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Description:: This dissertation is a contribution to the depth and breadth of prison media history. I position prison media of the 1970s as key antecedents to the prison reality television of the 2000s and today. The purpose of this arrangement is to bring attention to an era of prison media that...
Keyword:: Race, Incarceration, Prison, Gender, Reality television, and Nontheatrical film
Subject:: Criminology, Multimedia communications, and Film studies
Creator:: Harrington, Catherine Emily
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: This dissertation studies three topics in labor and public economics. The first chapter examines the local economic consequences of prisons using two complementary approaches. The first uses the openings of 230 prisons during the 1990s across the entire United States, and the second uses a quasi-experimental strategy that compares winning...
Keyword:: Local labor market, Prison, Mortality, House price, Volatility, and Heating price
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Janjala Chirakijja
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 10/28/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation examines the origins and social impact of New York stop-and-frisk law, which authorizes police to stop, question and frisk people without a warrant or probable cause to believe crime was committed. Several observers associate it with a recent history of racial profiling, or conservative policing practices of 1990s...
Keyword:: Race, Black struggles, Prison, Police, Crime, and Civil Rights
Subject:: African-American Studies
Creator:: DWAYNE Adula NASH
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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