Theses/Dissertations from 2023
How the Drug Trade is Facilitated Online: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, Jose Aguilar
The Genome, Genetic Genealogy Database (3g Database), Salma Obaid Alotaibi
No Safe Spaces: Institutionally Washed Out, Jordan Marie King
Menstrual Inequality in Women's Correctional Facilities, Tara Lee Sexton
Emotions as social objects in the justice system: how feelings develop in justice processes and what they do., Peyton Alexander Warman
From the governor's desk to a bullet in your chest: The fatal implications of anti-trans legislation, Iyan Wickel
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective, Haley Elizabeth Bates
Identification and Security Implications of Biometrics, Kathryn Boggs
Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture, Max Hargett
Fear of the Future: A Speculative Exploration of Cinematic Dystopias, Katarina Megan McGuire
Communities In Conflict: A Critical Look Into Police And Deaf Interactions In Central Kentucky, Savannah Sublette
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
“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
Forgotten In Local Jails: A Carceral System Created To Fail Women., Hayley Jackey
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Framing Crime and Social Problems: How Students Perceive the Legality of Digital Piracy, Jordan Henson
Hiding In Plain Sight: Ghosted Police Vehicles And The Perception Of Police Presence On College Campuses, MacKenzie Kibler
Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women, Albina Laskovtsov
Capital Punishment And Race Disparities In The Modern Era: An Empirical Analysis, Trevor Myers
Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing, Douglas Hyatt Peach
"Pliable and Easily Shaped": History, harms, and regulations of plastic in the United States, Krista Decima Smithers
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Testing The Marshall Hypothesis: A Survey Among Justice And Safety College Students, Kimberly Alice Barrett
Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras, Ivan Benitez
'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration, Rossana Alejandra Diaz
Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm, Macey Logan Hall
Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment, April Nicole Pace
The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women, Lily Katherine Thacker
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Resisting gendered sport roles: A criminological sports analysis of women's rugby in the U.S., Kelsey Basham
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Fear of Crime Through the Ears of a Murderino: The Effect of True Crime Podcasts on Fear of Crime, Elizabeth June Bailey
Assessing Collateral Consequences Accompanying Sex Offender Registration, MiKayla Brooke Charles
Euphoria: The Transition from Prescription Opioids to Heroin in Kentucky, Alexander Ryan Cundiff
Different Not Less: An Evaluation of the Autism Training Curriculum for the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, Joseph Aaron Ellis
The Tower: Prison architecture and the verticality of carcerality, Jordan Frazier
Grow Where You Are Planted: The Use Of Gardening As Offender Rehabilitation In Prison, Kendahl Verna Granger
The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era, Joel Franklin Harman
A Dark Reflection of Society: Analyzing Cultural Representations of State Control in Black Mirror, Carl Russell Huber
Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?: The Racially Coded Language of Professionalism and its Detriment to the Black Community, Alexys Jones
The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology, Kyra Ann Martinez
The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment, Ryan Phillips
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Mediacentric Examination Of The Corporate Psychopath, Pamela Martha Brooks
Carving a New Notch in the Bible Belt: Rescuing the Women of Kentucky, Molly Dunn
Law Enforcement’s Social Media Punitive Anomaly, Christopher Lloyd Freeman
Policing Celebratory Behavior: Tactical vs. Relationship, a Micro Study of Lexington Kentucky Police Response, Gregg Nelson Jones
On the Shithouse Wall: The Communicative Value of Latrinalia, Thomas Lively
Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse, Jordan Edward Mazurek
Chaos Criminology: A Critical Inquiry, Adrienne Leigh McCarthy
Strain and the School Shooter: A Theoretical Approach to the Offender's Perspective, Jessica Suzanne Palumbo
"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
Everybody Matters: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Support Services Available to Survivors of Human Trafficking in Central Kentucky, Arika Morgan Bow
