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Nsse16 Student Comments (Uno), National Survey Of Student Engagement

NSSE

The final page of the NSSE survey asked students to respond to the following question in an open text box:

"If you have any additional comments or feedback that you'd like to share on the quality of your educational experience, please type them below."

Access And Barriers To Services For Dependent And Non-Dependent Commercially Sexually Exploited Children In Florida, Brianna O'Steen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“Human trafficking” has become part of the everyday lexicon in the United States and globally over the last fifteen years. The issue has made its way into political platforms, scholarly work, church congregations, and international aid agendas. Florida is currently recognized as third in the nation for number of cases of human trafficking. This thesis employs ethnographic interviews and observations to understand one portion of Florida’s human trafficking problem referred to as domestic minor sex trafficking. This type of trafficking affects mostly teenage girls from marginalized populations, such as those that have experienced the child welfare system, homelessness, and impoverished …

Disentangling The Effects Of Violent Subculture And Structure: A Multi-Level Analysis Of Race-Specific Gun Violence In Urban U.S. Counties, Rick Dierenfeldt

Theses and Dissertations

A large number of studies have examined the contextual level influence of firearm availability on firearm-related violence, yet extant literature has failed to simultaneously consider the effects of structure, culture, and firearm availability on the likelihood of firearm violence. The current study adds to the literature by engaging the use of race- and offense-specific non-linear multi-level analyses to examine the relative influence of structure, violent subculture, firearm availability, and incident characteristics on the likelihood of firearm use during aggravated assaults and robberies. Drawing upon data contained in the National Incident Based Reporting System, American Community Survey, and Wide-Ranging Online Data …

An Application Of General Strain Theory To Recidivism In Arkansas: A Multilevel Study, Brittani Mcneal

Theses and Dissertations

Prior research has focused on individual- and community-level factors in examining recidivism. Additionally, recidivism research has not applied criminological theory to explain recidivism, however, community-level measures have been constructed from social disorganization theory on recidivism. With a spotlight on individual characteristics and the community, potential factors from the institutional environment are limited in research, in addition to, the application of theory. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the effects strain on recidivism and time to recidivism across prison in Arkansas by applying general strain theory. Specifically, the current study used male offenders released in 2011 who were housed …

Technology Doesn't Change The Need For Legal Protection, Kami N. Chavis

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

We Are…Marshall, July 13, 2016, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

How We Move Beyond Dallas, Spencer Overton, Kami Chavis

Popular Media

Calls for healing and reconciliation in the wake of recent racial violence overlook the substantive, concrete steps that experts say would help forestall the next police tragedy.

Correctional Nursing: Described From The Perspective Of Nurses Working In A Maximum Security Correctional Hospital, Paula Stangeland, Veronica Kwarteng-Amaning

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016 and Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of nurses as they work in a maximum security acute care hospital. The thematic findings may be used to inform future research studies, and the development of future policies that address nurses' needs, and staffing guidelines. Methods: A qualitative design, descriptive Husserlian phenomenological methodology was the most appropriate approach to address the research questions. Qualitative research entails broad questions regarding human experiences and realities studied through interactions with people in their natural environments, which in-turn generates rich, …

Experiences Of Professional Nurses In Caring For Psychiatric Patients With Dual Diagnosis, Mofatiki Eva Manyedi, Joan Mologadi Dikobe

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016:

Purpose: Dual diagnosis is a serious concern in the whole world and very little is known about the care of psychiatric patients with dual diagnosis (Phillips, McKeown & Sandford, 2010). Dual diagnosis implies that psychiatric disorders occur at the same time, or one follows the other and eventually, it is difficult to tell which occurred first (Fortinash & Worret, 2012). The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of professional nurses in caring for psychiatric patients with dual diagnosis in order to make recommendations that could assist them in …

Community Leadership And Health Promotion: Lessons From Rural South Africa, Wilson Majee, Lydia Aziato, Karien Jooste

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016, Sunday, July 24, 2016:

Purpose: Rural communities have continued to face a complex set of challenges: geographic isolation, high levels of poverty, sparse and declining human population, as well as loss of jobs and economic opportunities. These factors create two big challenges for rural communities -- continued rural urban migration of predominantly young people and a pool of disengaged youth among those that stay. Because of this, rural communities have a greater human capital need for more leaders. Though actively engaging community leaders in building programs and policies that consider equity and liveability …

Hate Crime Laws To Protect Police Are Misguided, Kami Chavis

Popular Media

JURIST Guest Columnist Kami N. Chavis of Wake Forest University School of Law discusses the recent proposals to add police officers to hate crime statutes.

