This article examines the explosive growth of individuals referred for competency to stand
trial evaluation and restoration services in the state of Oregon and at Oregon State Hospital …

The rate of civil commitment in Oregon fell from 53.2/100,000 in 1972 to 9.2/100,000 in 2020.
The paper discusses this decline in civil commitment as related to statutory and case law …

COVID-19 strongly affected referral of individuals from Oregon’s courts and the ability of
Oregon State Hospital (OSH) to accept patients. Despite acceleration in the decline in civil …

There is increasing evidence that immigrants and traumatized individuals have elevated
prevalence of medical disease. This study focuses on 459 Vietnamese, Cambodian, Somali, …

Three months after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back.'He was taken to the hospital where he lay …

Carceral power expands into many institutions vital to social life. This Article focuses on one
such important institution: the hospital in the free world. Hospitals outside of carceral …

Purpose This study investigated whether and to what extent iconic co-speech gestures
contribute to information from visible speech to enhance degraded speech comprehension at …

Carceral power expands into many institutions vital to social life. This Article focuses on one
such important institution: the hospital in the free world. Hospitals outside of carceral …

… For example, in a study that examined factors that contribute to the persistence of sophomore
students, Blekic et al. (2020) found that contributing factors to retention were statistically …

Learning Support Services at the University of California, Santa Cruz is intended to aid
students—particularly those who are at highest risk of academic failure—to master the required …