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- Answering the Call for More Minority Police Officers: What Barriers Ring Out?.
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Barringer, Tony, Thomas, David
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2004), there are 836,787 full-time, sworn, law enforcement officers serving in the United States. Of the 836,787 listed, 731,903 worked at the local and state level(s) and the remaining 104,884 worked in federal agencies. The Bureau also disclosed that of the federal officers, 33.2% were members of racial or ethnic minority groups. In regards to the local and state agencies, 42.4% were members of ethnic or racial minority groups. The above...
Show moreAccording to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2004), there are 836,787 full-time, sworn, law enforcement officers serving in the United States. Of the 836,787 listed, 731,903 worked at the local and state level(s) and the remaining 104,884 worked in federal agencies. The Bureau also disclosed that of the federal officers, 33.2% were members of racial or ethnic minority groups. In regards to the local and state agencies, 42.4% were members of ethnic or racial minority groups. The above numbers look encouraging until there is greater scrutiny on factors such as community populous and future projections. The America.gov website (2008) projects that by 2042, minorities, collectively, will make up more than 50.0% of the U.S. population. That is compared to the current 32.0% that currently makes up the minority population. Another problem with taking the above numbers as true representation is that many communities are still “segregated,” thus we have a high concentration of minorities in some neighborhoods. With that high concentration, it could be expected that a high number of minority officers would be needed in order to maintain fair representation in that community. Also, the high concentration of minorities should influence/increase the number of applicants from minority groups. Saltzstein (1989) suggested that a high African-American population in a city means more minority candidates are going to apply for and be selected to receive a police officer’s job notwithstanding any other factors that may come into play. Saltzstein went on to offer that the African-American population in a city was the strongest predictor of the increase in the hiring of African-American officers. Although Saltzstien provides some very valuable insight(s), his offerings implicitly discount the importance of other factors argued to be significant in minority inclusion in American policing. The authors will examine select law enforcement agencies in the State of Florida in order to glean what factors play a significant role in minority applicants securing or not securing jobs in law enforcement.
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- 2009-03-01
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- fgcu_ir_000104
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- Can Grave Secrets Be Revealed via Analysis of Bare Bones?.
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Walsh-Haney, Heather
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Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, Ph.D., earned her doctoral degree from Northwestern University and is an emeritus professor within the University of North Carolina Charlotte's (UNCC) Department of Anthropology (currently on indefinite leave). Since 1997, she has woven her own case experiences and state‐of‐the‐art technical knowledge of the process of reading bones into 13 crime novels, all of which are New York Times“bestsellers” (Reichs 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,...
Show moreForensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, Ph.D., earned her doctoral degree from Northwestern University and is an emeritus professor within the University of North Carolina Charlotte's (UNCC) Department of Anthropology (currently on indefinite leave). Since 1997, she has woven her own case experiences and state‐of‐the‐art technical knowledge of the process of reading bones into 13 crime novels, all of which are New York Times“bestsellers” (Reichs 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). Her protagonist, Temperance Brennan, Ph.D., analyzes decomposing, putrefied, mummified, and skeletonized remains to identify victims of violent crimes and to determine when and how death occurred. Reichs intertwines each of Brennan's adventures with threads of theory and practice from the subfields of biological anthropology and archaeology and seamlessly emboldens Brennan with comprehensive (but not wearisome) descriptions of the methods used. And in a quiet nod to cultural anthropology, Brennan's victim, witness, and informant interviews are often a key component in driving character development and moving the plot forward.
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- 2011-12-01
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- fgcu_ir_000793
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- Collecting Data From the Criminal Courts: Perspectives of Court Staff Members—A Research Note.
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Sever, Brion, Reisner, Ronald
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Because court policies and programs must be evaluated, the relationship between researchers and the staff members overseeing court data is an essential part of the process. Past research indicates that researchers commonly believe that their efforts are hampered by court staff members, who, accordingly, often have suspicions about the agendas of researchers. The present study examines an alternative viewpoint—the perspectives of court staff members who oversee the data requests of researchers...
