Ph.D. Dissertations
2011
Title: Are Needs Related to Pretrial Outcomes? An Examination of the Hamilton County Inventory of Need Pretrial Screening Tool
Author: Krista Gehring
Title: Unraveling the Sources of Adolescent Substance Use: A Test of Rival Theories
Author: Rachel McArthur
Title: The Effects of Individual Vulnerability and Lifestyle/Routine Activities on Fear of Crime and Perceptions of Risk in the School Setting
Author: Brooke Gialopsos
Title: Fear of Crime Online: Examining the Effects of Perceived Risk and Online Victimization of Fear of Cyberstalkingy
Author: Billy Henson
Title: College Students with ADHS: Extending the Lifestyles/Routine Activities Framework to Predict Sexual Victimization and Stalking
Author: Jamie Snyder
Title: How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Mechanisms of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
Author: Khadija Monk
Title: Disability Status and Victimization Risk among a National Sample of College Students: A Lifestyles-Routine Activities Approach
Author: Heidi Scherer
Title: Understanding Organizational and Ecological Impacts on Police Use of Formal Authority: Testing an Ecological Theory of Police Response to Deviance
Author: Cody Stoddard
Title: The Effect of Victimization on Women’s Health: Does the Victim-Offender Relationship Matter?
Author: Megan Stewart
Title: Local Law Enforcement in the Realm of Cyberspace: The Role of Local Law Enforcement Agegncies of Controllling Internet Crime
Author: James W. Carter, II
2010
Title: Perceptions of Neighborhood Problems: Agreement Between Police and Citizens and Impact on Citizen Attitudes
Author: Melissa Winesburg
Title: Does Changing Ownership Change Crime? An Analysis of Apartment Ownership in Cincinnati
Author: Troy Payne
Title: How Much Do Criminologist Know About Crime? Using Environmental Criminology to Assess Our Knowledge of Crime
Author: Justin A. Heinonen
Title: Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses
Author: Andrew Myer
Title: Adolescent Deviance Within Families and Neighborhoods
Author: Rebecca Schnupp
Title: Diffusion of Innovation and Fraud in the Subprime Mortgage Market
Author: Cynthia Koller
Title: Crime on Turkish Streetblocks: An Examination of the Effects of High Schools, on Premise Alcohol Outlets and Coffee
Author: Haci Duru
Title: The Impact of Imprisonment on Reoffending: A Meta-Analysis
Author: Cheryl Lero Jonson
Title: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Cincinnati Police Department’s Automatic License Plate Reader System
Author: Murat Ozer
Title: Improving Statistical Modeling of Repeat Victimization: Zero-Inflated Effect and Bayesian Prediction
Author: Seong Min Park
Title: White-Collar Offenders and the Prison Experience: An Empirical Examination of the “Special Sensitivity” to Imprisonment
Author: William Stadler
Title: Being Pursued Online: Extent and Nature of Cyberstalking Victimization from a Lifestyle/Routine Activities Perspective
Author: Brad Reyns
Title: The Construction and Validation of an Institutional Release Risk & Needs Assessment
Author: Richard Lemke
2009
Title: Structural Disadvantage, Terrorism, & Non-Terrorist Violent Crime in Turkey
Author: Ozkan Gok
Title: Application of Situational Crime Prevention to Female Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Turkey
Author: Halil Akbas
Title: Application of Situational Crime Prevention to Cross-Border Heroin Trafficking in Turkey
Author: Mehmet Unal
Title: Girls and Boys, Apples and Oranges? A Theoretically Informed Analysis of Gender-Specific Predictors of Delinquency
Author: Charlene Taylor
Title: Policing Styles in the Suburbs: A Test of Wilson’s Theory of Local Political Culture
Author: Theresa Ervin-Conover
Title: Identifying the Correlates of Job Satisfaction for Job Resource Officers
Author: Audrey Coaston-Shelton
Title: The Impact of Disorder and Fear on the Routine Activities of High School Students
Author: Ryan Randa
Title: The Role of Genes and Abuse in the Etiology of Female Offending
Author: Jamie Vaske
Title: Rethinking Gottfredson and Hirshi’s General Theory of Crime: A Behavioral Genetic Approach
Author: Danielle Boisvert
Title: Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement
Author: Matthew D. Makarios
Title: Reconceptualizing Police Use of Force: Comparing the Determinants of Force & Coercion Across Alternative Measures
Author: Charles Klahm
Title: Pretrial Release and Social Contexts: Is There a Link?
