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Predictors Of Attitudes Towards Law Enforcement Among Hispanics Living In The U.S.-Mexico Border Region, Ivan Avila

Theses and Dissertations

Previous research has shown that minorities hold negative attitudes towards members of law enforcement. Contact with law enforcement has been shown as a major predictor of attitudes towards law enforcement among minorities. Research on this subject has primarily focused on Blacks’ attitudes towards police. Hispanics have been the focus of only a small amount of research on police contact and attitudes towards law enforcement. This study examined contact and attitudes towards several law enforcement entities: local police, state troopers, and border patrol agents. The current study took place along the U.S.-Mexico border, an area with a high population of Hispanics, …

The Rider (2017-04-17), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.26

The Rider (2017-04-10), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.25

Utrgv Commencement – Spring 2017, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

UTRGV Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact On K-12 School Violence, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

•Many insist on combining all types of school shootings/violence saying they are the same, but: •This could not be further from the truth when examining K-12 school violence historically in the United States •Public mass shootings, university shootings, international shootings, and K-12 school shootings are not the same •They have different catalysts, motivations, types of occurrence, and offenders

A Second Chance: Employers’ Perspectives In Hiring Individuals In Addiction Recovery, Alicia B. Becton, Roy K. Chen, Teresia M. Paul

School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications

There is a constant debate that employers are not adequately prepared to hire individuals in addiction recovery for a number of reasons. Literature suggests lack of awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to interact with individuals in addiction recovery as common factors impacting employment outcomes. The purpose of the study was to use open-ended questions to examine employer perspectives toward hiring individuals in addiction recovery. Furthermore, the authors examined gender, business industry, and employer profession to identify any common factors between groups. Major themes in the study included employability, available supports and resources for business owners, influence of societal biases, and …

The Rider (2017-03-27), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.24

The Rider (2017-03-20), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.23

School Killers Speak: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of School Violence Perpetrators Comments, Gordon A. Crews, Catherine E. Burton, Garrison A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

•A Qualitative Content Analysis (Summative Content Analysis) •various communications (interviews, surveys, holiday cards, and conversations) between the authors and 28 currently incarcerated school violence perpetrators as to their views on the causes of K-12 school violence in America •Extremely Candid and Unique Information •many involved freely offered insights as to their own involvement in incidents •Analytical Units/Categories Discovered •relationship between teachers and students •personal views on such violence (placing of blame/lack of personal guilt) •causes of violence (revenge, mistreatment, hopelessness, environment) •possible solutions

The Rider (2017-02-27), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.21

The Rider (2017-01-23), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.16

The Rider (2017-01-16), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.15

Utrgv Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

UTRGV Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Utrgv Graduate Catalog 2017-2018, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

UTRGV Catalogs

No abstract provided.

School Killers Speak: A Comprehensive Examination Of Traditional School Violence Perpetrators In K-12 American Schools, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Mass Incarceration And Social Issues Of Institutionalization On School Violence In Youths, Stephen C. Stanko, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

In this chapter the authors examine the impact that mass incarceration has had upon children in the United States over the last several decades. Inherent in this examination is to discuss the impact of institutionalization on the propensity of committing violent acts by children. The authors also discuss the impact of these American phenomena on many aspects of juvenile delinquency and violence.

School Killers Speak: A Comprehensive Examination Of Gang-Related School Violence Perpetrators In K-12 American Schools, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The purpose of this work is to examine the perpetrators of acts of school violence in K–12 schools in the United States. It is hoped that this examination will offer new and unique insight into the extremely complex issues surrounding juvenile violence in general and school violence in particular. There have been myriad works categorizing, theorizing, and profiling the causes of these types of events and the offenders who commit them. The problem is that very few have actually sought answers where they lie, from those who actually know why an event happened—the individuals who committed the act. …

