Indiana General Assembly Research Articles

Medical School Without Walls: 50 Years of Regional Campuses at Indiana University School of Medicine.

The history of Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) dates to 1871, when Indiana Medical College entered into an affiliation with Indiana University in Bloomington to offer medical education. In 1971, the Indiana General Assembly passed a bill to create and fund a distributed model for medical education for which IUSM was responsible, an innovative approach to implementing a statewide medical education program. IUSM became one of the first U.S. medical schools to implement what is today known as a regional medical campus model. This regional medical campus system has permitted IUSM to expand enrollment based on national and local concerns about physician shortages, increase access to care locally, support expansion of graduate medical education, and provide opportunities for research and scholarship by faculty and students statewide. This effort was made possible by partnerships with other universities and health care systems across the state and the support of local community and state leaders. The model is a forward-thinking and cost-effective way to educate physicians for service in the state of Indiana and is applicable to others. This article highlights milestones in IUSM's 50-year history of regional medical education, describes the development of the regional medical campus model, recognizes significant achievements over the years, shares lessons learned, and discusses considerations for the future of medical education.

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An Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017

An Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017

Legislative year in Indiana ends with big wins for pharmacy.

Five pharmacy bills, including 1 allowing partial fills of opioid prescriptions, progressed from the Indiana statehouse to the governor’s desk this year and became law on July 1. Enactment of the 5 bills set a record for the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance, said John B. Hertig, cochair of the organization’s Legislative and Regulatory Task Force. He credited the organization’s record year of legislative success to the staff, the task force, Pharmacy Legislative Day, and pharmacist-legislators Ron Grooms and Steven Davisson. Opioids. “One of the things we wanted to do in Indiana,” Hertig said of the 2017 legislative session, “was align our law with the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, or CARA, where now we’re afforded the opportunity to do . . . partial fills.” Enacted in 2016 after the Indiana General Assembly had adjourned for the year, CARA allows a prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance to be partially filled if that action is not prohibited by state law. The partial fill must be requested by the patient or the prescribing healthcare practitioner.

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Current Opinion in Hematology was launched in 1994. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of hematology is divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Hal E. BroxmeyerHal E. BroxmeyerDr Hal E. Broxmeyer is a distinguished Professor, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Mary Margaret Walther Professor Emeritus, and Co-Leader Program on Hematopoiesis, Malignant Hematology, and Immunology, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, and former Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology and Scientific Director, Walther Oncology Center, at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. From 1975 to 1983, he worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City rising from the rank of Associate Researcher to that of Associate Member. He was also Assistant Professor of Biology, Sloan Kettering Division of Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, USA, before being recruited to the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1983 as an Associate Professor of Medicine. To date, he has published 764 scientific papers (527 refereed papers and 237 Reviews/Book Chapters). Dr Broxmeyer's laboratory studies mechanisms regulating hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell, embryonic stem cell and induced pluripotent stem cell: proliferation, self-renewal, survival, differentiation and migration (homing/mobilization) and he was involved in establishing the field of cord blood transplantation. Dr Broxmeyer has been the recipient of numerous awards since the 1970's. The more recently include Indiana University School of Medicine Alumni Association (2008); State of Indiana General Assembly House Resolution No. 46 (2008); Mission Advancement Award, Leukemia Lymphoma Society (2008); Cord Blood Pioneering Award, Int. Cord Blood Symposium (2008); Till and McCullough Award, Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group (2010); Donald Metcalf Award, Int. Soc. Expt. Hematol. (2011); Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2013); and Honorary Professorship, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (2014). Dr Broxmeyer is a Past President of the American Society of Hematology (ASH; 2010), past President of the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH, 1990, 1991), past Chairman, and member, Board of Scientific Councilors, National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI/NASA, 1998–2006), and Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors, National Disease Research Interchange, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Ari MelnickAri MelnickAri Melnick, MD, is the Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology and a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City, USA. He is Chair of the Hematologic Malignancies Program of the Weill Cornell Cancer Center and is also Director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Center for Biomedical and Physical Sciences and Director of the Epigenomics Core Facility, both of which are at WCMC. Dr Melnick was raised in Argentina and received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hematology/oncology, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, USA. Dr Melnick's research interests include the biology and molecular targeting of B-cell lymphomas, targeting transcriptional and epigenetic repressors for cancer therapy, and identifying the epigenetic basis of hematologic malignancies. He and his research associates have also developed novel therapies to correct aberrant transcriptional regulation and signaling in these tumors. Dr Melnick has been Scientific Chair of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting and has organized several meetings in the areas of epigenetics and hematologic malignancies. Dr Melnick is a past ASH Faculty Scholar and Kimmel Foundation Scholar, and he has been recognized for this work by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. He is also co-leader of the New York Leukemia Working Group. Dr Melnick has authored or coauthored more than 150 published manuscripts in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Cancer Cell, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Recent Developments in Indiana Taxation Survey 2014

