This dissertation explores the central importance of capital punishment in the development of a criminal justice system in Wisconsin – first as part of the Michigan Territory (1818-36), then as a separate U.S. territory (1836-48), and, finally, throughout its early years as a st…
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Amidst the international outrage in 2018 following an attempt to criminalize speech about Poles’ participation in the Holocaust, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s famously complained that Jerusalem’s Garden of the Righteous still lacks a tree honoring aid to Jews provided by t…
During a specific period of time, from the 1900s to the 1980s, a small number of files created during murder investigations by UK Criminal Investigation Departments found their way into the public domain and currently sit in record offices. By treating these murder files as obje…
Dissimilarities by race-of-defendant and race-of-victim have received ample attention in capital punishment literature, predominately in regard to death sentencing. Much less attention has been provided to the intersection of race and gender-of-victim with utilization of executi…
This qualitative research study investigates the perceptions of children, parents, and staff members at a Boston multi-service nonprofit for Haitian immigrants. It is an exploration of how children cultivate their identity, and how a center for immigrants functions in the curren…
For this study, a generic qualitative inquiry approach was used to explore the experiences of jurors in different types of criminal trials. The theoretical framework consisted of attribution theory that was applied to event perception. A literature review provided research on ju…
Whether individuals may decide to end other people or their own life has always been a matter of ethical and social debate. The current research explores attitudes toward three cases of unnatural death: capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia. One considerable factor which …
In the 20th century, many plays were written that dramatise the convict’s experience in the prison environment. These constitute a new genre, prison theatre, which asks its audience to examine questions of justice and law, social expectation, social taboos, and morality of punis…
This doctoral study explores the lives of adult Jewish-Argentinian immigrants to Israel, who as children experienced trauma/stress as a result of the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). My conceptual framework draws upon trauma theory and Simich and Beiser’s (2011) p…