Most studies of the Drug Awareness Resistance Education (DARE) program evaluate the program’s effectiveness; this thesis instead examines the police officers who implement the program. Based on interviews with 12 DARE officers in the Northeast region of Tennessee, the thesis explores how members of this special category of police officers identify themselves. The DARE officer interviews were compared with published literature on conventional police officers. All DARE officers interviewed defined themselves as police officers but did little to no actual police work, nor were they viewed by patrol officers as “real” police officers. Instead, DARE officers functioned primarily as educators. In order to maintain their identity as police officers, DARE officers employed the use of props. These props presented the visual image of a police officer and, therefore, allowed DARE officers to define themselves as such.

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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This thesis assesses the current accounting system functioning at the Naval Postgraduate School's Commissioned Officers' and Faculty Club. The primary purpose is to determine if the existing system, the Recreation and Mess Central Accounting System (RAMCAS), provides enough information/controls to present all aspects of operations and to be adequately used in management's decision-making processes. The study reveals that RAMCAS does not provide enough detail to managers. Suggestions are made to enhance the club's accounting system and cost controls. These suggestions include use of subsidiary accounts, food revenue statistics, and a data collection system for cost controls. Implementation of these suggestions will amplify the club's accounting system and provide detailed information that will meet the needs of the organization. / http://archive.org/details/analysisofnavalp00gand / Captain, United States Marine Corps

Thesis (Th. M.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).

Project (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Project (Dept. of Economics) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypotheses that the thirteen independent or predictor variables selected from the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), the F-Scale; Forms 40 and 45 (F-Scale), and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF), would be significant discriminators between the criterion variables, which were matched-pair groups of law enforcement officers and convicted felons.A review of the relevant literature on available crime statistics in contemporary society, and on the selection, training, and education of police officers supported the need for this study. In addition, the research indicated that techniques for reliably evaluating characteristics that contribute to psychologically effective law enforcement officers were not extant.A total of fifty subjects participated in this study. Twenty-five law enforcement officers were matched in pairs with twenty-five convicted felons on the extraneous variables of age, race, sex, scholastic capacity, and socio-economic status. The law enforcement officers were agents of a state police organization, a county police department, four city police departments, and a university police department, located in the Midwest, whose official function was maintenance of law and order, peace-keeping, and enforcement of the regular criminal code. The convicted felons were inmates of a county jail in the same Midwestern state, who had been adjudicated through due process of the commission of a crime of such a serious nature that they had been sentenced to a year or more in a correctional institution. The total population in the study ranged between the ages of 21-2 and 49-1.Three instruments were used to measure personality needs and traits of the subjects in the two groups. They included 13 needs, factor-dimensions, scores, and traits selected from a possible 41 measured by the EPPS, the F-Scale, and the 16 PF. The administration, scoring, computer analyses, and interpretation was done between June 1, 1973, and July 4, 1974.Statistical treatment of the data consisted of the application of a stepwise multiple regression. A level of F ratio for entering and removing a variable from the equation was specified. At each step in the regression, the variable that made the treatest increment to R2 was entered, if it exceeded the prespecified F for entering a variable. The contribution of each variable was examined by entering it last in the equation until no variable had an F to enter larger than the prespecified F for entering, and no smaller than the prescribed F for removal. Additionally, a multi-variate stepwise discriminant analysis was run on the data. The results were congruent with those achieved by the stepwise multiple regression.The results indicated that predictor variables factor-dimension Q4 (Ergic Tension) of the 16 PF, the final score on the F-Scale (Authoritarianism) and the Change and Dominance variables of the EPPS were the best discriminators between the criterion variables. The measure of Ergic Tension was the strongest predictor variable, accounting for 41.76 percent of the variance. The measure 9.71 percent, the change variable accounted for 4.74 percent, and the of authoritarianism accounted for four predictor variables that were dominance variable accounted for 3.77 percent of the variance. The needs for aggression, exhibition, heterosexuality, amounts of ego strength, submissiveness, protension, shrewdness, guilt proneness, and strength of self sentiment, as measured by the EPPS and the 16 PF were not significant predictors and did not discriminate between the criterion variables in this study.An additional finding of the study was that given the raw scores of one hundred individuals on the significant discriminators between the law enforcement officers and the convicted felons, the examiner could correctly discriminate between the two in eight-four of one hundred cases.

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Thesis (S.T.M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [51]-57).

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1990. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-86).