This Article highlights the major tax developments that occurred during the calendar year of 2014. Whenever the term “GA” is used in this Article, the term refers only to the 118th Indiana General Assembly. Whenever the term “Tax Court” is referred to, such term refers only to the Indiana Tax Court. Whenever the term “Court of Appeals” is referred to, the term refers only to the Indiana Court of Appeals. Whenever the term “DLGF” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance. Whenever the term “IBTR” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Board of Tax Review. Whenever the term “Department” or “DOR” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Department of State Revenue. Whenever the term “Ind. Code” or “Indiana Code” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Code, which is in effect at the time of the publication of this Article, unless otherwise explicitly stated. Whenever the term “ERA” is used, the term only refers to an Indiana Economic Revitalization Area. Whenever the term “CAGIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Adjusted Gross Income Tax. Whenever the term “COIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “LOIT” is used, the term refers only to the Local Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “IEDC” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Whenever the term “CEDIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Economic Development Income Taxes. Whenever the term “IRC” is used, the term refers only to the Internal Revenue Code, which is in effect at the time of the publication of this Article. Whenever the term “section” is used in this Article, the term refers only to a section of the Indiana Code, unless the reference is clearly to the Internal Revenue Code. Whenever the term “Public Law” is used, the term only refers to legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly and assigned a Public Law number. Whenever the term “PTABOA” is used, the term refers only to a Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

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Recent Developments in Indiana Taxation Survey 2012

This Article highlights the major tax developments that occurred during the calendar year of 2012. Whenever the term “GA” is used in this Article, the term refers only to the 117th Indiana General Assembly. Whenever the term “Tax Court” is referred to, such term refers only to the Indiana Tax Court. Whenever the term “Court of Appeals” is referred to, the term refers only to the Indiana Court of Appeals. Whenever the term “Supreme Court” is referred to, the term refers only to the Indiana Supreme Court. Whenever the term “DLGF” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance. Whenever the term “IBTR” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Board of Tax Review. Whenever the terms “Department” or “DOR” are used, these terms refer only to the Indiana Department of State Revenue. Whenever the terms “IC” or “Indiana Code” are used in the Article, these terms refer only to the Indiana Code in effect at the time of the publication of this Article, unless otherwise explicitly stated. Whenever the term “ERA” is used, the term refers only to an Indiana Economic Revitalization Area. Whenever the term “CAGIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Adjusted Gross Income Tax. Whenever the term “COIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “LOIT” is used, the term refers only to the Local Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “IEDC” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Whenever the term “CEDIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Economic Development Income Taxes. Whenever the terms “IRC” or “Code” are used, these terms refer only to the Internal Revenue Code in effect at the time of the publication of this Article. Whenever the term “Section” is used in this Article, the term only refers to a section of the Indiana Code, unless it is a reference to the Internal Revenue Code. Whenever the term “Public Law” is used, the term only refers to legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly and assigned a Public Law number. Whenever the term “PTABOA” is used, the term refers only to a Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Hematology was launched in 1994. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of hematology is divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Hal BroxmeyerHal BroxmeyerDr Hal Broxmeyer is a distinguished Professor, Chairman and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Medicine, Mary Margaret Walther Professor Emeritus, Co-Leader Program on Hematopoiesis, Leukemia, and Immunology, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, and former Scientific Director, Walther Oncology Center, at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He received a BS degree, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA in 1966, an MS degree from Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, USA, in 1969 and a PhD from New York University, USA, in 1973. He did post-doctoral training in 1973–1975 at Kingston General Hospital, Queens University Kingston, Ontario, Canada. From 1975–1983 he worked at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City rising from the ranks of Associate Researcher to that of Associate Member. He was also Assistant Professor of Biology, Sloan Kettering Division of Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, USA, before being recruited to the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1983 as an Associate Professor of Medicine. To date, he has published 700 scientific papers (487 refereed papers and 213 Reviews/Book Chapters). Broxmeyer's laboratory studies mechanisms regulating hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell, and embryonic stem cell: proliferation, self-renewal, survival, differentiation and migration (homing/mobilization); and immune cell activities. He was involved in establishing the field of cord blood transplantation. Dr Broxmeyer's Awards include: New York University Founders Day Award (1973); Mellor Award (2nd prize 1976; 1st prize 1977) and Boyer Award (1983) from MSKCC; Special Fellow (1976–1978) and Scholar Award (1978–1983) from the Leukemia Lymphoma Society; Merit Award, National Cancer Institute (1987–1995); Variety Club Award (1992 and 1993), Indiana; Gold Medal of City of Paris (1993); World of Difference Award, Indiana Health Industry Forum (1997); Who's Who in Health Care, Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) (2002); Health Care Heroes Award, IBJ (2002); Karl Landsteiner Award, American Association of Blood Banks (2002); Prestigious External Award Recognition, IUPUI (2003); Distinguished Alumni Award, Long Island University (2005); Joseph T. Taylor Excellence in Diversity Award, Indiana University (2006); Dirk van Bekkum Award, Autologous Blood and Bone Marrow Society (2006); E. Donnall Thomas Prize and Lecture, American Society of Hematology (2007); Glenn W. Irwin Jr. M.D., Distinguished Faculty Award, Indiana University School of Medicine Alumni Association (2008); and State of Indiana General Assembly House Resolution No. 46 (2008); Mission Advancement Award, Leukemia Lymphoma Society (2008); Cord Blood Pioneering Award, Int. Cord Blood Symposium (2008); Till and McCullough Award, Canadian Bone Marrow Transplant Group (2010); and Donald Metcalf Award, Int. Soc. Expt. Hematol. (2011). Dr Broxmeyer is President of the American Society of Hematology (ASH; 2010), past President of the International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH, 1990, 1991), past Chairman, and member, Board of Scientific Councilors, National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI/NASA, 1998–2006), and Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors, National Disease Research Interchange, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Nancy BerlinerNancy BerlinerDr Berliner is Chief of Hematology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She received her medical degree from Yale Medical School. She then obtained training as a Resident in Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Chief Resident, and Hematology Fellow at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine for over 20 years, where she rose through the ranks to Professor of Internal Medicine and Genetics. She has broad clinical interests in both classical hematology and hematologic malignancies. Her research is focused on the regulation of neutrophil-specific gene expression and its disruption in myelodysplasia and acute leukemia. She received the Stohlman Prize from the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society of America. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Blood, the European Journal of Hematology, the American Journal of Hematology, and Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America. She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Interurban Clinical Club, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was President of the American Society of Hematology in 2009 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2010.

