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Resident Assistants And Title Ix: The Hypocrisy Of Compelled Disclosure, Samantha Contrini

Theses and Dissertations

Resident Assistants juggle various roles as student staff members to ensure residents are supported and safe. Yet, RAs are widely considered to be some of the most under-trained and ill-prepared employees on college campuses (Letarte, 2012). At many institutions, RAs are considered Responsible Employees under Title IX which means they are required to report instances of sexual misconduct when they are made aware of them. Often times, this is done against the will of the survivor; a phenomenon referred to as compelled disclosure (Holland et al., 2018). The purpose of this study was to explore the potential harm caused to …

Intersectional Freedom: Rehabilitating Victims Of Human Trafficking, Nathalia Weston

Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year

Atlanta, Georgia is associated with being the home of CNN, The Atlanta Falcons, and Coca-Cola, but it is also one of the largest hubs for human trafficking in the United States. Every month, 7,200 men purchase sex from a minor, accounting for more than 8,000 sex acts. According to the United States Department of Justice, human trafficking is defined as the illegal act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, obtaining, or providing a person and especially a minor for sex. The 100 billion dollar industry has trapped and permanently altered the lives of nearly 5 million women and children around the world. …

Are We Giving Them A Fair Chance? Racial Stereotypes And The Juvenile Justice System, Cali Bloem

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Prior research indicates that there are racial disparities throughout the criminal justice system, including the juvenile justice system, and that decision-makers may use stereotypes when determining guilt and deciding on sentences for juveniles. We used a mock juror study design in which participants were randomly assigned to read one of four trial summaries of an assault committed by either a White juvenile or Latinx juvenile, with the victim being a White juvenile or Latinx juvenile. The participants were asked to provide a verdict and sentencing decision and explain why they chose the sentence that they did. They were also tasked …

Vol.48 N.42 May 6th 2021, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

When The Police Must Retreat: Deadly Force And The Logic Of Necessity, Matthew Oliver

Montana Law Review Online

No abstract provided.

Developing Critical Consciousness In Traditionally White Fraternities In Higher Education, Jason J. Artrip

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore the experiences of fraternity members within the higher education system in New Jersey. One major goal of this study was to analyze the level of critical consciousness developed through involvement in a fraternity. While research exists on the fraternity experience in relation to race, and whiteness, not much has been examined to understand the experience of fraternity members in relation to these issues. By expanding this research, fraternity and sorority affairs professionals, student affairs professionals and fraternity national office staff can better understand the fraternity experience in relation to racial injustice …

The Commercialization Of Crime Solving: Ethical Implication Of Forensic Genetic Genealogy, Hannah Lee

Honors Theses

With the advancement of DNA technology and expansion of direct-to-consumer DNA services, a growing number of cold cases have been solved using a revolutionary new investigative method: familial DNA mapping. While the technique has been lauded by law enforcement as revolutionizing criminal identification, others are concerned by the privacy implications and impact on the family structure. In this thesis I will draw on communitarian, liberal rights, utilitarian, and social justice arguments for and against the practice. I conclude that this method has the potential to increase security and provide justice for victims and families, but absent comprehensive regulation and privacy …

The Effect Of Temporal Discounting And Loss Aversion On Mock Plea Bargain Decision-Making, Anisha Patel

Masters Theses, 2020-current

An overwhelming majority of criminal cases in the United States utilize plea bargaining (90-95%). A plea bargain is an agreement between a criminal defendant and a prosecuting attorney where the defendant agrees to plead guilty, or nolo contendre (no contest), to one or more charges to reduce or drop other charges. The decision to accept a plea bargain must be made by the defendant, so a defendant’s ability to make or communicate competent choices regarding a plea bargain is important. However, defendant decision-making in plea bargaining is not sufficiently prevalent in plea bargaining or decision-making literature. While factors such as …

"I Just Wanted To Feel Heard": An Autoethnography Of Feminist Complaint And Institutional Response, Rachel L. Mangan

Masters Theses, 2020-current

This autoethnography is both about feminist complaint and is a feminist complaint. Through embodied, mindful narratives and approaching institutional documents and personal artifacts auto-archaeologically, I detail the experience of being a woman engaging in feminist complaint following an experience of gender-based fear and the subsequent institutional response. In the wake of speaking out about a moment of unsafety in public and being disregarded by the police and publicly humiliated by my university, these artifacts are sites of identity negotiation and assist in memory work. This inquiry demonstrates that negative responses from institutional representatives and official documents are patriarchal in nature, …

The Effect Of Headline Manipulation On Memory And Reasoning, Kathryn R. Hogan

Masters Theses, 2020-current

Decades of research have examined misinformation and memory. Recently, studies have demonstrated that misleading headlines can influence the reader’s memory and inferential reasoning. The current study examines how accurate and misleading headlines differentially affect readers’ memory and inferential reasoning for news articles. College students (N = 138) read three articles on various topics (e.g., solitary confinement, stem cell research, and wildfires) and then took a test to assess memory and inferences related to the article. Contrary to previous studies, there was not a difference in memory between accurate and misleading headline conditions across article types. The effect of a …

Racism's Effect On Healthcare And Health Outcomes, Julianne D'Amico

Academic Festival

Racism is defined as a system of advantage based on race. African Americans are more likely to live sicker and to die sooner. This research paper will aim to look at how the social determinants of health, provider bias, and medical mistrust impact the health outcomes of African Americans in the United States. It will also look at how the recent COVID-19 pandemic has exposed these inequalities for everyone in the United States to see. It will also analyze some of the solutions to help eradicate the problem.

