A collection of published articles from members of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University.
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Submissions from 2009
Police Hiring and Retention of Sexual Minorities in Georgia and Texas after Lawrence v. Texas, Eric Coleman and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
A Specter Is Haunting Glenn Beck, Richard Hutchinson
Theorizing Teamwork: A Classical Sociological Approach, Darina Lepadatu
Criminalizing Spousal Rape: The Diffusion of Legal Reforms, Jennifer McMahon-Howard, Jody Clay-Warner, and Linda Renzulli
The Human Rights and Roma Minority in European Union: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Discrimination Cases from Romania, Cristina Otovescu-Frasie and Darina Lepadatu
Safety or Control? Workplace Organization and Occupational Health, Linda A. Treiber
Submissions from 2008
The Swahili, Jesse Benjamin
Deviance and Social Control, Miriam W. Boeri
Research Methods Addendum, Miriam W. Boeri
Polydrug Use among Ecstasy Users: Separate, Synergistic and Indiscriminate Patterns, Miriam W. Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, Masuma Bahora, and Kirk W. Elifson
Reconceptualizing Early and Late Onset: A Life Course Analysis of Older Heroin Users, Miriam W. Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson
Using a Cold Homicide Case to Teach Criminal Profiling, Stan Crowder
The Role of the Thai Police in Juvenile Delinquency Cases, Attapol Kuanliang and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Thai Police Officers' Attitudes Toward the Deportation Policy on Non-Documented Workers in Thailand, Wittaya Prayongphan, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, and Quang Truong
Submissions from 2007
Representation in Kenya, Its Diaspora, and Academia: Colonial Legacies in Constructions of Knowledge About Kenya's Coast, Jesse Benjamin
A Third Model of Triangulation: Continuing the Dialogue with Rhineberger, Hartmann and Van Valey, Miriam W. Boeri
The Film Criminal Justice: Race, Gender, and University Experience in Students’ Perceptions of Racism and Guilt, Derral Cheatwood and Rebecca D. Petersen
Inappropriate Internet Sites: Citizens' Attitudes About Their Computer Skills and the Need for Training, Sutham Cheurprakobkit and C. Wayne Johnston
Peoplization: An Introduction to Social Life, Melvyn L. Fein
Synchronous Hybrid E-Learning: Teaching Complex Information Systems Classes Online, Solomon Negash, Marlene V. Wilcox, and Michelle Emerson
Paradoxes of Labor Process Control: Adverse Occupational Health, Linda A. Treiber
Submissions from 2006
Baby Boomer Drug Users: Career Phases, Social Control, and Social Learning Theory, Miriam W. Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson
Faculty Attitudes toward International Education: A Campus Experience, Susan Carley, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, and Daniel Paracka
The Impact of Race, Police Experience, and Feeling of Safety on Attitude Toward the Police, Sutham Cheurprakobkit
The Great Middle-Class Revolution: Our Long March Toward A Professionalized Society, Melvyn L. Fein
The Female Presidents of the American Society of Criminology, Rebecca D. Petersen
Submissions from 2005
Loyalty to a Person vs. Loyalty to the Profession: A Police Case, Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Security Measures on School Crime in Texas Middle and High Schools, Sutham Cheurprakobkit and Robert A. Bartsch
Service Culture for the Implementation of Community Policing: A Case Study of the Malaysian Police, Sutham Cheurprakobkit and Sarit Puthpongsiriporn
Reaching Outside the Classroom: Service-Learning and Community Awareness Projects, Michelle Emerson
Using Snowball-Based Methods in Hidden Populations to Generate a Randomized Community Sample of Gang-Affiliated Adolescents, Rebecca D. Petersen and Avelardo Valdez
Submissions from 2004
The Effects of Amount of Contact, Contact Expectation, and Contact Experience with Police on Attitudes Toward Police, Robert A. Bartsch and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
'Hell I’m an Addict, but I Ain’t No Junkie:' An Ethnographic Analysis of Aging Heroin Users, Miriam W. Boeri
The Children of God/The Family, Miriam W. Boeri
Rolling Beyond Raves: Ecstasy Use Outside the Rave Setting, Miriam W. Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson
Intimate Partner Violence Among Hispanic Females, Rebecca D. Petersen and Avelardo Valdez
Submissions from 2003
An Empirical Investigation of the Value Index: Linking Perceived Importance to Satisfaction, Russell Calk and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Computer Crime Enforcement in Texas: Funding Training, and Investigating Problems, Sutham Cheurprakobkit and Gloria T. Peña
Submissions from 2002
Alternative and Conventional Agricultural Paradigms: Evidence From Farming in Southwest Saskatchewan, Sam Abaidoo and Harley Dickinson
School Problems and Learning About Crime and Justice Systems: Principals' Views, Robert A. Bartsch and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Community Policing: Training, Definitions, and Implications, Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Technicians' Perceptions About Web-Based Courses: The University of Texas System Experience, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Douglas F. Hale, and James N. Olson
Drugs and Substances: Views from a Latino Community, Joanna Hadjicostandi and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Educating Our Police: Perceptions of Police Administrators Regarding the Utility of a College Education, Police Academy Training and Preferences in Courses for Officers, C. Wayne Johnston and Sutham Cheurprakobkit
Submissions from 2001
Police Performance: A Model for Assessing Citizens' Satisfaction and the Importance of Police Attributes, Sutham Cheurprakobit and Robert A. Bartsch
Race and Morality: How Good Intentions Undermine Social Justice and Perpetuate Inequality, Melvyn L. Fein
Social Engineering in Context: Some Observations on Turner, Melvyn L. Fein
Submissions from 2000
A Reply to My Critics, Melvyn L. Fein
Editor's Introduction: Race Relations, Melvyn L. Fein
Race Relations: A Survey of Potential Intervention Strategies, Melvyn L. Fein
Submissions from 1999
The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad, Melvyn L. Fein
Practicing Penal Harm Medicine in the United States: Prisoners' Voices from Jail, Michael Vaughn and Linda G. Smith
Questioning Authorized Truth: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience and Fostering Critical Scholarship in Correctional Medical Research—A Reply to Kerle et al., Michael Vaughn and Linda G. Smith
Submissions from 1997
Clinical Sociology and the Individual Client, Melvyn L. Fein
Hardball Without an Umpire: The Sociology of Morality, Melvyn L. Fein
Submissions from 1993
I.A.M.*: A Common Sense Guide to Coping with Anger, Melvyn L. Fein
Submissions from 1992
Analyzing Psychotherapy: A Social Role Interpretation, Melvyn L. Fein
Submissions from 1988
Sociology and Writing across the Curriculum: An Adaptation of the Sociological Journal, Barbara C. Karcher
Submissions from 1987
Race versus Social Class: Social Orientation and Cognitive Play in Black and White Middle SES Preschool Children, Kathleen E. L. Pinkett and Lorene C. Quay
Submissions from 1981
Changing Sex Roles: A Case of Reality Reconstruction, Barbara C. Karcher and Jack O. Balswick
Empiricism, Symbolic Realism, and the Mystique of the Extreme, Barbara C. Karcher, Jack O. Balswick, and Ira E. Robinson
Submissions from 1980
Higher Education and Religion: Potential Partners in Service to the Rural Elderly, Charles J. Karcher and Barbara C. Karcher