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North Texas Health And Science 2013, Issue 1, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 
University of North Texas Health Science Center
North Texas Health And Science 2013, Issue 1, University Of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth
North Texas Health & Science Quarterly Magazine
No abstract provided.
Exploring The Extent To Which The Utilization Of Technology Has Facilitated The Increased Possession Of Online Child Pornography Over Time, Abby Lukas 
Kennesaw State University
Exploring The Extent To Which The Utilization Of Technology Has Facilitated The Increased Possession Of Online Child Pornography Over Time, Abby Lukas
Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
The possession and distribution of online child pornography is a growingly pervasive problem and its pessimistic effects and dimensions are far-reaching in today’s society. With the steady increase in these types of offenses, it is pertinent that a better understanding of this heinous crime is addressed through various research endeavors. A research avenue significantly lacking in regard to these types of crimes is the extent to which the utilization of technology is further facilitating these types of crimes. Thus, it is the objective of the present study to specifically address these issues with its relationship to technology. In order ...
College Students’ Punitive Attitudes Toward Five Types Of Sex Offenders: Examining Factors That Influence Punitive Preferences, Kathryn T. Smith Kennesaw State University
College Students’ Punitive Attitudes Toward Five Types Of Sex Offenders: Examining Factors That Influence Punitive Preferences, Kathryn T. Smith
Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
The purpose of this study is to examine college students’ punitive attitudes toward five different types of sex offenders. In addition, various factors that influence college students’ punitive attitudes will be measured in order to assess their significance. Surveys were administered to a total of 809 students at a large southern university. Through the utilization of descriptive vignettes, the survey measured students’ demographic, educational, attitudinal, and crime-related characteristics as well as recommended sanction and punishment preferences for five different sex offenders. The results suggest that college students’ punitive attitudes significantly differ based on sex offender characteristics. Through ordinary least squares ...
Process Evaluation: Suffolk County House Of Correction’S Reentry Programs, Paige Ransford, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston 
University of Massachusetts Boston
Process Evaluation: Suffolk County House Of Correction’S Reentry Programs, Paige Ransford, Center For Women In Politics And Public Policy, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Office of Community Partnerships Posters
Effective reentry is an important component of the mission of the Suffolk County House of Correction and of its reentry programing. The maintenance of public safety depends largely on the institution’s ability to help offenders successfully reintegrate back into their communities. Connecting inmates to community-based programs, services, and support before they leave prison can help ensure that they will become productive members of their community.
Regulating Ex Post: How Law Can Address The Inevitability Of Financial Failure, Iman Anabtawi, Steven L. Schwarcz 
Duke Law
Regulating Ex Post: How Law Can Address The Inevitability Of Financial Failure, Iman Anabtawi, Steven L. Schwarcz
Faculty Scholarship
Unlike many other areas of regulation, financial regulation operates in the context of a complex interdependent system. The interconnections among firms, markets, and legal rules have implications for financial regulatory policy, especially the choice between ex ante regulation aimed at preventing financial failure and ex post regulation aimed at responding to that failure. Regulatory theory has paid relatively little attention to this distinction. Were regulation to consist solely of duty-imposing norms, such neglect might be defensible. In the context of a system, however, regulation can also take the form of interventions aimed at mitigating the potentially systemic consequences of a ...
More Than Mere Ripples: The Interwoven Complexity Of Female Incarceration And The African-American Family, Joseph Cudjoe, Tony A. Barringer 
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
More Than Mere Ripples: The Interwoven Complexity Of Female Incarceration And The African-American Family, Joseph Cudjoe, Tony A. Barringer
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
The Female Offender: A Victim Of Neglect, LaMont Flanagan University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
The Female Offender: A Victim Of Neglect, Lamont Flanagan
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Foreword, H. L.A. Holeman, Eric Sterling University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Foreword, H. L.A. Holeman, Eric Sterling
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Protection Of Female Prisoners: Dissolving Standards Of Decency, Martin A. Geer University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Protection Of Female Prisoners: Dissolving Standards Of Decency, Martin A. Geer
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Serving The Poor: The Need For Unification Within Today's Legal Services, Kelley Keenan Trumpbour University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Serving The Poor: The Need For Unification Within Today's Legal Services, Kelley Keenan Trumpbour
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Women In The American World Of Jails: Inmates And Staff, Kenneth Kerle University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Women In The American World Of Jails: Inmates And Staff, Kenneth Kerle
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Do My Rights Get In The Way Of My Freedom? An Examination Of The Role Of Rights In A Society Of Empowered People, John H. Morris Jr. University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Do My Rights Get In The Way Of My Freedom? An Examination Of The Role Of Rights In A Society Of Empowered People, John H. Morris Jr.
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Secondary Victims' Perceptions Of Justice : Implications For Forensic Psychology, Benjamin Bannister 
Edith Cowan University
Secondary Victims' Perceptions Of Justice : Implications For Forensic Psychology, Benjamin Bannister
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
An emerging area of study has begun to look at the perceptions of justice of the family and friends of crime victims – or, secondary victims. It is important to improve understanding of secondary victims’ experiences of justice, partly because knowledge about how they perceive justice may help forensic psychologists assist them more effectively. This research attempted to assess how well existing justice theories could account for secondary victims’ perceptions of justice, and also help determine what is important to them. Using the largely ignored group of secondary victims of non-sexual violent crime, the research consisted of two interrelated stages. In ...
