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Crime Drop Ii – Young People Are Leading The Newest Violent Crime Decline, Jeffrey A. Butts

Publications and Research

FBI crime data show that young people contributed a large share to the declining rate of violent crime in the United States. By 2011, the youth violent crime rate had dropped 60 percent since its peak in 1994. The databit shows the rate of violent crime between 1994-2004 and 2006-2011 for youth under age 18, 18-24, and 25 and older.

National Preparedness: Challenges, Definitions & Jurisdictions, Jordan Nelms, Amanda Faul

Homeland Security Publications

No abstract provided.

Faqs On 501(C)(4) Social Welfare Organizations, Donald B. Tobin

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Metropolitan Dimensions Of United States Immigration Policy: A Theoretical And Comparative Analysis, Nicole G. Toussaint

Dissertations and Theses

Municipal unauthorized immigration policy, as an area of study, is underexplored. The literature is in the early stages of development, and little specific theory to guide research exists. To advance this emerging field, my study addresses two questions. First, what unauthorized immigration policies do local governments pursue, under what circumstances, and for what reasons? Second, what explains city-to-city variation in municipal responsiveness to the policy preferences and interests of residents without legal status?

The dissertation also presents a typology of municipal responsiveness to unauthorized immigrants, based on my exploratory research. To explain intercity differences in the policy processes and choices …

Water Reuse As Part Of San Diego's Water Portfolio, Hillary P. Shipps

Scripps Senior Theses

San Diego imports 80 to 90 percent of its water supply, depending on conditions during any particular year. This high level of imports and low diversity of water supply have combined with climate change to generate an urgent need for increased conservation and diversification of San Diego's water supply. Water reuse is one option to mitigate this problem. An attempt was made in the early 1990s to recycle wastewater but the public reacted badly due to a combination of bad public relations, perceived environmental justice issues, and a psychological phenomenon called the yuck factor. With improved public relations and education, …

Bureaucracy And Income Disparity In America, Daniel Daugherty

The Hilltop Review

The extent that income inequality has grown in the U.S. is disturbing. Only recently, in the wake of bank bailouts and the Occupy Wall Street movement, have Americans started noticing this disparity. Although protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement demanded solutions, there were no clear signals on either side of the income gap what those solutions might be. Using a postmodern foundational approach, this paper explores the dynamics of income inequality. Highlighted are leading causes of the disparities entrenched in public policy with no solution. This paper submits that no single solution exists; rather a shift in American regime …

Risk, Oil Spills, And Governance: Can Organizational Theory Help Us Understand The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?, Evelyn Cade

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico awakened communities to the increased risk of large-scale damage along their coastlines presented by new technology in deep water drilling. Normal accident theory and high reliability theory offer a framework through which to view the 2010 spill that features predictive criteria linked to a qualitative assessment of risk presented by technology and organizations. The 2010 spill took place in a sociotechnical system that can be described as complex and tightly coupled, and therefore prone to normal accidents. However, the entities in charge of managing this technology lacked the …

The Diffusion Of Geospatial Technologies Among Louisiana Assessors, Craig A. Johnson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The diffusion of geospatial technologies, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Aided Mass Appraisal Systems (CAMA), among Louisiana Assessors has been slowed by limited resources, a lack of communication and slow innovation decision processes. This research considers analysis of the speed of adoption, identifies the key players in decision making and the issues that influence the process based upon the theory of the diffusion of innovation developed by Dr. Everett M. Rogers (1995). The research data collected from online surveys, field visits and interviews of Louisiana Assessors between 2007 and 2013 was compared to identify factors that spurred or …

School Choice, Opportunity And Access: A Geographic Analysis Of Public School Enrollment In New Orleans, Jill Zimmerman

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The primary objective of the study is to identify the extent to which the current school choice policy in New Orleans has afforded students in underserved neighborhoods or city planning districts the opportunity to attend quality schools elsewhere in the city. Though all students in New Orleans have access to schools outside their neighborhood, more than two-thirds (68%) of public school students attended a school within their planning district or in the adjacent planning district in the 2011-12 school year. In staying close to home, just one-fifth (22 percent) of students attended a quality school. A clear relationship existed between …

Research Brief: "Evaluation Of A Family-Centered Prevention Intervention For Military Children And Families Facing Wartime Deployment", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

The purpose of this study was to explore the benefits of the Families Over Coming Under Stress (FOCUS) project for families experiencing deployment. These benefits included education and skills training, with an emphasis on minimizing psychological and emotional distress for the service-people, their spouses, and their children. While this study analyzed families who were a part of the FOCUS group, future research would best serve to include an additional control group, which would allow for comparison between families in FOCUS and families not currently enrolled.

Going Public : Authentic Teaching And Learning Through Publication, Katherine Concotta Donahue

Graduate Student Independent Studies

As the burdens of high-stakes testing and teacher evaluation systems move toward more quantitative measures, it is even more pressing to preserve the sanctity of creative teaching and learning endeavors. It is with this in mind that the author strives to present a collaborative, project-based learning experience that is at once authentic and aligned to nationally recognized standards for excellence in teaching and learning.

