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Dr. Gould Receives U.S. Supreme Court Fellowship

February 2006, Dr. Jon Gould was offered the position of U.S. Supreme Court Fellow. The Supreme Court Fellows Program was created in 1973 by the late Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to provide promising individuals a first-hand understanding of the federal government, in particular, the judicial branch. In the words of Chief Justice Rehnquist, the program offers a, “unique opportunity for exceptional individuals to contribute to the administration of justice at the national level.”

Each year fellows work with top officials in the judicial branch of government. With assignments at the Supreme Court, the Federal Judicial Center, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, fellows have been involved in various projects examining the federal judicial process and seeking, proposing, and implementing solutions to problems in the administration of justice.

Dr. Gould Receives National Book Award

Dr. Gould has received the Law and Society Association’s Herbert Jacob Book Prize for his book, Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Legislation. He received this award at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in Baltimore on July 8th, 2006.

The Herbert Jacob Book Prize is a biennial award given in the name of a distinguished law and society scholar and past president of the LSA. The competition is open to books from virtually all fields and approaches to law and society scholarship. The prize recognizes new, outstanding work in the field. This year’s winners were selected from a field of forty nine nominated books.

Dr. Gallagher Publishes New Article

Dr. Gallagher’s article, “Facility-Level Characteristics Associated with Serious Suicide Attempts and Deaths from Suicide in Juvenile Justice Residential Facilities” will be published in the June 2006 issue of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, a journal published by The American Association of Suicidology.

The article, co-written by Dr. Adam Dobrin, uses data from two censuses of juvenile justice facilities to explore which facilities face a high risk of suicide attempts and deaths from suicide based on facility characteristics such as, population size, type of facility, whether the facility is run by the government or a private organization, the average length of stay, types of security measures, crowding, the use of restraints, and the availability of on-site mental health screenings.