• The Impact of Age Composition in Explaining the International Homicide Decline - A Seven-decade Longitudinal Study 

  Renno Santos, Mateus (2019)

  Since 1991 the homicide rate of the United States declined by more than 40%. Such a dramatic change in the crime rate of any country, particularly one of the size of the United States, is highly unusual. Numerous studies ...

• Examining the Association Between Social Media and Violent Extremism: A Social Learning Approach 

  Sahani, Shradha (2018)

  In recent years, the use of social media has become more prevalent across the United States. Social media, through the use of personalization algorithms, allows for exposure to extremist content and is able to create ...

• BUILDING A BASELINE: UNIFYING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL METHODOLOGIES TO UNDERSTAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOTING IN EGYPT 

  Fabiani, Michelle Rose Dippolito (2019)

  Archaeological looting – the illegal excavation or removal of an antiquity from the ground or structural complex of an archaeological site – is a persistent issue in many countries. National and international laws, agreements, ...

• Judges and the Compan(ies) they Keep: An Analysis of Judicial Campaign Contributions Situated within an Original Problem-Solving Framework 

  Foriest, Whytnee (2019)

  This dissertation addresses the problem of citizens’ dissatisfaction with a sitting judge, stemming from the #FreeMeekMill controversy. It introduces an original analytical problem-solving model, Transformative Framework ...

• THE EFFECTS OF GENDER ON PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT SENTENCING IN MARYLAND CIRCUIT COURTS 

  Lafferty, Jennifer Margaret Bewton (2018)

  Researchers have identified child abuse as a major social problem in the United States, yet research on physical child abuse and neglect sentencing is limited. Prior to this study, sentencing research has mostly overlooked ...

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