Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Abstract
This study takes a life span developmental communicative approach to examine the relationships between communication competency, humor orientation, and relational satisfaction in the older adult parent-adult child dyad when the parent has been diagnosed with cancer. Results indicate that communication competency is associated with humor orientation and relational satisfaction while humor itself may operate in more complex ways within the family cancer context. As predicted, communication competency had a significantly positive correlation with both humor orientation and relational satisfaction. Humor orientation was not significantly correlated with relational satisfaction. Content analysis of open-ended data revealed that discussing diagnosis and treatment procedures with children was often a satisfying conversation whereas withholding information had an adverse affect. The discussion of parents' feelings during the cancer period was complex. Humor was often used as a coping or relief function for discussing side effects of cancer treatment.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In the historical present, U.S. governance strategies are often noted for their undeniable reliance on strategies of confinement and detention. This talk explores the significance of these strategies for youth in the U.S. As many know, U.S. justice systems are connected to continuing patterns of racial inequality. Trying youth as adults is one example where the state’s violent force perpetuates this inequality. In this talk, I place this practice within the range of governance tactics associated with juvenile justice systems. Using the youth tried as an adult as the limit point, I explore how regimes of rehabilitation, diversion, and control act alongside one another to produce gradations of citizenship and secure the normative prerequisites of the populace.

To do so, this talk explores the history of youth tried as adults in Seattle. I argue that the adult-youth represents the life that cannot be lived since its capacities for democratic inclusion are extinguished even before the realization of democratic citizenship. Yet, I also argue that this practice is connected to the more benevolently intentioned practices of the juvenile court. The violent, coercive exclusion associated with imprisonment—what some have called ‘thanopolitical’ technologies for upholding the death of the subject—are thus part and parcel of the biopolitical governance of youth. Today is the culmination of this tendency within the juvenile court rather than an unfortunate detour from equality. Thus, the contemporary geographies of citizenship enforced by imprisonment depend upon a range of liberal rationalities of governance.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: A national survey of 322 television and newspaper journalists found that only one in 20 considered those over 60 their most important audience. Nearly three in four journalists said it is important to present news to it appeals to young adults and nine in ten said young adults prefer online news to print. Only 7% said young adults won’t follow the news. Significant differences emerged between broadcast and print journalists, and between reporters and others.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Though a few prior studies compare the correctional experiences of adolescents incarcerated in juvenile and adult facilities, we know very little about the post-release experiences of these youth. In this paper, I compare the experiences of comparable young adults who have been released from juvenile correctional facilities and adult correctional facilities across two neighboring northeastern states. I pay particular attention to whether transfer to criminal court and incarceration in an adult facility stigmatizes youth beyond the marginalization experienced by those in the juvenile justice system.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper examines the viability of studying life course criminality issues of the onset of offending, persistence and chronic criminality among adult populations. Sampson and Laub have argued that important information on these issues can be gleaned from tracking people into middle and later stages of their lives. Using data for a population of both men and women from the combined files of juvenile police records, young adult police and court records, and subject interviews, this study underscores the declining significance of age in the study of desistance.