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Fearless (Saturday): Michael Hannum, Michael W. Hannum
Fearless (Saturday): Michael Hannum, Michael W. Hannum
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In celebration of Alumni Homecoming Weekend and Hispanic Heritage Week, we proudly feature Michael Hannum, member of the Class of 2011, for his fearless commitment to fighting for social justice issues and his continued involvement in serving the Adams County community. Currently working with the Lincoln Intermediate Unit’s Migrant Education Program as a Recruitment Coordinator, Michael began finding his passion for helping identify families in the migrant community who need extra educational support when he was a first-year student just looking for something to do. [excerpt]
Paraguay: Brazil's Dirty Little Secret, Robert Andrew Nickson
Paraguay: Brazil's Dirty Little Secret, Robert Andrew Nickson
Robert Andrew Nickson
Paraguayans' resentment of their giant neighbour draws on both long memories and modern inequities. A shady new president may fuel not dampen it.
An Evaluation Of The Potential Impact Of Community Oriented Policing In Latin America, Gabriella A. Ippolito
An Evaluation Of The Potential Impact Of Community Oriented Policing In Latin America, Gabriella A. Ippolito
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the potential impact of community oriented policing in Latin America through a series of case studies from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador dating from the early 1990’s to the present. They are analyzed through a typology that organizes community oriented policing strategies according to costliness to the police. Costliness is defined as the amount of power that the police have to renounce to the community to implement a certain strategy. The thesis concludes that community oriented policing is an improvement over militarized policing strategies as it has the possibility to enhance both human security and …