Legal education for prisoners integrates the goal of protecting prisoners' rights with correctional education goals. Legal education benefits from the resources in prison law libraries and high student motivation. Special problems include unrealistic prisoner goals and expectations and lack of necessary basic skills. (Author/CH)

Reviews recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decisions involve student rights, the Gramm-Rudman budget law, homosexuals' right to privacy, the regulation of state primary elections, pregnancy and employment policy, Miranda Rights, and the legality of certain police searches. (JDH)

Educators, mental-health officials, and law-enforcement officers often do not share information about troubled students because they are confused by what they can disclose under complex and overlapping privacy laws, according to a report on the Virginia Tech shootings. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and two other Bush cabinet secretaries…

The role of an international clearinghouse or archive in controlling information on stolen art, the problems that must be solved in order to organize such an archive, and the rules that might be established to ensure the full international cooperation needed for its success are examined. (JMD)

After 14 years of decline, cities across the nation are reporting spikes in crime rates, which many law enforcement officials attribute to decreased federal spending on crime prevention and more juveniles becoming involved in violent crimes. This report highlights the "after-school" gap: 20-25 hours per week that children are out of…

This report examines the effects that the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment will have on laws concerning women. The amendment's impacts on divorced, married, and employed women, on women in the military and in school, and on women dependent on pensions, insurance, and social security are all analyzed. A discussion of the Constitutional…

An overview of recent court decisions on prayer in public schools is followed by brief synopses of cases in nine areas concerning primary and secondary levels and four areas concerning higher education. Finally, law review articles on federal and state issues are summarized. (MD)

Traces the evolution of the concept of informed consent and discusses its implications for social work practice. Devotes particular attention to legal statutes and case law with which social workers need to be acquainted to protect client rights and to avoid being held liable for malpractice or negligence. (Author/ABL)

In New Jersey vs. T.L.O. (1985) the Supreme Court clarified and limited the student's Fourth Amendment rights against "unreasonable searches and seizures." When school officials act alone and on their own authority, they need not obtain a warrant but may conduct a search based on the lesser standard of "reasonableness." (LHW)

Examines factors influencing socialization of foreign students enrolled in United States law schools. Discusses emotional problems commonly experienced by foreign law students and difficulties they may have in adjusting to American culture, finding a meaningful role in law student community, adjusting to and being socialized through law school…

Notes that state courts may provide avenues for law reform litigation. Focuses on litigation campaigns, summarizing potential roles of social workers in conceptualizing, planning, and pursuing such campaigns and in monitoring and protecting reforms achieved through such campaigns. References are made throughout to examples of social work roles in…

This packet contains summaries of issues concerning provisions of law affecting victims and their involvement in the criminal justice system. The packet opens by stating that unless victims and witnesses come forward and report criminal activity to law enforcement authorities and are subsequently willing to testify and endure cross-examination in…

Reviews recent court decisions regarding whether individuals with contagious diseases may be barred from public schools. Devotes specific attention to the issue of whether certain communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) can be classified as handicaps and thereby qualify a person for protection…

Notes campus alcohol abuse presents campus administrators with a myriad of problems and seemingly conflicting goals. Suggests a systemic campus response, informed by applicable statutes and court decisions. Concludes that colleges are confronted by an urgent opportunity in the field of alcohol awareness. (Author/ABL)

Second article in two-part series on date and acquaintance rape examines modern reforms in rape laws and alternatives to criminal prosecution. Explains the Rape Shield Law, designed to prevent victim's sexual history from being used against her to prove promiscuity, tendency to lie, or low moral character. Other common statutory revisions are…