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Crime, Race And Reproduction, Dorothy E. Roberts

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: A Sense Of Place, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1992 Talisman yearbook.

• Overby, Carol. Fright Fest Shows Imagination - Hilloween
• Harris, Dwain. Knighthood and Honor Thrive - Society for Creative Anachronism
• Roberts, Rita. MTV Plays that Funky Music
• Harris, Dwain. Switching Lives for a Day - Thomas Meredith, Ryan James
• Kistler, L.B. Topped with Tradition - Homecoming
• Flanagan, Mary. Beauty & Bucks - Miss Western, Jennifer Peyton
• Stevenson, Cindy. Playing the Night Away - Three Quarters
• Flanagan, Mary. It's Not a Matter of Color - Interracial Dating
• Black, Sam. Hot Winging It Into Business - David Gwiazdowski
• Edwards, Cheryl. Mortar Boards of Milestones - Commencement
• Reaching Past Boundaries - …

Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletter for the year 1992.

"The Black Community," Its Lawbreakers, And A Politics Of Identification, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Felony Murder And Capital Punishment: An Examination Of The Deterrence Question, Ruth Peterson, William C. Bailey

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides. However, the criterion variable in most investigations has been total homicides—most of which bear no legal or theoretical relationship to capital punishment. To address this fundamental data problem, this investigation used Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 1976–1987 to examine the relationship between capital punishment and felony murder, the most common type of capital homicide. We conducted time series analyses of monthly felony murder rates, the frequency of executions, and the amount and type of television coverage of executions over the period. The analyses revealed …

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: The Western World, Wku Student Affairs

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1991 Talisman yearbook with the following articles:

• Wilkerson, Brian. A Welcome Home – Homecoming
• Edwards, Cheryl. Spirited Gatherings . . . Halloween Spawns Creativity
• Buckson, Robin. All Shook Up Over Nothing – New Madrid Fault
• Black, Sam. They’ve Got You Covered – Condoms
• Black, Sam. Raising the Roof – Preston Health & Activities Center
• Hardin, Billy. Student Takes Office – Jeff Goff
• Hadley, Kim. President Takes Notes – Thomas Meredith
• Hadley, Kim. STAR Light – Students Together Against Rape
• Hardin, Billy. Can We Talk? – Counseling Center
• White, Robin. A Time to Heal – Children of America / World
• Frecska, …

Ua12/8 Chief News, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletter for 1991.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Think Big, Think Red, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1990 Talisman yearbook with the following articles:

• West, Jodie. Wake Up, Western: Bemis Bids America Good Morning
• Hadley, Kim. Monster Bash – Hilloween
• Westmeier, Tracy. Individuals Versus the Law – Roe vs. Wade
• Hardin, Billy. Collection of Firsts – Homecoming
• McDonald, Denise. ‘Tis the Season – Madrigals
• Hadley, Kim. Campus Hotlines – Prank Phone Calls
• Givens, Jennifer. Land of the Lost
• Davis, Sarah. A World of Difference – Earth Day
• Hadley, Kim. For Official Use Only – WKU Seal
• Hardin, Billy. Cultural Exchange – Xiu Sun
• Hadley, Kim. Politics – Nelson Mandela, Lithuania, Manuel Noriega, China, Freedom Fighters, Eastern Europe …

A Meaner, More Punitive Nation, Bruce Berner

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: In A Different Light, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1988 Talisman yearbook with the following articles:

• McIntyre, Michelle. In a Class by Itself – Niteclass
• Crouch, Donna. Springing into Spring Fever
• Summers, Jason. They’re Way Down Under – Green River Grotto
• Schilling, Stephanie. They’re Left Out – Left-Handed Students
• Garrett, Angela. Worldly Daze
• Marshall, Kim Get Artsy – Student Art Competition
• Blakeman, Mark. Sweating It Out – Health Clubs
• Welch, Jeff. Home Sweet Home?? – Residence Hall
• Fullen, Rebecca. For the Love of Life – Blood Drives
• McCracken, Rob. Down on the Farm – Agriculture
• Welch, Jeff. A Free Ride – Big Red Shuttle
• Williams, Philip. Sold on Western …

Ua12/8 Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1988.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Degrees Of Exposure, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

1987 Talisman yearbook includes these articles:

• Degrees of Exposure
• Smith, Sandy. Western, Canada, Homecoming . . . An UnCommon Bond
• It’s a SCREAM! – Halloween
• Binkley, John. Stroke by Stroke – Swimming Lessons
• Eaglesson, Leigh. Thunderbirds
• Jones, LaMont. Black by Popular Demand
• Strange, Jennifer. Not Just a Handout – Hands Across Western
• Strange, Jennifer. Pain in the Grass – High School Sweet Sixteen Tournament
• Spann, Kim. Heart Attacks – Valentine’s Day
• Kinslow, Gina. A Stable Career – Kelly Greenwell
• White, Fred. An Instrumental Career – Jim Daniel
• Saylor, Kim. On a Different Scale – Theatre & Dance
• Kinslow, Gina. Foreign …

Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

In view of (1) escalating national attention and political and judicial activity centering on capital punishment during recent years and (2) concomitant changes in police killing rates, this paper investigates the impact of the death penalty on rates of lethal assaults against the police for the post-Furman period, 1973–1984. In keeping with recent investigations of deterrence and general homicides, multiple regression is used as a means of controlling for the influence of possible confounding variables in examining the capital punishment/police killings relationship. Consistent with previous investigations, the present analysis provides no indication that our national return to capital punishment …

Ua12/8 Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1987.

Contributions Of Victimization To Delinquency In Inner Cities, Jeffery Fagan, Elizabeth S. Piper, Yu-Teh Cheng

Faculty Scholarship

The relationship between victimization and criminality has been widely cited in recent years. Early thinking and public perceptions about crime intuitively presumed that criminals were distinct from their victims. Crime control policies resulted which promoted the physical separation of victims from predatory offenders through "target hardening" and "defensible space." Such distinctions, however, ignored the empirical evidence on the considerable overlap between offender and victim profiles and distorted the reality of events in which persons are labelled as victims or victimizers based only on the consequences of the event. Given the homogeneous relation between victim and offender, theories of crime that …

Child Sexual Abuse, Jeffrey A. Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

Over the past two decades awareness of child sexual abuse among academics and professionals has grown from several convergent trends: the "discovery" of child abuse in the 1960's, concern by feminists over sexual assault and rape, increasing reports to law enforcement and child protective service workers of sexually abused children, and the general "deprivatization" of the family. More recently, general public awareness of child sexual abuse has followed well-publicized cases of child molestation in day-care centers, nationwide concern over pornography and its subsequent links to teenage prostitution, and runaway youth, delinquency, and family violence among adults.

Ua12/8 Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1986.

Ua12/8 Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1985.

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1984.

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1983.

Punishment, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

Although punishment has been a crucial feature of every legal system, widespread disagreement exists over the moral principles that can justify its imposition. One fundamental question is why (and whether) the social institution of punishment is warranted. A second question concerns the necessary conditions for punishment in particular cases. A third relates to the degree of severity that is appropriate for particular offenses and offenders. Debates about punishment are important in their own right, but they also raise more general problems about the proper standards for evaluating social practices.

The main part of this theoretical overview of the subject of …

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1982.

Capital Punishment And Lethal Assaults Against Police, William C. Bailey

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

This investigation provides a multivariate analysis of the deterrent effect of the death penalty on the rate of lethal assaults against the police. Examining state level data for the period 1961 to 1971, we hypothesize a significant inverse relationship between the rate of police killings and (1) the statutory provision for capital punishment and (2) the execution rate of convicted murderers. Contrary to the deterrence hypotheses, no support is found for the argument that the provision and use of the death penalty provides an added measure of protection for the police. Rather, variation in police killings rates, like the general …

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1981.

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1980.

Ua12/8 Departmental Newsletter, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

WKU Police departmental newsletters for 1979.

Societal Reaction To Deviants: The Case Of Criminal Defendants, Ilene Nagel Bernstein, William R. Kelly, Patricia A. Doyle

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Recent reformulations of the societal reaction theory argue that the thesis is a perspective rather than a theory, and that the perspective is meant to provide a set of sensitizing concepts to those researching deviance. This research examines the degree of congruence between hypotheses deduced from those assertions and a set of real world occurrences. Data for a sample of male defendants charged with felony offenses are examined to estimate the effects of (1) deviants' social attributes, (2) the specific societal reactors, (3) the values placed on certain offenses and (4) the organizational imperatives of the deviance-controlling organization, controlling for …

Kentucky Parole Officers: An Inquiry Into The Effect Of Residential Background On Their Works Styles, Virginia Cleveland

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Using the population of Kentucky state parole officers as the focus of this thesis, work styles were studied. The work styles of twenty-eight rural parole officers were compared with the work styles of twenty-two urban officers. The Fisher Exact Statistical Test was used to test differences between these groups. Rural officers were significantly more likely than urban officers to go out of their offices to meet with their parolees. Urban officers had had a significantly greater number of parolees waiting in their offices at one time, than the rural officers had. The length of the average meeting did not differ …

Grievance Procedures In Federal Prisons: Practices And Proposals, Howard Lesnick

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.