KnowledgeWorks@UB: Recent submissions
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The Role of Social Media within the Context of ICT4D Projects: How can the use of Social Media Enhance Project Adoption?
(2020-05)Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) attempt to make the benefits of the information and communication enabled by technology available to developing or disadvantaged groups, but these projects ... -
Honor, Courage, and Varying Forms of Commitment: A Quantitative Study into the Career Affiliation Decisions of United States Marine Corps Active Reserve Officers
(2020-06-15)The Active Reserve Program of the United States Marine Corps has three hundred unrestricted officers who manage the Marine Corps’ strategic reserve. These officers are responsible for the mastery of reserve policy and ... -
Assessing Access Services : Building a 5-Year Plan for Sustainable Assessment
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2018-07)The University of Baltimore’s Langsdale Library underwent its five-year review in FY2016 (1 July 2015–30 June 2016). A basic, integral and necessary element of this process was the development of an assessment plan. Langsdale ... -
Creating The Colored Girl Beautiful
(2020-05-01)The Colored Girl Beautiful podcast is narrative non-fiction storytelling podcast about Black womanhood that was created as a way to process some of the themes in the book, The Colored Girl beautiful, which was published ... -
Ethical research approval in a timely manner: IRB process flows and implications for redesigning them
(2020-05)Academic researchers have many complaints about the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at their institution, including the opaque decision making, the long wait times for decisions, and numerous other nuances unique to ... -
Designing a Platform that Connects People of Color to Therapists of Color
(2020-05-25)Being a person of color comes with a set of unique challenges. Society often discusses racism, but rarely does this discussion delve into the psychological effects of racism on communities of color. In truth, racism can ... -
Finding your Bus: Conceptualising Contemporary Quaker Management Education
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)How can Quaker thought and practice make a significant contribution to contemporary management education? Quaker-affiliated businesses and organisations have played significant roles in both the United ... -
The Challenges of Conducting Research on Supermax Prisons: Results From a Survey of Scholars Who Conduct Supermax Research
(Saga, 2018-12-07)This article analyzes the challenges that investigators face when conducting scholarly research on supermax prisons. Drawing on existing literature, as well as results of a survey sent to researchers who have published ... -
Deconstructing Correctional Officer Deviance: Toward Typologies of Actions and Controls
(Saga, 2016-09-11)This article reviews the scholarly research that has been conducted on the problem of correctionalofficer (CO) deviance. It then outlines the most dominant kinds of CO deviance and the solutionsthat have been proposed and, ... -
Getting a Second Chance with a University Education: Barriers & Opportunities
(springer, 2019-04-08)As part of the prisoner reentry process, many formerly incarcerated individualsare choosing to enroll in universities to earn bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Some cannot immediately begin their studies and ... -
Interpreting the development andgrowth of Convict Criminologyin South America
(2018-10-02)The Convict Criminology (CC) network has expanded beyond its American and Canadian roots tothe United Kingdom and Europe. Althoughincreasing documentation of CC’s activities and scholarship ... -
The Chilean Government’s Attempt to Reform and Close Carcel Ex-Penitenciarı ´a (CDP Santiago Sur): ¿Mientras ma ´s cambian las cosas, mas se mantienen igual?
(Saga, 2017-12)Over the past decade, many South and Latin American countries have experienced an increase in crime. As a response, these states have experimented with a number of crime control methods. One of the traditional responses ... -
Reframing urban street culture: Towards a dynamic and heuristic process model
(Elsevier, 2018-06)The fields of criminology/criminal justice have periodically used the term and concept of urban street culture to explain selected types of street crime and gang behavior. This article argues that this characterization of ... -
How American-based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, and the Prison Experience
(Tayloe & Francis Group, 2017-05-10)The manner in which deviant and marginalized groups are portrayedin popular culture shapes public perceptions and policy responses.These messages are communicated through a variety of channels.Over the past decade, scholarly ... -
What’s Up Doc? A Review and Analysis of English Language Documentaries on Contemporary Graffiti and Street Art
(Street art & Urban Creativity Journal, 2018-01)Over the past four decades, most large urban setting around the world have experienced an increase in graffiti and street art. One of the consequences of the activity is an attempt to interpret this phenomenon. -
Instructing and Mentoring Ex-Con University Students in Departments of Criminology and Criminal Justice
(Tayloe & Francis Group, 2017-11-02)Recognizing the growing presence of university students who are also ex-cons, this article discusses the challenges of working with such individuals and offers practical suggestions for ways to enhance such interactions. ... -
Net Neutrality: What is it and is it Necessary?
(ISSA Journals, 2018-07)The net neutrality debate's argument revolves around whether high- speed broadband services provided by ISPs such as Verizon to content providers such as Netflix need regulating in order to prevent bias based on price ... -
Lack of Oversight and Credentialing Process for Digital Forensic Investigators
(ISACA JOURNAL, 2018-08-28)Despite the phenomenal growth in the digital world and crimes committed using digital techniques and tools, there are literally no foundational requirements to perform digital forensic investigations. While there is a slew ... -
Statistical Unigram Analysis for Source Code Repository
Unigram is a fundamental element of n-gram in natural language processing. However, unigrams collected from a natural language corpus are unsuitable for solving problems in the domain of computer programming ... -
Digital Forensics, A Need for Credentials and Standards
(2019-03-31)Despite the phenomenal growth in the digital world and crimes committed using digitaltechniques and tools, there are literally no foundational requirements to perform digitalforensic investigations. While there are several ...