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Young Adults’ Community Trust And Participation In A Community Service Center In Indonesia, Adhytiawarman Gautama Putra

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In the field of national security, Indonesia has community service centers known as the community police communication forum, or FKPM, an informal institution formed by community members to assist the police in implementing community policing (CP). FKPM can be found in various regions of Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to obtain the opinions of young adult members about FKPM regarding their trust and participation in FKPM activities. Fifteen active FKPM members participated in telephone interviews. The results showed that the young adults in this study believed in FKPM but lacked information about FKPM programs and activities in their …

Effects Of Intervention And Prevention Programs On Youth Risk-Taking Behavior In Monroe County, Audrey D. Davis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Crime committed by adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 is a recurring issue in the United States. Research showed a number of contributing factors associated with youth risk-taking behaviors and juvenile delinquency. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to improve the understanding of the relationship between intervention and prevention programs and curbing risk-taking and delinquency among adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 in Monroe County, New York. This study addressed the connection between modern theories of deviance and programs of juvenile delinquency intervention as conceptualized by Chapman as the theoretical framework. Using intrinsic case …

ความท้าทายในการบังคับใช้กฎหมายในการควบคุมการชุมนุมสาธารณะในช่วงการแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนา 2019: มุมมองผู้บังคับใช้กฎหมายในพื้นที่สถานีตำรวจนครบาลดินแดง, พรรณิดา ศรีเลิศชัยวัฒน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ในช่วงปี พ.ศ. 2562 - 2565 มีการชุมนุมเกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย ทั้งในเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร และจังหวัดอื่น ๆ เป็นจำนวนมาก อีกทั้งยังมีการออกมาชุมนุมของกลุ่มเยาวชนที่เพิ่มสูงขึ้นรวมถึงเกิดสถานการณ์การแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนา 2019 ด้วย งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาแนวทางการบังคับใช้กฎหมายเกี่ยวกับการปฏิบัติของเจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจในการควบคุมการชุมนุมสาธารณะในช่วงการแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนา 2019 และ 2) เสนอแนวทางในการเพิ่มประสิทธิผลในการบังคับใช้กฎหมายในการควบคุมการชุมนุมสาธารณะในช่วงการแพร่ระบาดของโรคติดเชื้อไวรัสโคโรนา 2019 ผลการศึกษาพบว่า การบังคับใช้ พ.ร.บ.ชุมนุมสาธารณะ พ.ศ. 2558 และข้อกำหนดตามมาตรา 9 แห่ง พ.ร.ก.ฉุกเฉิน พ.ศ. 2548 ส่งผลให้เจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจต้องใช้ดุลยพินิจของตนเองในการควบคุมการชุมนุมสาธารณะ และข้อกำหนดดังกล่าวยังตัดทอนกระบวนการต่าง ๆ เกี่ยวกับการชุมนุมโดยสงบและปราศจากอาวุธ นำไปสู่การควบคุมการชุมนุมสาธารณะในหลายพื้นที่ รวมถึงพื้นที่รับผิดชอบของสถานีตำรวจนครบาลดินแดง ซึ่งเป็นจุดสำคัญที่กลุ่มเยาวชนมักมาชุมนุมไม่เป็นไปตามหลักความสมดุลระหว่างความมั่นคงของรัฐ และความปลอดภัยของประชาชน นอกจากนี้ข้อกำหนดดังกล่าวยังทำให้เจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจขาดกรอบอันเป็นขั้นตอนการปฏิบัติ และเสี่ยงต่อการถูกฟ้องดำเนินคดี ข้อเสนอแนะคือรัฐควรให้แนวทางการดำเนินงานที่ชัดเจนมากขึ้น เพื่อเลี่ยงการใช้ดุลยพินิจ ซึ่งเป็นอัตวิสัยส่วนบุคคลอันสามารถนำไปสู่ข้อโต้แย้งและผลทางกฎหมายอื่น ๆ ตามมา

บทบาทของนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรรที่มีต่อการจัดบริการสาธารณะด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยกรณีศึกษาหมู่บ้านจัดสรรลดาวัลย์ ศรีนครินทร์ จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ, อิทธิ อินทามระ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1) เพื่อศึกษาบทบาทของนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรรต่อการจัดบริการสาธารณะด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยในหมู่บ้านจัดสรรด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยในหมู่บ้านจัดสรร 2) เพื่อนำเสนอแนวทางการพัฒนาการจัดบริการสาธารณะด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยของนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรร การวิจัยนี้ใช้ระเบียบวิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลจากเอกสารที่เกี่ยวข้องและการสัมภาษณ์กลุ่มผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียในการจัดบริการสาธารณะด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยภายในหมู่บ้านจัดสรร จำนวน 12 คน ผลการศึกษาพบว่า บทบาทของนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรรต่อการจัดบริการสาธารณะด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย ประกอบด้วย การบริหารจัดการระบบรักษาความปลอดภัยภายในหมู่บ้านจัดสรร และการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย การบริหารจัดการระบบรักษาความปลอดภัยภายในหมู่บ้านจัดสรร ได้แก่ การกำหนดนโยบายและกฎเกณฑ์ด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย และการว่าจ้างเจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัย ในขณะที่การใช้จ่ายงบประมาณด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัยเป็นไปอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพโดยยึดถือผลประโยชน์สูงสุดของสมาชิกนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรร และมีการเยียวยาผู้ได้รับผลกระทบจากการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย และกลุ่มผู้มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียมีความพอใจต่อการใช้จ่ายงบประมาณด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย ส่วนปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการรักษาความปลอดภัย ได้แก่ งบประมาณด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย การฝึกอบรมและพัฒนาทักษะของเจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัย และการนำเทคโนโลยีมาใช้ในการรักษาความปลอดภัย ข้อเสนอแนะ คือ ควรเปิดโอกาสให้สมาชิกนิติบุคคลหมู่บ้านจัดสรรมีส่วนร่วมในการกำหนดนโยบายด้านการรักษาความปลอดภัย

Beyond Bostock: Implications For Lgbtq+ Theory And Practice., Sean Mccandless, Nicole M. Elias

Publications and Research

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County is a landmark piece of case law that offers fundamental rights to LGBT persons. This essay reflects on how this case arrived at the Supreme Court and its implications for theory and praxis. The overall conclusion is that cautious optimism is warranted.

Visa Fraud In The Commercial Sex Market In The United States: An Overview, Youngbee Dale

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

This paper describes various fraudulent visas used by criminals operating in the U.S. sex market. Studies show that many foreign women exploited through commercial sex rely on visa brokers to enter the U.S. However, scholars have not investigated various visa brokers and the techniques they use to bring foreign women into U.S. prostitution as a whole. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an overview of the different types of fraudulent visas and criminal techniques used in the U.S. sex market. In doing so, this paper relies on both primary and secondary sources, such as interviews with both survivors and U.S. …

Threat Assessment Team Activity And Outcomes In K-12 Public Schools: Integrating Methods To Better Understand School Safety, Jessica C. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

The use of threat assessment teams in schools is recommended as a violence prevention measure in K-12 public schools. The present study focused on the threat assessment process in the K-12 environment in Virginia and is the first to examine the association between threat assessment and school safety in tandem over time and the first to incorporate the views of K-12 threat assessment practitioners. Findings from this study demonstrate that while the number of threat assessments has increased overtime, threat assessment practitioners identified numerous concerns regarding threat assessment training, expressed doubts about fidelity to the recommended process, and revealed an …

Legislative Factors That Influence The Creation Of Sex Offender Laws In Pennsylvania, Julie E. Wagner