Author: Junhyuk Ryu
2008
Title: Getting a Handle on Street Violence: Using Environmental Criminology to Understand and Prevent Repeat Offender Problems
Author: Marie Skubak Tillyer
Title: Social Conditioning of Police Officers: Exploring the Interactive Effects of Driver Demographics on Traffic Stop Outcomes
Author: Robert Tillyer
Title: Maintaining Prison Order: Understanding Causes of Inmate Misconduct Within and Across Ohio Correctional Institutions
Author: Benjamin Steiner
Title: Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence
Author: Emily Wright
Title: Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised: Recidivism Among Iowa Parolees and Probationers
Author: Brenda Vose
Title: An Exploratory Study of Racial Variations in Preferences for Police Work
Author: Denise Nation
Title: Gendered Pathways: An Empirical Investigation of Women Offenders’ Unique Paths to Crime
Author: Emily Salisbury
2007
Title: Procedural Justice During Police-Citizen Encounters
Author: Mengyan Dai
Title: Bar Management and Crime Toward a Theory of Dynamic Theory of Place Management and Crime Hot Spots
Author: Tamara Madensen
Title: The Neglect of Racial Responsivity: An Examination Of Why Race Matters In Correctional Treatment
Author: Georgia Spiropoulos
Title: The Development of Criminal Suspicion by State Troopers During Motor Vehicle Stops
Author: Richard Johnson
2006
Title: The Intersection of Genes, the Environment, and Crime and Delinquency: A Longitudinal Study of Offending
Author: Kevin Beaver
Title: Reconsidering Drug Court Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Deborah Shaffer
2005
Title: Gender, Risk Factors, and Juvenile Misconduct: Assessing the Generality-Specificity Debate
Author: Leah Daigle
Title: Determining the Influence of Self-Protective Behaviors on Violent Victimization Completion: Results from the National Crime Victimization Survey
Author: Shannon Santana
2004
Title: The Adoption of Crime Prevention Technologies in Public Schools
Author: Julie Kiernan Coon
Title: Specialized Response Programs: Police Handling of Encounters Involving Persons with Mental Disorders
Author: Shamir Ratansi
Title: An Examiniation of Print Media Organizational Processes in the Reporting of Homicide in the Houston Chronicle
Author: Kevin Buckler
Title: Race and Repeats: Does the Repetitive Nature of Police Motor Vehicle Stops Impact Racially-Biased Policing?
Author: Lisa Bostaph
Title: Criminal Places: A Micro Level Study of Residential Theft
Author: Eric Jefferis
Title: A Community of Peers – Promoting Behavior Change: The Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Community for Juvenile Male Offenders in Reducing Recidivism
Author: Jennifer Pealer
Title: The Correctional Orientation Of “Child Savers: ”The Level, Sources, and Impact of Support For Rehabilitation Among Juvenile Corrections Workers
Author: Kristie Blevins
Title: Correctional Program Integrity and Treatment Effectiveness: A Multi-Site, Program-Level Analysis
Author: Christopher Lowenkamp
Title: Enhancing the Protective Capacity of Mentoring Relationships and Strengthening the Social Bond
Author: Betsy Matthews
2003
Title: Potential Applications of an Existing Offender Typology to Child Molesting Behaviors
Author: Kimberly Sperber
Title: Discretion or Direction? An Analysis of Patrol Officer Downtime
Author: Christine Famega
Title: Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Offending Over the Life Course
Author: Lisa McCartan
Title: Exploring The Use Of Formal Authority In Police-Citizen Encounters
Author: Robert Brown
Title: False Positives in the Criminal Justice Process- An Analysis of Factors Associated with Wrongful Conviction of the Innocent
Author: Robert Ramsey
2002
Title: Close Circuit Television: The Cincinnati Experience
Author: David Hurley
Title: The Sources And Impact of Inmate Perceptions of Correctional Officer’s Bases of Power
Author: Amy Stichman
Title: Assessing The Effect Of Sex Offender Notification on Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Reactions
Author: Victoria Beck
Title: Risk Differentiation and Intensive Supervision: A Meaningful Union?
