A thesis which explores the possibility of introducing Bayesian probability methods into the criminal justice system, and in doing so, exposing and eradicating some common fallacies. This exposure aims to reduce miscarriages of justice by illustrating that some evidence routinel…
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This is a Nigerian study, which initially aimed to examine armed robbery culture and the youth subculture. With the employment of subcultural theory, the study became intellectually unviable in explaining the primary data. A replacement was made by seeking recourse to anomie-str…
"A powerful, engaging book that critiques the history of race, law, and justice by examining where race lives and breathes across the U.S. criminal-legal system"-- How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives Matter When The Color of Crime was fi…
The aim of this research is to examine the criminal justice system in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to illustrate the role of judges, and to describe the current scale of judicial independence within the realm of Chinese legal culture and the current political system. The…
This thesis is an empirical exploration of cracked trials at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court. Cracked trials are cases which are listed for trial but on the day they are due to be tried are disposed of in some other way. The thesis presents quantitative and qualitative da…
Mental Health Court is a specialty court that serves adults who have criminal histories and who also have mental illness by offering psychological services and strict court monitoring instead of jail time. This outcome study examined recidivism rates between participants in Ment…
The number of mentally ill individuals within our criminal justice system has increased since the time of deinstitutionalization in America. While there has been numerous studies on public perception of offenders and public perceptions of mentally ill individuals, there are a li…
Previous research has shown that excessive penalties, religion, and arrests prior to entering the National Football League have an effect on illegal behavior while playing. Building on existing research, this dissertation hypothesizes that variables such as being Drafted or Undr…
Research has long documented racial and economic disparities in imprisonment and the recidivism rate. Despite studies that suggest these disparities cannot be fully explained by differential involvement in crime, scholars have not paid enough attention to how individual characte…
The Black female experience in the United States is a colonized existence. This project’s analysis is specific to the North American U.S. geographic space and is not a diasporic project. Black women suffered from the greatest increase in the percentage of inmates incarcerated fo…
In this dissertation, I analyze the development and dissemination of state-level policies to prohibit colleges from considering criminal history for purposes of admissions otherwise known as ban the box in higher education. This research engages with practical and instructive qu…
Research has consistently demonstrated that a substantial number of individuals in the criminal justice system struggle with substance misuse. Furthermore, rates of relapse and recidivism among this population are high. One challenge facing this population is self-stigma, the pr…
The problem is the lack of research to determine if PTSD could be a variable that inhibits forensic populations from succeeding in the community reintegration process (Abracen et al., 2016; Kingston et al., 2017; Roy et al., 2016). The current study was designed to investigate t…
Research on sentencing outcomes have concentrated on disparities between gender and race with a range of influences in legal decision making. This study was an examination of whether the same form of sentencing inconsistency is found with offenders who were convicted of drug off…
The focus of this retrospective, descriptive study is to describe non-anogenital and anogenital injuries documented in over 5,000 sexual assault forensic medical examination (SAFME) reports of female patients. The study findings expand understanding of injuries documented follow…
This dissertation examines the intersection of the prosecution of criminal justice, sexual morality and the family at the parlement of Paris, which was the highest court of appeal in France, during the height of its power and influence in the kingdom from 1564-1655. This dissert…
This dissertation examines the rise and fall of Illinois' postwar black insurgency. It details how a generation of Black Chicagoans and their allies approached the administration of criminal justice as a key site of political radicalization and grassroots mobilization. In partic…
The need for innovative research to tackle the deep-seated social dysfunction engendered by corruption and inadequate leadership style in most public institutions, including the university, has become pervasive in Nigeria. Efforts to improve university management and governance …