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Racial Disparities in Police Citations: A Quantitative Analysis of Race and Police Citations
(2020)Black people and African Americans continue to be negatively impacted by Anti-Black racism thorough multiple social, economic, and political metrics. People of color, particularly Black people, have been stopped-and-frisked, ... -
Read Without Listening
One thing I observed, while sifting through artifacts and the memories of women I have known during the ten years I have been a single parent, is how our culture uses law to define and enforce right and wrong. I noticed ... -
Real-Time Traffic Prediction Improvement through Semantic Mining of Social Networks
(2012-09-13)Many years of research have yielded computer modeling techniques that can predict the behavior of complex systems, such as traffic speeds in regional transportation systems, with high accuracy. However, the prediction ... -
Recommendations of Potential Interventions that Could Motivate Reductions in Residential Energy Use at the Husky Village Housing Complex, UW Bothell
(2013)Husky Village currently has the highest energy consumption per person o n the UWB campus , which has made finding means to reduce energy use in this facility a high priority . T his study was designed to ... -
Red Light Camera Effectiveness: A comparative analysis from Washington state and Chicago, IL
(2012)This paper analyzes the impact of red light cameras (RLCs) on the rates of crashes at signalized intersections. Crashes are broken into two categories – rear ends and the more severe angle crashes, both of which are directly ... -
Reformative Changes: A Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of the Detention Risk Assessment Instrument
(2018)This research study analyzes the new Detention Risk Assessment tool implemented in Snohomish County’s Juvenile Detention Center. Through utilization of both quantitative and qualitative methodology this cross-sectional ... -
Reformative Changes: A Comparative Analysis of the Implementation of the Detention Risk Assessment Instrument
(2018)This research study analyzes the new Detention Risk Assessment tool implemented in Snohomish County’s Juvenile Detention Center. Through utilization of both quantitative and qualitative methodology this cross-sectional ... -
Reframing the Conversation on Gender-Based Violence: A Thematic Analysis of Anita Hill’s New York Times Opinion Editorial “Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence”
(2020)When the issue of gender-based violence shifted from a “personal” to a “public” matter in the early ‘90s, the U.S. invested heavily in criminal justice-based interventions through the Violence Against Women Act. Despite ... -
Reframing the Non-Offending Pedophile to Combat Child Sexual Abuse: A Content Analysis of Public Response to Luke Malone’s “Help Wanted”
(2015)The purpose of this study was to examine the existing discourse on prevention of child sexual abuse, determine where the pedophile is situated in the discourse, and examine the potential in reframing primary prevention ... -
Remains
to write requires dedication to word selection, imagery illumination, supple flow, integrity, faith, exploration. authors are embedded in their work. there is no way to be rid of the author. the ugliness, inhumanity, ... -
Reproductive Rights on Lockdown: A State-‐by-‐State Prison Policy Analysis of Reproductive Rights, Transparency and Access
(2013)This study reports the normative need for transparency of correctional policy relating to pregnancy during incarceration. Today, anyone with a smartphone can access the Internet; it has become ... -
The Researcher's Book of Her/mes
I will not reveal my secrets. I’ll leave that to the Trickster who rips the curtains away and delights in exposure. I want the mystery to remain. Can there be transparency without revelation? The more I discover, the more ... -
Restorative Practice Behavior Model Within Secure Juvenile Detention Facility: King County Juvenile Detention Center
(2020)A policy shift in King County, Washington to ban the use of solitary confinement has required restructuring of the way in which King County Juvenile Detention Center responds to unsafe, problem behaviors. The new restorative ... -
The role of government support for volunteerism
(2011)The Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, operated a local Seattle office from 2007 to 2010. They closed the Seattle office in July of 2010. During their three years of operation, they ... -
Scalable Propagation Algorithms for Node Labeling in Bipartite Graphs
Bipartite graphs are graphs whose vertices can be partitioned into 2 different independent sets. Many interesting machine learning problems either present themselves naturally as problems of node ... -
Seattle’s Green Housing Option: How ADU Production Can Reduce Reliance on Cars by Increasing Density in Single-Family Zones
(2018)This study identifies the Seattle neighborhoods where accessory dwelling unit (ADU) production would reduce reliance on cars by increasing population density in single-family zones. Increased density would reduce greenhouse ... -
Securing Employer Input on Local Workforce Development
(2017)In 2015, the US Department of Labor (DOL) set funding aside to align workforce development initiatives with employer needs within key local economic sectors.1 In this study I explores how the Workforce Development Council ... -
Selecting Robust Strategies in RTS Games via Concurrent Plan Augmentation
The multifaceted complexity of real-time strategy (RTS) games requires AI systems to break down policy computation into smaller subproblems such as strategic planning, tactical planning, and reactive control. To further ... -
Self Taut
What do you do when you aren’t yourself? Self Taut is a collection of poetry and drawings in four parts explores the interstices of self-awareness. Through rhythmic and lyrical movements, emotions reveal themselves in ...