Show moreBecause court policies and programs must be evaluated, the relationship between researchers and the staff members overseeing court data is an essential part of the process. Past research indicates that researchers commonly believe that their efforts are hampered by court staff members, who, accordingly, often have suspicions about the agendas of researchers. The present study examines an alternative viewpoint—the perspectives of court staff members who oversee the data requests of researchers. Specifically, 30 county-level and 30 state-level court staff members were interviewed about their relations with researchers in the data collection process, and the strategies they believe researchers can use to make the process more efficient. The authors find that staff members do not view their relations with researchers to be as problematic as the researchers perceive. The authors also discovered that there are several approaches that both sides can use to establish a better data collection process.
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- 2008-03-01
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- fgcu_ir_000797
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- County Sales Tax, Crime Rate, and Prison Bed Use in Florida: Implications for the Misuse of Prison Space.
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Sever, Brion
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The tragedy of the commons occurs when a resource is held in common and there is no mechanism to discourage overconsumption. This study tests for the existence of a commons problem in the Florida Correctional System by comparing county prison bed use with county prison beds purchased through sales tax across all 67 counties in Florida from 1989 through 1995. County crime measures and other prison use considerations are tested to determine if there is justification for county overuse of prison...
Show moreThe tragedy of the commons occurs when a resource is held in common and there is no mechanism to discourage overconsumption. This study tests for the existence of a commons problem in the Florida Correctional System by comparing county prison bed use with county prison beds purchased through sales tax across all 67 counties in Florida from 1989 through 1995. County crime measures and other prison use considerations are tested to determine if there is justification for county overuse of prison space. The data indicate that the tragedy of the commons does exist in the Florida Correctional System. Several counties are consuming a disproportionate number of prison beds, and this overconsumption is largely unjustified by their crime rates. This study suggests that the commons problem within the Florida Correctional System could be avoided or at least reduced.
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- 2000-06-01
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- fgcu_ir_000806
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- Criminal Justice Graduate Programs at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Curriculum Analysis.
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Sever, Brion, Coram, Gregory, Meltzer, Gwen
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The needs of students seeking graduate degrees in criminal justice have shifted significantly over the past few decades, and this shift has been in conjunction with the changes to the field of criminology and criminal justice. Indeed, criminal justice graduate students today must not only master criminological theory, research, and administrative policy but also need computer and writing skills, as well as exposure to race, gender, and ethical issues. This study examines the focus that modern...
Show moreThe needs of students seeking graduate degrees in criminal justice have shifted significantly over the past few decades, and this shift has been in conjunction with the changes to the field of criminology and criminal justice. Indeed, criminal justice graduate students today must not only master criminological theory, research, and administrative policy but also need computer and writing skills, as well as exposure to race, gender, and ethical issues. This study examines the focus that modern-day criminal justice graduate programs place on these areas by reviewing their curricula. Specifically, the authors examined 118 criminal justice masters programs that had curricula online during the spring and summer semesters of 2004. They found that the programs' curricula continue to place strong emphasis on traditional courses such as research, theory, and criminal justice administration, while placing less emphasis on courses centering on race, gender, ethics, computer applications, and comparative criminal justice.
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- 2008-06-01
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- fgcu_ir_000796
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- Do Our Books Reinforce Criminal Justice Stereotypes? An Analysis of the Images in Introductory Criminal Justice Textbooks.
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Sever, Brion, Grillo, Michelle
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Over the past 30 years, there has been much attention placed on the content within introductory textbooks in fields, such as education, sociology, economics, psychology, and criminal justice. Within the field of criminal justice, a surplus of information has been gathered through analysis of the text found within introductory textbooks. There has been much less emphasis, however, on the potential for stereotypical images found within the pictures of criminal justice textbooks. This study...
