Lynda J Ames
Biographic Data
| ID | 988790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynda J Ames |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ames |
| SIGNATURE | AMES L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Asymptotic Justice: Probation as a Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Justice is a difficult proposition for much intimate partner violence. The criminal justice system has often been reluctant to protect abused women and very reluctant to punish abusers. The authors report here on how probation, as one alternative outcome of criminal prosecution, can approximate justice for some victims and can keep some victims safer. Sentencing abusers to probation is more likely than jail and is often better for victims than re…
Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revisioning the Hope and Challenge
Love, Lust, and Fear: Safer Sex Decision Making Among Gay Men
In this, the second decade of the AIDS epidemic, most gay men have adequate knowledge of the most efficient transmission routes. Men know the techniques recommended to significantly reduce the likelihood of transmission. Men do not want to be infected. Yet some continue to take chances for sexual transmission of HIV. Why? This paper will explore the reasons given by men in a small city for engaging (or not) in specific sexual practices. Our prima…
Fixing Women's Wages: The Effectiveness of Comparable Worth Policies
The author discusses some problems that can prevent comparable worth legislation from achieving meaningful gender wage equity, which she defines as the elimination of gender as a factor in wage setting. She then tests the comparable worth policies of two Canadian provinces against the same set of job content data from a 1988 survey of health care workers. Whereas Manitoba's comparable worth policy, she finds, would achieve gender wage equity if a…
Love, Lust, and Fear: Safer Sex Decision Making Among Gay Men
In this, the second decade of the AIDS epidemic, most gay men have adequate knowledge of the most efficient transmission routes. Men know the techniques recommended to significantly reduce the likelihood of transmission. Men do not want to be infected. Yet some continue to take chances for sexual transmission of HIV. Why? This paper will explore the reasons given by men in a small city for engaging (or not) in specific sexual practices. Our prima…
Asymptotic Justice: Probation as a Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Justice is a difficult proposition for much intimate partner violence. The criminal justice system has often been reluctant to protect abused women and very reluctant to punish abusers. The authors report here on how probation, as one alternative outcome of criminal prosecution, can approximate justice for some victims and can keep some victims safer. Sentencing abusers to probation is more likely than jail and is often better for victims than re…
Fixing Women's Wages: The Effectiveness of Comparable Worth Policies
The author discusses some problems that can prevent comparable worth legislation from achieving meaningful gender wage equity, which she defines as the elimination of gender as a factor in wage setting. She then tests the comparable worth policies of two Canadian provinces against the same set of job content data from a 1988 survey of health care workers. Whereas Manitoba's comparable worth policy, she finds, would achieve gender wage equity if a…
Love, Lust, and Fear: Safer Sex Decision Making Among Gay Men
In this, the second decade of the AIDS epidemic, most gay men have adequate knowledge of the most efficient transmission routes. Men know the techniques recommended to significantly reduce the likelihood of transmission. Men do not want to be infected. Yet some continue to take chances for sexual transmission of HIV. Why? This paper will explore the reasons given by men in a small city for engaging (or not) in specific sexual practices. Our prima…
Fixing Women's Wages: The Effectiveness of Comparable Worth Policies
The author discusses some problems that can prevent comparable worth legislation from achieving meaningful gender wage equity, which she defines as the elimination of gender as a factor in wage setting. She then tests the comparable worth policies of two Canadian provinces against the same set of job content data from a 1988 survey of health care workers. Whereas Manitoba's comparable worth policy, she finds, would achieve gender wage equity if a…
Critical Perspectives on Project Head Start: Revisioning the Hope and Challenge
Asymptotic Justice: Probation as a Criminal Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Justice is a difficult proposition for much intimate partner violence. The criminal justice system has often been reluctant to protect abused women and very reluctant to punish abusers. The authors report here on how probation, as one alternative outcome of criminal prosecution, can approximate justice for some victims and can keep some victims safer. Sentencing abusers to probation is more likely than jail and is often better for victims than re…
Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (1 works) · Construction Project Management and Performance (1 works) · Criminal justice (1 works)