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Safety First -In Search Of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett
Safety First -In Search Of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
ABSTRACT
Educational problems are many and varied. At-risk students, achievement gaps and poor student outcomes are hot topics that beg for improvement in equity across the board and stand in the way of achieving excellence. These educative, albeit, social justice issues are not new, but rather, are old problems revisited (Kaestle, 1983; Morrison, 2003). Additionally, the issue of violence in schools is also recognized as not only a social justice problem but also a public health problem (Mercy & O'Carroll, 1988) and is perhaps the most pressing societal issue related to children and youth today. "Safe schools are the concern …
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 …
An Examination Of Perceived Stress Levels And Coping Styles Among Rural Law Enforcement Officers, Marcos Luis Misis
An Examination Of Perceived Stress Levels And Coping Styles Among Rural Law Enforcement Officers, Marcos Luis Misis
Dissertations
Policing is a very stressful job. Despite the extensive body of research on police stress, the majority of studies have focused solely on officers within urban police departments. Research on stress within rural law enforcement departments is virtually non-existent even though the majority of police agencies in America serve towns and areas under 50,000 residents.
This study had four main goals: (1) to examine how work-related stress affects the levels of perceived stress, anxiety, and depression for rural law enforcement officers; (2) to explore the specific stressors affecting rural law enforcement officers; (3) to investigate how rural law enforcement officers …
An Examination Of Factors Affecting Information Sharing Among Law Enforcement Agencies, Scott Driskill Bransford
An Examination Of Factors Affecting Information Sharing Among Law Enforcement Agencies, Scott Driskill Bransford
Dissertations
The purpose of the present study was to investigate using survey data to find factors or barriers which contributed to local law enforcement participation and support of intelligence information sharing. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York City and Arlington, Virginia, new homeland security initiatives and directives were created from the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. Several new initiatives and directives provided new communication opportunities for partnerships between all levels of law enforcement to combat the future threat of domestic terrorism.
The evaluation literature indicated that a majority of post-9/11, initiatives, including the creation of …