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The State Of Domestic Violence Protective Orders In Hidalgo County, Texas, Cindy Noel Berner
The State Of Domestic Violence Protective Orders In Hidalgo County, Texas, Cindy Noel Berner
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Domestic violence has long been an issue for the criminal justice system and society. Despite decades of research, activism, and intervention programs, much remains to be accomplished. There are many facets to studying domestic violence. However, there are few studies that specifically deal with protective orders and what, if any, effect they have on the occurrence of domestic violence. The goal of this researcher was to discover whether there were any relationships between variables such as age, gender, and employment status and the decision to not issue a protective order. The data used in this study were obtained from the …
International Drug Trafficking: Police Corruption On The Us/Mexico Border, John Jacob Rodriguez
International Drug Trafficking: Police Corruption On The Us/Mexico Border, John Jacob Rodriguez
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The purpose of this thesis was to examine contemporary extralegal factors for the causation of drug-specific police corruption, particularly drug trafficking on the US/Mexico Border. Police included only those officers who were commissioned by municipalities. The researcher focused on a particular geographical area of the US border region consisting of a quad-county area, which includes Willacy, Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron Counties. This region was ideal for its unique demographic composition and location. This is qualitative research based on grounded theory, which consisted of purposive and snowball sampling. There was no hypothesis due to the inductive nature of this research. The …