Thesis (M.A.)--Duquesne University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-77) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2000. / A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of PhD, Department of Critical Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney, 2000. Bibliography : leaves 196-214.

Since 2012, many states and Canada have legalized the use and sale of recreational marijuana. One of the expected benefits of the legalization is that the establishment of a legal cannabis market would eliminate the black market which has been the main form of marijuana trade for decades. Even though legal options are available for marijuana producers and consumers, the black market is still thriving in states where recreational marijuana has been legalized. The reasons behind the persistence of the marijuana black market are complex. One of the main arguments is that the legalized states have failed to establish a regulatory framework which effectively keeps both producers and consumers in the legal market. Instead, strict regulations and high cost of compliance have created an environment in favor of big players while driving small-scale businesses into the black market. The current research attempts to study this issue by answering the research question of whether overregulation is pushing some marijuana businesses back to the black market or preventing them from entering the legal market. This thesis employs a mix-method design to analyze qualitative data of news articles reporting the reasons that marijuana businesses decide to stay in the black market and a quasi-experimental time series analysis of National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data regarding marijuana offenses in Colorado and Washington between 2014 and 2017. The qualitative analysis of news reports reveals that regulation is one of the main reasons that people stay in the illicit market. The comparison of marijuana crime trends in Colorado and Washington shows mixed findings. While marijuana offense rates in Colorado largely remained steady over the years, those in Washington increased dramatically after the implementation of more intensive regulations. The results of this study have several policy implications for the marijuana legalization as well as implications for future research on the black-market issue.

Poorly integrated crime analysis may be a detriment to crime reduction efforts and financial resources. The purpose of this research is to identify deficiencies and successes in crime analysis integration and to understand which agency factors are related. Using the Stratified Model of Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability and data from a national PERF survey of police agencies, this study quantifies the levels of production and consumption-based integration disconnect as well as other important agency factors. To determine which agency factors contribute most to integration disconnect, bivariate correlation and multiple regression analyses are used to examine the relationships, while controlling for agency type, centralization, officers per analyst, crimes per officer, and agency size. Findings indicate that production- and consumption-based disconnect are positively related to one another and that passive patrol-analyst interactions, an agency’s analysis integration disconnect. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Esta tese investiga os papéis políticos assumidos pela produção e o uso de estatísticas sobre crimes e criminosos na história recente das instituições que compõem o chamado sistema de justiça criminal brasileiro (polícias Civil e Militar, Ministério Público, Poder Judiciário e Estabelecimentos Carcerários), em São Paulo. Por meio da análise de documentos e formulários de coleta de dados, defende-se que, mesmo após a redemocratização e as pressões para a estruturação de procedimentos de controle público das agências estatais de pacificação social, o segredo permanece como modus-operandi desse sistema, no qual dados são produzidos, mas não há coordenação entre produtores e usuários; entre oferta e demanda da informação. Dessa forma, não havendo consenso sobre os papéis das estatísticas criminais disponíveis, há um movimento simultâneo de crescimento dos estoques de dados gerados como subproduto da adoção de modernas ferramentas de informática, de um lado, e, paradoxalmente, há o reforço da opacidade e da “experiência" institucional das práticas burocráticas no desenho e operação de políticas públicas de pacifi cação social, de outro. O resultado alcançado reforça a manutenção dos mecanismos de reprodução de verdades profissionais e institucionais nos modelos vigentes de segurança pública e justiça criminal, garantindo a permanência e a governabilidade em relação às pressões democráticas por mudanças nos padrões de policiamento e no acesso à justiça. / This thesis investigates the political roles taken by the production and use of crime and criminal offenders statistics on the recent history of the institutions that compose the Brasilian criminal justice system (the police, prosecution, judiciary and prisons) in São Paulo. Through the analysis of documents and data collecting forms, the thesis defends that, despite the redemocratization and the (political) pressure in order to organize the public control procedures of the governmental agencies of social pacifi cation, the secret remains the modus operandi of this system, in which data is produced but there is no coordination between producers and users or supply and demand of information. Along with the lack of consensus on the roles of the available criminal statistics, there is, on the one hand, an increment of data stores resulting from the constant use of technological tools. On the other hand, the opaqueness and institucional “experience" of bureaucratic practices are reinforced in planing and managing public policies of social pacifi cation. The consequence is the maintenance of mechanisms that reproduce institutional and professional truths in the current models of public law enforcement and criminal justice and that guarantee the permanence and governmentability in relation to democratic pressure for changes in the patterns of policing and access to justice.

