Browsing by Author "Criminal Justice"

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  • Ending Drunk Driving at ECU 

    Bryant, Amber (East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)
    Ending Drunk Driving at ECU is a mission to inform, persuade and educate the population of ECU on the dangers of drinking and driving. We hope to make the Greenville community a safer environment by providing a wide array ...

  • Evaluating the Attitudes of Law Enforcement Towards DWI Court Efficiency: An Analysis of Survey Data 

    Height, Megan Amanda (East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)
    Driving while intoxicated (DWI) courts have recently gained traction as a possible solution to the management and treatment of alcohol-involved offenders. As the number of DWI courts in operation in the U.S. increases, so ...

  • Juvenile Court Outcomes Across Race/Ethnicity 

    Kibble, Taylor C (East Carolina University, 2023-05-05)
    Prior research in juvenile court research examines how decision-making at final disposition is impacted by legal and extralegal factors. Despite past work, less research investigates how extralegal factors influence the ...

  • Pirates For Academic Success 

    Wittig, Tanner J (East Carolina University, 2022-05-04)
    ECU reported in 2019 that the school had an overall retention rate of 83%. Although this percentage seems high, it is nothing compared to UNC Chapel Hill’s overall retention rate of 97.2% or Duke’s rate of 97.6%, (both ...

  • Prison Overcrowding in America: Could the Decriminalization of Marijuana be a Possible Solution? 

    Hicks, Jacob, M. (2014)
    The adoption of sentencing guidelines in recent decades accompanying a "get tough" mentality of many judges has helped to push along a consistent increase in prison populations on a state level over the past 30 years. Such ...