Browsing Criminal Justice and Criminology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2011 Fall"
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Policing Troost: a replication and expansion of Herbert's territoriality and normative orders thesis
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2011-12-27)Police officers in the United States constantly fluctuate in their roles between being formal agents of state control and simple public servants. This dynamic societal role allows significant fluidity in officer behavior, ... -
Rapping gender and violence? Addressing violence and gender with a content analysis of rap lyrics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-26)The purpose of this study is to examine violence in contemporary rap music and to address if the violence is gender specific. Utilizing the Billboard Top Ten Rap Singles from 1997-2007 this study analyzed 100 songs using ...