This paper examines modern maritime piracy, with a focus on Somalia piracy, to determine the frequency of attacks, longitudinal trends of piracy attacks, and predict future levels of attacks utilizing historical data from 1992 to 2010 provided by the International Maritime Burea…
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In the United States and abroad, violence is still plaguing our schools. During the 1990s, many schools experienced sporadic but violent occurrences of school violence (Ismaili, 2011; Yogan, 2000). Although, most violent school acts are random and school crime is down, school in…
Much of the research literature on school violence has focused narrowly on individual characteristics of troubled youth, without careful examination of contextual factors that might influence violence and victimization in school settings. This dissertation examines issues of sch…
Sexual harassment and racial harassment present significant problems for women in the U.S. Nevertheless, these two forms of interpersonal mistreatment have rarely been jointly examined. This dissertation simultaneously investigates women's exposure to harassment based on gender …
Christology, defined as the interpretation of the nature, person, and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, has long been regarded as a predominantly Christian study. However, in our modern religiously pluralistic society, the necessity for Jews and Christians to achieve a mutually satisf…
Mental and reproductive health consequences of violence victimization have been reported in various female populations, however these associations have not been tested among internally displaced persons (IDP's), who already have elevated rates of psychiatric and reproductive hea…
Using a nationwide household sample, this study examined public perception of and experience with white collar crime in Turkey. The study also looked into demographic characteristics that influence individuals' likelihood of being victimized by white collar crime and the reporti…
The study at hand assessed the relative importance of situational and dispositional factors in predicting victimization, perceived risk, and fear of crime at work as a first step to developing practices and procedures that minimize employees' experiences of workplace victimizati…
Previous research demonstrates a relationship between sexual minority victimization experiences and hazardous alcohol use among sexual minority (lesbian, bisexual, queer, and same-sex attracted) women (SMW). The underlying mechanisms in this relationship, however, remain unclear…
There has been a great amount of research conducted on women around the world, but limited focus has been placed on the countries of West Africa. The purpose of this mixed-method study was to gain insight into first-generation women of West African descent living in the United S…
Ethnicity is a factor that predicts how a person is impacted by cyberbullying, but to date little research has been conducted to investigate this phenomenon. Some researchers have reported that individuals belonging to ethnic minorities may have a greater overall resistance to b…
This research comprised a secondary study using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health restricted data set to examine the buffering effects of religiosity on adolescent alcohol coping following victimization within the context of Agnew’s general stain theory. Its p…
This dissertation examines associations between religiosity and bullying in adolescence and emerging adulthood across three empirical chapters. The first empirical chapter uses data from the National Study of Youth and Religion Wave 1 (N=3,137) to assess the likelihood of bullyi…
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development shows that there are 31,062 unaccompanied homeless youth living in the U.S.. Simultaneously, approximately 250,000 youth exit the foster care system each year, many of whom have little support for a successful transit…
The following research addresses some of the contemporary problems that individuals experiencing homelessness face; specifically, investigating the decision to forgo shelter services and spend nights in places unfit for human inhabitation, a phenomenon known as sleeping rough. T…
Cyber-sexual violence is an emerging social and public health concern, yet our knowledge and understanding of this issue is limited. In light of this, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the factors that create a vulnerability for cyber-sexual violence at each le…