This thesis empirically analyzes the economic performance of Pakistani women immigrants in the US. I estimate a comparative model of earnings for a sample of Indian and Pakistani women immigrants. Each group represents ...
Over the last four decades, research has shown that police officers can reduce and prevent crime when they employ proactive, problem-solving, and place-based strategies. However, whether this research has translated into ...
There is growing interest from researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers in children’s social–emotional competence and how to assess those competencies, because social–emotional competence is predictive of academic ...
Tests of divergent and convergent thinking are the most commonly used measures of creative potential, but less clear is whether divergent and convergent thinking predict creative production. Working memory capacity and ...
The RNR model dominates evidence-informed approaches to community
supervision, and it is incorporated into several trainings (e.g., STICS, STARR,
EPICS, SOARING2) aimed at improving the practice of front-line probation ...
This thesis investigates the Weberian concept of “status” by investigating any potential differences between Adjunct Faculty statuses based upon institutional settings. The institutional settings investigated include ...
Since 1954 when segregation of schools became illegal, educators and parents have wondered how diversity impacts children’s outcomes. While some research studies have shown that schools with more equal representation of ...
There are many risk factors, including low-socioeconomic status, gender, and teacher/school perceptions, which impede in the academic achievement of immigrant students. Despite these risk factors, recent research shows ...
A systematic review of neighborhood influences on HIV risk behaviors was conducted with a focus on 1) the various conceptualizations of neighborhood, 2) the net findings regarding neighborhood effects on HIV risk, and 3) ...
This study uses individual characteristics and indicators of social disorganization to model the variation in fear of crime in Fairfax County, Virginia. While the theory of social disorganization is traditionally employed ...
This thesis analyzes the prison environment and the potential for terrorist inmates to recruit fellow inmates. While incarcerated, inmates often face distortion and feel the need to belong. Terrorist prisoners sometimes ...
While research in writing studies has attended to the emotional labor involved in writing instruction, there has been no empirical research into the emotional labor of writing instruction in the disciplines. This study ...
This study identified patterns in domestic lone wolf terrorist attacks by examining data from the RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents (RDWTI) and the University of Maryland Study of Terrorism and Responses to ...
This dissertation traces changes in the dominance patterns of national government currency holdings. The work employs an analytic history technique to identify those factors and the process that leads to changes in identified ...
A person cosplays to engage in a social experience, feel support, have fun, and illustrate their creativity. Cosplayers hold common values that are traditionally found in theater, such as a dedication to artistic purity, ...
This study conducted a content analysis of print media coverage to explore what sources journalist cited on articles pertaining to U.S. drone strikes. Drone strikes have increased rapidly during the Obama administration ...
This dissertation investigated the long-term efficacy of Support Focused
Marital Therapy. This study analyzed the six month follow-up data collected from
couples who completed the 12 session intervention. In addition to ...
This thesis explores the motif of porcelain in seventeenth century Dutch “highlife”
genre paintings. “High-life” genre paintings depict imagery inspired by the everyday
lives of the upper echelons of Dutch society. My ...
Work and family, as two enduring institutions, have often been at odds with one another and have caused internal conflict for individuals. The economic and social stress resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new ...
In this dissertation, I discuss robust theoretical approaches to three dynamic environments with progressively larger scope: social preferences, strategic games, and markets for indivisible goods. A significant part of ...