Recent Developments in Indiana Taxation Survey 2011

This Article highlights the major tax developments that occurred during the calendar year of 2011. Whenever the term “GA” is used in this Article, the term refers only to the 117th Indiana General Assembly. Whenever the term “Tax Court” is referred to, such term refers only to the Indiana Tax Court. Whenever the term “Court of Appeals” is referred to, the term refers only to the Indiana Court of Appeals. Whenever the term “DLGF” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance. Whenever the term “IBTR” is used, the terms refers only to the Indiana Board of Tax Review. Whenever the terms “Department” or “DOR” are used, these terms refers only to the Indiana Department of State Revenue. Whenever the terms “IC” or “Indiana Code” are used in this Article, these terms refer only to the Indiana Code in effect at time of the publication of this Article, unless otherwise explicitly stated. Whenever the term “ERA” is used, the term refers only to an Indiana Economic Revitalization Area. Whenever the term “CAGIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Adjusted Gross Income Tax. Whenever the term “COIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “LOIT” is used, the term refers only to the Local Option Income Tax. Whenever the term “IEDC” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Whenever the term “CEDIT” is used, the term refers only to the Indiana County Economic Development Income Taxes. Whenever the terms “IRC” or “Code” are used, these terms refer only to the Internal Revenue Code in effect at the time of the publication of this Article. Whenever the term “section” is used in this Article, the term only refers to a section of the Indiana Code, unless it is a reference to the Internal Revenue Code. Whenever the term “Public Law” is used, the term only refers to legislation passed by the Indiana General Assembly and assigned a Public Law number. Whenever the term “PTABOA” is used, the term refers only to a Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.

