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Thesis Title and Chair |
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2005 |
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Kim Baskerville |
Citizen's satisfaction with the police (Gainey) |
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Azeb Berhane |
Socioeconomic attainments of Africans versus Africans Americans in the United States (White) |
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Fiona Blee |
An examination of the effects of social positioning and capitalist immersion on gendered attitudes towards homosexuality (Triplett) |
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Crystal Carey |
Comparing domestic assaults in military and non-military families:A test of social learning theory (Carmody) |
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Jenifer Hagberg |
The effect of corporal punishment on teen pregnancy (Polonko) |
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Marvin Hall |
The determinants of academic performance by African American Men (Sheppard) |
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Gina Sajko |
Differential police treatment of domestic violence (Carmody) |
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Monica Washington |
HIV/AIDS and Condom usage:Factors that contribute to African American women's vulnerability to HIV infections (Yang) |
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2004 |
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Mandy Allen |
A Content Analyses of Racial Issues in The Planet of the Apes Films (Oleson) |
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Debra Babylon |
Attitudes Towards euthanasia (Monk-Turner) |
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Quinn Beers |
The effect of firearm use among police officers (Payne) |
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Mary Boone |
The effect of sense of humor on elderly well-being (Payne) |
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John Casten |
Business Crime:The perception and experience of victimization and corresponding use of crime prevention measures (Payne) |
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Yelan Guo |
Gender and HIV Risk Behavior is China (Yang) |
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Nicolette Rose |
A cross national analysis of the impact of conscription on crime rates (Gainey) |
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Kyshawn Smith |
Exploring religion and social capital (Smith) |
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2003 |
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Rebecca Boyd |
It does take a village to raise a child (Triplett) |
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Hongyun Fu |
Population mobility, high-risk environments and the diffusion of HIV/STDs:A community based study in the southwest of China (Yang) |
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Carrie Gray |
War at home:Spouse abuse in military families (Payne) |
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Matasha Harris |
Social disorganization theory: Examining the mediating effects of social ties and disorder on crime (Sun) |
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Jeffery Toussaint |
The normative structures guiding surfer's perceptions about the environment: An exploratory analysis of environmental behavior and environmental concern (Monk-Turner). |
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Amy Whitmore |
Police response to domestic violence: Does officer gender make a difference? |
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Kideste Wilder |
Assessing Resident satisfaction with community policing:A look at quality of life (Taylor-Greene) |
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Angel Williams |
Effects of race and prosecutor's perception of victim's behavior on domestic violence case outcomes (Triplett) |
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2002 |
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Betty W. Conteh |
Selected factors that influenced a state’s collapse: a historical analysis of the case of Sierra Leone (Nolan) |
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Rebecca F. Grove |
Chipping away at the gendered wall: implications for being a woman sociologist (Monk-Turner) |
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Jessica M. Huffman |
Crossing the line: juvenile transfer and prison violence (Gainey) |
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Mahmuda Khatun |
Invisible men in family planning: determinants of men’s unmet need in Bangladesh (Yang) |
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2001 |
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Heather M. Baltodano |
Beneath the black and blue: the child abuse-delinquency connection (Gainey) |
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Marianne Galgon |
An evaluation of Washington state’s first-time offender waiver (FTOW) (Gainey) |
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Darlene E. Hall |
Institutionalized discrimination and sectarianism in Northern Ireland (Nolan) |
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2000 |
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Theresa M. Dutton |
Victimless Crime: A comparison of public offense ratings of misdemeanor offenses and Virginia sentencing guidelines (Gainey) |
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Charles R. Gray |
A study of faculty attitudes at Old Dominion University toward the use of technology in higher education (Seyfrit) |
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Katherine M. Krupa |
Medical students and their attitudes toward abortion: an assessment of which factors influence medical students’ willingness to perform abortions (Danner) |
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D.P. Laville-Wilson |
Perceptions of police abusive behavior: factors influencing citizens’ attitudes toward the police use of excessive force (Caron-Sheppard) |
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Joy E. Livergood |
Delinquency and victimization among adolescents: an examination of the relationship and lifestyle influences (Nolan) |
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Marion Edrington |
Effects of gender role socialization and investments in human capital on the decision of a woman with children under school age to work outside the home (Danner) |
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Kristian Moore |
The effects of education and exposure on college students’ perceptions of dating violence (Gainey) |
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Rodney L. Parks |