Esta tese investiga os papéis políticos assumidos pela produção e o uso de estatísticas sobre crimes e criminosos na história recente das instituições que compõem o chamado sistema de justiça criminal brasileiro (polícias Civil e Militar, Ministério Público, Poder Judiciário e Estabelecimentos Carcerários), em São Paulo. Por meio da análise de documentos e formulários de coleta de dados, defende-se que, mesmo após a redemocratização e as pressões para a estruturação de procedimentos de controle público das agências estatais de pacificação social, o segredo permanece como modus-operandi desse sistema, no qual dados são produzidos, mas não há coordenação entre produtores e usuários; entre oferta e demanda da informação. Dessa forma, não havendo consenso sobre os papéis das estatísticas criminais disponíveis, há um movimento simultâneo de crescimento dos estoques de dados gerados como subproduto da adoção de modernas ferramentas de informática, de um lado, e, paradoxalmente, há o reforço da opacidade e da “experiência” institucional das práticas burocráticas no desenho e operação de políticas públicas de pacifi cação social, de outro. O resultado alcançado reforça a manutenção dos mecanismos de reprodução de verdades profissionais e institucionais nos modelos vigentes de segurança pública e justiça criminal, garantindo a permanência e a governabilidade em relação às pressões democráticas por mudanças nos padrões de policiamento e no acesso à justiça. / This thesis investigates the political roles taken by the production and use of crime and criminal offenders statistics on the recent history of the institutions that compose the Brasilian criminal justice system (the police, prosecution, judiciary and prisons) in São Paulo. Through the analysis of documents and data collecting forms, the thesis defends that, despite the redemocratization and the (political) pressure in order to organize the public control procedures of the governmental agencies of social pacifi cation, the secret remains the modus operandi of this system, in which data is produced but there is no coordination between producers and users or supply and demand of information. Along with the lack of consensus on the roles of the available criminal statistics, there is, on the one hand, an increment of data stores resulting from the constant use of technological tools. On the other hand, the opaqueness and institucional “experience” of bureaucratic practices are reinforced in planing and managing public policies of social pacifi cation. The consequence is the maintenance of mechanisms that reproduce institutional and professional truths in the current models of public law enforcement and criminal justice and that guarantee the permanence and governmentability in relation to democratic pressure for changes in the patterns of policing and access to justice.

Univ., Diss.-1999--Heidelberg, 1998. / Literaturverz. S. XVIII - XXXV.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p.114-130) and index.

by Arnold Barnett and Anthony J. LoFaso. / "March 1984." / Bibliography: p.35.

From Introduction: In geography during the 1950's there was a definite move away from the study of unique phenomena to the study of generalized phenomena or pattern (Mather and Openshaw, 1974). At the same time interrelationships between phenomena distributed in space and time became the topic of much interest among geographers, as well as members of other disciplines. The changing emphasis initiated acceptance of certain scientific principles (Cole, 1973), and mathematical techniques became the recognized and respected means through which objective analysis of pattern, structure, and interrelationships between a really distributed phenomena could be achieved (Ackerman, 1972; Burton, 1972; Gould, 1973). Geographers, as do members of other disciplines, frequently borrow mathematical techniques developed for problems encountered in the pure sciences and apply these techniques to what are felt to be analogous situations in geography.