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Covid-19: Views On Seriousness, Handling/Response, And Behaviors Of Undergraduate Students At The University Of Central Florida, Shemuwel H.I Russ

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Objective – Views surrounding COVID-19 are divided. The objective of this thesis is to investigate if views surrounding COVID-19 can be inferred based on college-level demographics. I explore the views of undergraduate students at the University of Central Florida.

Methods – A link to the questionnaire created through Qualtrics was sent out to university leaders asking them to distribute it accordingly among their respective undergraduate populations. Students (N=149) responded to questions about issues related to COVID-19, college-level demographics, and political attitudes. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential analysis.

Results – Students still viewed COVID-19 as a serious …

Legal Strategies Used By Black Men During The Antebellum Period, A. D. Banse

Digital Legal Research Lab

AD Banse, "Legal Strategies Used by Black Men During the Antebellum Period" [Research Poster]

Digital Legal Research Lab REU Site, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2022

The Missouri Statute of 1807 existed as the primary act that somewhat ensured the freedom of those enslaved and pursuing their freedom. The act refuted laws such as the Futgitive Slave Clause of 1793 and 1850, and the Missouri Compromise, which were evidence that slaveholders held decisive political influence and could cast the Constitution in proslave terms (Baker 2012). These clauses essentially gave enslavers the right to seize enslaved people who escaped to free states deepening …

Habeas Corpus: Breaking Reservation Boundaries, Samantha Byrd

Digital Legal Research Lab

Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky’s Petitioning for Freedom examines marginalized peoples’ use of habeas corpus in the American West from 1812 to 1924. This project has uncovered Indigenous manipulation of the American legal system to counter the challenges of colonialism. Indigenous peoples used habeas to protest, and sometimes successfully mitigate boarding school experiences, forced removal, and confinement on reservations. This study aims to show how Indigenous peoples and other minorities had a complex understanding of the law and used it to their advantage.

Advisor: Katrina Jagodinsky

Migratory Stories: Building Ethical Immigration Policy, Lucca D. Abele

Honors Papers

Yorki J. Encalada Egúsquiza, an academic who studies border issues, discusses the reality that Child Migrants (CM) face, “They are minors traveling alone, then they have to appear in immigration courts, regardless of age. We're talking about children, in some cases, toddlers, without lawyers, who have to face a court that wants to deport them.” United States immigration policy fails to aid CMs who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border; in a practice of exclusionary policy, it further traumatizes children who have journeyed to the U.S. alone. Using interviews I have conducted, memoirs, political theory, and scholarly literature, my research scrutinizes …

Beyond Borders: Employing Empathic Global Citizenship As A Framework For Enhancing Critical Community Engagement, Cigdem Sirin, Jose Villalobos, Azuri Gonzalez, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri

Selected Works Temporary Series

No abstract provided.

Juror Perceptions Of Heterosexual And Same-Sex Spousal Rape In The Courtroom, Haley D. Hintz

Lewis Honors College Thesis Collection

Approximately 10-15% of American women will be raped by a spouse in their lifetime (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002). Research suggests that the American public regards spousal rape as wrong but not rape (Lynch et al., 2017). Research on spousal rape has centered on heterosexual couples despite a higher likelihood that LGBTQ+ individuals will experience severe intimate partner violence (IPV) (Rollé et al., 2019). Therefore, the present study investigated mock juror perceptions of spousal rape of heterosexual and same-sex couples in the courtroom. We employed a 2 (victim gender) x 2 (defendant gender) x 2 (participant gender) between-participants design. Participants …

Congregation Shopping During The Pandemic: A Research Note, Paul Djupe

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Assessing Deportations: The Factors That Influence U.S. Deportations And Their Public Perceptions, Madelynn Einhorn

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Deportations are an understudied component of U.S. deportation policy. While a range of literature focuses on the factors that influence immigration inflows and public perceptions of immigrants, relatively few have studied deportations. I studied deportations by conducting time-series analysis of yearly deportations and by analyzing three original public opinion surveys on perceptions of deportations. In my time-series chapter, I used regression analysis to find that the party composition of the U.S. House and Senate, the unemployment rate, and the incarceration rate influence deportations. In my public opinion chapter, I find that a plurality of American’s support deportations, particularly when they …

Police And Community Relations Survey, Fernando J. Guerra, Brianne Gilbert

StudyLA Reports

In the wake of nationwide demonstrations for racial justice prompted by the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and countless other Black individuals, Los Angeles became a focal point for critical discussions around police and community relations.

StudyLA’s 2022 Police and Community Relations Survey is the second of a three-part study, with the first survey conducted in mid-to-late 2020 and the last planned for 2023. It continues to measure public opinion on issues of policing and gauge how residents feel the Los Angeles Police Department is doing with respect to its mission (safeguard the lives and property of …

Public Opinion On Race Relations, Brianne Gilbert

StudyLA Reports

StudyLA’s Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey is the largest general social survey of any metropolitan area in urban America.

Since 2014, StudyLA has surveyed more than 20,000 residents, offering a unique perspective on quality-of-life perceptions, personal financial wellbeing, overall life satisfaction, and opinions on various civic issues facing Los Angeles residents.

Sharing P.O.W.E.R. Participation And Ownership: Working For Equitable Representation, Brianne Gilbert, Alejandra Alarcon, Henry Kombol, Fernando J. Guerra

StudyLA Reports

Background

Leadership matters. Diversity matters. Data matters. These three sentences are hardly news, but so often studies are limited to one of these areas alone or the intersection of only two of the three. This study was commissioned by the Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti to provide a databased analysis of representation by sex and race/ethnicity in Mayoral appointed positions of leadership in the City of Los Angeles.

