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A Multiple Case Study of Mandatory Supervision Violators
The overall purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to understand the perceptions of experiences and choices made by rational decision, internal disposition, or external controls by offenders who have reoffended and been returned to custody after previously completing an in-custody behavior change program in which tools to make positive choices were acquired. Author: Jennifer M. Bachtold, Northcentral University.
American Criminal Justice Policy Change: An Example Using Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws
This dissertation explores policy change through variation in the content of one type of criminal justice policy--Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN)--both within and across states over time. Author: Robert Lyle, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Check Fraud in the Digital Age: Factors of Efficiency and Investigative Procedures
The purpose of this research was to find reasons for the decrease in the development of suspects in check fraud cases in Central Florida. Author: Dena Marie Weiss, Northcentral University.
Protecting the Maritime Domain through Interorganizational Information Sharing
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how public and private maritime officials share maritime risk information and how such shared risk information contributes to maritime domain awareness. Author: Nelson Torres, Northcentral University.
Safe Harbor of Minors Involved in Prostitution: Understanding How Criminal Justice Officials Perceive and Respond to Minors Involved in Prostitution in a State with a Safe Harbor Law
This study includes in-depth interviews with criminal justice officials working in two counties in Massachusetts - a state with a safe harbor law that is discretionary in nature - that reveal cognitive representations of minors involved in prostitution that are shared by criminal justice agents both before and after the passage of the safe harbor law. Author: Stephanie R. Fahy, Northeastern University.
United States Northern Border Security: Broken Windows Theory on a Macro Level
The purpose of this qualitative study was to document how the United States Government employs Broken Windows Theory to secure the country's Northern border from illicit actors. Author: William H. Morrison, Northcentral University.
Utilizing Crime Analysis to Evaluate Criminal Justice Initiatives
The objective of this research is to identify the effectiveness of housing, community outreach, and street corner crackdowns as crime prevention tools. Strengths and weaknesses of each criminal justice initiative are evaluated through crime analysis, crime mapping, regression analysis, and other research methods. Author: Peter Tran, Rochester Institute of Technology.
What Matters: An Analysis of Victim Satisfaction with the Criminal Justice System in a Procedural Justice Framework
This study explores the different policies and practices of criminal justice system actors that contribute to satisfaction for the victim. Author: Cortney Fisher, University of Maryland, College Park.