--- title: 'Volume 29' date: '2015-04-02T14:40:16-05:00' type: page word_count: 243 char_count: 1648 tokens: 316 --- # Volume 29 Table of Contents Spring 2005, Volume 29 LEAD ARTICLES --- “Does Mood Influence Moral Judgment?: An Empirical Test With Legal and Policy Implications” Jeremy A. Blumenthal --- “Religious Appeals in Closing Arguments: Impermissible Input or Benign Banter?” Monica K. Miller & Brian H. Bornstein --- “The United Nations and the Employment of Sanctions as a Tool of International Statecraft: Social Power Theory as a Predictor of Threat Theory Utility” Jason C. Nelson --- “The Danger of Dangerousness in Capital Sentencing: Exacerbating the Problem of Arbitrary and Capricious Decision-Making” Mitzi Dorland & Daniel Krauss --- “Still Crazy After All These Years: The Enduring Defamatory Power of Mental Disorder” Karen M. Markin --- STUDENT ARTICLES --- “The Case for Strengthening Alabama’s Animal Cruelty Laws” William Coxwell --- “Does Societal Input Lead to Successful Sex Offender Legislation?” Katie Granlund --- “Victim Impact Statements: A Modified Perspective” Trey Hill --- “Desperately Clinging to the Cleavers: What Family Law Courts Are Doing About Homosexual Parents, and What Some Are Refusing to See” Heather Fann Latham --- “Power to Prescribe: The Debate Over the Prescription Privileges For Psychologists and the Legal Issues Implicated” James E. Long, Jr. --- “Roper v. Simmons: The Height of Hubris” Jason Mazingo --- “But Look Over Here: How the Use of Technology at Trial Mesmerizes Jurors and Secures Verdicts” J. Bradley Ponder --- “The Science of Persuasion: An Exploration of Advocacy and the Science Behind the Art of Persuasion in the Courtroom” Jansen Voss