Potyviral Genome-Linked Protein And Its Interaction With Plant Defense Ribosome Inactivating Protein From Phytolacca Americana, Artem V. Domashevskiy

Publications and Research

Agriculture is an indispensable part of every person’s life, ensuring that nutritious and inexpensive food is readily available. Agriculture continues to be confronted with epidemics, having devastating effects on economies and the plant sources essential for human and animal life. Plants and their pathogens have developed evolutionary adaptations, each shaping the other’s defence and invasive strategies. Many different plants produce toxic ribosome inactivating proteins that aid in their defence mechanisms against pathogenic invaders. Viruses must adapt to the host translational machinery, several having evolved to include viral genome-linked proteins that carry numerous viral functions. Here, we review how a potyviral …

Motivation For Change In Heroin And Opiate Users, Andrew W. Peterson, Sarah Callahan, Leonard A. Jason

DePaul Discoveries

Opioid and heroin abuse is a continuing problem in the United States that has been increasing dramatically since 2000. Common treatment programs tend to use methadone and behavioral therapies that do not focus on motivational factors despite the research suggesting it is an important element to treatment retention and sustained abstinence. Motivation for the purposes of this study is defined as an individual’s inner reasons for change. The current study focused on differences in motivation for change among different substance abusers. We found that opiate and heroin abusers had higher motivational scores in comparison to other substance abusers. These results …

Tucker V. State Respondent's Brief 2 Dckt. 43922

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill Of Rights Act: Perceptions Of High School Administrators On Implementing The Law, Christopher C. Irving

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The purpose of this study was to examine the 2011 New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (NJAB) and its perceived impact on urban school districts. Through a series of interviews with 16 participants from three urban school districts in New Jersey, the researcher sought to examine if those charged with implementing the NJAB have deemed the law and its requirements effective. The interviews were conducted with NJAB- mandated Anti-Bullying Specialists for each of the schools that participated in the study. The Anti-Bullying Specialists are the staff members in each school who are responsible for the implementation of the NJAB, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 01, July 11, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

New Computer And Information Sciences Degree Program At Uab Is First In The State, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

An Insurance-Based Typology Of Police Misconduct, John Rappaport

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

An Insurance-Based Typology Of Police Misconduct, John Rappaport

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Source Newsletter, Yolanda Carr, Kem Mendizabal

The Source

No abstract provided.

July 9, 2016 (Pages 3625-3778), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 46 (2016)

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 9-10, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Change Management Plan Of College Admissions Policies And Support For Ex-Offender Students, Richard Louis

Student Articles

In assignment one, the writer reviewed the literature regarding the issue of colleges, universities, or any institution of higher education utilizing criminal background checks to assist in making admissions decisions. Currently, 66% of 273 colleges and universities conduct background checks into prospective students and 25% of those institutions would automatically disqualify the student from an admission if an offense is discovered (Ramaswamy, 2015). The writer’s current place of employment which is an institution of higher education (a community college) does make an inquiry at the time of initial application as well as an application for re-entry of one’s criminal justice …

Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: America's Cycle Of Violence 7-8-16, Michael Yelnosky

Law School Blogs

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The Role Of Gender In Self-Control And Intimate Partner Violence, Laura Marie Gulledge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the interrelationships between gender, self-control and intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample consists of 960 undergraduate and graduate university students who are currently in a dating relationship. A series of bivariate and multivariate analyses are used to: 1) determine if self-control and IPV vary across gender and 2) assess the effect of gender on the relationship between self-control and IPV. Overall, results provide partial support for Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) general theory of crime. Self-control operated similarly on IPV for both males and females, supporting the gender-neutrality of their theory. However, the gender gap in crime, …

Does Gender Still Matter? Child Custody Bias In The Illinois Family Court System, Derek K. Ronnfeldt

Theses and Dissertations

Over the last several decades, nearly all of the states have formed task forces to look at the perception of a gender bias within the family court systems as they pertain to child custody. This self-scrutiny has included the attitudes of judges and attorneys within the system and the need of reform of our family courts. This research focused on replicating a study conducted by Dotterweich and McKinney that was completed in 2000 that compiled statistics from four different state task forces in Maryland, Missouri, Texas, and Washington. This research focused on Illinois judges and attorneys, using the same questions …

Crime, Morality, And Republicanism, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

One of the abiding concerns of the philosophy of law has been to establish the relationship between law and morality. Within the criminal law, this concern often takes the form of debates over legal moralism--that is, "the position that immorality is sufficient for criminalization" (Alexander 2003: 131). This paper approaches these debates from the perspective of the recently revived republican tradition in politics and law. Contrary to what is usually taken to be liberalism's hostility to legal moralism, and especially to attempts to promote virtue through the criminal law, the republican approach takes the promotion of virtue to be one …

State V. Blayney Appellant's Brief Dckt. 43756

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Alum Teaches Sociology Of Murder Class At University Of Central Florida, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Algebra As A Social Problem: Review Of The Math Myth, And Other Stem Delusions By Andrew Hacker (2016), Joel Best

Numeracy

Andrew Hacker. The Math Myth, and Other STEM Delusions (New York, NY: The New Press). 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-62097-068-3 (also available as an e-book).

The political scientist Andrew Hacker argues that calls for increasing proficiency in algebra and other higher mathematics are misguided, in that most occupations do not require higher math, even as math requirements account for the largest share of students failing to complete high school and college. He advocates numeracy instruction for improving students’ ability to calculate and interpret numbers they will encounter in their lives.