Author: Dena Hanley
Title: Stories of Violent Men: Discursive Construction of Offender Identities
Author: Presser, Lois
Title: The Impact of Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines on Disparity In Sentencing in Ohio
Author: Timothy Griffin
Title: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment: An Analysis of Gender and Other Responsivity Characteristics and Their Effects on Success in Offender Rehabilitation
Author: Dana Hubbard
Title: A Tale of Two Crime-Types: An Examination of the Welfare-Crime Relationship
Author: Melissa Burek
Title: Policing Small Towns Rural Places Suburban Jurisdictions Officer Activities, Citizen Interactions
Author: John Liederbach
2001
Title: Police Unions: An Empirical Examination
Author: Colleen Kadleck
Title: Personality and Criminal Behavior: Reconsidering the Individual
Author: Shelley Johnson-Listwan
Title: Understanding Female Desistance From Crime: Exploring Theoretical and Empirical Relationships
Author: Elaine Gunnison
Title: Integrity, Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Impact: Do All These Matter in the Civilian Review of the Police
Author: Melchor de Guzman
Title: Assessing the Relative Effect of Macro-Level Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis
Author: Travis Pratt
Title: Maternal Risk Factors, Early Life Events, and Deviant Outcomes: Assessing Antisocial Pathways From Birth Through Adolescence
Author: Jeff Maahs
2000
Title: Love Me, Hate Me, Beat Me: The Impact of Child Maltreatment on Delinquency
Author: Shannon Barton Bellessa
Title: Community Policing and Federal Civil Liability Under 42 USC 1983
Author: Thomas Hughes
Title: The Meaning of Punishment: What Do Inmates Expect From Prison?
Author: Martha Henderson
Title: Good Kids in Bad Circumstances: A Longitudinal Analysis of Resilient Youth
Author: Michael Turner
1999
Title: High School Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis
Author: Stephen Haas
Title: Opening the ‘Black Box’: Assessing the Relationship Between Program Integrity and Recidivism
Author: Alexander Holsinger
Title: Assessing Police-Citizen Encounters: Do Community and Beat Officers Differ?
Author: Kenneth Novak
Title: Reconsidering Domestic Violence Recidivism: The Impact of Court Dispositions and Stake in Conformity
Author: Amy Thistlethwaite
Title: Explaining Police Activities Across Urban Neighborhoods
Author: Brad Smith
Title: Addressing the Distinct Experience of the Adolescent Female: Explaining Delinquency and Examining the Juvenile Justice System
Author: Kristi Holsinger
Title: Educating the Public About the Police: The Lima PSA Project
Author: Christopher Storman
Title: Intensive Supervision Probation: The Effects of Supervision Philosophy on Intensive Probationer Recidivism
Author: Kelly Brown
1998
Title: Innovativeness in American Municipal Police Organizations
Author: William King
Title: Beyond the Gatekeepers: Court Professionals’ Responses to Municipal Domestic Violence Cases in an Urban Area
Author: J ennifer Hartman
Title: Explaining the Distribution of Random Gunfire: A Block-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Physical and Social Incivilities and Random Gunfire
Author: R. Cory Watkins
1997
Title: Bringing Light to Dark Places: An Occupational Study of Prison Chaplains
Author: Jody Sundt
Title: Variety in Policing: Job Activities of Municipal Police Officers in Ohio
Author: Beth Sanders
Title: How Kids View Cops: The nature of Juveniles’ Attitudes Toward the Police
Author: Yolander Hurst
Title: Defining the Occupational Definition of Police Excessive Force
Author: Stephen Holmes
Title: Specifying Public Support for Rehabilitation: Factorial Survey Approach
Author: Brandon Applegate
1996
Title: RECLAIM Ohio: An Innovative Policy Initiative in Juvenile Corrections
Author: Melissa Moon
Title: An Evaluation of Paint Creek Youth Center
Author: Jill Gordon
Title: Parental Support in Juvenile Delinquency: A Test of Social Support Theory
Author: John P. Wright