Show moreOver the past 30 years, there has been much attention placed on the content within introductory textbooks in fields, such as education, sociology, economics, psychology, and criminal justice. Within the field of criminal justice, a surplus of information has been gathered through analysis of the text found within introductory textbooks. There has been much less emphasis, however, on the potential for stereotypical images found within the pictures of criminal justice textbooks. This study builds on the diminutive literature on the images in criminal justice textbooks. We examined the pictures in 22 introductory criminal justice textbooks over a 17-year period to determine the percentages of men, women, minorities, and other groups that comprise these pictures. We find that white males dominate the images of criminal justice personnel in these textbooks, and that minorities are more likely to be portrayed as criminals than as criminal justice employees.
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- 2015-10-20
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- fgcu_ir_000794
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- Externalizing Disorders and Violent Juvenile Crime.
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Brown, Erika, College of Arts & Sciences
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This thesis presents a comparative study that investigates the possibility of a relationship between the diagnosis of conduct disorder (CD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (e.g., all of which are categorized as externalizing disorders) and juvenile violent crime. Previous research documents the frequency of externalizing disorders in the juvenile offender population and the behaviors associated...
Show moreThis thesis presents a comparative study that investigates the possibility of a relationship between the diagnosis of conduct disorder (CD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (e.g., all of which are categorized as externalizing disorders) and juvenile violent crime. Previous research documents the frequency of externalizing disorders in the juvenile offender population and the behaviors associated with violent crimes (Cashman & Thomas, 2016; Shepherd & Purcell, 2015; Pullmann, 2009; Kim et al., 2017). Currently, there is a lack of research that explores the relationships between specific diagnoses and specific types of crimes in juvenile populations. In this thesis eight case studies are qualitatively analyzed for externalizing behaviors, the severity and frequency of the violence, the type of aggression, and the victim(s). The case studies revealed that defiance and impulsivity are the behaviors seen in the externalizing cases, whereas aggression and irritability are the behaviors seen in the non-externalizing cases.
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- 2020-10-19
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- fgcu_ETD_0349
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- Kana Tamata or Feasts of Men: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Identifying Cannibalism in Prehistoric Fiji.
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Walsh-Haney, Heather, Jones, Sharyn, Quinn, R.
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By integrating osteological, taphonomic, archaeological and stable isotopic data, we test for cannibalism in the Lau Group, Fiji and discuss the potential underlying cause(s) and context(s) of this behaviour. First, we compare taphonomic and element representations of human skeletal material from two contexts in Fiji, examining human bone fragments from archaeological sites, including middens and burials in the Lau Island Group. Fourteen sites produced human remains. Only two of those sites...
Show moreBy integrating osteological, taphonomic, archaeological and stable isotopic data, we test for cannibalism in the Lau Group, Fiji and discuss the potential underlying cause(s) and context(s) of this behaviour. First, we compare taphonomic and element representations of human skeletal material from two contexts in Fiji, examining human bone fragments from archaeological sites, including middens and burials in the Lau Island Group. Fourteen sites produced human remains. Only two of those sites included distinct human burial contexts, but in the remaining 12 sites, the human bone was recovered from middens or contexts where midden was mixed with possible secondary burials. A total of 262 number of identified specimens per species, representing an estimated 15 minimum number of individuals make up the Lau human assemblage. Second, we analysed bones contained in 20 individual human burials from four different sites that are housed at the Fiji Museum for comparative purposes. Third, we examine previously published stable isotopic (d13C, d15N) analysis of bone collagen to gauge protein consumption of likely cannibalised humans in midden contexts and potential cannibals from primary burials. We model a cannibalistic diet category within the context of isotopically measured Pacific Islands food groups and apply an isotopic mixing model to gauge plausible dietary contributions from six sources including human flesh. Isotopic mixing models of the Lauan samples illustrate a high diversity in reconstructed diets. The percent contribution of human flesh is low for all individual Lauans. We conclude that mortuary rituals evidenced by sharp-force trauma may suggest non-nutritive and non-violent practices that may have included the consumption of small amounts of human flesh.
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- 2012-08-17
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- fgcu_ir_000766
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- Law Enforcement and the Depiction of Minorities and Women on Social Media: A Review of Municipal Police Department Facebook Pictures.
