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The dissertation sought to provide insight to the unique experiences of foster care alumni in graduate education pursuits. For many, higher education serves to increase opportunities in the workforce and higher lifetime earnings; as the...
In a study conducted by the Bureau of Justice in 2014, approximately three-quarters (76.6%) of inmates released were re-arrested within five years. Studies have been conducted that examine the impact of inmate characteristics on the...
Where There's Smoke, Is There Always Fire?: Exploring the Relationship between Substance-Related Health Strain and Criminal Arrest in a Partial Test of General Strain Theory
A strong connection between substance use and other criminal behaviors like violent and property crimes has been demonstrated by prior research (Bennett, Holloway, & Farrington, 2008), but the exact interconnections of this relationship...
Problematic anger is a phenomenon that is highly relevant to a number of psychological disorders and health outcomes yet remains under-studied and is often misunderstood. Although the field has largely rejected the value of cathartic...
Previous research links antisocial traits with criminal involvement and contact with the criminal justice system. In line with these findings, an emerging body of research has begun to explore if antisocial traits and persistent criminal...
Over the past 30 years, scholars have increasingly focused on the individual-level factors that explain criminal behavior. This line of research has revealed that myriad factors influence the onset of a criminal career, the maintenance...
Until the past few decades, criminological research has almost exclusively focused on examining the link between various environmental risk factors and criminal behavior. Since then, an emerging body of research has developed exploring...
Over 200, 000 women were incarcerated in 2015, constituting approximately 9% of the U.S. prison population (Kaeble & Glaze, 2016). Best practices call for individualized services upon release in hopes of successful reentry into society ...
Research has revealed that there are patterns to offending that can be aggregated into categories or typologies. Despite the large amount of research on typologies of offending, there is a lack of research exploring general violent...
While existing research suggests that caregivers contribute to the onset and maintenance of adolescent substance use, research also posits that caregivers are negatively affected by adolescent substance use. However, caregivers'...
Becoming the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: An Assessment of Florida Prison-Based Dog Training Programs on Prison Misconduct, Post-Release Employment and Recidivism
Dog Training Programs have recently become a popular rehabilitative program within correctional facilities. They are present in all 50 states as well as many other countries. However, the empirical literature on the effectiveness of...
As If We Were Already Free: Unmaking Myths of American Justice is a hybrid-genre lyrical history about the rise of the American prison told in chronological vignettes. These character-driven micro-essays begin in 1492 with scenes of...
Relationships have been previously established between trauma exposure and suicide, particularly when the trauma exposure occurs during childhood, and when the event results in symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)....
Florida's Department of Corrections (DOC) currently operates the largest state-run faith-based correctional facilities program in the United States. In these facilities, the state sequesters inmates from the larger inmate population and...
Community mural projects exist in a medium of high visual payoff, illustrating desired subject matter meant to serve a specific audience. While the result is indeed an important element, it is not the only point of emphasis. This...
Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) engage in ‘safety behaviors’ (SBs) aimed at checking, hiding, fixing, and reducing threat associated with their perceived flaw. SBs are thought to maintain symptoms and may play a causal...
Within the field of criminology, there is no shortage of theoretical perspectives. While these theoretical perspectives are quite diverse, they do share a common thread: an exclusive focus on social factors that contribute to criminal...
Research examining incarceration in jails has grown in recent years. Much of this work has focused explicitly on pretrial detainees; that is, those housed within local jails who have yet to be convicted. This population makes up a...
High rates of sexual victimization occur on colleges campus and continue to be a significant issue, despite efforts to prevent assault. Although risk factors of victimization have been identified and extensively studied, many college...
This dissertation studies childhood maltreatment and its implications for mid-life adults’ mental and relational functioning through two distinct manuscripts, each taking a different focus on the topic. The first manuscript considers...
Approximately 48, 300 people die by suicide yearly in the United States (U.S.) alone. Just over half of these deaths result from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, which is to be expected given that 9 out of 10 attempts involving a firearm...
Although there is general acceptance of law enforcement’s use of criminal profiling, such actions become problematic when they appear to be discriminatory in nature. One of the most frequently examined and contested profiling tactics is...
Democratic engagement and socially just leadership education are emergent approaches to community engagement and leadership education. Three critical and timely tensions set the stage for this study: tensions between higher education's...
The U.S. regularly incarcerates its residents, where time spent behind bars is overwhelmingly negative (Massoglia, 2008a; Rose & Clear, 1998). But not all persons have an equal chance of incarceration. State and federal policies target...
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