Contributions of Ellis R. Kerley to forensic anthropology.

Ellis R. Kerley (1924 to 1998) represents an important figure in the history of American forensic anthropology. In research, he is best known for pioneering the microscopic approach to the estimation of age at death from human bone. A university professor for 22 years. Kerley also served as Scientific Director of the Army identification laboratory in Hawaii and worked on many forensic cases. He was a leader in the formation of the Physical Anthropology section of the AAFS and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology and held many offices within the AAFS, including President from 1990 to 1991.     

Publications of Ellis R. Kerley (1924-1998).

Ellis R. Kerley (1924-1998) published at least 40 works between the years 1957 and 1988. These include four reviews, 10 abstracts, 23 articles and book chapters, and three monographic works.     

Archaeology, science and forensic anthropology: a tribute to Dr T. Dale Stewart

The name, T. Dale Stewart is synonymous with physical anthropology. To many members of the physical anthropology section, particularly those born in the latter half of this century, he is perhaps best known for his 1979 Essentials of Forensic Anthropology. Without a doubt, much of the foundation of this discipline rests upon his teachings and influence. Few knew him in the capacity that William M. Bass did, as T. Dale Stewart was a member of Bass doctoral committee. Bass was greatly influenced during the time he spent working with Dr. Stewart in the 1950's and the instruction and guidance Stewart instilled in Bass has and will continue to be passed on to subsequent generations. Research was Dale Stewart's main emphasis and he succeeded in demonstrating the value of investigation and how results were crucial in explaining many of the processes manifest on skeletal material. Clearly his hypothesis-based approach became essential to skeletal biology and numerous procedures and methods employed in the field are synonymous with the teachings of Dr. T. Dale Stewart. By reflecting on several recently completed interdisciplinary research projects, the far-reaching impact of his knowledge and instruction can be demonstrated.     

Ellis Kerley's service to the military.

The purpose of this paper is to present the contributions Ellis Kerley has made to the United States Department of Defense in the area of forensic anthropology. His service began at the end of the Korean War in the identification laboratory established in Kokura, Japan, under the direction of T.D. Stewart. Ellis developed his research on the quantification of cortical bone microstructure as a means of age estimation while at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. In December 1985, Ellis was asked by the Army to form a commission to evaluate the Central Identification Laboratory, HI (CILHI). This lab is tasked with the mission of search and recovery and identification of American personnel killed or listed as missing from past military conflicts. Ellis's team reviewed the identification process and documentation, the qualifications of lab personnel, the adequacy of facilities and equipment, and some questionable cases. Their written report was supplemented with testimony in front of congressional committees. Ellis served as scientific director of CILHI from 1987 until 1991. In addition to overseeing the daily case work, he led several missions to Vietnam to examine human remains and served as spokesman for the lab. His input helped the lab gain needed scientific credibility. Despite the frustrations of trying to identify human remains within the Army's casualty and memorial affairs system, Ellis always maintained the utmost dignity, compassion, and respect for the victims and their families.     

Justin R. Ellis: Policing Legitimacy: Social Media,Scandal and Sexual Citizenship

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What happened to patrol operations in Kansas city? A review of the Kansas city preventive patrol experiment

This paper reviews important aspects of the design, execution, and evaluation of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment. The focus is on the operational behavior of the patrol force during the experiment and not on before-and-after crime statistics. Where appropriate, simple probabilistic models are employed to estimate frequencies of preventive patrols and response times in each of the experimental areas. These models, together with experimental data, demonstrate that (1) typical patrol intensities in Kansas City are not large enough to encompass the range of patrol intensities experienced in other cities, and (2) patrol visibility in the depleted areas (the reactive beats) due to responding calls for service is relatively quite large, perhaps even equalling the pre-experimental levels during high workload periods. Such models also demonstrate that travel distances into the reactive beats should not be markedly increased, as the researchers had expected.Based on models and experimental data, the analysis indicates that the particular experimental design used in Kansas City resulted in a significant continued patrol presence in the depleted areas, with little increase in travel times in those areas. This suggests two policy conclusions: (1) great caution should be used in attempting to induce the general value of a visible patrol presence from the results of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment; (2) patrol administrators in other cities could, on a day-by-day basis if need be, remove conventional patrol coverage from certain beats and markedly increase manning in others nearby without incurring significant degradations in service (either actual or perceived) in the depleted areas. This second possibility facilitates the implementation of crime-directed patrol efforts.     

Correction to: A tribute and a legacy: Clinical legal education and the bountiful harvest

Jindal Global Law Review - The editors regret these errors.     

A population at risk: civil commitment of substance abusers after Kansas v. Hendricks

In its 1997 decision, Kansas v. Hendricks, the U.S. Supreme Court radically changed the face of civil commitment. In finding the Kansas Sexually Violent Predators Act constitutional, the Court liberalized the first constitutional requirement for involuntary commitment from "mental illness" to a much broader "mental abnormality" standard, without correspondingly restricting the second requirement of dangerousness. The decision essentially authorizes states to civilly commit a broad range of individuals without sufficient due process protections. This Comment explores the possibilities for expansion of civil commitment in the wake of Hendricks. It argues that the holding was unjustifiably broad, focusing in particular on the potential danger facing substance abusers. In conclusion, it offers several suggestions for mitigating the potential misuse of this dangerous precedent.     

Medicolegal aspects of tornadic storms in Kansas, U.S.A.

Kansas is known for its fierce whether, including tornados in the spring and fall and blizzards in the winter. A recent series of tornados cut a path of destruction a mile wide for greater than 40 miles (64 km), killed 20 people, and caused several hundred casualities on the evening of April 26, 1991, in Tornado Alley, which runs from the northern border of Oklahoma through southern Kansas past Wichita toward Emporium, Kansas. The wind velocity was greater than 200 mph. Twenty people were killed, 17 of these in Andover, Kansas, a small town east of Wichita. Injuries caused by the tornados and the excellent emergency response and care provided by medical, law-enforcement, and volunteer personnel in the wake of the storms are described here.     

A tribute and a legacy: Clinical legal education and the bountiful harvest

The pioneering work of Madhava Menon is well known to many. This article pays tribute to his memory and briefly examines what he has left behind in terms of changes to the way we think of, design, and deliver legal education across the world. The concepts that Dr Menon and others helped to sow and propagate are now blooming across the world. Before his untimely passing, he would have seen some of the fruits of such labour in his own country and beyond, but the legacy is much more than this. There is now a global movement of clinical legal education practitioners who are sustaining and developing the ideas and models that this legacy bequeathed. Using a mix of personal anecdotes and reference to relevant published works, this article explores the relevant detail and concludes that clinical legal education is in safe, competent, and creative hands.

     

A response to “what happened to patrol operations in Kansas City?”

Larson's review raises several points concerning the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment. The authors of the evaluation of that experiment respond to each of Larson's criticisms. With reference to Larson's two major points, this response demonstrates that (1) neither Larson's models nor his data are adequate to make statements about “typical patrol intensities” in major American cities and (2) patrol visibility in the reactive areas was markedly decreased over the one-year period of the experiment.The authors agree with Larson and have consistently urged that great caution should be used in generalizing the results of the experiment. The Technical Report itself presents results cautiously and conservatively. Also, large amounts of data comparing Kansas City with other cities are presented in the Report to enable readers to place the kansas City experience in perspective.The authors also agree with Larson that the results of the experiment indicate that police administrators can be more flexible in the allocation of officers than they have been previously. That Larson reaches this conclusion indicates that, despite his minor criticisms of the study which are responded to herein, he basically accepts the results of the experiment.