Social Issues

University Library Leads Way To Providing Long Term Open Access to Public Policy Research

Aug. 22, 2008 — Becoming part of what is expected to become the largest online repository of public policy research in the world was an easy choice, says David Lewis, Dean of the IUPUI University Library.   Full Story

Chronic Lead Poisoning From Urban Soils: Could Water Cure A Public Health Menace in the U.S.?

Aug. 19, 2008 — Chronic lead poisoning, caused in part by the ingestion of contaminated dirt, affects hundreds of thousands more children in the United States than the acute lead poisoning associated with imported toys or jewelry. Could treating contaminated soil with water prevent this public health scourge?   Full Story

Professor Bravo’s Course Recognized by National Anti-Trafficking Organization

Aug. 15, 2008 — A class designed and taught by Karen E. Bravo, Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, has been recognized nationally as a model for integrating the subject of human trafficking into the higher education syllabus.   Full Story

Proposal from Social Work Prof and Colleagues Wins Second Life Grant

Aug. 6, 2008 — A proposal by Indiana University School of Social Work Professor Robert Vernon and several colleagues from around the globe, is among three projects that have been awarded grants from the University of California Annenberg School of Communication as part of its "Second Life and the Public Good Community Challenge."   Full Story

New Associate Dean at School of Social Work is a “social worker to her soul.”

July 24, 2008 — Indiana University School of Social Work Dean Michael Patchner has announced Dr. Virginia Majewski will become the Associate Dean of the School this academic year.

Crystal Garcia

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Evaluation of Criminal Justice Technologies, Programs, & Policies

• Community Corrections

• Crime Policy

• Juvenile Justice

• Responses to School Violence

• The Death Penalty

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Consultant, San Diego County Probation Department, Evaluation and Outcome Measures, 1994-1995.

• Research Associate and Consultant, Rand Corporation, 1994-1995.

• Junior Systems Analyst, Orange County Legal Aid Society, 1992.

• Booking and Records Clerk, San Diego County Probation Department- Juvenile Hall, 1992-1995.

• Student Worker/Custody Officer, San Diego County Probation Department-Juvenile Hall, 1987-1992.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Society of Criminology

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

• Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Garcia, Crystal A. (2006). Research Report and Preliminary Recommendations: Ex-Offender Transitional Employment Project. Submitted to Workforce, Inc.

• Garcia, Crystal A. (2004). Realistic Expectations: Constructing a Mission-Based Evaluation Model for Community Corrections, Criminal Justice Policy Review, 15:3, 251-269.

• Ziemba-Davis, Mary, Myers, Brent L. & Garcia, Crystal A. (2004). Indiana State Report - The Social Ecology of Murder in Indiana. Submitted to Governor Joe Kernan.

• Ziemba-Davis, Mary, Garcia, Crystal A., Kincaid, Nicole L., Gullans, Katalina, & Myers, Brent L. (2004). Indiana State Report - What About Girls in Indiana's Juvenile Justice System? Submitted to Governor Joe Kernan.

• Garcia, Crystal A., Sheila S. Kennedy and Barbara Lawrence. (2003). Picturing Powerlessness: Digital Photography, Domestic Violence and the Fight over Victim Autonomy. Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy, 25:1, 1-19.

• Garcia, Crystal A. and Sheila S. Kennedy. (2003). Back to School: Technology, School Safety and the Disappearing Fourth Amendment, Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. Winter, 273-288.

• Garcia, Crystal A. (2003). Digital Photographic Evidence and the Adjudication of Domestic Violence Cases, Journal of Criminal Justice, 31:6, 579-587.

• Garcia, Crystal A. (2003). School Safety Technology in America: Current Use and Perceived Effectiveness, Criminal Justice Policy Review, 14:1, 30-54.

• Sapp, Dona and Crystal A. Garcia. Perceptions of Services Provided to Local Coordinating Councils by Regional Community Consultants. Final Report to the Governor's Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana, a division of the Indiana Criminal justice Institute, September 2003.

• Garcia, Crystal A. (2000). Using Palmer's Global Approach to Evaluate ISP: Implications for Practice, Corrections Management Quarterly, (4)4:460-469

• Blitzer, Herbert, Michael Bone, Frank Bowman, Crystal Garcia, Jeffrey Huang, Jack Jacobia, James Kidd, William Lin, Jose Ramos, Jack Rubak, Leigha Stroud, and Suzali Suyut. (2002). Surveillance Tools for Safer Schools. Final Report to the National Institute of Justice, award #1999-LT-VX-K011.

• Garcia, Crystal A. (2000). Using Palmer's Global Approach to Evaluate ISP: Implications for Practice, Corrections Management Quarterly, (4)4:460-469

• Blitzer, Herb, Garcia, Crystal A. and Amy Leitch. (2000). A Picture Says it All. Law Enforcement Technology. June.

• Garcia, Crystal A. The Impact of Photographic Evidence on Domestic Violence Case Processing. Institute for Forensic Imaging, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN. September,1999.

