajri Yusra ◽  
Erianjoni Erianjoni
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Structural Theory ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Research Types ◽  
The Village ◽  
Selection Of

This research is motivated to find out the survival of the Society survival in areas prone to landslides In The Village Of North TandikekPatamuan Sub-District, Padang Pariaman District. Research location in the village of North Tandikek. This research uses qualitative approaches with case study research types, data collection techniques by observation, interviews and documentation.The selection of informant is done by Purposive Sampling. The Analysis of this research uses functional structural theory by Talcott Parsoons AGIL. The results of the research are that (1). The reasons for society to stay in the research site are: a). Environmental Factors, b) Economic Factors, c) Social Cultural Factors, d) Education Factors. (2). Society strategies for survival in landslide prone areas that is: a). Looking for a safe haven b). Greening empty land c). Mutual Cooperatin

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