Dissertations from 2024
Mind Your Business or Be Your Brother's Keeper? Managing Vulnerability in the New York City Subway, Maria Barrera-Vilert
Exploring the Correlation Between Google Trends and Crime Statistics: A Focus on Motor Vehicle Theft in the United States, Yu-Hsuan Liu
The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts, Lauren Moton
Chipping the Blue Wall: The Effect of Dogs on Police Officer Receptivity to an Employee Assistance Program, Kenneth M. Quick
Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents, Jacqueline M. Scott
Dissertations from 2023
Unlocking Potential: The School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students with Disabilities, Navena F. Chaitoo
Quality Management and Oversight of Texas Forensic Science Service Providers, Sarah P. Chu
Investigating Key Risk Factors Across Violent and Non-violent Extremists in the United States, Leevia Dillon
Extremism in America: Explaining Variations in Ideologically Motivated Fatal Violence, Celinet Duran
The Punitive Laboratory of Neoliberalism: A Cross-national Examination, Beth A. Fera
Bearer Negotiable Instruments: Addressing a Financial Intelligence Gap and Identifying Criminogenic Weaknesses, Hollis B. Kegg
Understanding Victim-Offender Overlap Among Youth in Custody in the United States and Taiwan, Tzu-Ying Lo
Police Academy Attrition Rates: A Long-Term Analysis of Female Candidates in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, and New Jersey, Shamus W. Smith
A Multifaceted, Non-Militarized Approach to Security Dynamics in Protected Areas: From Foot Patrols, to Tourism, and Local Communities, Monique Sosnowski
Evaluating the Effect of CCTV on Crime Occurrence and Case Clearances in Fayetteville, North Carolina: A Microsynthetic Control Quasi-Experiment, Amanda L. Thomas
Typologies of Battering: Uncovering Patterns of Coercive Tactics Used by Abusive Men in a Mixed Methods Study, Abbie L. Tuller
Dissertations from 2022
Mitigating the Harm of Public Mass Shooting Incidents Through Situational Crime Prevention, Emily Greene-Colozzi
A Study of the Punishment of Crimes by US Federal Legislators from 1798 to 2016, Kenneth J. Grossberger
Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence, David Hatten
Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data, Yuchen Hou
Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial–Carceral City’s Attempt to Eliminate the “Mexican Problem”, Amy A. Martinez
The Application of Electron Backscatter Diffraction to the Forensic Analysis of Minerals, Tiffany J. Millett
Scientific Development of an Integrated Workflow for Latent Print, Questioned Document, and DNA Processing of Paper Evidence, Ashley Morgan
Tablets as a Vehicle for Imprisoned People’s Digital Connection with Loved Ones, Andrea Mufarreh
Aging on Parole: An Empirical Analysis of Reentry, Reintegration, and Life Satisfaction, Angela Silletti Murolo
LGBTQIA+ Individuals’ Encounters with Police: Contextual Factors, Help-Seeking, and Service Needs, Max Osborn
The Microscopical Evidence Traces Analysis of Household Dust and Its Statistical Significance as a Definitive Identification Technique, Stephanie Polifroni
Credible Messengers: An Exploratory Analysis of What Makes Them "Credible", Jason Szkola
The Economic and Demographic Dynamics of Pretrial Justice, Christopher Thomas
Elements of Social Disorganization and Environmental Criminology: A Spatial Analysis of Homicides in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, David J. Topel
CPTED and the City: The Impact of Privately Owned Public Spaces on Crime in Manhattan, Julia von Ferber
Dissertations from 2021
Exploring the Overlap, Saliency, and Consistency of Environmental Predictors in Crime Hot Spots: A Remote Systematic Social Observation and Case-Control Examination, Nathan T. Connealy
Evaluation of the Potential of Automated SEM-EDS Analysis for the Discrimination of Inorganic Soil Particles, Anna S. Duggar
The Different Components of Active Shooter Incidents: Examining the Co-occurrence of Offender and Incident Characteristics, Jeffery R. Osborne
From Rulay to Rules: Perceptions of Prison Life and Reforms in the Dominican Republic’s Traditional and New Prisons, Jennifer Peirce
Redlining, Neighborhood Decline, and Violence: How Discriminatory Government Policies Created Violent American Inner Cities, Richard Powell
The Victims’ Voices: A Routine Activity Approach to Jail and Prison Victimization, Victor St. John
Examining Probation and Judicial Adherence to the NYC Disposition Matrix, Susruta Sudula
Dissertations from 2020
Living in a World of “Stop, Question and Frisk” and “Trespass Enforcement”: Black and Latinx Youth Engaging in Police Reform in New York City, Jeanene Lee Barrett
Spheres of Identity: Theorizing Social Categorization and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice Officials, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Collective Healing: A Restorative Justice-Based Response to Sexual Abuse, Delene Bromirski
Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making, Connor Concannon
Thrown off Course: School Suspension and Its Consequences for Students’ Educational Trajectories and Outcomes, Celina Cuevas
