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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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How the Drug Trade is Facilitated Online: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, Jose Aguilar

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The Genome, Genetic Genealogy Database (3g Database), Salma Obaid Alotaibi

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No Safe Spaces: Institutionally Washed Out, Jordan Marie King

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Urban And Rural Comparisons Of Attitudes Toward Medically Assisted Treatment For Pregnant And Postpartum Women With Oud In Appalachia, Anna Reeves

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Menstrual Inequality in Women's Correctional Facilities, Tara Lee Sexton

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Emotions as social objects in the justice system: how feelings develop in justice processes and what they do., Peyton Alexander Warman

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From the governor's desk to a bullet in your chest: The fatal implications of anti-trans legislation, Iyan Wickel

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective, Haley Elizabeth Bates

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Identification and Security Implications of Biometrics, Kathryn Boggs

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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture, Max Hargett

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Fear of the Future: A Speculative Exploration of Cinematic Dystopias, Katarina Megan McGuire

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Communities In Conflict: A Critical Look Into Police And Deaf Interactions In Central Kentucky, Savannah Sublette

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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“Basic Stuff I Should Know About My Kids, I Don’t Know”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Perception Of Incarceration’s Effects On Mother-Child Relationships, Narissa Haakmat

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Forgotten In Local Jails: A Carceral System Created To Fail Women., Hayley Jackey

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Framing Crime and Social Problems: How Students Perceive the Legality of Digital Piracy, Jordan Henson

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Hiding In Plain Sight: Ghosted Police Vehicles And The Perception Of Police Presence On College Campuses, MacKenzie Kibler

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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women, Albina Laskovtsov

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Capital Punishment And Race Disparities In The Modern Era: An Empirical Analysis, Trevor Myers

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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing, Douglas Hyatt Peach

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"Pliable and Easily Shaped": History, harms, and regulations of plastic in the United States, Krista Decima Smithers

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Testing The Marshall Hypothesis: A Survey Among Justice And Safety College Students, Kimberly Alice Barrett

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Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras, Ivan Benitez

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'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration, Rossana Alejandra Diaz

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Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm, Macey Logan Hall

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Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment, April Nicole Pace

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The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women, Lily Katherine Thacker

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Resisting gendered sport roles: A criminological sports analysis of women's rugby in the U.S., Kelsey Basham

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Fear of Crime Through the Ears of a Murderino: The Effect of True Crime Podcasts on Fear of Crime, Elizabeth June Bailey

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Assessing Collateral Consequences Accompanying Sex Offender Registration, MiKayla Brooke Charles

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Euphoria: The Transition from Prescription Opioids to Heroin in Kentucky, Alexander Ryan Cundiff

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Different Not Less: An Evaluation of the Autism Training Curriculum for the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, Joseph Aaron Ellis

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The Tower: Prison architecture and the verticality of carcerality, Jordan Frazier

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Grow Where You Are Planted: The Use Of Gardening As Offender Rehabilitation In Prison, Kendahl Verna Granger

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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era, Joel Franklin Harman

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A Dark Reflection of Society: Analyzing Cultural Representations of State Control in Black Mirror, Carl Russell Huber

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Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?: The Racially Coded Language of Professionalism and its Detriment to the Black Community, Alexys Jones

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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology, Kyra Ann Martinez

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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment, Ryan Phillips

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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A Mediacentric Examination Of The Corporate Psychopath, Pamela Martha Brooks

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Carving a New Notch in the Bible Belt: Rescuing the Women of Kentucky, Molly Dunn

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Law Enforcement’s Social Media Punitive Anomaly, Christopher Lloyd Freeman

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Policing Celebratory Behavior: Tactical vs. Relationship, a Micro Study of Lexington Kentucky Police Response, Gregg Nelson Jones

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On the Shithouse Wall: The Communicative Value of Latrinalia, Thomas Lively

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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse, Jordan Edward Mazurek

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Chaos Criminology: A Critical Inquiry, Adrienne Leigh McCarthy

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Strain and the School Shooter: A Theoretical Approach to the Offender's Perspective, Jessica Suzanne Palumbo

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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using FX's Justified to Form A Cultural Understanding of Crime in Harlan County, Kentucky, Morgan Stone

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Everybody Matters: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Support Services Available to Survivors of Human Trafficking in Central Kentucky, Arika Morgan Bow

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Militarization And Modern Gaming: An Analysis Of The Relationship Of The Military And The Video Game Industry, Steven Chapman

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The Formation and Deployment of SWAT in the Ivory Towers, Paul Grant

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Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality, Emily Ann Hayden

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Destroying Blackness One Body At A Time: Examining The Mediated Representations Of Lynchings Past And Present, Bethany Callan Nelson

