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Application of the Concentric Zone Theory of Crime to San Antonio, Texas
(2001-12)This thesis covers the concentric zone theory of crime as it applies to the city of San Antonio, Texas. Contributions of Burgess and Shaw and McKay are detailed as well. It is hypothesized that the crime rates of the ... -
The Relationship of Juvenile Arrests to Texas Juvenile Probation Commission Referrals and Texas Youth Commission Confinements
(2007-05)Although much research has been done to examine juvenile delinquency in terms of the characteristics of juveniles, very little has been undertaken to study the connection between juvenile arrests, referrals, and confinements. ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Self-Control and Psychopathy
(2019-04-19)Self-control and psychopathy, despite being dominant conceptualizations from their respective fields, have seldom been compared with one another to assess their similar and unique attributes as well as measured in their ... -
Criminal Sentencing Trends for Environmental Crimes Prosecuted Under the Jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency
(2014-04-09)The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of sentence variations for environmental crimes prosecuted under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Data was collected from the EPA’s ... -
Campus Crime Alerts and Their Relationship To Perceived Risk of Victimization and Fear of Crime
(2018-11-21)For several decades, campus crime, fear of crime, victimization, and the perception of victimization have all been principal concerns for campus administrators and have piqued the interest of the research community. A deep ... -
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The Spatial Dynamics of Sex Trafficking in Austin, Texas
(2017-04-25)This research aimed to determine whether sex trafficking-related offenses in Austin, Texas, clustered geographically and, if so, whether such patterns could be predicted by the spatial distribution of other prostitution ... -
The Impact of Conducted Energy Device Policies on Citizen Complaints against the Police
(2017-04-05)Research has shown that police department policies have increased the deployment of CEDs and decreased suspect fatalities (Ferdik et al., 2014), but it has not yet been determined whether CED policies and training have had ... -
Officer's Perceptions of Counseling Following an Officer Involved Shooting
(2018-07-19)To evaluate the effectiveness of counseling received after an officer involved shooting, officers were administered three rounds of questionnaires using The Delphi Method in order to build a consensus about which treatment ... -
The Use of Charismatic Leadership in Crisis Management in Policing
(2018-07-06)The purpose of this project is to identify followers' perceptions of charismatic leadership effectiveness in hierarchical organizations like policing and their relation to crisis management by those leaders. The goal is ... -
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Latinos, Crime and Immigration
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Generational Differences Among Police Officers
(2018-07-20)Many studies have examined differences in personality, values, and work ethics, between people from different generations. However, one of the biggest deficits in the generational differences knowledge is that little, if ... -
Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Highways: Examining Nodal Points and Potential Strategies to Reduce Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
(2018-07-23)National legislation requires America's federal law enforcement officers to disrupt transnational trafficking and smuggling of persons. However, ineffectiveness and episodic targeting has resulted in feeding into the ... -
Toward an Episodic Process of Corruption: An analysis of the State Integrity Risk Assessment Tool
(2017-11-30)Objective: This dissertation evaluates and critiques a widely-cited scale that seeks to measure governmental susceptibility to corruption. The Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, formulated a risk assessment ... -
Drinking Behaviors and Underage Drinking Evasion Tactics
(2017-12-05)This research examines the tactics used by college students to evade detection while drinking underage in various contexts near a large university in the southwestern United States. This research also looks at the drinking ... -
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Assessing the Effects of the Ignition-Interlock Device on Recidivism
(2016-03-08)In 2012, there were 10,322 traffic fatalities in the U.S. involving at least one driver with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. This was approximately 31% of all traffic fatalities that year (National ... -
Revisiting the Person-Context Nexus: An Empirical Test of a Revised Trait Suppression Hypothesis
(2017-04-07)Given mixed findings concerning the interaction of neighborhood disadvantage and self-control in understanding crime and delinquency, this work develops a revised theory to explain the conditional effect of self-control ... -
An Exploratory Study of Juvenile Probation Officer Job Stress and Stress-Related Outcomes
(2016-11-28)Job stress in criminal justice occupations has been the subject of research since the mid-1970s. Employees who perceive their jobs as stressful may experience potential negative outcomes related to job stress: higher rates ... -
Examining the Use of Full-Time Police in Schools: How Roles and Training May Impact Responses to Misconduct
(2016-11-10)The use of full-time police in schools has expanded considerably since their first entry in the 1950s. There is also a growing perception that the presence of police officers, coupled with arguably overly-punitive discipline ...