Mexican Narcotrafficking And Its Effects, Nicholas Molden

Academic Festival

Over the course of the last century, drug trafficking throughout Latin America has led to the rise of very wealthy, influential, and ruthless criminal organizations. The organizations operate much like legal corporations and even cooperate with international associates. The power provided by drug trafficking has allowed these criminal entities to infiltrate all forms of industries and even governments. In order to secure their power and protect trafficking routes from rivals, violence between these cartels breaks out regularly. While drug trafficking is rampant throughout a large portion of Latin America, Mexico’s size and proximity to the United States’ border makes it …

The Threat That The Prison Industrial System Poses To The Health And Safety Of Prisoners And Underprivileged Communities Throughout The United States, Farren Fuquea

Academic Festival

The United States has the highest per capita prison population in the world, with over six hundred and fifty-five prisoners per one hundred thousand of the national population (Ahmed, 2019). Not only does the United States have the highest per capita prison population in the world, it also has the highest prison population in the world with over 2.12 million incarcerated as of 2019 (Ahmed, 2019). In order to keep control over the ever-growing prison population, the government turned towards private prison contracts in order to subsidize some of the federal prison budget (Mason, 2012). This for-profit prison system can …

Constitutional Dilemma: The Undermining Of The Criminal Justice System By News Media, Mari Fay

Academic Festival

Constitutional Dilemma: The Undermining of the Criminal Justice System by News Media

The unbridled usage of the First Amendment by news outlets has resulted in a clash with the Sixth Amendment in the criminal justice system. Media outlets only release a small portion of the information regarding cases leaving its audience with a false sense of understanding of the crime committed. News stations have employed the concept of psychological priming on the public so that the curated details about cases lead them to the conclusion that the supposed suspect must be guilty (Golob, 2017). The natural human desire to have …

Solitary Confinement In The United States Of America, Jeremy Miller

Academic Festival

Solitary confinement is a form of punishment that is used for violent and disorderly inmates in The United States Corrections system. This practice has been deemed illegal and has been outlawed in many countries and even within some states within the United States. The long term psychological and physical effects caused by extended periods of isolation is not only dangerous for the prisoners, but also for the rest of society. After an inmate enters solitary confinement they are forever changed for the worse and recovery is near-impossible. The United States needs to find a better solution for unruly prisoners than …

How The History Of Law Enforcement Can Help Guide The Future Of Community Policing, Matteo Menta

Academic Festival

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the attitude of the United States and its citizens towards police brutality has changed in many significant and notable ways. This paper serves not only as a representation of the history of policing and police brutality, but a commentary on the power of police unions and the purpose and necessity of community policing in a post-George Floyd America.

Will The Peace Plan Bring Peace To Afghanistan? A Look At The History Of Nation And State Building In Afghanistan By The United States And Review Of The 2020 Afghanistan Peace Plan, Kenneth Mcdougal

Academic Festival

How have the polices of counter-terrorism and nation building by the United States impacted the nation of Afghanistan? Were the objectives completed and did American foreign policy decisions foster sustainable peace within the region? In this case study of Afghanistan, the roll of the United States in the Soviet Resistance, the global war on terror, attempts at nation building, and the quest for peace will be discussed. Operation Enduring Freedom focused on combating Al-Qaeda and Taliban regime within Afghanistan, but soon evolved into something much more complex. Through reviewing the objectives and actions of United States’ foreign policy makers, research …

The United Nations And Its Interests: Dollars Or Humanitarianism?, Gabriela Dos Santos

Academic Festival

The general purpose of the United Nation is well known: To preserve world peace and avoid influential nations to engage in acts of war. However, many aspects of the United Nations, in special, its funding, can be seen through a different set of lenses.

