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The Weekly Challenger, August 25, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 25, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Weekly Challenger, August 11, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 11, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 6, 2011, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Nadine Allan-Vaught, Sue Gibbs, Kelsey Henretta, Gabriel Lonsberry, Helmut Mehlhorn, Felicia Walker, and Allison Zangari; Outstanding Graduate - Emily Tocci

Healing Psychosocial Trauma In The Midst Of Truth Commissions: The Case Of Gacaca In Post-Genocide Rwanda, Regine U. King

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Post-conflict governments and multilateral organizations have advocated truth commissions since the end of the Cold War. The mandate of truth commissions has been to combine the rule of law with psychosocial goals in the hope that they will break systemic cycles of violence and facilitate reconciliation. While these com- missions emphasize the dimensions of truth telling, apology, forgiveness, and recon- ciliation, in practice, they are often challenged to fulfill the mandate of healing psychosocial traumas through these dimensions in countries that suffer not only from the traumatic experience of wars and genocide, but also from the multiple psychosocial issues that …

The Weekly Challenger, July 7, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The July 7, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, June 3, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The June 3, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

The Weekly Challenger, May 19, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The May 19, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 6, 2011, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Joanna Fowler

From Fiddler Crabs To A Harbor With Class, Panel 13: Coming Of Age: A Campus Of Regional Significance (1968-1977), James Anthony Schnur

Library and Community-based Exhibits

A panel from the exhibit "From Fiddler Crabs to a Harbor with Class: A History of Bayboro Harbor and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg" celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the university.

Knowing that residents of Pinellas County wanted access to a public university, USF President John S. Allen devised a plan to turn the Bay Campus into a branch of USF that offered commuter students access to upper-level undergraduate and limited graduate programs. A two-plus-two articulation agreement allowed graduates of St. Petersburg Junior College to complete their bachelor's degrees at USF St. Petersburg if the campus supported their …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, April 26, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The April 26, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

African-American Trailblazers: The Sociopolitical Factors Of Success, Tyler B.K. Myers

Honors Thesis and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Violent Video Games On Aggressive Behavior And The Relationship To School Shootings, David Bond

Honors Thesis and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Reflections On The Mass Atrocity Response Operations Project, Alex Alvarez

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

As we become evermore aware of the costs and consequences of genocide and various other human rights abuses, the recognition of the need for more effective prevention and intervention strategies also becomes evermore clear. All too often when out- breaks of violence have occurred, the international community has appeared power- less to prevent it and absolutely ineffective when taking steps to stop the violence and the killing. Perhaps the worst contemporary example of this impotence comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rooted in the destabilizing effects of the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, the Eastern Congo has been …

Author Biographies

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, March 4, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The March 4, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, January 13, 2011, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the January 13, 2011, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Attached as supplemental documents are previous meeting minutes and reports to review before the meeting.

Criminology, 2011-2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2011-2012 for Criminology.

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2010 - 2011, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Technology And Organization: Strategic Intersections And Asymptotes., Christopher Davis

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Although it is commonly assumed or hoped that information systems can be aligned or matched with organizational needs, notions of match, alignment and fit are poorly defined. Nor is the hoped for alignment apparently happening. We argue that it is not in general possible to state an organizational need and then proceed to match it with a suitable technical arrangement. We see needs and technology as co-emergent, and mediated through possibilities. Needs do influence technological development, but those developments, from the very beginning; open up new possibilities, which in turn begin to be re-articulated as needs. Further, technological developments are …

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2010-2011, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the academic year 2010-2011 for public services activities at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Mixed-Species Foraging Aggregation Of Kites In The Nesting Season, Bradley J. Bergstrom, Marvin T. Smith

Oriole

No abstract provided.

