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Career Path: Becoming A Crime Scene Investigator, Rebecca Stevens Apr 2021

Career Path: Becoming A Crime Scene Investigator, Rebecca Stevens

Criminology Student Work

No abstract provided.


Police Use Of Force Policies, Shannon Moran Apr 2021

Police Use Of Force Policies, Shannon Moran

Criminology Student Work

No abstract provided.


Carrying Trauma From Birth To Work: Adverse Childhood Experiences In Law Enforcement Officers And Their Implications, Stephen Levesque Apr 2021

Carrying Trauma From Birth To Work: Adverse Childhood Experiences In Law Enforcement Officers And Their Implications, Stephen Levesque

Criminology Student Work

Previous research has drawn attention to the discrepancies of mental health between civilians and sworn law enforcement officers. The extant literature shows that law enforcement officers suffer from mental health disorders at far greater rates than the general public (Henderson et al., 2015). Most of the literature focuses on the progression of an officer’s law enforcement career. Little is discussed about prior traumatic experiences in the lives of police officers, especially those experiences which leave lasting scars on officers who go on to possibly relive their own trauma through their work. The current research was intended to fill that void. …


Obtaining A Career With The Federal Bureau Of Investigations (Fbi), Nicholas Medeiros Apr 2021

Obtaining A Career With The Federal Bureau Of Investigations (Fbi), Nicholas Medeiros

Criminology Student Work

No abstract provided.


Police Lineups And Eyewitness Identification, Alessandra Ricigliano Apr 2018

Police Lineups And Eyewitness Identification, Alessandra Ricigliano

Honors Senior Capstone Projects

Improper police lineups often lead to the misidentification of a suspect in particular cases. These mistakes could potentially have detrimental effects on someone’s freedom because eyewitness identifications hold so much weight in court proceedings. If a witness or victim is certain they can identify the suspect, jurors are likely to believe them whether the witness is right or wrong. Eyewitness misidentification is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions (The Innocence Project, 2017). The current research employs qualitative in depth interviews with police officers from local and state departments. The interviews asked about police procedures for conducting simultaneous and …