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractNonviolent sexual offenders are known to have lesser risk of reoffense than their violent sexual offender counterparts; however, both categories of sexual offenders are contained within the same registry in Pennsylvania, without indication of the differences in the nature of their crimes. It was not known why Pennsylvania’s laws require all sex offenders to be listed in one homogenous group. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify the factors legislators use to determine how a sex offense crime is categorized in legislative decisions in Pennsylvania. Social construction theory served as the theoretical foundation for the study. Data …

Indigenous Women: Violence, Vulnerability And Cultural Protective Factors, Christina M. Agloinga

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The disproportionate rates of violent crimes, historical oppression, and cultural assimilation disrupted the traditional practices and belief system within Alaskan Native communities, thus changing the influence of protective factors that support balance and equality for women. Identifying protective factors provided by cultural practices that support resiliency provides an increased understanding of how cultural strengths can combat distorted stereotypes within the criminal justice system. This study included characteristics of a phenomenological, narrative, and ethnographic study. The social constructionist framework and the social construction of target populations theory was used to explore how traditional cultural practices can influence the current gender identity, …

A Study Of Public Awareness About The Threat Of Earthquakes, Mike Allen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Noticeably absent from the existing literature was a correlation study which would have gauged individual awareness for earthquakes. The literature search provided one quantifiable narrative that correlated college education with awareness about earthquakes; the study found that college graduates scored higher points on the awareness test for earthquakes than their counterparts who had no college education. The research question for this study examined the possible correlations between personal characteristics and awareness about earthquakes. A survey was developed and used to find hypothesized correlations between public awareness and a number of variables such as age, gender, education, income, and professional leadership. …

The Impact Of Community Churches And Barbershops On Preventive Care Utilization Among African American Men, Quiante Chappell Hager

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Preventive health care screening plays an essential role in reducing chronic diseases and mortality rates; yet, even as health care access has increased, African American men’s utilization of preventive screenings remains low in rural areas. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate why African American men are not utilizing preventive care services and ascertaining the impact that social determinants may have on their utilization of these services. The theoretical framework of this research study comprised the social-ecological modal and health belief model to investigate the barriers to preventive care utilization in the African American community. Twelve African …

Exploring Factors That Prepare Nigeria Police Officers For Performance Improvement, Lanre Ogunlowo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Police officers in Lagos State, Nigeria lack information on how to prepare for performance improvement that may enhance their knowledge on the requisite skills needed to protect lives and property. The purpose of the study was to understand this problem, and the central research question for the study was used to address how police officers may enhance their knowledge on the requisite skills necessary to protect lives and property in Lagos State, Nigeria. This qualitative exploratory case study used human competence model as extension of behavioral engineering system and recruited 15 participants. Yin’s five steps of (a) data compilation, (b) …

Gun Control: Republican Views For Common Ground, Ruth Yazmin Molina

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractPublic and political opinion regarding gun regulation in the United States are sharply split across the political divide. The purpose of this research was to determine the common ground among the Republican Party supporters concerning gun control legislations in the United States. The frame for the study poised into determining in what ways does an affiliation to the Republican Party influence a supporters’ views on state and federal gun laws and if members of the Republican Party believe that a common ground may exist with Democrats for passable gun control legislation. Partisan motivated reasoning theory was used to frame the …

Covid-19 Governance, Legitimacy, And Sustainability: Lessons From The Australian Experience, Michael Lester, Marie Dela Rama, Julie Crews

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

During 2020, Australia managed the global and systemic COVID-19 crisis successfully as measured by health and economic indicators. It marshalled the government’s delivery capacity to control the health crisis and put in place measures to offset the induced economic and social costs. At the same time, the crisis revealed long-standing structural weaknesses in a small, democratic, wealthy, and economically successful country that raised questions about post COVID resilience and sustainability. This paper examines that experience by applying a “co-production” governance model that sees success in “crisis management” as the striking of a balance between government capacity and its legitimacy in …

Board Of Trustees Minutes, Dec. 11 2020, Indiana State University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees

No abstract provided.

