Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Criminology"
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How Government Structure Encourages Criminal Violence: The causes of Mexico's Drug War
(2013-10-08)This work advances a theory about corruption, criminal organizations, and violence to show how political institutions set incentives and constraints that lead criminal organizations -
Individual and community consequences and responses to organized violence: The case of the Mexican ‘War on Organized Crime’
(2020-09-09)Living in violent places can have numerous and profound consequences for people, including diminished mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing. However, the consequences of violent environments have overwhelmingly been ... -
Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups
(2022-11-23)Why would a politician collude with a criminal group? Conventional wisdom generally depicts politicians as either passive recipients of bribes or the targets of criminal violence, even when interacting cooperatively. In ... -
Motherhood on the Outside: Reintegration and Moral Meaning Making among Ex-Offender Mothers
(2013-09-30)This dissertation examines how formerly incarcerated mothers manage the moral ambiguity associated with their ex-offender identity. In studying this group I address how the event of motherhood shapes how women frame their ... -
Risky Reforms: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Algorithms as Tools for Social Change
(2020-09-10)This thesis considers the relationship between efforts to address social problems using algorithms and the social impacts of these interventions. Despite widespread optimism about algorithms as tools to promote reform and ... -
The Labor of Law and Order: How Police Unions Transformed Policing and Politics in the United States, 1939-1985
(2021-11-16)This project narrates the rise of the police union movement in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how after World War II, a segment of predominantly white, male rank-and-file officers ...