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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Law Enforcement and Corrections"”.
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Restructuring of State Policing Post 9/11
<p>After September 11, 2001, the United States law enforcement community found itself ill prepared to handle the range of responsibilities required in a nation under the threat of terrorism. Police organizations hastily assigned resources to help mitigate areas hit hard by the attack while …
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Contribution or corruption? A survey of supervisory, managerial and administrative attitudes toward the use of discretion in adult male prisons
… in prison management are largely anecdotal, and offer limited insight into how discretion is used. Until recently most inquiries into prison discretionary practices have focused on the role discretion played in precipitating inmate disturbances, employee dissatisfaction, or judicial …
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Examining Correctional Leadership Styles That Encourage Cooperative Compliance From Federal Offenders
… of Prisons now maintains 122 federal prisons, and is accountable for over 180,000 federal offenders within federal prisons walls and within contracted correctional centers. The federal inmate population has also grown in diversity, and training offered by the Bureau of Prisons to its employees …
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Identification and Security Implications of Biometrics
… human characteristics for identification and/or verification purposes. The current study assessed the usage of biometrics in casinos, hospitals, and law enforcement agencies using a survey methodology. Results indicated that privacy concerns related to the use of biometrics may not be as …
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Detention of Asylum-Seekers: Comparison of the Asylum and Detention Practices in United States and Sweden
<p>Refugees are both an urgent humanitarian issue and the subject of much political debate in the U.S. and Europe. This research paper compares and contrasts the asylum process in US and Sweden. It analyzes the similarities and differences in their refugee policies and how asylumseeker rights are …
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Local Law Enforcement's Counter Terrorism Capabilities.
<p>The purpose of this study was to analyze local law enforcement's counter-terrorism capabilities as it relates to the varying size of United States local law enforcement agencies. Data for the study came from a study entitled "Impact of Terrorism on State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and …
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Examining how comfortable Students are in Contacting Campus Police at Central Washington University
… gender, sexual orientation, residency, and class standings. In addition to the demographic variables, three police attitude variables (general, demeanor, and effectiveness) were analyzed, but due to multicollinearity between these variables, the general attitudes variable was the only …
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Law Enforcement’s Social Media Punitive Anomaly
… study of the misuse of social media in law enforcement from 2011 to present. The research will use a content analysis of social media policies coupled with survey of 10 questions administered anonymously to students at the Department of Criminal Justice Training. This mixed method …
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Police Deception: A Survey of EKU Students
… </p> <p>Police deception has been both good and bad for society. Deceptive interrogation is an effective method of gaining confessions and convictions. It is also dangerous in that it raises the potential for false confessions, damages police-citizen relationships, damages case strength, and …
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Critical-Incident Response: A Study of Training, Management, and Mitigation in North Carolina Sheriffs' Offices.
… each sheriff's office requires in North Carolina and if that training includes multiagency exercises designed to mitigate a critical-incident response and identify any concerns from those training events. The study also compared departmental strength (number of sworn officers per agency) with …
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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing
… spaces, objects which seed our own cultural and personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors and which command our collective attention. Using qualitative research methodology, this visual ethnography looks at the unique and inherent power of police memorialization through the 2015 death of …
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Law Enforcement in Kentucky Schools - Student Interactions and Current Practices
… of school resource officers (SROs) in Kentucky and describes their interactions with students. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of how SROs interact with students and the implications of those interactions. The quantitative phase of the research involved a secondary …
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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era
… individual's ways of thinking, but do help frame and reinforce already existing cultural beliefs, particularly within the context of the seemingly innocuous narrative fictions of cable television. These narratives not only simplify complex ideas, but also can further entrench or justify harmful …
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A Study of Rural Police Leadership Behaviors in Kentucky: A Full Range Perspective
… in Kentucky through their self-perceptions and the perceptions of their subordinate officers utilizing the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Form 5X Short. The author assessed differences in the leadership factors of the Full Range Leadership Model and leadership outcomes between …
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Relationship Among Department Satisfaction, Training, and Police Behavior
… been sparked by incidents involving the shooting and killing of individuals by the police. Public and political scrutiny of police behavior and procedures has created a social identity of “Us Versus Them” mentality among police officers. Proactive policing strategies have diminished in response to …
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Trends in Juvenile Delinquency
… rates, high school dropout rates, poverty, and juvenile delinquency case rates in the United States, which are actually the variables that are used in the study to illustrate a relationship between them and the current trend in juvenile delinquency. In establishing the link, the paper does a …
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