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Sever, Brion, Elg, Eric, Ellis, Sydney
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There is a growing area of research today focusing on how the demographics of law enforcement officers and criminals are depicted. This research has concentrated on portrayals by the media, popular culture, criminal justice textbooks, training manuals, and other literature surrounding criminal justice. There is little known, however, about the way the race and gender of police and criminals are represented on social media. This study attempts to fill this void by examining police Facebook...
Show moreThere is a growing area of research today focusing on how the demographics of law enforcement officers and criminals are depicted. This research has concentrated on portrayals by the media, popular culture, criminal justice textbooks, training manuals, and other literature surrounding criminal justice. There is little known, however, about the way the race and gender of police and criminals are represented on social media. This study attempts to fill this void by examining police Facebook pages in the 171 largest cities in the United States. Specifically, 20,152 images of police and criminals on these police Facebook pages are examined to determine whether there are disparities in representation based on race, gender, and other variables. We found that female and minority officers are appropriately represented in the images of police on Facebook pages in relation to their actual representation in the field. In contrast, images of criminals tend to be disproportionately composed of Black males. Implications for the recruitment of minority officers and other relevant issues are discussed.
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- 2018-10-29
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- fgcu_ir_000765
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- Law Enforcement Officers: Perspectives on Race, Credibility, and the Community.
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Barringer, Tony, Thomas, David
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Professional law enforcement has had an image problem within minority communities since its inception. Monkkonen (1981) pre-sented the following two hypotheses for look-ing at policing in America and its relationship with minority communities: (1) the growth of American policing was in response to a rise in crime and civil disorder or (2) the growth in American policing was in response to the needs of the elite of American society to have the police act as a buffer between them and what he...
Show moreProfessional law enforcement has had an image problem within minority communities since its inception. Monkkonen (1981) pre-sented the following two hypotheses for look-ing at policing in America and its relationship with minority communities: (1) the growth of American policing was in response to a rise in crime and civil disorder or (2) the growth in American policing was in response to the needs of the elite of American society to have the police act as a buffer between them and what he describes as the dangerous class. The dangerous class can be defined as the faceless in U.S. society and include the poor, minori-ties, criminals, and tramps (p. 87). Still the question remains which hypothesis is correct or, more importantly, who will be on the front line to protect the citizens from the dangerous class? What is their value system? Where do their loyalties lie?
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- 2012-06-01
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- fgcu_ir_000106
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- Law Enforcement Officers: Their Perception of Personal Safety and Job Performance.
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Barringer, Tony, Thomas, David
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The purpose of this article is fourfold: (1) to emphasize the role of community policing as an important faction of society, (2) to examine officers’ perceptions of their personal safety while performing their daily job/tasks, (3) to explore how the perceptions of the officers perceivably affect their ability to be effective and efficient while performing their jobs, and (4) to examine the extent of officer tragedy taking place in American society. We propose a model that will assist agencies...
Show moreThe purpose of this article is fourfold: (1) to emphasize the role of community policing as an important faction of society, (2) to examine officers’ perceptions of their personal safety while performing their daily job/tasks, (3) to explore how the perceptions of the officers perceivably affect their ability to be effective and efficient while performing their jobs, and (4) to examine the extent of officer tragedy taking place in American society. We propose a model that will assist agencies in providing optimal training that could serve to make officers feel safer while performing commendable work. Community policing is defined by Meese (1994) and Moore & Trojanowicz (1988) as the use of sophisticated investigative problem solving techniques while interacting cooperatively with community institutions such as families, schools, neighborhood associations, merchant groups, and social service agencies to create safe secure communities. Although the primary responsibility of officers is to serve, protect, and create a safe community, Clarke and Zak (1999) suggested that in every community in the United States, law enforcement personnel and firefighters regularly put their lives in harm’s way to protect the public. The authors went on to suggest that the risk of a fatal incident for law enforcement personnel and firefighters is three times greater than for all other workers. Although we are intrigued with officer/community interaction(s), this work focuses primarily on police safety.
