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Phillipe Copeland; Christopher J. Collins; Shelby D. Pederson; Stephen Tripodi; Matthew W. Epperson – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
This study examined the prevalence and types of criminal justice content being offered in Council on Social Work Education programs. Data were collected through questions sent via e-mail to program administrators and content analysis of school websites for three hundred and eight MSW programs. Criminal justice content was measured in three main…
Descriptors: Social Work, Masters Programs, Program Content, Criminal Law
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Johnson, Royel M.; Alvarado, Rafael E.; Rosinger, Kelly Ochs – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In this study, we examine how the issue of considering criminal history in college admissions is represented and constructed as a problem in Ban the Box (BTB) policies in Maryland and Louisiana. We draw on Bacchi's "What's the Problem Represented to be?" approach as an analytic tool to interrogate key policy artifacts such as legislative…
Descriptors: Criminals, College Admission, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
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Michelle Ronda; Lisa Hale Rose – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Between 70 million and 100 million Americans have a record of interaction with the criminal legal system, a group facing stigma and discrimination in civic participation, housing, employment, and education. Justice-impacted people face collateral consequences in the community, making reentry programs essential to success at…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reentry Students, Community College Students, Criminal Law
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Alexes Harris; Mary Pattillo; Bryan L. Sykes – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Monetary sanctions, also known as legal financial obligations (LFOs), are a highly consequential yet underexplored element of the criminal legal system. LFOs consist of fines, fees, costs, restitution, surcharges, and other financial penalties that are imposed on individuals when they encounter the criminal legal system. Drawing on data from a…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Punishment, Debt (Financial), Criminal Law
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Escaname, Rogelio; Flores, Luis; Flores, Sylvia; Fuentes, Jorge; Martinez, Alan Herrera; Garcia, Iraselia; Mora, Vanessa – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The following research will assist in better understanding if gender, major, and technology use influences success rates among the Latino-ethnic undergraduate students in a Hispanic Serving Institution. The site chosen to be studied was located in a southern region of Texas and in a highly impoverished area. A previously administered instrument…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Colleges, Undergraduate Students
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Sapouna, Maria – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
The patchwork text is an assessment method whereby students produce and share short pieces of writing over the course of a module that are subsequently integrated in a final summative piece. This paper reports on the experience of using this method of assessment in a criminal justice module. The objective behind introducing this form of assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Cooperative Learning