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    • Statistics in Criminal Justice, 4th ed.
    Authors: Weisburd, David; Britt, Chester;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2014)

    Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for both students and researchers who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in this field. In general, the text relies on a building-block approach, meaning that each chapter helps to prepare the student for the chapters that follow. It also means that the level of sophistication of the text increases as the text progresses. Throughout the text there is an emphasis on comprehension and interpretation, rather than computation. However, as the statistical methods discussed become more complex and demanding to compute, there is increasing use and integration of statistical software. This ap...
    • Impact of Organized Crime on Murder of Law Enforcement Personnel at the U.S.
    Authors: Border, Mexican; Schatz, Sara;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2014)

    This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, Ríos 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a “systematic” of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier Mexico, showing how the selective, often sequential, hits by cartels on chiefs in border towns and along key drug-trafficking corridors has proven an effective strategy by organized crime elements to serve several goals: (1) to retaliate for federal, state and local prosecution, (2) to try and neutralize police chiefs, (3) to achieve intermittent local governance and/or to seed corrupt police chiefs at the municipal level, and, (4) to reduce local governmental capacity to obtain greater freedom for movement of goods. It ...
    • Power and Geopolitics along the Mekong The Laos–Vietnam Negotiation on the Xayaburi Dam. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
    Authors: G., Giovannini;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2018)

    This article is the first account of an overlooked aspect of the Xayaburi Dam, currently under construction in Laos in the mainstream of the Lower Mekong River; namely, the negotiations between Laos and Vietnam. Despite broad consensus among scholars and observers that Vietnam and Laos had diverging interests and preferences regarding the Xayaburi Dam, how Laos went ahead with the project despite Vietnam's explicit opposition to it has so far remained completely uncharted.
    • The Inter-American Human Rights System
    Authors: Engstrom, Par;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    His current research interests include legal translation and the pre Columbian legal systems of the Americas.