If Addiction is a Mental Disease, Let's Start Treating It Like One: An Additional Recommendation for the Indiana General Assembly's Prenatal Substance Abuse Commission

If Addiction is a Mental Disease, Let's Start Treating It Like One: An Additional Recommendation for the Indiana General Assembly's Prenatal Substance Abuse Commission

Through our children's eyes—The public health impact of the vision screening requirements for Indiana school children

Background The vision screening of preschool and school children is a widely accepted procedure to detect vision problems that can interfere with learning. The Indiana General Assembly requires the annual vision screening with the Modified Clinical Technique (MCT) of all children upon their enrollment in either kindergarten or the first grade, with the exception of schools that apply for and receive waivers to conduct only a distance Snellen chart screening. Methods In association with the Indiana State Department of Health, the Indiana University School of Optometry conducted an analysis of statewide school screening data on 36,967 grade 1 children from 139 of the 294 Indiana school corporations that submitted data for the 2000–2001 school year to examine differences in referral rate by screening method, the socioeconomic status of children screened, and academic performance. Results The MCT was used by 125 of the school corporations, and some other technique was used by 14 school corporations. Significant differences were seen when comparing the mean referral rates of school corporations that conduct the MCT against school corporations that do not conduct the MCT ( P = 0.001) and in the rate of referral by median family income of the children screened ( P = 0.050). A median family income of $46,500 was identified as the level at which the income-specific difference in referral rates ceased to be significant ( P = 0.074). In spite of an observed tendency toward a higher referral rate for children who performed below average on the standardized Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP+) exam, results were found to be not significant ( P = 0.116) when comparing the percentage of grade 1 children referred to an eye care provider in 2000–2001 with their percentages of passing both the English/language arts and mathematics components of the 2002–2003 ISTEP+ exam (in grade 3). Conclusion Schools using the highly sensitive and specific MCT identified more visually at-risk children than schools using alternative, less sensitive vision screening techniques, and the percentage of grade 1 children referred to an eye care provider was higher for school corporations with lower median family incomes. Although statistically insignificant, the results indicate that students who fail the vision screening in grade 1 tend to be more at risk for poorer academic performance on standardized testing in grade 3.

Limestone Prophets: Gauging the Effectiveness of Religious Political Action Organizations that Lobby State Legislatures*

While much study has been conducted into the attitudes of Mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Evangelical, and Peace Church members concerning various public policy issues, less attention has focused on organized efforts of those faith communities to influence public policy. In this paper, I provide a quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of six religious political action organizations that actively advocate for social change before the Indiana General Assembly: the Lafayette Urban Ministry, the Indiana Catholic Conference, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Indianapolis, Advance America, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Indiana Family Institute. I evaluate each organization's assets and the effect of those assets upon the organization's effectiveness in achieving its goals. I offer specific recommendations to improve the effectiveness of religious political action organizations.

Recent Developments in Indiana Taxation

The Special Session 112th Indiana General Assembly (“General Assembly”) passed one key bill that broadly affected several provisions throughout the Indiana Code relating to taxation. This section will highlight the major changes with particular attention to gaming taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, motor fuel and vehicle excise tax, tobacco products taxes, and various other state income tax provisions. 1. Gaming Tax.—The General Assembly provided that a riverboat may implement a flexible schedule after submitting a plan and obtaining the approval 2

INDIANA HIGHER EDUCATION: THE HOOSIER COMMITMENT TO LOCALISM AND VOCATIONALISM

Indiana higher education, particularly the attempts at establishing a two - year comprehensive community college system in Indiana, is considered. Except for Vincennes University, a system of two - year comprehensive community colleges does not exist. Although Indiana does have a statewide vocational - technical college system, the regional and branch campus structure is pervasive in public higher education. The impact and influence of Indiana University, Purdue University, and the Indiana Farm Bureau on the present public higher education model is examined, as are the various commissions and councils and their subsequent recommendations to the Indiana General Assembly. Based on interviews with various higher education personnel in Indiana, the future needs and concerns for Indiana higher education are presented.

Moral Champions and Public Pathfinders: Antebellum Quaker Women in Eastcentral Indiana

