Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Criminal Justice Department.
For the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations, visit UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Prison, Perceptions, and Policy: Authoritarianism and Attitudes toward Sexual Assault Victims in U.S. Correctional Facilities, Amy Michelle Magnus
Physical Child Abuse and Cultural Differences in Reporting, Emily Frances Reed
Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Sex Tourism in Las Vegas, Carolyn Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Team Policing Revisited: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation in Las Vegas, Nevada, Natalie Nicole Martinez
Perceptions of Police Responses to Domestic Violence, Kelly Rae Stout
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Sexual Harassment in Las Vegas, Jonathan Michael Birds
Troubled Youth: Girls in Gangs, Mark Manny Valentin
Defining Neighborhood: Social Disorganization Theory, Official Data, and Community Perceptions, Jeremy Waller
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Child advocacy centers and child sexual abuse in Nevada, Chrystal Ruggieri
Reintegrative shaming and juvenile delinquency in Japan, Mari Sakiyama
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Factors influencing attitudes towards prostitution, Brian Robert Brehman
Attitudes towards Megan's Law and juvenile sex offenders, Debra Lee Cochrane
Sex, drug courts, and recidivism, Doria Nour Dandan
An Examination of the relationship between the hypersexual environment of Las Vegas and forcible rape, Lisa Ann Dooley
Blameworthiness and dangerousness: An analysis of violent female capital offenders in the United States and China, Courtney Brooke LaHaie
Adjustment to correctional confinement: Investigating the correlates of violence and disorder in a jail environment, Fred W. Meyer III
Assessing the impact of police order maintenance units on crime: An application of the Broken Windows Hypothesis, Steven Andrew Pace
The Criminalization of homelessness, Sarah McKenzie Prather
Characteristics of adolescent females sexually exploited through prostitution, Alanna Robinson
Displacement or diffusion: A secondary analysis of the Las Vegas Safe Village Initiative, Daniel Duane Swanson
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
An Evaluation of group differences in mentoring programs' perceived outcomes, Jennifer Sue Anderson
An Assessment of proposed sex offender mobility and residency restrictions in Nevada, Samantha Dawn Beecher
Illegal immigration and worldview defense: Distaste for human migration in the context of TMT, John Matthew Bergen
A Validation study of Risk Management Systems, Bridget Kelly
Examining the impact of drug court participation for moderate and high risk offenders, Kara Kobus