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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Federal Bureau of Investigation"”.
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Perceptual Agreement Between Multi-rater Feedback Sources in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
The use of multi-rater feedback as a way to analyze perceptions within the context of job performance and leadership in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was examined. Research in this domain is notable as this type of evaluation is now being done with regularity in the private sector and …
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
The rhetoric and apparatus of national security have played critical roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) research, this dissertation traces …
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Early Leader Effects on the Process of Institutionalization Through Cultural Embedding: The Cases of William J. Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover
… the ways early leaders can influence the process of institutionalization in public organizations. Using Schein's (1983, 1991) model of cultural creation and embedding as a heuristic device, secondary historical sources detailing the creation and development of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) …
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Analysis of surrogate post-detonation urban debris (SPUD) gamma rays and self-attenuation
Despite the importance of post-detonation nuclear forensics, there is a dearth of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) suitable for such measurements that are traceable back to a national standard. Accordingly, the nuclear forensics community has requested SRMs be produced that mimic the …
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A new perspective for creating geographic products for drug interdiction
According to former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director, William Webster, "The only way any coordinated efforts can succeed in combating drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, or even bank robberies is through the timely and candid exchange of intelligence data on criminal activities." …
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Representation of Missing Children in National Television News
This study examines how closely representations of missing children in television news reflect missing children statistics from "official" sources. The methodology used in this study was a content analysis of five national television news stations from 1987-2011 using the Vanderbilt Television News …
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Human Intelligence in Federal Terrorism Cases
<p>Though it has often been quipped that the September 11th attacks changed "everything", domestic policy alterations were among the most significant changes after 9/11. Specifically, the 2002 Ashcroft Attorney General Guidelines and the 2008 Mukasey Attorney General Guidelines were two of the most …
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"WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING": THE FBI AND POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE, 1908-1941
<p>By 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, created in 1908 as the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, had become a vast, influential and semi-independent bureaucracy. Under the close scrutiny of Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI publicly promoted its criminal investigation …
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Internal colonialism and social control in the Age of Terror : the FBI's war on Islamic charities following the September 11th Attacks of 2001
Shortly after the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States Government launched an effort to fight terrorism at home and abroad. In their domestic efforts they depended heavily upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to carry out their mission of shutting down potential terrorist …
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Mass School Shootings: Predicting the Usage of Firearms in Acts of School Violence
… shootings have been developed by a variety of government agencies such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A psychological profile, however, has yet to be established. This study uses demographic and behavioral characteristics of …
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Los Angeles County's Criminal Street Gangs: Does Violence Roll Downhill?
… National Gang Threat Assessment created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there are more than 33,000 gangs in the United States, cited as being responsible for nearly 48% of the violent crime in the country. Using information drawn from gang-related court cases, this study examines the …
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"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
<p>“Into the Mainstream and Oblivion” is a study of the intellectual and political biography of the African American writer and political activist Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism and art bring the complex network of artists, activists, and …
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Child Abductors Who Have Killed Their Victims: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Analysis
… are major gaps in the academic literature. One of the gaps pertains to the distances traveled by the offender between key crime locations. The overall aim of this study was to provide information concerning typical travel distances of offenders. This project utilized an archival data set …
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Policing the Dark Web: The double-edged sword of anonymity online
The Dark Web is a subset of the Internet that can only be accessed using special software such as the Tor browser. The Dark Web is often linked with illicit activities, such as the trading of narcotics and firearms and, is a haven for criminal organizations and child abusers. The Federal Bureau of …
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Propaganda, surveillance and cyberspace: consequences of online dirty tricks
… cyberspace has become an anarchic medium of defamatory, false information. Intelligence services are attempting to subvert and shape the perception of citizens around the world, in the absence of a sovereign liberal international arbiter that acts above all nations. Of late, intelligence …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
… pressure the government to fulfill the promise of the War on Poverty. Because of King's death and the campaign's subsequent premature end amid rain-driven, ankle-deep mud and just a few, isolated policy achievements, observers then and scholars since have dismissed the campaign as not only a …
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An Examination of Missing Person Social Media Engagement Through Data Mining and Experimentation: An Application of the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model
<p>According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), approximately 600,000 individuals are reported missing each year in the United States (2022). When missing person cases do not meet alert (e.g., AMBER) criteria, law enforcement often utilize social media to crowdsource information to …
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Treatment Providers' Perceptions of Treatment Effectiveness with Female Juvenile Sex Offenders
… treatment providers working with juvenile sexual offenders perceive treatment effectiveness of current treatment modalities for juvenile female sexual offenders. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics from 2008, juvenile offenders, particularly juvenile female sexual …
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Re-examining typologies of sexually violent offenders
The current study assessed a classification of sexual offenders from combinations of crime scene evidence and case data. It sought to contribute a unique perspective to the sexual offender typology literature by utilizing data obtained from the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) …
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Optimal Communications Systems and Network Design for Cargo Monitoring
In 2006 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimated that cargo theft cost the US economy between $15 and $30 billion per year. Others have noted that the indirect costs-from investigation and insurance payments-of cargo theft can be two to five times the direct losses from cargo theft. At …
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