Moral Champions and Public Pathfinders: Antebellum Quaker Women in Eastcentral Indiana Peggy Brase Seigel* For twenty years before the outbreak of the Civil War, women from Quaker communities in Eastcentral Indiana championed social and political reforms, much like reform-minded women throughout northern states. In the 1840s women primarily concentrated in Wayne, Henry, Union, and Randolph counties joined the widening crusade against slavery. Organizing and participating in a broad range of antislavery organizations, these Indiana women were often as outspoken as their better-known sisters. During the 1850s women from the same areas led a state women's rights organization that brought women together each year to discuss women's inferior status and to arouse women to action. Their pre-Civil War efforts culminated in January 1859 when three of their leaders became the first women to present a women's rights petition to the Indiana General Assembly. Despite their attempts to change public opinion, to improve the condition of Black Americans, and to forge new directions for women of their day, however, these pioneer reformers have received little attention from historians. The connections between Eastern antislavery and women's rights reformers have long been established. Feminist historians including Blanche Glassman Hersh, Lori D. Ginzburg, and Nancy A. Hewitt explain this progression as a two-part process. In the 1830s Eastern women first became involved in public reform activities as a result of a growing religious fervor and newly realized leisure that encouraged women to work against the social evils of their day—slavery, intemperance , prostitution. Secondly, experiences as female reformers during the next decade inevitably led women into role conflicts with men and made women conscious of their own enslavement because of their sex. Many of these same women, in turn, sought to improve women's condition by organizing women's rights organizations in the 1850s and increasingly called for the power to vote (Hersh 7, 30, 3334 ; Ginzburg; Hewitt 27-28). Such patterns of feminist evolution, if applied to Indiana's antebellum women reformers, can be useful as preliminary schemes, but do not take into account either Indiana's isolation from Eastern reformers or Eastcentral Indiana's strong Quaker agrarian subculture. 88Quaker History Antislavery Reform in Indiana Although female antislavery societies were primarily concentrated in the East in the 1830s, organized antislavery work also began in isolated areas in Ohio and Michigan settled by evangelical protestants. Soon after the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society and female antislavery societies in Philadelphia and Boston in 1833, women in Leanawee County in Southwestern Michigan organized an antislavery society under the leadership of two young Quaker women, Elizabeth Chandler, a native of Philadelphia, and Laura Haviland, a pioneer settler from Western New York. From her frontier home, Elizabeth Chandler wrote for two national antislavery newspapers, Benjamin Lundy's Genius of Universal Liberty and William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and thus became a link between national reform movements and the Michigan frontier. In 1835 Betsey Mix Cowles, a school teacher and daughter of a Connecticut-born Congregational minister, organized the Ashtabula County Female Anti-Slavery Society in the Ohio Western Reserve. Aside from reform newspapers that reached the state, however, Indiana remained bypassed by the influences of Eastern antislavery reformers until the end of the 183Os. Evangelical preachers of the Great Revival led by Charles Finney in Western New York as well as agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society trained by Theodore Weld to conquer the West are not on record as having come into the state. Only towards the end of the 1830s did formal antislavery organizations come into being with the formation of small local societies at Hanover College and in Dearborn County and the Indiana Anti-Slavery Society in Milton, Wayne County, in September 1838. The following year brought Arnold Buffum, a Quaker from Providence, Rhode Island, a leading lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society and thus the first reformer of national stature to reach the state. Simultaneously, men and women in Jefferson County organized the Neel's Creek AntiSlavery Society. In early 1841, eight years after the organization of the American Anti-Slavery Society, activities of Indiana antislavery societies became public record with the establishment...

Legislator Attitudes toward Policies to Reduce Prison Crowding

This paper examines legislative attitudes toward policies to reduce prison crowding in a state (Indiana) that has a serious prison overcrowding problem. Legislative attitudes were studied through mail surveys of all members of the Indiana General Assembly. A high level of legislative support for the expansion of community corrections and prison construction was found. On the other hand, a return to shorter sentences received little support among the lawmakers. A rudimentary regression analysis of the relationship between legislative characteristics and support for the various strategies to control prison crowding revealed that a variable measuring criminal justice ideology was most strongly associated with legislative attitudes toward prison policy. These findings are also discussed within the present research.

Justin E. Walsh. <italic>The Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816–1978</italic>. Indianapolis: Select Committee on the Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Bureau. 1987. Pp. xxviii, 832. $20.00

Justin E. Walsh. The Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816–1978. Indianapolis: Select Committee on the Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Bureau. 1987. Pp. xxviii, 832. $20.00 Walsh Justin E.. The Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, 1816–1978. Indianapolis: Select Committee on the Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Bureau. 1987. Pp. xxviii, 832. $20.00. James H. Madison James H. Madison Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 94, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 206–207, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/94.1.206-a Published: 01 February 1989

Domestic Violence: Legislative Attitudes Toward a Coherent Public Policy

Abstract This article examines legislative attitudes toward domestic violence policy. Legislative attitudes were examined through a survey of the Indiana General Assembly approximately one year after it enacted a new law that increased the authority of police to arrest in domestic violence cases. Despite this increase in police authority, substantial legislative support for a statewide domestic violence policy continued to exist. A multiple regression analysis of the relationship between legislative characteristics and support for a statewide domestic violence policy revealed that a geographical variable was most consistently related to legislative positions on the proposed policy. Findings are then discussed within the broader contexts of criminal justice policy making and domestic violence reform.