By heavily relying on 34% of its funding on nations such as the United States and China, the United Nations finds itself more often than not, in an uncomfortable position where it has to choose whether to listen to its greatest donors or to advocate for humanitarianism, world peace, and amongst other goals stated in its …

Relationship Between Supervisors' Servant Leadership And Police Officers Job Satisfaction, Michael Chikeleze, Jennifer Vigil, William C. Hale, Iris D. Johnson, David Williams

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

Recent police killings of unarmed African Americans in the United States and the subsequent protests and demonstrations against police brutality have resulted in more focus on the importance of collaborative relationships between law enforcement agencies and their communities. This quantitative correlational research study was conducted in one southern United States police department that incorporated a servant leadership philosophy, including its leaders being publicly heralded for their servant leadership practices that positively impacted its relationship with its community. The study examined if a relationship existed between perceived servant leadership of law enforcement leaders and line police officers’ job satisfaction. The study’s …

Issue 371: May 6-20, 2021, The Local Voice

The Local Voice

No abstract provided.

Commonwealth Times 2021-05-05

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

First Amendment Knowledge And Competence In United States Residents, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Kimberly M. Bernstein

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

Lacking adequate knowledge about one's rights could inhibit the likelihood of exercising one's rights or lead one to unwittingly violate laws that place legitimate limits on these rights. Thus, the present research examines First Amendment knowledge as well as competence to apply this knowledge in relevant circumstances. Results revealed that one-quarter of participants failed a test of objective knowledge on First Amendment rights. Furthermore, participants' belief in their ability varied depending on their level of knowledge, in line with the Dunning–Kruger effect. Participants also failed to transfer their limited objective knowledge to “real-world” situations, exhibiting impaired First Amendment competence. These …

Gardner-Webb And Richmond Community College Officials Expand Co-Admission Agreements, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University officials recently expanded co-admission agreements with Richmond Community College (RichmondCC). Leaders from the two institutions recently signed “Bulldog Bound,” a direct-entry admission program.

2021-May-05-Meet Dr Kimberly Mccorkle, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (May 5, 2021) Following an extensive national search, Kimberly D. McCorkle, J.D. has been named as the new Provost and Senior Vice President for Academics at East Tennessee State University.  She will assume this role in July, succeeding Dr. Wilsie S. Bishop, who is retiring at the end of June following forty-three years of distinguished service to the university.

McCorkle comes to ETSU from the University of West Florida, where she has spent the past nineteen years and currently serves as Vice Provost and Professor.  She was named Interim Vice Provost in 2017 and assumed the role …

"Upskirting,” Homosociality, And Craftmanship: A Thematic Analysis Of Perpetrator And Viewer Interactions, Matthew Hall, Jeff Hearn, Ruth Lewis

psychology

“Upskirting” is the action or practice of surreptitiously taking photographs or videos up a female’s skirt or dress. In the United Kingdom, it is an offense. However, internationally, laws are uneven. Understanding how perpetrators account for their actions becomes an important question. Here, we present the findings of our thematic analysis of posts on the “upskirting” website, The Candid Zone. Our analysis shows that posters and respondents frame this activity as artistic and technical, providing each other with advice and guidance on where and how to get the “best” shots. We conceptualize this form of abuse as homosociality and crafts …

Tapering Buprenorphine, Alexis Diane Snyder

Student Works

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is increasing in incidence in the United States. Buprenorphine is the mainstay of medication-assisted treatment for OUD. Nurse practitioners play an essential role in solving the opioid epidemic and are increasingly relied on to prescribe buprenorphine. Even though buprenorphine is considered a long-term therapy, many patients request to taper off the drug. Evidence suggests that tapering from buprenorphine is frequently unsuccessful and remains as a challenge. The purpose of this article is to provide the best available evidence regarding the taper of buprenorphine in patients with OUD. Considering a buprenorphine taper should begin by evaluating if …

White Racial Identity And Its Impact On Punitive Attitudes Towards Juvenile Offenders, Rossol Gharib

Student Theses

White Racial Identity is a relatively new concept with little to no consensus as to the operationalization of such identity. The first ever White Racial Identity model was developed by Janet E. Helms in 1990. The role of White racial identity has been studied in the context of the racial gap in employment and its influence on racial attitudes, but it has yet to be studied in the context of the juvenile justice system. The criminal justice system is racially imbalanced, with Black males imprisoned 5.5 times more than White males. One of the factors contributing to this imbalance is …

Probable Cause And Performing "For The People", Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe

Duke Law Journal Online

The summer of 2020 presented the American public with two very different versions of how a state’s top prosecutor might respond to excessive use of force by law enforcement. In Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron was criticized for his conduct after stories emerged of his biased presentation to a grand jury contemplating whether officers should face criminal charges for killing an unarmed person, Breonna Taylor, in her own home. In Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison proved to be less controversial as public sentiment emphasized his willingness to pursue the type of justice that the public demanded against all of the …

International Organizations: The Work Of The Un In 2015, Javier Etcheverry Boneo, Elizabeth A. Turchi, Renee Dopplick, Jehmal Hudson, Gabrielle Culmer, Poopak Taati

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.

Anti-Corruption, Leslie A. Benton, Stuart H. Deming, Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Frank A. Fariello, Christina M. Mitropoulos

The Year in Review

No abstract provided.