Analysis And Countermeasures On Ship Failures During Navigation In The Cjk Fairway Based On The Fta Method, Xin Zhuang

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

No abstract provided.

The Killingly Mascot Case Study, Jordan Lumpkins

School of Professional Studies

In the summer of 2019, in Killingly, Connecticut the local Board of Education voted to retire the "Redmen" mascot name it had used for nearly a century. This legislation was widely opposed and received extensive media coverage. Within a few months, the town experienced a massive political referendum where several local Board of Education members and Councilmen were replaced by single issue politicians promising to reinstate the "Redmen" name. Now holding a majority on the Board of Education, these Board members made Killingly the first school in U.S. history to reinstate a mascot after being deemed "derogatory."

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Learning Before And During The Covid-19 Outbreak: A Comparative Analysis Of Crisis Learning In South Korea And The Us, Seulki Lee, Jungwon Yeo, Chongmin Na

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Learning is imperative in government responses to crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the South Korean and United States governments’ responses to COVID-19 from a comparative perspective. The analysis focuses on crisis learning conducted before and during the COVID-19 outbreak, using the conceptual categories of intercrisis/intracrisis learning and single-/double-loop learning. The findings suggest that double-loop, intercrisis learning allows for more effective crisis management by (re)developing a common operating framework. The efficacy of learning is enhanced when double-loop learning is followed by single-loop learning that embeds new structures and operational procedures. The findings also suggest that intercrisis learning facilitates …

Backlogged Or Logjammed? An Analysis Of The Patterns That Surround The Rape Kit Backlog Across Jurisdictions, Elizabeth Dowd

Political Science Undergraduate Honors Theses

Untested rape kits sit in crime labs, hospitals, evidence lockers, or storage facilities untouched. In the worst-case scenarios, rape kits have been thrown out of police storage before the statute of limitations had expired. A major public policy problem is developing as these kits stack up and create a backlog. The primary problem with the rape kit backlog is that all victims are not receiving justice. To solve the problem, the backlog of rape kits needs further exploration and analysis. If a pattern can be established about why the problem is occurring, then policies can be constructed and implemented to …

Equity In Program Evaluation: Equity As A Measure In Program Evaluation, Marco S. Thomas

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Nonprofit Studies Capstone Projects

Changes to equity and inclusion mean, not only including, but also valuing, and sharing power with, community members and stakeholders of various backgrounds. In addition to race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender identity, physical and mental abilities, as well as where they intersect, should be represented throughout the entire evaluation process. Countless surveys make assumptions about communities without knowing the culture of the community. This study explores where equity does and does not exist, in the process of creating and conducting the evaluations that are used to measure the successful execution of nonprofit programs. The inclusion of program participants and …

Stability Operations In Ww Ii: Insights And Lessons, Raymond A. Millen

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Racial Disparities In Traffic Enforcement, Mike Dolan Fliss

PSU Transportation Seminars

Law enforcement traffic stops are one of the most common entryways to the US justice system, with significant downstream impacts for both individuals and communities. Group-specific rates are typically based on jurisdiction resident populations; these rates, like many justice-system indicators, demonstrate race-ethnicity disparities. Residential-based rates implicitly assume race-ethnicity groups have equal vehicle access, equal driving volume, and that all driving occurs in resident’s jurisdictions. In contrast, surveys suggest Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic households have less access and drive less than white non-Hispanic households. Models incorporating US Census data and race-ethnicity driving factors from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey showed …

Life After A Pandemic, Vito Zazo

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

This paper is a research paper designed to explain how Covid-19 is a wicked problem. I talk about the symptoms that Covid-19 can cause and how this disease does not affect everyone the same way. I talk about the death count from Covid-19 and the statistics behind it. I then talk about how the news has not informed the people correctly on how to prevent the spread of the virus and how it is being handled, because all major news networks are fueled by political views. I talk about the bipartisan views our country has and why it is so …