School Killers Speak: A Comprehensive Examination Of Associated And/Or Mentally Ill And Non-Associated And/Or Mentally Ill School Violence Perpetrators In K-12 American Schools, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact On K-12 School Violence, Gordon A. Crews, Garrison A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Most researchers insist on combining all school shootings/violence incidents into one type of act and therefore one type of actor and one type of event. However, public mass shootings, university environments, international incidents, and K-12 school shootings and violence are not the same. They have different catalysts, motivations, types of occurrence, and offenders. The research for this work is part of a comprehensive examination of 78 currently incarcerated U.S. K-12 school violence offenders and their acts between 1979 and 2011 in 33 states. Topics examined include: weapons used and injuries incurred, availability of guns, where the gun or weapon …

Prison Stories: A Qualitative Study Of Women’S Experiences In Prison, Lizeth Chapa

Honors Theses

The purpose of this study to provide a meaningful profile of women offenders that will deliver a comprehensive understanding on the problems women face while in prison so that treatment can address these issues. Qualitative methodology, specifically the use of an open-ended questionnaire is used to examine the lives and issues that women in prison face. The sample consists of females who have previously been incarcerated in the state of Texas. They completed a semi-structured open-ended questionnaire in order to assess their perceptions of: (a) factors that contributed to their criminal behaviors, (b) how being incarcerated has positively or negatively …

The Rider (2016-11-28), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.13

The Rider (2016-11-14), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.12

The Rider (2016-10-17), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.8

The Rider (2016-10-10), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.2 No.7

Utrgv Commencement – Fall 2016, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley

UTRGV Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Reassurance Or Reason For Concern: Security Forces As A Crisis Management Strategy, Oliver Cruz-Milán, Joseph J. Simpson, Penny M. Simpson, Wonseok Choi

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

This paper examines effects of the deployment of security forces to a popular winter migrant destination faced with a unique humanitarian crisis situation. The study surveyed past winter migrants to the region to evaluate their perceptions regarding sociocultural, economic, and psychological impacts of security forces deployed to the region. In addition, this study evaluates the deployment's impact on satisfaction with life in the region, return intention and likelihood of recommending the region to others to find that perceived safety from the security forces significantly affected community factors and that satisfaction with life fully mediated community factor effects on destination loyalty. …

School Killers Speak: A Comprehensive Examination Of Perpetrators, Events, And Characteristics Of K-12 School Violence In America, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This book resulted as part of a comprehensive and ongoing research project investigating the causes of K–12 school violence and disturbance in America. Between 2008 and 2012, all publicly available lists and news reports were scoured to obtain a population of names of perpetrators who committed violence on kindergarten to 12th-grade school property or at a school function since the 1700s (approximately 500-plus incidents initially identified).

Then the deceased, released, un-adjudicated, and otherwise un-locatable individuals were eliminated from the sample (decreasing cases to approximately 120 incidents). Finally, state correctional systems were extensively searched to determine the number of these offenders …

Mexican Armed Forces And Security In Mexico, Tony Payan, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Public Affairs and Security Studies Faculty Publications

For nearly 40 years, Mexico's armed forces have been engaged in tasks more closely aligned with public safety than national security. This issue brief examines the challenges of assigning internal security duties to the military and argues for a new law that governs the country's safety and security.

The Spatial And Temporal Distribution Of Residential Burglary In Brownsville, South Texas, Sonia Figueredo

Theses and Dissertations

The study utilized existing theories, including the pattern theory/environmental criminology, and the routine activities and lifestyles theories and also existing technology to examine the spatial and temporal patterning and variations in residential burglary, the processes that produce this type of burglary, and its incidence rates among the twelve law enforcement zones (PPZ’s) in the South Texas border city of Brownsville from 2006 to 2014. The data and information for the thesis were the raw Brownsville Police Department (BPD) data on residential burglary incidents that showed the addresses where, and the times, days, months and years when the incidents occurred. The …

Undocumented And Unaccompanied Latino Youth Who Are Exposed To Violence Are More Likely To Turn To Crime To Overcome Disadvantage., Marika Dawkins-Cavazos, Frank Anthony Rodriguez

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Recent years have seen growing concern over the increasing number of unaccompanied youth arriving at the US-Mexico border. But despite this concern, such undocumented youth have been an understudied group. In new research, Marika Dawkins and Frank A. Rodriguez interviewed undocumented and unaccompanied Latino youth living at the US-Mexico border. They find that members of this group who experience pervasive violence may be more likely to commit crimes in order to overcome personal hardships.