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- 2007-05-01
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- fgcu_ir_000102
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- Low Resting Heart Rate and Antisocial Behavior: A Brief Review of Evidence and Preliminary Results from a New Test.
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Keller, Shawn, Armstrong, Todd A., Franklin, Travis W., MacMillan, Scott N.
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Despite a large body of research demonstrating a clear and consistent relationship between resting heart rate and antisocial behavior, little is understood about the relative influence on antisocial behavior of resting heart rate and other constructs central to criminological theories. Here, the authors offer an initial effort to bridge this gap in the literature by testing the relationship between resting heart rate and a measure of antisocial behavior net of attachment to parents, self...
Show moreDespite a large body of research demonstrating a clear and consistent relationship between resting heart rate and antisocial behavior, little is understood about the relative influence on antisocial behavior of resting heart rate and other constructs central to criminological theories. Here, the authors offer an initial effort to bridge this gap in the literature by testing the relationship between resting heart rate and a measure of antisocial behavior net of attachment to parents, self-control, peer delinquency, and potential physiological confounds. Results from ANOVA show that those with low resting heart rates have significantly higher rates of severe antisocial behavior and aggressive antisocial behavior net of physiological confounds. Results from multivariate regression models show that low resting heart rate has a statistically significant relationship with severe antisocial behavior and aggressive behavior in models controlling for attachment to parents, self-control, peer delinquency, and physiological confounds.
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- 2009-08-10
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- fgcu_ir_000764
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- Municipal police departments’ attention to crime analysis: essential or impractical?.
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Sever, Brion, Garcia, Venessa, Tsiandi, Antonia
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Technologically advanced strategies such as crime analysis have great potential for impacting a department’s efficiency, crime reduction, and professionalism. Yet, to what extent are they being used or perceived as necessary by police departments. This study examines the use of such strategies in New Jersey police departments in cities with a population of 15,000 and above. Specifically, we surveyed 90 police departments in New Jersey in an effort to determine the type of computer technology...
Show moreTechnologically advanced strategies such as crime analysis have great potential for impacting a department’s efficiency, crime reduction, and professionalism. Yet, to what extent are they being used or perceived as necessary by police departments. This study examines the use of such strategies in New Jersey police departments in cities with a population of 15,000 and above. Specifically, we surveyed 90 police departments in New Jersey in an effort to determine the type of computer technology they possess, as well as the extent and manner to which they use crime analysis. We found that although most departments use crime analysis, few use modern strategies in such endeavors.
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- 2008-09-12
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- fgcu_ir_000795
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- Racial composition of municipal legislative governing bodies and spending on public assistance and police.
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Sever, Brion, Reisner, Ronald L.
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Although there has been much research on the impact of racial composition of city populations on welfare and police spending, there has been little emphasis on the impact of racial composition of the city legislative governing bodies in relation to such spending. In essence, researchers have concentrated on the effects of city demographics that indirectly impact municipal spending rather than the composition of policy making bodies which directly decide the spending. Thus, the present study...
Show moreAlthough there has been much research on the impact of racial composition of city populations on welfare and police spending, there has been little emphasis on the impact of racial composition of the city legislative governing bodies in relation to such spending. In essence, researchers have concentrated on the effects of city demographics that indirectly impact municipal spending rather than the composition of policy making bodies which directly decide the spending. Thus, the present study concentrates on the racial composition of municipal legislative governing bodies and its effect on city spending on public assistance and police. Using data from all 1,083 cities with a population of 25,000 and over in 1990, we find that cities with all white legislative governing bodies allocate smaller percentages of their spending on public assistance, and more on police in comparison to public assistance. When city population size is isolated, this effect is found in small cities, but not in large ones.
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- 2001-01-01
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- fgcu_ir_000805
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- Ranking Multiple Authors in Criminal Justice Scholarship: An Examination of Underlying Issues.