Management Of Frequent Ed Users By Community Paramedics Improves Patient Experiences And Reduces Ems Utilization, Oluwakemi Aiyedun Adio, Laura Ikuma, Sonja Wiley

Patient Experience Journal

This study examined a suburban emergency medical system (EMS)-led community paramedicine (CP) program in terms of adherence to protocol, patient-paramedic interactions, patient experience, and cost. Participants (n=57) are frequent emergency department (ED) users (≥ 4 ED visits/year), with a mean age of 59.8±17.6 years and have multiple chronic conditions. Of these, 36 completed a modified Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG-CAHPS) survey at 3- and 6-months following program enrollment. The main outcome measures were adherence to intake goals; types, modes, and frequencies of CP interventions; CG-CAHPS patient experience scores; and cost savings. Cost savings compared …

Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review Of Research Evidence, Charles Branas, Shani Buggs, Jeffrey A. Butts, Anna Harvey, Erin M. Kerrison, Tracey Meares, Andrew V. Papachristos, John Pfaff, Alex R. Piquero, Joseph Richardson Jr., Caterina Gouvis Roman, Daniel Webster

Publications and Research

Arnold Ventures sought to review the research evidence for violence reduction strategies that do not rely on law enforcement. The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center (JohnJayREC) and an expert group of researchers from public policy, criminology, law, public health, and social science fields conducted the scan. The research group members worked collaboratively to identify, translate, and summarize the most critical and actionable studies.

Health Have, Health Have Nots In A Time Of Covid-19, Sandro Galea

Center for Policy Research

In this brief, my goal is to talk about something which has animated a lot of my thinking and writing in the past decade. It is how our health is fundamentally socially patterned and reflects the world around us. This has been true for decades in this country, and one could also argue, globally, however this brief will focus on this topic at the national level. As you will see, I will talk mostly of health haves and health have nots in general, but as we progress, show how COVID-19 has made this evermore apparent.

The Paradox Of Power In Conflict Dynamics, Daniel Rothbart

Peace and Conflict Studies

In recent decades the political state has been implicated in genocide, mass violence, political oppression, and targeted deprivations. Yet, in the field of conflict analysis, the meaning of state “power over” in conflict settings is under-theorized. In this article I probe the conceptual depths of state power to show that such power is neither singular nor simple. It’s neither ahistorical nor asocial. Beneath the surface of the state’s wide-ranging practices of governing its political subjects is a fundamental paradox that juxtaposes the state’s authority as the rightful authority over its subjects against the state’s vulnerability to potentially de-stabilizing threats to …

Opinions And Perceptions Of Residents In New York City Public Housing: More Findings From Household Surveys In Map Communities And Non-Map Communities. Map Evaluation Update Number 6., Gina Moreno, Jeffrey A. Butts, Hans Erickson

Publications and Research

This is the sixth of six updates presenting interim findings from the evaluation of the NYC Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). Researchers conducted surveys of residents in housing developments operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), half involved in MAP and half not involved. The survey measured opinions and perceptions about public safety and resident well-being. Surveys were conducted well after the 2014 launch of MAP, but the data allowed the study to examine differences between MAP and non-MAP communities.

Raise The Seawalls: Local Governments & Flood Protection, Felix Stetsenko

Undergraduate Economic Review

Rising seas and more frequent and severe storms are increasing the risks and costs of flooding. Using 2009-2018 data for the U.S. state of Florida from FEMA’s Community Rating System program (CRS), which scores participating local governments on their flood risk mitigation activities: I study (1) whether increasing flood risks have led to increases in program participation and score among Florida towns and cities; (2) what risk, fiscal, and demographic factors are driving local governments to invest in CRS-recognized flood risk mitigation measures; and (3) the association between CRS measures and home values.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, Oct. 23 2020, Indiana State University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees

No abstract provided.