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

• Graduate - Criminal Justice Policy and Evaluation

• Undergraduate - Crime and Public Policy

• Undergraduate - Corrections

• Undergraduate - Juvenile Justice

• Undergraduate - The American Criminal Justice System

John Krauss

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Intergovernmental relations

• Local and state government

• Conflict resolution

• Economic development

• Indianapolis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Attorney, admitted to the Indiana and District of Columbia Bars, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court

• Certified Mediator by the Indiana Supreme Court

• Deputy Mayor of Indianapolis from 1982 to 1991

• Director, Department of Metropolitan Development

• Executive Director, Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC)

• Special Assistant to Indiana Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Director, Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

• Associate, Kettering Foundation

• Project Director, Indiana Gaming Commission

• Mediator and a Fact Finder, Indiana Education Employment Relations Board (IEERB)

• Member, Roster of Mediators for the U.S. Postal Service

• Member, Panel of External Mediators for the Transportation Security Administration, US Dept. of Homeland Security

• Member, Roster of Neutrals for the Internal Revenue Service - Office for Appeals

• Member, Commercial Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association

• Member, Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators, National Arbitration Forum

• Certified Mediator for Education Disputes by the Justice Center of Atlanta

• Public Arbitrator, NSAD Dispute Resolution Board of Arbitrators and the New York Stock Exchange

• Professional Mediator, Medicare Beneficiary Complaint Mediation Program

• Special Mediator for the Indiana Attorney General

• Practitioner Member, Association for Conflict Resolution

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

• SPEA - Dispute Resolution

• SPEA - Law and public policy

• IU School of Law - Conflict resolution

• IU School of Law - Mediation

RECENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES

• President, Board of Governors and Trustee, Indianapolis Museum of Art

• Chairman and Commissioner, Indiana Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education

• Board of Governors, Orchard School, Indianapolis (Secretary and Executive Committee Member)

• Trustee Emeritus, Partners for Livable Communities, Washington, DC

• Board of Advisors, Center on Intellectual Property and Innovation - IU School of Law - Indianapolis

• Vice Chairman, Tourism for Tomorrow, Inc.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Who's Who in America

• Who's Who in the World

• Who's Who in the Midwest

• Department of the Army, Commander's Award for Public Service

Sheila Kennedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Executive Director, Indiana Civil Liberties Union 1992- 1998

• President, Kennedy Development Services 1987-92

• Partner, Mears Crawford Kennedy & Eichholtz 1980-86

• Republican Candidate, 11th Congressional District 1980

• Corporation Counsel, City of Indianapolis 1977-80

• Associate Attorney, Baker & Daniels 1975-77

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Indiana State Bar Association

• Indiana Leadership Celebration

• American Political Science Association

• Midwest Political Science Association

• Academy of Political Science

• American Society for Public Administration

• Indiana Society for Public Administration

• Law & Society Association

• Society of Professional Journalists

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

• Standing Panel on Social Equity, National Academy of Public Administration

MAJOR FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Charitable Choice

• Civil Liberties/Civil Rights

• Religion and Public Policy

• Nonprofit organizations

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Books

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Wolfgang Bielefeld. Charitable Choice at Work: Faith-Based Job Training in the States. (Georgetown University Press, 2006.)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. Pickin' Fights with Thunderstorms. C.S.Kern Publishing, 2005.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Ingrid Ritchie. To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis. University Press of America, 2001.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Free Expression in America: A Documentary History." Greenwood Press, 1999.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "What's a Nice Republican Girl Like Me

Doing at the ACLU?" Prometheus Books, 1997.

Book Chapters

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "The ACLU" and "Checks and Balances" in the Encyclopedia of the United States (forthcoming).

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "Religious Paradigms and the Rule of Law: Thinking in Red and Blue" in Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Austin Sarat, series editor. (forthcoming, Elsevier Science Inc.).

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Laura S. Jensen. "Outsourcing Patriotism: Privatization, Sovereignty and War." Transatlantic Public Policy Series, Vol. 2. Transaction Publishers, N.J. 2006.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "The Poor You Have Always With You: The Problem of the Sturdy Beggar" in Essays on Indiana Legal History. Bodenhamer, David and Randall Shepard, editors. Ohio University Press, 2006. pp.90-109.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess and Laura Jensen. "Government Ethics and Constitutional Accountability" in George G. Frederickson and Richard K. Ghere, Ethics in Public Management. M.E. Sharpe, 2005

Kennedy, Sheila Suess. "Government Shekels and Government Shackles Revisited: Questions for Church and State." In Exploring Black Philanthropy: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, No. 48. Patrick Rooney, and Lois Sherman, eds. Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "The Bill of Rights," "The Incorporation Doctrine," "Congress and Civil Liberties," and "Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire" in the Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties (2004)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Indiana." in Legal Systems of the World: a Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara. (2003)

Kennedy, Sheila Suess, "Writing in Service of Thought." in Writing in the Arts, Sciences and Professional Schools at IUPUI, IUPUI Office of Campus Writing, (2002).

COURSES TAUGHT

• SPEA V540 Law and Public Affairs

• SPEA V376 Law and Public Policy

• SPEA V450/V550 Community and the Constitution

• SPEA V260 Sin and Crime

• SPEA V450/V550 Mass Media and Public Affairs

• SPEA V450/V550 Classic Confrontation: Policy Then and Now

SERVICE

• Regular columnist for Indianapolis Star, Indiana Word

• Associate Editor, Policy Sciences

• Indiana Advisory Committee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

• Co-chair, City-County Council Caucus 2003 Transition Team

• Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee Race Relations Advisory Council

• Board, Marion County Mental Health Assn.

• Board, American Values Alliance

• Steering Committee, Lawyers Council of the ACLU of Indiana

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• Johnson Award for Best Paper in Ethics and Accountability, 2005

• Champion of Liberty Award from the Marion County Libertarians, 2004

• Building Bridges of Understanding Award from Indy Choruses, 2004

• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004

• Citation of Excellence, Emerald Management Independent Review Board

• IUPUI's Outstanding Female Faculty (one of 47), 2002

• Who's Who in America 2002

• Jencks Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Law in Indiana (2002)

• Indiana Liberty Award, Lambda Legal Defense (2001)

• American Library Association, 30th Anniversary Roll of Honor, Office for Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read Foundation (1999)