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Sever, Brion
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The rapid increases in technology and communication over the past 20 years are undoubtedly providing scholars greater opportunity to collaborate on research. But collaboration brings with it a number of concerns for individuals embarking on such endeavors, as well as entire fields within academia. Of particular concern to this study is the perceived fairness of authorship ranking in multiple-authored scholarship. In order to examine the extent to which such problems exist in criminology and...
Show moreThe rapid increases in technology and communication over the past 20 years are undoubtedly providing scholars greater opportunity to collaborate on research. But collaboration brings with it a number of concerns for individuals embarking on such endeavors, as well as entire fields within academia. Of particular concern to this study is the perceived fairness of authorship ranking in multiple-authored scholarship. In order to examine the extent to which such problems exist in criminology and criminal justice, 123 authors of collaborative scholarship found in 15 journals in the field for 1999 and 2000 were surveyed. The majority of researchers were found to have experienced disagreement over authorship ranking sometime during their careers. The implications of this finding and others are discussed.
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- 2005-04-01
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- fgcu_ir_000798
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- Research methods for criminal justice graduate students: Comparing textbook coverage and classroom instruction.
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Sever, Brion
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Research methods are perhaps the most difficult subject matter to teach in the graduate criminal justice curricula. This is in part due to the mix of practitioners and aspiring researchers in most criminal justice graduate departments, leading many instructors to question whether their own coverage is in line with the needs of their graduate students as well as the coverage of other instructors. Also complicating matters is that research methods textbooks are not geared specifically for the...
Show moreResearch methods are perhaps the most difficult subject matter to teach in the graduate criminal justice curricula. This is in part due to the mix of practitioners and aspiring researchers in most criminal justice graduate departments, leading many instructors to question whether their own coverage is in line with the needs of their graduate students as well as the coverage of other instructors. Also complicating matters is that research methods textbooks are not geared specifically for the graduate level, and thus may neglect topics that are necessary for today's criminal justice graduate students. The present study addresses these concerns by providing an analysis of 11 current criminal justice research methods textbooks, as well as a survey of 36 instructors of graduate criminal justice and criminology research methods classes. Both the texts and instructors are found to place a strong focus on quantitative methods, while the textbooks tend to place a greater emphasis on qualitative methods than the instructors. Moreover, both the texts and instructors neglect topics crucial to today's criminal justice graduate student, including grant writing, article writing and critiquing, and standards for collaborative research efforts.
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- 2001-01-01
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- fgcu_ir_000802
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- Successfully Acquiring Data from the Criminal Courts: Is It What You Know, Who You Know, or What You Don't Tell Them?.
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Sever, Brion, Reisner, Ronald L., King, Ryan S.
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This study examines issues centering on the collection of court-related data. Specifically, it questions whether researchers run into difficulties in collecting data for research on the criminal courts. Information was gathered through in-depth interviews with twenty-seven researchers around the country who have experience collecting court data. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of these researchers reported encountering problems in collecting court data and admitted the use of several...
Show moreThis study examines issues centering on the collection of court-related data. Specifically, it questions whether researchers run into difficulties in collecting data for research on the criminal courts. Information was gathered through in-depth interviews with twenty-seven researchers around the country who have experience collecting court data. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of these researchers reported encountering problems in collecting court data and admitted the use of several different strategies. These strategies include using a contact within or close to the agency, as well as withholding the exact nature of the researcher's study. Unfortunately, these strategies only alleviate the difficulties of the individual researcher and do nothing to help reduce the problems that future researchers will encounter.
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- 2001-01-01
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- fgcu_ir_000804
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- The coverage of ethics in research methods textbooks.
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Sever, Brion, McSkimming, Michael J., King, Ryan S.
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Ethics is one of the most important topics in criminal justice and criminological research, yet it is also one of the most neglected. Indeed, it is common for professors to merely gloss over ethical issues at the end of their research methods classes, or to exclude them completely. The present study attempts to determine if such disregard for ethics carries over into the coverage found in criminal justice research methods textbooks. Eleven research methods textbooks that are commonly used in...
