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Item 1991 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 1992) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem 2006 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2007) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem Building Community in Seward Neighborhood: A Self-Study Project of the Seward Neighborhood Group.(1997) Belding, Nancye; Neal, Mary Beth; Kosyakovsky, MarinaItem Community Involvement in the Whittier Neighborhood: An Analysis of Neighborhood Conditions and Neighborhood Change.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1980) Smith, Rebecca Lou; Anding, Thomas L.Item Digital Punishment: The Production and Consequences of Online Crime Reporting(2015-07) Lageson, SarahThis dissertation is a mixed methods study of the production, dissemination and effects of digital crime reporting, such as mug shot websites, crime blogs, Facebook crime watch pages, and Twitter crime update accounts. These websites post arrest records and booking photos before individuals are charged or convicted, but they remain online indefinitely. This dissertation asks big questions about data privacy, criminal justice and punishment through three qualitative studies: 1) the murky world of citizen journalism within the specific context of crime news; 2) the sociolegal framework of case law in this area and how social actors interpret this law, and; 3) the empirical effects of these records for those who appear on the websites, speaking to broader social, civic, and psychological consequences. At its core, this study argues that the internet has elevated crime and punishment to the center of daily life, routine activities, and American culture more than ever before. Within this framework, I make three concrete arguments: First, I argue that these websites operate as a new form of social control strategies by fostering a fear of crime and publicizing transgressions. Importantly, publishers are non-state actors who engage in a meaning-making process by focusing on crime and therefore feeling they have a direct impact on crime. Second, I argue that the ambiguity around the legality of these sites produces new forms of consciousness around our rights to public information and freedom of speech. Finally, I argue these sites constitute novel forms of punishment in the widespread nature of the reporting, in heightening the variety and levels of crimes publicly punishable, and by permanently archiving these punishment symbols in digital spaces. Empirically, I find digital criminal histories are characterized by their scope, breadth, availability, and permanence. These websites post arrest records, full names, and booking photos before individuals are charged with or convicted of a crime, yet they remain online indefinitely. These websites are often produced by amateurs who use crime as a method to address broader social issues. These sites appeal to consumers by providing access to real-time crime information allowing them to feel they have an active role in crime prevention without directly interacting with the criminal justice system. There are consequences to these practices, particularly in the spread of erroneous and dismissed records. While criminal history data changes rapidly at the jurisdictional level, there does not exist a system to ensure corresponding updates are made online. These crime websites thus constitute a new form of punishment: They culminate in a curated and searchable online history, which is often unknown to the website subject until they face consequences of these records. These records communicate powerful signals of guilt by attaching a criminal label to millions of arrestees, simultaneously introducing a host of social and psychological consequences.Item Evaluation of the CARE Program.(1990) Craig, William J.; Holcombe, John A.Item Geographic Information Systems: A Feasibility Study for the City of Duluth Police Department.(1993) Tobin, Graham A; Fleischman, William A; Kroll, KarenA Geographic Information System (GIS) does not currently exist in the Duluth Police Department. The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of employing a GIS to unprove the Duluth Police Department's ability to identify patterns of criminal activity, to represent those patterns graphically, and to use the information to facilitate the management of departmental resources. As a result of this study, we recommend the implementation of a Geographic Information System. This recommendation is based on our findings which reveal that: (1) the Duluth Police Department's data capturing and analysis systems utilize outdated hardware and software that will soon be obsolete, (2) the current records management system is reasonably compatible with a geographically based management system, (3) the emergency management systems are structured in such a way so as to make the transition to a GIS oriented process manageable, and (4) GIS based procedures are being used by other agencies as efficient and effective means for managing crime prevention and crime resolution and for managing agency fiscal, material, and personnel resources. The present systems can be modified to a GIS, since they have the basic elements already in place. Both those systems associated with the Duluth Police Department and those connected with the 911 System can be used for developing a GIS that will provide for the needs of DPD and will provide a basis for use by other agencies dispensing emergency related services in the area.Item Harrison Neighborhood Needs Assessment, A Community-Based Project for Neighborhood Improvement Planning(1985) Campbell, Candace; Schersten, PaulItem Historical Assessment of Holland Community Housing.(1996) Paddock, SandraItem The Iatrogenic Effects of Punishment(2022-08) Larson, RyanSociological criminology has undergone a scholarly revolution in identifying the vast reach of punishment’s deleterious effects across multiple domains of American social, political, and economic life. However, this scholarship has largely neglected to empirically examine what ramifications these adverse effects of punishment have for crime. Across three empirical studies at multiple levels of analysis, this dissertation brings crime back in as a central outcome in the study of the effects of punishment, and examines aspects of the potential iatrogenic, or crime inducing, pathways of punishment. The first study, using court administrative data and the quasi-random assignment of judges in Minnesota, investigates the causal “packaging” effects of punishment on crime, finding the combination of hefty probation and monetary sanctions to be particularly criminogenic, alongside weak overall effects of punishment on recidivism. Second, this dissertation situates community-level punishment within sociological theories of neighborhood ecology and crime, and reveals bifurcating effects punishment on violence at the community-level, with incarceration and monetary sanctions loads tied to lower levels of neighborhood crime, but probation concentrations tied to higher crime rates. The second study also highlights a criminogenic path of punishment on violence by increasing neighborhood levels of concentrated disadvantage. The third empirical study leverages a difference-in-difference design to estimate the causal effect of ban-the-box legislation, which delays the disclosure of criminal records during the employment process, on both state-level employment and crime rates, finding little relationship between ban-the-box adoption and crime. In contrast, ban-the-box appears to bolster employment overall, but it may have adverse effects on Black employment. These empirical studies document the iatrogenic links between punishment and crime, as well as examine the efficacy of state policy to sever these relationships.Item Influence of Gossip Media on Political Attitudes of Various Thinkers(2015-05-29) Yushchenko, Yekaterina; Miller, JoanneThis study sought to look at how people of different levels of need for cognition are influenced by hidden political messages in gossip media. Results were collected by testing college students on their opinions on gun control and crime related issues before and after consuming a piece of biased gossip media, nonbiased gossip (control) media, and biased news media. This study found that high need for cognition people were influenced by biased media significantly more than those low in need for cognition. Despite the frivolous appearance of gossip media, this study found that both gossip and news media were significant influencers of opinion, but only for high need for cognition individuals and on separate issues.Item Jordan Neighborhood CARE Program.(1992) Craig, William J.; Schomaker, Pamela J.Item Jordan Neighborhood Crime Research.(1995) Crystal, BryanItem The Other Family: How Gangs Impact Latino Families and Communities(Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER), 2005) Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)Item Primer for Developing a Community-Based Restorative Justice Model.(1997) Gerard, GenaItem Safety on the Streets(2009) Gun, YaelItem Southeast Asian Resident Study.(1989) Fang, Rachel