Browsing University of Missouri-Kansas City by Thesis Advisor "Sexton, Lori"
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Exploring the Correlation between Civil Unrest and the Mobilization of Hate in the United States
(2022)The mobilization of hate in the United States has greatly ramped up since 2000. There are a lot of factors that go into why hate crimes continue to persist, but civil unrest seems to be one of the biggest factors. Through ... -
Exploring the Perceptions, Uses, Rhetoric, and Reality of ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology Among Police Officers and Analysts
(2022)After two years of historic levels of gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri, this thesis asks how local police officers and analysts experience, utilize, and conceive of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system. Using ... -
From top to bottom: rhetoric in the hierarchy of focused deterrence stakeholders
(2014-07-25)Criminological and socio-legal research has frequently focused on the gap between policy and practice that is evident in the "ceremonial rhetoric" guiding criminal justice policies. This thesis examines whether there is a ... -
Hate By Numbers: Exploring Hate Crime Reporting Across Crime Type And Among Special Interest Groups Using The NCVS
(2023)Hate crimes are of particular harm to both individual victims and the communities they represent but are difficult to measure due to challenges facing data collection and reporting to police. The National Crime ... -
Jews Behind Bars and the Influence of Jewish Communal Support on Reentry, Reintegration, and Desistance
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in communal social support and prison chaplaincy. Numerous studies evaluate the growing role of religion and spirituality in various preventive and rehabilitative ... -
Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
(2020)In April of 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act/Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) package. This set of bipartisan legislation was ...