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The Neoliberal Construction of Immigration as Crisis, Melissa Jeanette Pujol

Mega Sport and the Gentrification of Public Space, Ichiro Vance

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5-0 Is Not Coming To Save You: Examining The Lack Of Police Intervention In LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence, Lucais Wallen

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Bankster's Paradise: The Importance Of Discourse In Creating A Haven For Criminogenic Banks In The United States, Maria Jacqueline Bordt

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Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League, Jonathan Anthony Felden

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Exploring the Responsibilities of Wildlife Law Enforcement Officers: An Examination of Citations Issued by Kentucky Conservation Officers, Conrad Morgan Lanham

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Green and Grey: Water Justice, Privatization, and Resistance, William McClanahan

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The Heroin Problem: Learning From Past Experiments In Narcotic Maintenance, Ashley Marie Phillips

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Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors, Hannah Mae Robbins-Johnson

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Social Class and Capital Punishment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Jennifer L. Tilley

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From Community Policing And Crime Control To Security Policing And Citizen Control: Rural And Small-Town Policing In Post 9/11 America, Josh Yeager

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Nowhere To Go: The Trend To Criminalize The Nation's Homeless, Jessica Anderson

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Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky, Paul Maxwell Blackhurst

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Factors That Contribute To Success In Policing Based On Prior Military Experience, Thomas Salem Fagan

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Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture, Ethan Maxwell Higgins

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Sexual Victimization Among Sorority Women, Amanda Hinkel

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Music Piracy and Its Criminalization: Understanding the Napster Era (1999) to Present Through Donald Black's Theory of Moral Time, Craig Robert Jankowski

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Predicting Inmate Economic Conflict In Female Housing Units: Individual Factors Versus Social Climate Factors, Polina Andreyevna Karpova

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A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama, Alyssa Lawrence

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Risk to public safety posed by adjudicated delinquent juvenile sex offenders: Do they really need to register, Donna Susan Mynatt

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Police Deception: A Survey of EKU Students, Jason Anthony Nicholson

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The Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion: Occupational Hazard or Preventable Tragedy; A Look at State-Corporate Crime, Cassandra Tate

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Revulsion and Palatability: The Staying Power of Death Penalty Rituals - Last Meals and Beyond, Angie Wheaton

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Critical Pedagogy in Criminal Justice Higher Education: A Liberative Paradigm, Alyson Kershaw

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Exploring Military Service as an Alternative Sanction: Evidence From Inmates' Perspectives, Travis Wade Milburn

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Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, Justin Turner

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Forgotten Victims: A Qualitative Study of Familial and Intimate Partner Abuse of Male-to-Female Transgender Individuals in Central Kentucky, Allison Brooke Willingham

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Supermax Confinement: A Descriptive and Theoretical Inquiry, Marisa M. Baumgardner

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A Call To Arms: The Militarization of Natural Disasters in the United States, Ashley Katherine Farmer

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The Phenomenon of Identity Theft, Hollie Reni Freeman

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An Exploration of the Calls Received by the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling Help Hotline, Carleigh Jones

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Factors in Juvenile Court Dispositions: Case Study of a Rural Juvenile Court, Kevin Lee Kirk

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Sexting as Moral Panic: An Exploratory Study into the Media's Construction of Sexting, Brandon Scott Marker

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Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group, Joshua Wayne Roberts

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Transnational Crime in a Global Community: The Case of West Africa, Holly Joanna Sims

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Zapped: A Typology Of Use And Misuse Of The Taser, Lindsey L. Upton

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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An Integrated Approach to the Role of Control in Child Maltreatment and Delinquency, Heather Page Kinnett

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Prison Blockbusters: Relationships Between Prison Cinema and Student Perceptions, Jeremy Scott McQueen

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Examining the effectiveness of online wildland firefighting education for structural firefighters, Kevin Roy Nunn

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The Pixelated Jolly Roger: an Ethnographic Analysis of Online Pirates, Kevin Francis Steinmetz

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting, John James Brent

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Extending Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to criminal justice agencies in the El Paso-Juarez borderland, Alejandro Dodds

Law enforcement recruitment: the social, economic, and political considerations for police officer recruitment programs, E. Quentin Hughes

Social Disorganization, Crime, and Displacement: An Evaluation of HOPE VI in Lexington, Kentucky, Rodrick W. Jones

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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When Worlds Collide: Climate Change's Implications for Criminal Justice, Edward Leonard Wayne Green

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You Make the Call: Using Officer Discretion In Selection of Emergency Response Mode for Fire and EMS, Branden J. Sobaski

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Exorcising Evil: Theorizing Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, Carl Allen Root

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Burning Construction: From a pathogenic etiology to a terrorist ideology, the social construction of arson, Matthew Hinds-Aldrich