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An Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To State Pension Reform, Jeremy Stuart Buck
An Analysis Of The Legal Obstacles To State Pension Reform, Jeremy Stuart Buck
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Public pension systems are underfunded, straining state budgets. Historically, many states have presumed that they can modify pension benefits only as to newly-hired employees, and that they must leave benefit accruals untouched for current workers. More recently, though, states have begun enacting more fundamental pension reform that modifies future accruals or even reduces cost-of-living allowances for retirees. Nearly all such new reforms have been the subject of one or more lawsuits alleging that the federal and/or state constitution bars the legislature from reducing benefits or accrual patterns. This dissertation examines the legal underpinnings for arguments made against pension reform, and …
The Literacy Practices Of Law Enforcement, Leslie Eames Seawright
The Literacy Practices Of Law Enforcement, Leslie Eames Seawright
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation investigates police report writing at the Jackson Police Department in Northwest Arkansas. It presents three primary research questions which are addressed through qualitative methods of interview, observation, and discourse analysis.
1) In what ways does police training address report writing?
2) What audience awareness do police officers have when writing reports?
3)How do actual report audience members read and evaluate reports?
The police academy in this study fails to spend the necessary time discussing report writing. This is not rectified by the in-house training program, which pairs officers with Field Training Officers that are often reluctant or unqualified …