Show moreEthics is one of the most important topics in criminal justice and criminological research, yet it is also one of the most neglected. Indeed, it is common for professors to merely gloss over ethical issues at the end of their research methods classes, or to exclude them completely. The present study attempts to determine if such disregard for ethics carries over into the coverage found in criminal justice research methods textbooks. Eleven research methods textbooks that are commonly used in criminal justice and criminology were analyzed, and coverage of ethics was found to vary greatly across the books. Unfortunately, we also found that some important issues within research ethics are being omitted in the majority of the books, and we make recommendations toward expanding the coverage of research ethics.
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- 2000-01-01
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- fgcu_ir_000807
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- The Curious Case of Goldenhar-Gorlin Syndrome: Identification and Skeletal Manifestation.
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Lopez, Dayanira, Walsh-Haney, Heather, FGCU Research Day
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Goldenhar-Gorlin Syndrome, also known as oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia (OAVD), is a congenital disease characterized by malformations of several facial bones and the vertebral column. In some cases, there may be complete absence of different skeletal elements, as well as poor development of external processes such as the ear. Previous research has identified the dysplasia of the first and second branchial arches, important in the development of the jaws in utero, in relation to the...
Show moreGoldenhar-Gorlin Syndrome, also known as oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia (OAVD), is a congenital disease characterized by malformations of several facial bones and the vertebral column. In some cases, there may be complete absence of different skeletal elements, as well as poor development of external processes such as the ear. Previous research has identified the dysplasia of the first and second branchial arches, important in the development of the jaws in utero, in relation to the expression of this syndrome. Clinical diagnoses range between 1:3500 and 1:5600 live births with a male to female ratio of 3:27. However, in a forensic setting, the lack of such a unique diagnosis can make proper identification of this syndrome difficult for law enforcement and medical examiner personnel. In death investigations, the role of the forensic anthropologist is to evaluate skeletal remains for any evidence of antemortem (in-life), perimortem (at or around the time of death) or postmortem (after death) changes, as well as to recreate the biological story of an individual. To do so, it is important that we can identify (and differentiate) distinct antemortem pathologies, such as Goldenhar-Gorlin Syndrome, to add strength to the biological story of an individual, while assisting law enforcement and medical examiner personnel in an identification. In the present case study, skeletal analysis coupled with an ethnoforensic anthropological interview was conducted for an individual with clinical diagnosis of Goldenhar-Gorlin Syndrome. The remains were donated to the Human Identity and Trauma Analysis program at Florida Gulf Coast University as an anatomical gift for teaching and research purposes in accordance with the provisions of Florida Statutes section 765.510, et seq. The ability to conduct such a thorough investigation is one not encountered very frequently and will edify the scientific community in identifying the unique expression of this pathology on the human skeleton in its various forms.
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- 2018
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- fgcu_UGR_0072
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- The Impact of Racial Composition and Other County Characteristics on the Size of Sheriff’s Departments: A New Analysis of Police Force Growth.
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Sever, Brion, McSkimming, Michael J.
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Over the past three decades, there have been an abundance of studies that have tested the impact of various city characteristics on police force strength. A number of these studies included minority population size as a control, however only a few have placed a great deal of concentration on this area, and we have found only one other study that has tested it at the county level. The current study tested the impact of minority populations, crime, and other county characteristics on the total...
Show moreOver the past three decades, there have been an abundance of studies that have tested the impact of various city characteristics on police force strength. A number of these studies included minority population size as a control, however only a few have placed a great deal of concentration on this area, and we have found only one other study that has tested it at the county level. The current study tested the impact of minority populations, crime, and other county characteristics on the total number of sworn sheriff’s deputies and deputies in the field for 122 large counties across the United States. Unlike research focusing on the city level, we found that the number of sheriff’s deputies (either total sworn or field deputies) in a county is not highly influenced by minority population size or other characteristics of the county that they police.
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- 2004-12-01
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- fgcu_ir_000800
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