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Item PUTTING THE COMMUNITY BACK INTO COMMUNITY POLICING: COMMUNITY BUILDING AND PROBLEM SOLVING(2020) Witherow, Brooke; Liu, Dr. Brooke; Communication; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Deadly encounters between police and Black individuals in America have left the police-community relationship strained and the country reeling. The purpose of this dissertation to gain a deeper understanding of how police administration, patrol officers, and community leaders identify community, their role in the community, and how they potentially engage in community building, community problem solving, and community policing. This dissertation combines public relations scholarship on community building with community policing scholarship. As part of a case study, 26 semi-structured interviews with police administration, patrol officers, and community leaders were conducted as part of a case study. Patrol officer interviews took place over the course of seven ride alongs, which provided added context and triangulation. This study addresses several research gaps in both public relations and community policing literature by conducting a qualitative case study that includes both community and police voices. Amid calls to defund and disband police in America, this dissertation argues that community policing has the potential to build community.Item In Pursuit of Reform, Whether Convict or Free: Prison Labor Reform in Maryland in the Early Twentieth Century(2018) Durham, Erin; Woods, Colleen; History; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Highlighting the labor actions of inmates and organized labor, this thesis explains the transition from a contract labor system to a state-use system in Maryland’s state prisons. While many northern states abolished the contract labor system by 1911, Maryland continued contract labor into the 1930s. Efforts of prison administrators to maintain discipline and fund prison operating costs despite the labor actions of inmates and working men and women reveal the close relationship of prison labor and revenue generation. By situating prison labor within the broader history of the labor movement in Baltimore, this thesis reveals how the Maryland prison system transitioned from a backwater of Progressive Era reform to a model of New Deal ideology. Its examination of prison profits lends insight into the post-1960s rise in mass incarceration, and is vital to the project of understanding the connections between the criminal state, corporate profit, and incarcerated populations.Item Youth Engaging in Prostitution: An examination of race, gender, and their intersections(2013) SHANAHAN, RYAN; Thornton Dill, Bonnie; Women's Studies; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Between 2008 and 2012, 10 states took steps to decriminalize young people arrested for prostitution while providing them with court-mandated services to help them recover from their experiences with prostitution. In 2006, the National Institute of Justice funded a study to estimate the population of youth engaging in prostitution in the New York City area. As a part of the study, 249 young people engaging in prostitution (YEP) were interviewed about their experiences. This dissertation explores the legislation created to address YEP and the incorporation of ideas in public discourse into legislative policy, as well as how these policies reflect the experiences and needs of YEP as they articulate them. This interdisciplinary, feminist study explores how these differing constructions and the relationships between them are built within raced, gendered, and classed power relations. To answer these questions, the dissertation uses quantitative and qualitative methods and draws from theories of feminism, intersectionality, harm reduction, and strength-based social work.