This thesis describes how “child trafficking” has only recently been constructed as a global social problem by the U.S. Congress (with strong influences from intergovernmental organizations), even though it has been around ...

This study was completed in order to gain a better understanding of the way undergraduate male students experience service-learning and how that experience does, or does not, contribute to the development of socially ...

UNDERGROUND CITY is a book of poetry about a number of people living in or around Harrisonburg, VA. Told from varying perspectives, but mostly focusing on the life of one James Miller, the book attempts a novelistic approach ...

The way that law enforcement interacts with residents has been at the forefront of media scrutiny. The police, or street level bureaucrats, are often the most visible representation of a community and are afforded a ...

Male violence is a serious problem world-wide. In the United States, for instance, 98% of mass shooters since 1966 have been men, and men committed 89.5% of all homicides between 1980 and 2008 (Berkowitz, 2012; Cooper & ...

A growing body of research continues to examine the prevalence of wrongful convictions (where the criminal justice system finds a truly innocent person to be guilty). A subset of that research has focused on perceptions ...

Breast cancer survivors experience a range of physical, psychological, and relational sexual health issues that affect quality of life. While other quality of life issues may improve two to three years after primary ...

The majority of previous research on interrupted task performance has primarily focused on the few actions surrounding the interruption (Trafton, Altmann, Brock, & Mintz, 2003; Ratwani, McCurry, & Trafton, 2008; Monk, ...

This dissertation describes the creation of three locations in Arlington County, Virginia as notable places in the urban landscape: Dark Star Park, the United States Air Force Memorial, and the Pentagon Memorial. All ...

This dissertation argues that modern nation-states gradually developed cultural norms about how to interact with other nation-states as capitalism spread across the globe. Specifically, I examine the rise of the Eurocentric ...