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Education & Crime: A Study In Student Perceptions Of Culpability, Larry Curtis Long Dec 2011

Education & Crime: A Study In Student Perceptions Of Culpability, Larry Curtis Long

Masters Theses

Criminological research has long been concerned with how stereotypes of offender race and gender affect perceived culpability and policy formation. Using data collected from a college student population that were administered six vignettes written in the form of police blotters that depicted different crimes being committed by offenders with differing educational characteristics, this study seeks to identify whether or not an offender’s educational characteristics affect their perceived culpability. Although the data indicates that offender’s are seen as culpable regardless of their educational characteristics, it is evident that some degree or sociopathy is assessed to offender’s that are seen as educated …


Collaborative Command, Rodger E. Broome Sep 2011

Collaborative Command, Rodger E. Broome

Rodger E. Broome

Utah Valley University teaches fire command facilitating a naturalistic and comparative models of decision making through collaborative command. Based on Gary Klein's (1998) monograph "Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions."


Education - "What's In It For Me?", Megan Stone, Rodger E. Broome Jun 2011

Education - "What's In It For Me?", Megan Stone, Rodger E. Broome

Rodger E. Broome

Personal and professional growth through college education for emergency services workers.


Ideas Turned Into Inactions, Rodger E. Broome Jun 2011

Ideas Turned Into Inactions, Rodger E. Broome

Rodger E. Broome

When sociopolitical and economic ideologies drive the decision to withhold services. Subscriptions for fire services not paid.


"We Don't Need No Education!" Really?, Rodger E. Broome Mar 2011

"We Don't Need No Education!" Really?, Rodger E. Broome

Rodger E. Broome

Why fire service employees, fire departments, and communities benefit from college educated firefighters.