To Compete Globally, Brics Nations Need Reputation, Not Imitation, Ahmed E. SOUAIAIA 
University of Iowa
To Compete Globally, Brics Nations Need Reputation, Not Imitation, Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Ahmed E SOUAIAIA
The economic, political, and social rise of the Western block of nations was founded on the single most enduring currency: reputation. Reputation, the source of credibility and trust, is the real asset that allows the U.S. to project its stature around the world. BRICS nations cannot rise to prominence by mimicking developed countries. They must build their reputation first. Wealth is only a byproduct of this more precious commodity, and countries who have it can squander it just as emerging economies can acquire it. For either of those results to happen in any country, circumstantial conditions and principled actions ...
Psychopathy And Sentencing: An Investigative Look Into When The Pcl-R Is Admitted Into Canadian Courtrooms And How A Pcl-R Score Affects Sentencing Outcome, Katie Davey 
Western University
Psychopathy And Sentencing: An Investigative Look Into When The Pcl-R Is Admitted Into Canadian Courtrooms And How A Pcl-R Score Affects Sentencing Outcome, Katie Davey
University of Western Ontario - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Little is known about how and when the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) is being introduced into Canadian Courts or how it affects sentencing outcomes. Using the Lexis-Nexis Quicklaw Academic Database to retrieve judge’s sentencing decisions, all 274 cases with PCL-R information for Canadian courts were included in this study. It was hypothesized correctly that PCL-R information would most often be introduced in Long Term Offender (LTO) and Dangerous Offender (DO) applications as well as sentencing cases for murderers and sex offenders. The 274 cases were then reduced to 37 cases in order to focus on sentencing without Dangerous Offender ...
Interview Of Michael R. Dillon, Ph.D., J.D., Michael R. Dillon, Ph.D., J.D., John A. Prendergast 
La Salle University
Interview Of Michael R. Dillon, Ph.D., J.D., Michael R. Dillon, Ph.D., J.D., John A. Prendergast
All Oral Histories
Born in 1942, Dr. Michael Richard Dillon is a Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at La Salle University in Philadelphia. He grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb just outside of Chicago, where he spent many years before opting to attend the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate and, later, his graduate and doctoral degrees. Dr. Dillon first came to La Salle in 1968, where he spent 17 years as a member of the Political Science Department under the Chair at the time, Robert Courtney. After obtaining a J.D. from Temple University, Dr. Dillon left ...
Forensic Investigation Of Stamped Markings Using A Large-Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope And Computer Analysis For Depth Determination, Eric Douglas Jones 
Western Kentucky University
Forensic Investigation Of Stamped Markings Using A Large-Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope And Computer Analysis For Depth Determination, Eric Douglas Jones
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
All firearms within the United States are required by the Gun Control Act to be physically marked with a serial number; which is at least 0.003” in depth and 1/16” in height. The purpose of a serial number is to make each firearm uniquely identifiable and traceable. Intentional removal of a serial number is a criminal offense and is used to hide the identity and movements of the involved criminal parties. The current standard for firearm serial number restoration is by chemical etching; which is time & labor intensive as well as destructive to the physical evidence (firearm). It is hypothesized that a new technique that is accurate, precise, and time efficient will greatly aid law enforcement agencies in pursuing criminals. This thesis focuses on using a large chamber scanning electron microscope to take secondary electron (SE) images of a stamped metal plate and analyzing them using the MIRA MX 7 UE image processing software for purposes of depth determination. An experimental peak luminance value of 77 (pixel values) was correlated to the known depth (273 μm) at the bottom of the sample character. Results show that it is potentially possible to determine an unknown depth from a SEM image; using luminance values obtained in the MIRA analysis.
Tracking People’S Movements By Rfid Implants, Seyed Saeid Saadatmand 
The College at Brockport: State University of New York
Tracking People’S Movements By Rfid Implants, Seyed Saeid Saadatmand
Master's Level Graduate Research Conference
Assume it is 2050. There is no place and time which cannot be tracked. There is nothing that anybody can hide. Everything has an identity number in a central database in United States and it is connected to internet. Spatial relationship of objects can be measured. It is real time city where anything can be tracked. It is obvious that one is sitting on a chair, the chair is in a room and the room is located on the thirtieth floor of a skyscraper in Manhattan. Rolex Company wants to measure the density of its watches which has been bought ...
Understanding Gendered Criminal Involvement With A Community-Based Criminal Sample: Assessing Substance Abuse And Mental Health Needs, Stacy Taylor Western University
Understanding Gendered Criminal Involvement With A Community-Based Criminal Sample: Assessing Substance Abuse And Mental Health Needs, Stacy Taylor
University of Western Ontario - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This study explored the gendered effect of substance abuse and mental health issues on the pathways to criminal convictions with a criminal population in the community setting. The data was retrieved through a file review of a sample of 48 female and 42 male offenders who received crisis care during a one-year period, at a community corrections agency in a medium-sized urban community in Ontario. The data collected was based upon factors derived from the LSI-R (Andrews & Bonta, 1995) and the Women’s Supplemental Risk/Needs Assessment (Van Voorhis, Wright, Salisbury & Bauman, 2010). Results of the present study revealed gender differences with respect to exit disposition, nature of the offense, psychotropic medications, diagnoses, mental health symptoms, substance use and risk factors. It is hoped that information gathered in this study can be utilized to highlight the complex issues offenders face during their reintegration into society; specifically, the multitude of mental health and substance dependence issues that exist in the lives of offenders.
Foreword, I. William Zartman 
Penn State Law
Foreword, I. William Zartman
Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs
No abstract provided.
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