scholarly journals Some Determinants of the Method of Case Disposition: Decision-Making by Public Defenders in Los Angeles

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Mather
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Defenders

“An Honest But Fearless Fighter”: The Adversarial Ideal of Public Defenders in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-666
Author(s):  
Sara Mayeux
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public Defender ◽  
Public Defenders ◽  
Downtown Los Angeles ◽  
The City

Early one Sunday in 1948, Frederic Vercoe set out from his home in San Marino, California, for a speaking engagement in downtown Los Angeles. Perhaps he took the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which had opened for drivers 8 years before, linking the city more tightly with its “vast agglomerate of suburbs.” Although the roads may have changed, Vercoe had been making some version of this commute for decades. He had recently retired after a long career with the Los Angeles County Public Defender—13 years as a deputy, followed by 19 years as head of the office—and now maintained a small private law practice downtown. Many mornings, Vercoe would have had business at the Hall of Justice, the ten-story box of “gray California granite” that housed the jails and courtrooms. On this particular morning, he was headed instead to Clifton's Cafeteria at Seventh Street and Broadway. Perhaps, as he drove the dozen miles west into the city, he admired the “geraniums, cosmos, sweet peas, asters and marigolds” that lined the “gardens, parkways, and driveways,” or perhaps he was used to the foliage by now. Vercoe had lived in California for more than 30 years, making him, by West Coast standards, a real “old-timer.”

Psychosocial Concerns among Latinas with Life-Limiting Advanced Cancers

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances R. Nedjat-Haiem ◽  
Iraida V. Carrion ◽  
Karl A. Lorenz ◽  
Kathleen Ell ◽  
Lawrence Palinkas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
Psychosocial Concerns ◽  
Additional Burden ◽  
Eol Care ◽  
Depth Interviews

Research has demonstrated that limited dialogue in end-of-life (EOL) care can negatively impact decision-making and place of death. Furthermore, when vulnerable populations are faced with EOL cancer care, they experience issues resulting from previous gaps in services attributed to sociocultural and economic issues that influence EOL care. These conditions place an additional burden on disadvantaged populations which can cause distress, especially as disparate conditions continue to persist. Little is known about Latinos' psychosocial concerns that lead to distress in EOL care. The objective of this study is to explore Latinas' experiences with life-limiting cancer conditions to identify the EOL care concerns that impact their dying experience. This study used a phenomenological approach to explore the EOL care concerns of 24 Latinas receiving treatment for metastatic cancers in a public sector healthcare system in Los Angeles, California. In-depth interviews were recorded and transcribed, and qualitative analysis was performed using Atlas.ti software.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators: A Local Data Model for Equity in Public Health Decision-Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Ong ◽  
Chhandara Pech ◽  
Nataly Rios Gutierrez ◽  
Vickie Mays
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Local Data ◽  
California Department ◽  
Public Health Decision ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Vulnerability Indicators

AbstractObjectiveTo develop indicators of vulnerability for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) infection in Los Angeles County (LAC) by race and neighborhood characteristics.DesignDevelopment of indicators that combines pre-existing medical vulnerabilities with social and built-environment data by zip code tabulation areas (ZCTAs).SettingNeighborhoods in LAC categorized by race/ethnicity ranked into quintiles by relative vulnerability: Non-Hispanic white; Black; Latinx; Cambodians, Hmong and Laotians combined (CHL); and Other Asians.Data SourcesAskCHIS Neighborhood Edition, American Community Survey 2014-2018, and California Department of Parks and Recreation.Main Outcome Measures1) Pre-Existing Health Condition, 2) Barriers to Accessing Healthcare, 3) Built Environment Risk, and 4) CDC’s Social Vulnerability.ResultsNeighborhoods most vulnerable to COVID-19 are characterized by significant clustering of racial minorities, low income households and unmet medical needs. An overwhelming 73% of Blacks reside in the neighborhoods with the two highest quintiles of pre-existing health conditions, followed by Latinx (70%) and CHL (60%), while 60% of whites reside in low or the lowest vulnerable neighborhoods. For the Barriers to Accessing Healthcare indicator, 40% of Latinx reside in the highest vulnerability places followed by Blacks, CHL and other Asians (29%, 22%, and 16% respectively), compared with only 7% of Whites reside in such neighborhoods. The Built Environment Indicator finds CHL (63%) followed by Latinx (55%) and Blacks (53%) reside in the neighborhoods designated as high or the highest vulnerability compared to 32% of Whites residing in these neighborhoods. The Social Vulnerability Indicator finds 42% of Blacks and Latinx and 38% of CHL residing in neighborhoods of high vulnerability compared with only 8% of Whites residing these neighborhoods.ConclusionsVulnerability to covid-19 infections differs by neighborhood and racial/ethnic groups. Our vulnerability indicators when utilized in decision-making of re-openings or resource distribution such as testing, vaccine distribution, hotel rooms for quarantine and other covid-19-related resources can provide an equity driven data approach for the most vulnerable.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Vaccine Decision-making Factors in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities in Los Angeles, California

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. e2127582
Author(s):  
Savanna L. Carson ◽  
Alejandra Casillas ◽  
Yelba Castellon-Lopez ◽  
Lisa N. Mansfield ◽  
D’Ann Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Decision Making Factors ◽  
Vaccine Decision Making ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minority

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Implicitly Political Films and Political Polarization

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadyn Cantrell ◽  
Russell Rudman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Political Films ◽  
The Relationship

Throughout history, art has played a vast role in both culture and activism. With the United States having a booming film industry centered in the heart of Los Angeles and spreading all across the country, it is hard to believe that such a huge cultural phenomenon does not impact the viewpoints of United States voters and their decision making at the polls. This study dives into that impact, looking at both quantitative and qualitative research, trying to uncover the influence that implicitly political films have on political polarization and answer the question: what is the relationship between implicitly political feature films released between 2009 and 2019 and political polarization in the United States?  The quantitative research of this study exposed a correlation between the year of the presidency and the number of successful implicitly political films that were released per year. The qualitative surveys from this study uncovered that teenagers today do not feel particularly influenced by the movies that they watched growing up, therefore suggesting that if implicitly political films have any effect on political decision making, it is at the subconscious level. As times change and technology improves, it seems that there is no limit to the extent of influence. It is important to understand this influence and its implications before it is too late.

It All Just Piles Up: Challenges to Victim Credibility Accumulate to Influence Sexual Assault Case Processing

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (15) ◽  
pp. 3151-3170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Schaefer Morabito ◽  
April Pattavina ◽  
Linda M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Decision Point ◽  
Case Processing ◽  
Police Decision Making ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Sexual Assault Case ◽  
Sheriff's Department

The underreporting of sexual assault is well known to researchers, practitioners, and victims. When victims do report, their complaints are unlikely to end in arrest or prosecution. Existing research on police discretion suggests that the police decision to arrest for sexual assault offenses can be influenced by a variety of legal and extra-legal factors particularly challenges to victim credibility. Although extant literature examines the effects of individual behaviors on police outcomes, less is known about how the accumulation of these behaviors, attributions, and characteristics affects police decision making. Using data collected from the Los Angeles Police Department and Sheriff’s Department, we examine one police decision point—the arrest to fill this gap in the literature. First, we examine the extent to which the effects of potential challenges to victim credibility, based on victim characteristics and behaviors, influence the arrest decision, and next, how these predictors vary across circumstances. Specifically, we examine how factors that challenge victim credibility affect the likelihood of arrest in sexual assault cases where the victim and offender are strangers, acquaintances, and intimate partners.

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