Militarization And Modern Gaming: An Analysis Of The Relationship Of The Military And The Video Game Industry, Steven Chapman
The Formation and Deployment of SWAT in the Ivory Towers, Paul Grant
Intimate Partners in Crime: Utilizing Life Course to Examine Female Criminality, Emily Ann Hayden
Destroying Blackness One Body At A Time: Examining The Mediated Representations Of Lynchings Past And Present, Bethany Callan Nelson
The Neoliberal Construction of Immigration as Crisis, Melissa Jeanette Pujol
Mega Sport and the Gentrification of Public Space, Ichiro Vance
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
Bankster's Paradise: The Importance Of Discourse In Creating A Haven For Criminogenic Banks In The United States, Maria Jacqueline Bordt
Tensions Of Violence, Social Harm, And Profit: An Examination Of The National Football League, Jonathan Anthony Felden
Exploring the Responsibilities of Wildlife Law Enforcement Officers: An Examination of Citations Issued by Kentucky Conservation Officers, Conrad Morgan Lanham
Green and Grey: Water Justice, Privatization, and Resistance, William McClanahan
The Heroin Problem: Learning From Past Experiments In Narcotic Maintenance, Ashley Marie Phillips
Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors, Hannah Mae Robbins-Johnson
Social Class and Capital Punishment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Jennifer L. Tilley
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Nowhere To Go: The Trend To Criminalize The Nation's Homeless, Jessica Anderson
Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky, Paul Maxwell Blackhurst
Factors That Contribute To Success In Policing Based On Prior Military Experience, Thomas Salem Fagan
Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture, Ethan Maxwell Higgins
Sexual Victimization Among Sorority Women, Amanda Hinkel
Music Piracy and Its Criminalization: Understanding the Napster Era (1999) to Present Through Donald Black's Theory of Moral Time, Craig Robert Jankowski
Predicting Inmate Economic Conflict In Female Housing Units: Individual Factors Versus Social Climate Factors, Polina Andreyevna Karpova
A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama, Alyssa Lawrence
Risk to public safety posed by adjudicated delinquent juvenile sex offenders: Do they really need to register, Donna Susan Mynatt
Police Deception: A Survey of EKU Students, Jason Anthony Nicholson
The Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion: Occupational Hazard or Preventable Tragedy; A Look at State-Corporate Crime, Cassandra Tate
Revulsion and Palatability: The Staying Power of Death Penalty Rituals - Last Meals and Beyond, Angie Wheaton
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Critical Pedagogy in Criminal Justice Higher Education: A Liberative Paradigm, Alyson Kershaw
Exploring Military Service as an Alternative Sanction: Evidence From Inmates' Perspectives, Travis Wade Milburn
Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, Justin Turner
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
Supermax Confinement: A Descriptive and Theoretical Inquiry, Marisa M. Baumgardner
A Call To Arms: The Militarization of Natural Disasters in the United States, Ashley Katherine Farmer
The Phenomenon of Identity Theft, Hollie Reni Freeman
An Exploration of the Calls Received by the Kentucky Council on Problem Gambling Help Hotline, Carleigh Jones
Factors in Juvenile Court Dispositions: Case Study of a Rural Juvenile Court, Kevin Lee Kirk
Sexting as Moral Panic: An Exploratory Study into the Media's Construction of Sexting, Brandon Scott Marker
Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group, Joshua Wayne Roberts
Transnational Crime in a Global Community: The Case of West Africa, Holly Joanna Sims
Zapped: A Typology Of Use And Misuse Of The Taser, Lindsey L. Upton
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
An Integrated Approach to the Role of Control in Child Maltreatment and Delinquency, Heather Page Kinnett
Prison Blockbusters: Relationships Between Prison Cinema and Student Perceptions, Jeremy Scott McQueen
Examining the effectiveness of online wildland firefighting education for structural firefighters, Kevin Roy Nunn
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
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
When Worlds Collide: Climate Change's Implications for Criminal Justice, Edward Leonard Wayne Green
You Make the Call: Using Officer Discretion In Selection of Emergency Response Mode for Fire and EMS, Branden J. Sobaski
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Exorcising Evil: Theorizing Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, Carl Allen Root
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Burning Construction: From a pathogenic etiology to a terrorist ideology, the social construction of arson, Matthew Hinds-Aldrich