Kicking at the closet door: the opinions, attitudes, and experiences of military homosexuals (Danner) |
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Elaine M. Phillips |
An exploratory study of domestic violence attitudes among Virginia magistrates (Carmody) |
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Krystal C. Walton |
Victims confront offenders: an exploratory study of victim satisfaction during mediation (Lombardo) |
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1999 |
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Tonya G. Anderson |
Social disorganization theory:The effect of social and economic factors on crime and delinquency (White) |
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Michael G. Bisciglia |
An analysis of attitudes toward Old Dominion University’s Teletechnet:A comparison of traditional and nontraditional sites (Monk-Turner) |
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Tasha Brown |
A study of community satisfaction, environmental concern, and attitudes toward development of Virginia’s Eastern Shore (Seyfrit) |
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Kristen M. Byars |
Medicaid fraud:Medical students’ and physicians’ attitudes and perceptions (Payne) |
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Sharon K. Flax |
The rape victim’s response:An examination of the impact of situational factors on self-protective strategies utilized by sexual assault victims (Carmody) |
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Moises O. Mina |
Television, low-self control, and deviance: Examining basic elements of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime (Gainey) |
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Denise Nation |
An exploratory study of the correlates of drug use among juveniles: Analysis of regional variation in the U.S. (Eule) |
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Olivia P. Nelson |
When officers get the “blues”:Factors that may determine which officer is more inclined to feel job stress (Nolan) |
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Michael P. O’Toole |
Factors that affect recidivism of offenders on electronic monitoring in Norfolk, Virginia (Payne) |
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Renae M. Poarch |
Gender Roles Presented in Children's Literature(Monk-Turner) |
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Stephanie E. Stockdale |
Computer crime:Software privacy among college students (Smith) |
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Byrun Unal |
Comparative study of economic adjustment and housing quality of migrants and natives in the state of Virginia (Yang) |
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Ramonsa White |
The influence of extra-legal factors on the sentencing of drug offenders in a determinate sentencing state (Gainey) |
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1998 |
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Michael Goldsmith |
Assessing levels of cooperation between pace and patrol officers in the city of Norfolk, Virginiapolice department (White) |
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La Donna James |
Understanding juror decisions:The influence of other jurors’ votes, unanimous versus majority decision rule, and juror gender (Smith) |
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Janet L. Warren |
The causes and consequences of migration:The case of Chinese women (Yang) |
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Kekeshia Washington |
Racial differences in rape myth acceptance among college women (Carmody) |
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1997 |
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Catherine L. Drezak |
Gender, race, and court location effects on exceptional sentencing in the State of Washington (Danner) |
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Valdimir D. Handy |
Virginia’s eastern Shore high school students:Factors that may impact their educational aspirations (Greene) |
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Anthony L. Luckman |
Dispatures’ perceptions of computer-aided dispatch (CAD in police communications operations:An exploratory analysis (Gainey) |
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1996 |
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Christine Crossland |
When the "Blues" Come To Call: Police Officers' Attitudes Toward and Responses to Domestic Violence (Nolan) |
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Peter J. Mercier III |
Pounding seas against the shore:Wife battering in the U.S. Navy and its relationship to duty assignment (White) |
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Lynette Osborne-Estes |
Grading teaching:An evaluation of teaching techniques used by California community college introduction to sociology instructors (Danner) |
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David S. Simon |
Fear of crime in rural America:Fear along Virginia’s Eastern Shore (Seyfrit) |
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Miriam (Michelle) Newton |
An exploratory study of gender and the process of negotiating academic contracts among sociologists (Danner) |
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1994 |
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Alicia A. Chavis |
A comparative study of victimization experiences and family dynamics of adolescent sexual offenders and nonsexual offending delinquents (Nolan) |
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Kenya Covington |
A comparative study of black and white girls’ delinquency (Greene) |
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1993 |
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Cheryl Barakey |
The adversarial and mediation processes:An exploration of outcomes in child custody disputes (Lombardo) |
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Archie E. Hill |
Oil development and social change in the Shetland Islands 1971-1991 (Seyfrit) |
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Charles P. Sutelan |
Alienation, anomie, and adolescent drug use:An empirical evaluation of competing conception within a multidisciplinary framework (Carr) |
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1991 |
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Theresa K. Newman |
The impact of confinement on women prisoners’ perceptions of their relationships with their children (Lombardo) |
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1989 |
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Kathy S. Stolley |
The effect of status and working conditions on distress among blue-collar workers (Lessan) |
