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Description:: Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration for women has risen significantly. Black women are disproportionately represented among incarcerated women. Formerly incarcerated women and men face similar barriers upon release from incarceration, such as obtaining stable and gainful employment, securing safe and affordable housing, and reconnecting with children...
Keyword:: black women, criminal justice, reentry, and incarceration
Subject:: African American studies, Criminology, and Sociology
Creator:: Banks, Erica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16414 and etdadmin_upload_962304

Description:: Prisoner reentry has become an increasingly popular topic of research in the past few decades due to the phenomenon of mass return as a result of the era of mass incarceration. While research has been done on the experiences of the returning population before mass incarceration, few contemporary researchers have...
Keyword:: War on Poverty, prisons, religion, and reentry
Subject:: History, Criminology, and Sociology
Creator:: Brown, Karlia Nicole
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16671 and etdadmin_upload_1004192

Description:: This study is the first to chart the national scope of the criminal prosecution of incarcerated people and to investigate the consequences of this social process. Using an interlocking set of data sources and methods, including interviews, ethnographic observations, and administrative records, I provide answers to some basic questions about...
Subject:: Law, Criminology, and Sociology
Creator:: Tolman, Arielle Woloshin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15576 and etdadmin_upload_819505

Description:: “Speculative Justice” asks how U.S. terrorism cases with numerous indicators of entrapment prevail in federal court despite case law designed to prevent these very policing practices. Drawing on a combination of two case studies, an original archive of digital court filings from over 250 defendants, and a collection of over...
Keyword:: entrapment, narrative, culture, preventative policing, terrorism, and law
Subject:: Criminology and Sociology
Creator:: Degenshein, Anya
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_685823 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14816

Description:: While the scholarship on policing and surveillance suggests that police departments have and use a wide array of sophisticated tools, the literature has largely focused on only a handful of the largest departments. Moreover, these studies tend to be qualitative, so it is difficult to pinpoint what factors might be...
Keyword:: Social control, Foucault, Police, Technology, and Surveillance
Subject:: Criminology, Sociology, and Law enforcement
Creator:: Oliver, Mariana
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_895251 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15995

Description:: Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration for women has risen significantly. Black women are disproportionately represented among incarcerated women. Formerly incarcerated women and men face similar barriers upon release from incarceration, such as obtaining stable and gainful employment, securing safe and affordable housing, and reconnecting with children...
Keyword:: black women, criminal justice, reentry, and incarceration
Subject:: African American studies, Criminology, and Sociology
Creator:: Banks, Erica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 03/24/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16414 and etdadmin_upload_962304

Description:: Bias pervades all stages of the American criminal justice system. The system is a human creation, run by fallible people who bring prejudices and biases to their work just like everyone else. The first step to ridding the system of those biases is to fully understand the way they manifest...
Keyword:: Perceptions, Bias, Plea Bargaining, Terrorism, Crime, and Policing
Subject:: Law, Criminology, and Sociology
Creator:: Sommers, Zach
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14459 and etdadmin_upload_626789

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