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Cultural Awareness Sensitivity Training, William L. Underwood

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In this study, employees of the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky; the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota; and the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan were surveyed to determine the need for a Cultural Awareness Sensitivity Training program for staff within the United States Bureau of Prisons. In addition, if the need for this program was established, the Cultural Awareness Study was formulated to determine the scope and breadth of the coverage of the program. The respondents were asked to answer 72 questions in the following areas: (1) diversity training; (2) need assessment; (3) staff demographics; (4) inmate …

Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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City Of Indianapolis V. Edmond: The Constitutionality Of Drug Interdiction Checkpoints, Ann Mulligan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Foreword: Terrorism And Utilitarianism: Lessons From, And For, Criminal Law, Paul Butler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Effects Of Administrative Factors On Police Officer Job Performance, Irick Anthony Geary Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The topic of police management and its effect on officer arrest rates is an important issue that has not received the level of attention it deserves. There is an abundance of available training and a push for better trained police executives. In the present study the relationship between police administrative factors and officer arrest rates are addressed using data from a national probability sample of police departments.

The study uses ordinary least squares regression to analyze the independent relationship between police administrative factors, as measured by the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, and officer arrest rates, as measured by …

Characteristics Of Recidivism Among Intensive And Regular Probationers., Jennifer Joseph

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined characteristics of 100 intensive probationers and 100 regular probationers to have a better understanding of why some probationers recidivate and others do not. Logistic analysis was used to analyze the following variables: age, race, gender, employment status, level of education, convicted offense, prior misdemeanor arrests, prior felony arrests, history of drug abuse, and type of probation. It was discovered that age, prior misdemeanor arrests, and offender category were significant variables correlated to recidivism. These findings are consistent with prior research and provide information that can be helpful to probation and parole officers in their supervision of offenders …

From Correctional Custody To Community: The Massachusetts Forensic Transition Program, Stephanie W. Hartwell, Donna Haig Friedman, Karin Orr

New England Journal of Public Policy

Offenders with mental illness who are serving correctional sentences are released to the community.Without support systems linking their transition to community-based programs following release from prison, the services necessary for their community reintegration are often fragmented and attenuated. Nearly two thirds of all inmates return to prison, and offenders with mental illness face major challenges during reintegration and have an even more difficult time living in the community without specialized, informed services. This article describes a Massachusetts program designed to bridge the transition of offenders with mental illness from incarceration to the community.The authors review historical and recent trends that …

Fourth Amendment Privacy Interests, William C. Heffernan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Anti-Prostitution Zones: Justifications For Abolition, Sandra L. Moser

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Back-Door To Prison: Waiver Reform, Blended Sentencing, And The Law Of Unintended Consequences, Marcy R. Podkopacz, Barry C. Feld

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Tailoring Of Statutory Bubble Zones: Balancing Free Speech And Patient's Rights, Kristen G. Cowan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Miranda's Exceptions In A Post-Dickerson World, Susan R. Klein

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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The Douglas County Drug Court: A Comparison Of Recidivism Rates Between Drug Court Participants And Traditionally Adjudicated Drug Offenders, Erika Davis Frenzel

Student Work

Over the years there have been large increases in the number of drug offenders arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to prison. These increases have lead to an overload of the criminal justice system. This overload prompted states to develop new responses to substance use and drug-related crime. One such innovation is the drug treatment court, which combines accountability and treatment. The goal of these courts is to reduce recidivism and substance use among drug-involved criminal offenders. This study uses data from Douglas County (Nebraska) to compare recidivism rates for participants in the Douglas County Drug Court and traditionally adjudicated drug offenders. …

Alternatives To Incarceration For Substance Abusing Female Defendants/Offenders In Massachusetts, 1996-1998, Carol Hardy-Fanta, Sylvia Mignon

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

In July 1997, the Massachusetts State Legislature, recognizing the challenge presented by the problem of substance abuse for women in the criminal justice system, authorized funds to the Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Abuse Services for a study of substance using female offenders to be conducted by the John W. McCormack Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Since March 1998, a group of researchers at the McCormack Institute and the Criminal Justice Center at UMass Boston has gathered and analyzed a wealth of quantitative and qualitative information on women offenders in Massachusetts.

This information includes data from …

Helping Children Through The Juvenile Justice Syste: A Guide For Utah Defense Attorneys, Paul Wake

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Law Enforcement Professionalization: The Accreditation Of Law Enforcement, Angel D. Geoghagan

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Rapid social change has led many law enforcement agencies to explore various options that would serve to enhance service delivery, department credibility within communities, and overall professionalism. From a historical perspective, professionalism has been an elusive state for law enforcement agencies ever since the inception of the first police department. A search for such professionalism has taken a turn toward accreditation. Accreditation for law enforcement was studied to determine if the process enhanced the perceived level of credibility and professionalism enjoyed by police departments in the southeastern states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Three hundred …

Big Brother And His Science Kit: Dna Databases For 21st Century Crime Control, Paul E. Tracy, Vincent Morgan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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A Comparison Of The Establishment Of The Organizational Structure Of A Citizen Review Board At The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department And The City And County Of Denver Public Safety Review Commission, Glenn Glover

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The study focuses on the issue of establishing a citizen review board at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) for the purpose of reviewing allegations of misconduct. With the recent increase of police officer misconduct the LVMPD has come under a great deal of scrutiny by residents of the community. The credibility of the department has been jeopardized as a result of the current complaint investigations process which is conducted by the Internal Affairs Bureau. Community activist have demanded that a citizen review board be established to investigate complaints of police misconduct. The purpose of setting up a citizen …

Broadly Speaking - November, 1999, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

No abstract provided.

A Law Enforcement Program For The State Of Illinois, Earl H. De Long, Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Public Safety V. Individual Civil Liberties: The Prosecutor's Stand, Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Liberty Interested In The Preventive State: Procedural Due Process And Sex Offender Community Notification Laws, Wayne A. Logan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Something About Carry: Supreme Court Broadens The Scope Of 18 U.S.C. 924(C), Lynn Marsella

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Tributes To Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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More About Public Safety V. Individual Civil Liberties, Fred E. Inbau

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Broadly Speaking - August 24, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Ua12/8 Scrapbook, Wku Police

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook of public safety related clippings.

Crime In Public Housing: Clarifying Research Issues, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Tamara Dumanovsky, J. Phillip Thompson, Garth Davies

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, crime and public housing have been closely linked in our political and popular cultures. Tragic episodes of violence have reinforced the notion that public housing is a milieu with rates of victimization and offending far greater than other locales. However, these recent developments belie the complex social and political evolution of public housing from its origins in the 1930s, through urban renewal, and into the present.

Stereotypes abound about public housing, its management, residents, and crime rates. In reality, variation is the norm, and it is these variations that affect crime. The study of crime in public …

Exluding Automobile Passengers From Fourth Amendment Protection, Jenny L. Riggs

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Volunteerism And The Decline Of Violent Crime, Warren Friedman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.