Why This Matters

Diverse leadership is one indicator of an administration’s commitment to equity in its priorities and practices. Diversity means that a greater depth and breadth of experiences, perspectives, and values …

Sharing P.O.W.E.R. Participation And Ownership: Working For Equitable Representation, Brianne Gilbert, Henry Kombol, Alejandra Alarcon, Fernando J. Guerra

StudyLA Reports

Background

In Los Angeles, city departments and bureaus are led by general managers. Some departments are either governed or supervised by a board or a commission whose members are usually appointed by the mayor and subject to confirmation by the council. These appointed officials oversee many aspects of life in Los Angeles, from affordable housing or airports, to cultural heritage or the harbor.

These positions are held by many individuals with diverse ethnic backgrounds and lives. As stated in the city’s charter, the mayor shall “strive to make his or her overall appointments to appointed boards, commissions or advisory bodies …

Public Opinion On Policing In Los Angeles, Brianne Gilbert

StudyLA Reports

In the wake of nationwide demonstrations for racial justice prompted by the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and countless other Black individuals, Los Angeles became a focal point for critical discussions around police and community relations.

StudyLA’s 2022 Police and Community Relations Survey is the second of a three-part study. The first part was conducted in mid-to-late 2020 and the last is planned for 2023. The survey continues to measure public opinion on issues of policing and gauge how residents feel the Los Angeles Police Department is doing with respect to its mission (safeguard the lives and …

Angeleno Opinions On Homelessness Data Brief: 2022 Public Opinion Survey, Thomas And Dorothy Leavey Center For The Study Of Los Angeles

StudyLA Data Briefs

ABOUT THIS STUDY

The 2022 Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey conducted by StudyLA involved 20-minute telephone sessions and online and faceto- face surveys with 2,002 adults (642 phone, 1,151 online, and 209 face-to-face) living in Los Angeles County. The survey was conducted in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean from January 4th to February 10th, and respondents were asked a range of questions about quality-of-life perceptions and various civic issues. The margin of error is ±3.0% for the entire sample.

ABOUT THIS REPORT

The following report presents responses pertaining to questions related to homelessness. Survey results are presented in two sections: …

City Of La Mayoral Race Data Brief, Thomas And Dorothy Leavey Center For The Study Of Los Angeles

StudyLA Data Briefs

ABOUT THIS STUDY

The 2022 Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey conducted by StudyLA involved 20-minute telephone sessions and online and faceto-face surveys with 2,002 adults (642 phone, 1,151 online, and 209 face-to-face) living in Los Angeles County. The survey was conducted in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean from January 4th to February 10th, and respondents were asked a range of questions about quality-of-life perceptions and various civic issues. The margin of error is ±3.0% for the entire sample.

ABOUT THIS REPORT

The following report presents responses to the question about the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election. Survey results are presented …

Constructing Kurdistan: Cross-Border Kurdish Relations And Ethnic Identity, Benjamin Meyer

Government and International Relations Honors Papers

This thesis examines the emergence and politicization of ethnic identity in the Kurdish populations of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Through a historical analysis of Kurdish revolts and nationalist movements the late imperial and colonial eras, it demonstrates that ‘Kurdishness’, or Kurdayetî, has been instrumentalized as ethnonationalism primarily in a defensive capacity, in response to external coercive pressures forcing the Kurds to ‘think like a state’ and view themselves in increasingly ethnopolitical terms. By illustrating the extent to which ethnonationalism was imposed upon the Kurdish people and the limited appeal it enjoyed in the first half of the twentieth century, …

Quantitatively Comparing Elite Formation Over A Century: Ministers And Judges, John Hogan

Datasets

The abstract of the draft article that the datasets come from states:

In democratic societies the role of the education system is seen as crucially important to their development. It is critical in structuring society and in the value of its human and social capital. In particular, the role played by the education system in the creation and reproduction of the governing elites, and its countervailing potential to create a more meritocratic and egalitarian society has been an enduring topic of concern, research and debate. However, many of these debates have been rendered opaque by an inability to quantitatively examine, …

2022 Forecast La Conference Book, Fernando J. Guerra, Brianne Gilbert, Lindsey Hendren, Alejandra Alarcon, Jorge Cortes, Julian Samuels, Viola Chow

Forecast LA

No abstract provided.

Life Of The Party: Social Networks, Public Attention, And The Importance Of Shocks In The Presidential Nomination Process, Elizabeth A. Stiles, Colin D. Swearingen, Linda Seiter

2022 Faculty Bibliography

We examine the effects of shocks on the invisible Presidential primary in the United States. First, we build on existing models using an algorithm simulating social network shocks. Findings show that positive shocks significantly aid the lead candidate’s chances of winning in the invisible primary. Negative shocks, however, are less detrimental to a lead candidate than positive shocks are helpful, as the leader is often able to survive a negative shock and still emerge victorious. Broad empirical tests demonstrate the importance of shocks as well. Beyond the importance of shocks, findings also suggest that Presidential candidate success in the invisible …

Unpacking The Census, Sarah Murtaugh, Kyle Redican

Other Publications

Unpacking the Census, a partnership between the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities and the University of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, School of Professional & Continuing Studies, and Spatial Analysis Lab, examines structural inequality through census research. Data for the charts, tables, and maps are the most recent from the U.S. Census, American Community Survey (ACS), 2016-2020, Five-Year Estimates.