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Team Processes in Mental Health Care
(2013-02-25)The "managed care" model of health care refers to organizational techniques intended to reduce health care provision costs while improving quality of care. One technique this model necessitates is "team care" as opposed ... -
“Tell Me Who You Hang with and I’ll Tell You What You Are:” Gang Identity, Organization, and Desistance
Criminologists disagree on the level of organization present in street gangs. On one end of the spectrum, gangs are thought to be highly organized groups with formal rules and regulations. Conversely, some scholars argue ... -
Tenant Screening and Fair Housing in the Information Age
The information age has brought about an unprecedented level of scrutiny with which applicants for rental housing are evaluated. Contemporary landlords are increasingly likely to use commercial background check tools to ... -
The admiration of fathers: using factorial vignettes to explore differential assessments of parenting quality
Informal evidence suggests the existence of a fatherhood premium in social rewards (e.g. compliments and praise). The goal of this study is to assess the existence of a social premium for fathers, and examine its relationship ... -
The Adolescent Empathy Paradox and Juvenile Offending
I propose the persistent gender gap in juvenile offending is linked to adolescent orientation to a gendered generalized other and empathic development. Empathic ability is inversely associated with juvenile offending and ... -
The Consequences of Mixed-Sex Peer Groups in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter I finds adolescents with violently delinquent peers are more likely to report mixed-sex peer groups, but adolescents who are themselves delinquent are less likely ... -
The effects of reward structure and division of labor in a small group: an experimental analysis
(1975)Since the work of Durkheim (1933), the concept of division of labor has been much used but little analyzed in sociology (Kemper, 1972). Presumably, if a group is given a task to perform and motivated or reinforced for ... -
The Evolution of Solidarity and Status Attainment: A Case Study of Chicago’s Latinx Gangs
Using a case study of Latinx gangs in Chicago over a 15-year period and original data compiled from gang cassette mixtapes, CD’s, and DVD’s, this research analyzes highly ritualized interactions in public media to investigate ... -
The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets
This study addresses the effects of the new tax on sweetened beverages, which has been gaining currency across the United States and beyond. I use evidence from a factorial survey to show how taxing a morally debated ... -
The Great Decline: Toxic Air Pollution and Neighborhood Dynamics
Recent research on environmental inequality has found evidence for racial disparities in exposure to air pollution with communities of color more likely to live in more highly-polluted neighborhoods. Additionally, during ... -
The Health of Returned Migrants in Mexico
Scholars of immigrant health have studied the health of Mexican returned migrants as it relates to phenomena such as health acculturation or the Hispanic Health Paradox; however, there is a gap in our knowledge regarding ... -
The Impact of Technology on Work Practices
The recent development of computer technology has created the belief that it provides the most neutral and efficient solution for existing social problems; however, this dissertation shows that the use of technology and ... -
The Location of Registered Sex Offenders and Their Impact on Neighborhood Crime and Informal Social Control
Several high profile sex offense cases led to the development of sex offender registration and community notification laws. Community notification laws were intended to decrease victimization by and reduce the recidivism ... -
The Long and Winding Road: Heterogeneity in the Form and Timing of Postsecondary Education
Postsecondary education in the United States has undergone profound changes in recent decades. Reflecting the strong and growing labor market premiums for college degrees, college enrollment rates have risen dramatically. ... -
The Long Shadow: The Long-Term Consequences of Armed Conflict for Population Change in Tajikistan
Armed conflict creates uncertainty, endangers individual physical safety, and threatens the destruction of institutions. This dissertation examines the long-term consequences of armed conflict for educational attainment, ... -
The Meanings of New Money: Social Constructions of Value in the Rise of Digital Currencies
In the wake of the Great Recession, a novel monetary object was introduced to the world: Bitcoin. As its collective valuation has risen into the billions (USD), it has brought with it a sustained disruption to some of the ... -
The Neighborhood Patterns and Processes of Asian Ethnic Groups in the U.S.
Today, Asians are the fastest growing ethnoracial group in the United States and are an extremely diverse population made up of at least 20 different national origin groups with varying social, economic, and political ... -
The Net of Privatized Punishment: Examining the Use of Private Probation in Colorado
The expansion of privatized punishment has raised important questions about the impact that these private actors have on the punishment practices of criminal justice systems. Critics suggest that using private punishment ... -
The Privacy Paradox: Privacy, Surveillance, and Encryption
In most privacy studies, privacy is assumed to be antithetical to surveillance. However, some critics have warned that privacy-based criticisms may actually facilitate surveillance by narrowing the terms of the debate in ... -
The Residential Stratification of Mixed-Race Couples
Marriage and cohabitation between members of different racial and ethnic groups has increased in the U.S. over recent decades. Despite this demographic shift, we know relatively little about how the growing numbers of ...