Cybercrime Victimization: An Examination Of Individual And Situational Level Factors, Fawn T. Ngo, Raymond Paternoster

Criminology Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications

Using a sample of college students, we apply the general theory of crime and the lifestyle/routine activities framework to assess the effects of individual and situational factors on seven types of cybercrime victimization. The results indicate that neither individual nor situational characteristics consistently impacted the likelihood of being victimized in cyberspace. Self-control was significantly related to only two of the seven types of cybercrime victimizations and although five of the coefficients in the routine activity models were significant, all but one of these significant effects were in the opposite direction to that expected from the theory. At the very least, …

General Strain Theory, Race, And Delinquency, Jennifer Peck

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The present study drew on Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST) to examine the relationship between strain, race, and delinquent behavior. To address this possible association, five hypotheses were tested to examine if different types of strain and stress exposure influence delinquent coping and if these relationships are conditioned by race and ethnicity. Using data from the Add Health Study, White, African American, and Hispanic adolescents, the present study attempts to generalize GST to different racial and ethnic groups.

Results from OLS and negative binomial regression analyses indicate that some support was found for GST, in that indicators of strain to …

General Strain Theory And Juvenile Delinquency: A Cross-Cultural Study, Wen-Hsu Lin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

General strain theory (GST) (Agnew, 1992, 2001, 2006a) is an established criminological theory. Although the theory has been examined by many and enjoys empirical support, some limitations of previous studies need to be addressed. First, previous studies have not incorporated all major types of strain in their models; hence, the effects of these strains on delinquency are unclear. Second, many previous studies did not include negative emotions and even negative emotions other than anger. Finally, and the most serious limitation, many previous studies rely heavily on samples from Western countries, mostly the U.S.; thus, possible cultural influences are ignored. Although …

Report, Focused Report, Volume 1, 2011, Norine Noonan, Margaret Sullivan

SACS Documentation

The "Focused Report" created by the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for reaccreditation purposes by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). This is Volume 1 of 4 with an introduction and items identified by the off-site team.

Developmental Trajectories Of Self-Control: Assessing The Stability Hypothesis, James Vance Ray

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A key proposition of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) self-control theory is the stability hypothesis which suggests that an individual's level of self-control, once established between the ages of 8-10, is stable over the life course. Empirical results from examinations of the stability hypothesis have been mixed. Prior tests of the stability hypothesis have employed aggregate assessment methods (e.g., mean-level and correlational analyses). Such approaches fail to take into account the possibility that individual developmental pathways may differ. This study employs individual longitudinal data over a four year period for 3,249 7^th to 10^th grade subjects to assess the …

Murder And Martial Justice: Spying And Retribution In Wwii America. By Meredith Lentz Adams (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2011), Millard E. Moon Ed.D.

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.

Tarnished Golden Years: Older Offenders With Mental Health Problems And Late Life First Time Offenders, Brianne Stanback

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Older offenders (offenders 50 years and older) are a distinct groups within the U.S. correctional system. Studies 1 and 2 were intended to investigate mental health and stressors among jailed older offenders.

Study 1 examined the prevalence rates of mental health disorders and explored the relationship between mental health disorders and stressors. Participants 50 years and older (N=330) from the 2002 wave of the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ) were studied via descriptive analysis, factor analysis, and a logistic regression to determine which variables were related to the probability of having a mental health problem. 65.8% of participants …

A Multilevel Model Of Police Corruption: Anomie, Decoupling, And Moral Disengagement, Ruth Zschoche

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Police corruption is a primary concern for law enforcement agencies. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that could predict the likelihood of police officer susceptibility to corruption. Data was collected through surveys of 1083 officers within eight U.S. police agencies that were participating in the National Police Research Platform funded by the National Institute of Justice. The data were analyzed using multilevel structural equation and base multilevel models.

The theoretical model for this study addressed susceptibility to corruption on both the departmental (clusters) and individual officer levels. Four main constructs were utilized in this study. Acceptance of …

Mental Health Courts Effectiveness In Reducing Recidivism And Improving Clinical Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis, Brittany Cross

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mental health courts have recently emerged with goals to reduce recidivism and improve clinical outcomes for people with serious mental illness in the criminal justice system. The present study is a review of mental health court literature assessing their effectiveness in reducing recidivism and improving clinical outcomes for participants using meta-analytic techniques. A total of 20 studies that included sufficient information to compute the standardized mean difference effect size, focused on adult populations, and were within the United States were included in the analysis. Only experimental and quasi-experimental research designs were obtained. Using Cohen’s d (1988) guidelines, mental health courts …