Chartered Sites Of Exception : Problematizing The Construction Of Bare Life For Exceptional Populations In The United States Educational System, Jonathan Michael Mcintosh

Graduate Student Independent Studies

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of deregulation policies in charter schools through a site of exception analysis and the resulting effect on exceptional populations in these schools.

Uni, Luther Create Postville Archive

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 15, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about a web-based archive of materials about the 2008 Postville immigration raid.

2013 Legislative Review, Reed Greenwood, Gary W. Ritter

Policy Briefs

The 89th General Assembly in Arkansas convened on Monday January 14th and would file 2,640 pieces of legislation over the next 100 days. Of this legislation, there were 145 House Bills, 4 House Resolutions, and 97 Senate Bills referred to either the House or Senate Education Committees. That is a grand total of 246 pieces of “education” legislation representing roughly 9 percent of legislation filed in the session. The purpose of this policy brief is to review some of the “high -profile” education bills during the session. The highlighted bills here are split into three categories: 1) school choice, 2) …

An Open Secret: Hiring Of Undocumented Workers At Agriprocessors Was No Surprise, Jeff Reinitz

Postville Project Documents

A May 13, 2013 article in The Courier about the effects of the 2008 Postville immigration raid.

Huge Immigration Raids A Thing Of The Past, Jeff Reinitz

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 13, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was no longer using the tactics of large immigration raids on employers.

Swallowing The Bitter Pill, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The incoming elected government, upon assumption of office, will have a myriad of pressing issues to resolve. One of its immediate tasks will be to formulate and announce the national budget. Along with the budget, the government will be well advised to announce an economic policy direction statement. This should sketch out the broad contours of economic policies and institutional reforms they propose to carry out during their tenure. This statement is critical to inform the domestic and foreign investors, who have been in a ‘wait and see’ mode for quite some time, about the overall policy framework. Uncertainty has …

Making The Bed: Manufacturer Still Thriving In Postville, Jim Offner

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about a hospital bed manufacturer in Postville, Iowa, was thriving in business.

Postville's Kosher Market Reaches Out To Other Customers, Jim Offner

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about Klatt Market, a kosher grocery store in Postville, Iowa.

Postville Didn't Stop, Look Back, Jim Offner

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about how economic conditions in Postville, Iowa, have changed since the Postville Immigration Raid of 2008.

Dramatic Immigration Raid Left Mark On Town, Jim Offner

Postville Project Documents

A May 12, 2013 article in the Courier about this history of Postville, Iowa, in the wake of the 2008 Postville Immigration Raid.

Postville: 5 Years Later

Postville Project Documents

Two articles in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about how the Postville Immigration Raid of 2008 changed the town and how the people of the town are still part of a diverse melting pot.

Postville Making Progress 5 Years After Immigration Raid

Postville Project Documents

An editorial in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about the progress the town of Postville, Iowa, has made five years after the Postville Immigration Raid of 2008.

Postville Raid Recalled At Immigration Reform Rally

Postville Project Documents

An article in the May 12, 2013, Courier, a Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa newspaper, about a May 10, 2013, demonstration in Cedar Rapids in protest of United States immigration policy and the 2008 Postville immigration raid.

Diversity Still Defines Life, Work In Postville, Karen Bushanam

Postville Project Documents

A May 12, 2013 article in The Courier about cultural diversity in Postville five years after the 2008 Postville Immigration Raid.

Exceptionalist-In-Chief: Presidents, American Exceptionalism, And U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1897, John A. Dearborn

Honors Scholar Theses

“American exceptionalism” has been an important part of presidential foreign policy, especially since the end of the nineteenth century when the United States emerged as a global power. I argue that presidents’ beliefs, rhetoric, and actions during their administrations reveal their attitudes toward exceptionalism. In this work, I propose four types of Presidential American Exceptionalism that presidents’ foreign policies since 1897 can be categorized into: messianic Americanism, messianic internationalism, realist exemplarism, and pragmatic moralism. I define these categories and explain them using case studies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and …

Community Dialogue For Peace, Alida Furaha Umutoni, Elly Musafiri, Paul Rutayisire, Charles Gasarasi, Justin Murwanashyaka

Peace and Conflict Management Review

No abstract provided.

Last Of The Bronx Giants: Mayoral Control, School Reform, And The Fate Of Bronx High Schools, Ben Delikat

African & African American Studies Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Disaster From Above: New York City Teachers' Perceptions Of School Reform, Elizabeth Baker

African & African American Studies Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

"Housing In Crisis: The State Of Multi-Family Buildings In The West And East Bronx", Ryan Grosso

African & African American Studies Senior Theses

In 1890 the Bronx flourished. The borough was a haven from crowded, hectic Manhattan life; it was a sanctuary for second-generation immigrants trying to escape the crowded, dirty, and disease-ridden tenements in Harlem and on the Lower East Side.¹ During this time period the Bronx experienced rapid expansion; between 1880 and 1930, it was one of the fastest growing urban areas in the world, as well as one of the most diverse. People flocked to the Bronx from all over New York City. It became a stable, cultural ethnic hub.