Dissertations from 2024
A Multi-Site Qualitative Analysis of the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: Implications for Dual System Youth, Lauren Morgan
Immigration, Moral Panics, and Punishment: The Impact of Media Coverage and Public Interest on Jail Incarceration, Faraneh Shamserad (Available for download on Sunday, April 20, 2025)
Dissertations from 2023
Social Spaces, Places, and Substance Use in Shaping Queer Identities, Alessandra Milagros Early
Perceptions of and Approaches to Social Support Exchange While on Probation and Parole, Andrea Giuffre
Examining the Interrelations between Rational Choice Inputs: Implications for Criminological Theory and Research, Benjamin Hamilton
Dissertations from 2022
An Intersectional and Relational Approach to Investigating Narratives and the Suggestions of Cultural Sociology: How Young Black Men Make Sense of Violent Victimization and the Prospects of Help-seeking., Dale Aaron Dan-Irabor (Available for download on Saturday, December 07, 2024)
"I Been Through a Storm a Lot of People Wouldn’t Have Came Out Of”: Examining Resiliency Among Black Men Exposed to Violence (ETV), Cherrell Green (Available for download on Thursday, August 01, 2222)
"Cameras Don’t Kill People": Community-based Organizations and the Expansion of Surveillance Systems in St. Louis, Missouri, Claire Greene (Available for download on Friday, October 25, 2024)
Bullying: How Feelings of Fatalism May Influence Youth Choices to Offend, Tammy Shartzer
An Examination of the Effects of Workgroup Characteristics on Criminal Case Processing & Case Outcomes, Luis Torres
Dissertations from 2021
Schools on the Frontlines of Governance: How the Convergence of Criminal Justice and Education Shapes Adolescent Perceptions and Behavior, Jennifer O'Neill
Prison Rape Elimination Act, 2003: Individual Factors for Victimization and Offending, Bailey Saldana
Theses from 2020
The Effect upon State Crime Rates of the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana in California, Robert Boxerman
Institutional Anomie Theory: Does Market Mentality Mediate Normative Flexibility?, Christopher David Cassity
Path Dependence in Geographic Crime Patterns, Theodore Lentz
Peace at Last or Just a Piece of Paper? Assessing the Utilization of Civil Protection Orders and Reported Violations, Jennifer Medel
Race Differences in Youths’ Attitudes Towards Arming Teachers: Investigating the Role of Procedural Justice, Faraneh Shamserad
Revisiting Rural Crime: The Contributions of Labor Markets and Interdependency, Kristina J. Thompson
Dual Disadvantage: An Examination of Racial Disparities in Victim and Suspect Criminal Justice Treatment, Paige Vaughn
Dissertations from 2019
“I Am Whatever You Say I Am”: The Social Construction of Identity in Rural Drug-Using Women’s Narratives, Amanda Bolton
Effect of Religion on Domestic Violence Perpetration Among American Adults, Cassidy Mitchell
A Dynamic Approach to Understanding Immigration, Ethnicity and Violent Crime in Chicago Communities, Saundra Trujillo
Dissertations from 2018
Online Socialization and Delinquency: Expanding the Study of Peer Influence in Criminology, Timothy McCuddy
Assessing the Impact of County-level Factors on Pretrial Detention Decisions, Joshua Williams
Dissertations from 2017
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Temporal Stability of Crime Hot Spots and the Criminology of Place, Michael J. Deckard
A Multilevel Examination of the Black Middle Class, Segregation, and Neighborhood Crime, Claire A. Greene
Supervised Release Sentences of Child Pornography Offenders in U.S. District Courts: An Examination of Disparity, Niquita Marie Loftis
The Effectiveness of Treatment As Policy for Sex Offenders, Brooke Mayfield
Routine Activity Theory at the Census Tract-Level, Abigail G. Orscheln
Understanding the Decline in Child Victimization: A National-and-State-Level Analysis of Child Abuse and Neglect Trends, Maribeth L. Rezey
Gender Inequality, Intersectionality, and Violence Against Women: A National- and State-level Analysis of Violence Against Women Trends, CheyOnna Sewell
Homicide and the World Religions, Allen Shamow
Dissertations from 2016
Expanding Coercive Mobility Theory: Women's Forms of Capital and Neighborhood Social Control, Jaclyn Marie Cwick
Race, Neighborhood Context, and Drug Enforcement: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests, Shytierra Gaston
A Spatial Analysis of Non-Emergency Requests for Service & Violent Crime in St. Louis, Missouri, Alysson Leigh Gatens
To Shoot or Not to Shoot: An Analysis of Police Officers' Deadly Force Decision-Making Processes, Jordan Clare Pickering
Dissertations from 2015
Talk and Deterrence in Drug Markets, Timothy Dickinson
Loss, Hope, and Redemption: The Consequences of Methamphetamine use in a Sample of Incarcerated Women, Mikhial Vincent Gunderman
Dissertations from 2014
Racial-Ethnic Differences in Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization: A Pooled Analysis of NCVS Data, 1994-2010, Ekaterina Archakova Gorislavsky
Redemption or Condemnation? A Long-Term Follow-up of the Desistance Patterns of Sex Offenders, Kimberly Raye Kras
New Developments or More of the Same? A Historical, Sociological, and Political Look at Missouri's Sex Offender Laws from 1995 to 2013, Robert MacKenzie
The Role of Violence within and across Self-identified Gang Youth, J. Michael Vecchio
The Amplification of Deviance Following Police Contact: An Examination of Individual and Neighborhood Factors among a Sample of Youth, Stephanie Ann Wiley
Dissertations from 2013
Lightning Strikes Twice: An Examination of the Political Factors Associated with State-Level Death Sentences and Executions in the United States, 1930-2012, Ethan Christopher Amidon
Judicial Perspectives of Domestic Violence Courts, Monica Elizabeth Wingler
Dissertations from 2012
A Multilevel Analysis of County and State Variation in the Severity of Sentences Imposed in Large Urban Courts, Kimberly Helen Martin
The Effect of Legal Financial Obligations on Reentry Experiences, Breanne Rae Pleggenkuhle
Bias Crime and Minority Threat, Michele Stacey
Dissertations from 2011
Examining the Effect of Changes in the Peer Group on Attitudes: A Longitudinal Study, Dena C. Carson
Whither Criminology?: On The State of Criminology's Paradigm, Brendan David Dooley
Pressured Into Deception: Using General Strain Theory as a Framework for Testing the Validity of Self-Reported Drug Use, Theron Keith Jackson
Feminist Advocacy in Community Based Responses to Domestic Violence: Gendered Identity, Ideology and Practices, Andrea J. Nichols
Recidivism: A Multi-Level Explanation, Brian Eric Oliver
Dissertations from 2010
A Guide to Drug Dealing, Scott Thomas Jacques
The Effect of Economic Conditions, Gender Equality, and Women’s Empowerment on Cross-National Trends in Rape, Meghan Lynn Rogers
Minority Group Threat and Racial Profiling: An Analysis of Pretextual Traffic Stops and Outcomes in Missouri Municipalities, Pernell Witherspoon
Dissertations from 2007
Structural Changes and Neighborhood Homicide Trends in St. Louis, Missouri, 1980 - 2000: A Multi-Level and Spatial Analysis, Robert Jason Fornango
Isolating Student, School, and Community Effects on School Weapon Carrying, Adam Michael Watkins
Dissertations from 2006
Dissertations from 2005
Hacks, Cracks, and Crime: An Examination of the Subculture and Social Organization of Computer Hackers, Thomas Jeffrey Holt
Dissertations from 2001
The Social Construction of the Sex Offender, Lisa L. Sample