Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Launched in January 2005, Bronx Community Solutions (BCS) is an initiative that seeks to apply underlying community court principles, such as a reduced reliance on short-term jail sentences for low-level offenses, throughout a busy, strained urban courthouse serving a population of over 1.3 million (the Bronx Criminal Division). The goal of the project is to provide the courts with increased sentencing options for non-violent offenses such as drug possession, prostitution, and shoplifting, and to systematically connect offenders to social services that may help them address underlying and complex social problems. By combining punishment (community service) with help (drug treatment, job training, counseling), Bronx Community Solutions seeks to increase compliance rates and decrease recidivism rates among participants. Program participants represent approximately 23% of misdemeanant arrestees in the Bronx in 2005 and 2006. A quasi-experimental design was implemented, comparing participants to similarly situated defendants processed prior to program implementation. Samples were matched on court processing, demographic and criminal history characteristics. Analyses consider: 1: How trends in sentencing, compliance, and recidivism vary in the Bronx between 2004 and 2006, and 2. whether or not, and how, compliance and/or recidivism rates differ between BCS and non-BCS misdemeanant offenders during this time period. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion of substantive and applied implications of the findings.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The parable of the tragedy of the commons tells that resources held under open access conditions are prone to over-exploitation. For fisheries, regulations to limit aggregate catch improve resource use yet in turn promote over-investment or a ‘race for fish.’ An optimal regulatory regime would limit the investments and labor dedicated to harvesting. While within a country limiting investment is more difficult than setting catch limits, achievement of either objective in global forums is quite rare.
Motivated by three reasons, the member-states of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission have attempted this difficult task, in addition to implementing other conservation measures, for the purse-seine yellowfin fishery. First, increases in fishing capacity by existing participants and newcomers have resulted in financial losses for the major fleets. Without limits in fishing inputs, this process is likely to continue. Second, the resolution of the tuna-dolphin controversy promises to open markets long protected, thereby encouraging additional harvesting capacity in an already-crowded fishery. Finally, bureaucratic changes in some countries have empowered fishery professionals who balance sustainable resource use with economic development. The strength of these influences, as well as and efforts and concessions to create a regime, vary among the states involved.
The process of negotiations and likely success of international regulation of harvesting capacity in the Eastern Tropical Pacific yellowfin fishery provides a successful example of management of global common property.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper describes the components and criteria for conceptualization and measurement in comparative qualitative research in order to use these criteria to analyze the RNGS ( Research Network on Gender Politics and the State) conceptualization and measurement of women’s movements and feminism. It also assesses the applicability of the RNGS concepts to other cases and contexts and generally argues for more rigor in applying these concepts to cross-national qualitative analysis.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Proceeding