Doing Discipline Different: Evaluating the Implementation of Restorative Justice as An Alternative to Punitive Discipline in New York City Public Schools, Virginia Diaz-Mendoza
Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir
Dissertations from 2019
Employment Duration and Attrition of Federal and State Inspectors General in the United States, Frank Chen
Challenges in Measuring Firearm Prevalence: A Test of Cook's Index Across The Rural–Urban Continuum, Noah R. Cypher
A Study of Factors Influencing Hiring Decisions in the Context of Ban the Box Policies, Ronald F. Day
Neighborhood Ecology and Recidivism: A Case Study in NYC, Sarah Picard Fritsche
Behavioral Effects of Restrictive Housing on Prisoners, Mijin Kim
The Ferguson Effect in Contemporary Policing: Assessing Police Officer Willingness to Engage the Public, Christopher Mercado
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements, Jason W. Ostrowe
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
Dissertations from 2018
Contemporary Archaeological Looting: A Criminological Analysis of Italian Tomb Robbers, Marc Balcells Magrans
The Social Construction of Protest: Print Media Coverage of the 2004 Republican National Convention and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street Protests in New York City, Kirsten Christiansen
Forensic Analysis of Fiber Dyes via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mircea A. Comanescu
Against Criminalization and Pathology: The Making of a Black Achievement Praxis, Charles M. Green Sr.
Moral Mode Switching: From Punishment to Public Health, Stephen Koppel
Assessing the Outcomes of a Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Approach, Laura Lutgen
An Analysis of Successful and Unsuccessful Terrorist Assassinations: Informing Counterterrorism Through Situational Crime Prevention, Marissa Mandala
Process Evaluation of Terrorism Amnesty and Reintegration Program, and Perceptions of the Program within Kenya Police, Resila Onyango
The Phenomenon of Match-Fixing in Soccer: A Plague Without a Cure?, Nikolaos Petropoulos
Gender and Terrorism: A Homeland Security Perspective, Diana Rosa Rodriguez-Spahia
An Examination of the Relationships Between Stressors, Correctional Burnout, and Job Outcomes, Erin Rogers
Global Pretrial Detention Use: A Cross-National Analysis, Martin Schönteich
Dissertations from 2017
Prescription Opioid Misuse: Initiation, Sources of Supply, and the Role of Medical Providers, Alexandra Harocopos
Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America, Chunrye Kim
Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports, Leonid Lantsman
The Advanced Spectroscopic Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue and Explosives, Jennifer M. Leonard
The Fear Factor: Exploring the Impact of the Vulnerability to Deportation on Immigrants' Lives, Shirley P. Leyro
Hatred Simmering in the Melting Pot: Hate Crime in New York City, 1995-2010, Colleen E. Mills
Genealogy of the Concept of "Hate Crime": The Cultural Implications of Legal Innovation and Social Change, Roslyn Myers
Procedural Justice for Youth: Discrepancies in the Provision of Defense Counsel for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Emily K. Pelletier
Individual Levels of Bias and Immigration Policies in the United States: A Test and Extension of the Dual Processing Model of Bias, Lorraine Phillips
Patriarchy and Varieties of Violence Against Women: A Contextual Analysis, Margaret Schmuhl
The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes, Marie Springer
Local Immigration Enforcement Entrepreneurship in the Punishment Marketplace, Daniel L. Stageman
Understanding Resilience Strategies Among Minor-Attracted Individuals, Allyson Walker
Should We Talk?: Examining Individual and Aggregate Level Predictors of Mediation Selection at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Cynthia-Lee Williams
Dissertations from 2016
Calling Campus Police: A Test of Procedural Justice and Unresponsive Bystander Models, Michael Francis Aiello
Looking Upstream: A Sociological Investigation of Mass Public Shootings, Joel A. Capellan
Examining Victimization in South Korea 1993-2010: A Comparative Application of Ecological Theories of Crime, Jisun Choi
Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders, Cory M. Feldman
Gender Roles, Social Control and Digital Piracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender Differences in Software Piracy Among Korean Adolescents, Riccardo Ferraresso
Traumatic Stress, World Assumptions, and Law Enforcement Officers, Douglas William Green
Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994, Kevin E. McCarthy
Selling National Security: Journalism, Political Actors, and the Marketing of Counterterrorism Policy, Nicole M. Napolitano
Help-Seeking Latina Victims of Domestic Violence and the Programs That Serve Them in New York City, Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez
Bullying Prevention in New York City Public Schools: School Safety Agents' Perceptions of Their Roles, Gabriel R. Paez
Characteristics of Newly-hired Members of the New York City Police Department as Predictors of Subsequent Job Performance, Francis E. Spangenberg