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Algorithmic Discrimination in the U.S. Justice System: A Quantitative Assessment of Racial and Gender Bias Encoded in the Data Analytics Model of the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)
(2017-04)The fourth-generation risk-need assessment instruments such as Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) have opened the opportunities for the use of big data analytics to assist judicial ... -
American Trust: Confidence in the Ability of the United States Government to Successfully Respond to Acts of Cyberterrorism
(2018-04)Determining the impact of cyberterrorism – a relatively recent construct – on individuals’ trust in the United States government is an area of study lacking longitudinal research. Existing studies provide only topical ... -
Child Pornography Crimes as Reported to Law Enforcement Agencies
(2019-12)Past studies have shown that child pornography is associated with multiple, violent offenses. This article presents a current picture of child pornography incidents as reported to law enforcement agencies. The analysis ... -
Compact Growth and Smart City Development: The Unsustainability of Urban Sprawl
(2019-12)As cities become more populated, are municipal governments struggling to manage the influx of demand in the realm of power usage and city resources regarding critical infrastructure and energy management? Contemporary ... -
Democracy and Economic Growth: A Social Level Measurement of Growth
(2019-08)There are contradictory findings in the literature about the effect democracy has on economic growth. In the current literature, the research indicates that democracy positively influences economic growth directly as it ... -
Determinants of Forced Migration: The Varying Effects of Violence and Economic Conditions on Syrian Refugee Flight
(2016-12)The majority of existing research on the impact of civil war on forced migration flows uses observations at the annual-global level, limiting the applicability of results to explaining aggregate trends. This article studies ... -
Determinants of Military Expenditure for Deterrence: Interaction with Nuclear Weapons, Democracies, and Alliances
(2016-12)During his campaign trail, the President-elect announced increasing military expenditure to enable deterrence to maintain the security of the United States. However, limited quantitative research exists to determine if ... -
Do Media Companies Drive Bias? Using Sentiment Analysis to Measure Media Bias in Newspaper Tweets
(2018-04)As natural language processing tools are advancing in their use to study corpuses, it is important to harness these tools to study media content for potential media bias. Existing studies have attempted to measure political ... -
Does Immigration Cause Crime? Evidence from the United States
(2018-08)Donald Trump announced that immigration should be responsible for higher crime incidents in the United States, and he in turn aimed to strengthen his anti-immigrant policies. Recently, his entire anti-immigrant agenda has ... -
Does Teacher Multicultural Training Matter? Evidence from the U.S. Scores on Pisa 2015
(2018-10)The racial and ethnic achievement gap in the USA ranges from about 3 to 5 years of schooling. Existing research about diversity in education has focused on studying the effect of matching students with teachers of the same ... -
Does US Foreign Aid Foster Innovation in Recipient Countries?
(2018-12)Previous works studied the impact of foreign aid on economic growth with mixed results. US foreign aid promotes peace, security, and economic development, and provides humanitarian relief. These factors also spur innovation ... -
The Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. States
(2018-05)This paper measures the economic integration of immigrant populations in the United States by comparing incomes of native-born and foreign-born individuals across states in years 2005-2016. Whereas previous research on ... -
Equivalency Analysis of State-Level Air Pollution Emissions Estimates from an Integrated Assessment Model: GCAM-USA
(2019-08)The use of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) has expanded from their primary application, global climate assessment, to examine broader environmental trends such as air pollution emissions, including those at sub-national ... -
Evaluating Primary Care Same Day Access as a Method to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations Related to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
(2018-04)Current evidence in support of measures to reduce hospital admissions associated with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) is extensive and represents decades of global research. My study improves this by examining ... -
A Flaw in the Federal Adult Education Funding Formula: Academic Gains and English Language Learners
(2017-08)Existing research in the field of adult basic education diverges between transformative learning theory, which focuses on how student growth is accomplished in the classroom, and human capital theory, where adult education ... -
Fraccidents: The Ostensible Link Between Oil and Gas Development and Car Accidents in Post-Shale Boom Texas Counties
(2017-12)New developments in the exploration of unconventional Oil and Gas (O&G) resources have become an energy industry trend. Nevertheless, there are underlying environmental and socio-economic impacts attributed to “fracking”, ... -
How Differences in State Policy and Local Insurance Markets Impact the Effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act's Expansion of Health Insurance Access
(2018-08)The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relies upon state governments for the implementation of some aspects of its provisions that are designed to expand access to health insurance. Differences in how parts of the ... -
Identifying Intentionally Duplicative Public Comments Submitted to Proposed Federal Rules
(2017-12)Since the public commenting process for proposed federal regulations became primarily web-based, the number of rules receiving extremely high comment volumes has increased substantially; raising concerns about whether ... -
The Impact of the Internet on Social Capital: Broadband Access and Influences on Voting Turnout
(2019-08)The existing scholarship into the study of social capital in the United States and elsewhere has sought to apply standards and methods to measure civic participation in diverse groups of people. Critics of Robert Putnam’s ... -
The Implications of Shortening Early Voting Periods: A Case Study from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
(2016-05-05)Early voting is a widely available convenience voting option, yet research into exactly who casts a ballot early has produced mixed results. Researchers have simultaneously shown that early voters are wealthier and whiter ...