Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on how the University of Central Florida's (UCF's) Rosen College of … Central Florida. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach was followed and the findings and examples reported in … and tourism organizations in the Central Florida region. Over the years, industry partners have committed significant …

these groups are represented in the Florida K-12 social studies standards and in what contexts. Drawing from critical race … property. Design/methodology/approach All Florida social studies benchmarks relevant to Latinxs and/or Latin Americans were …/war, immigration and suppression or absence. Findings from this critical analysis of Florida social studies standards illuminate the …

Abstract The article discusses the possibility of classifying plagiarism as a culturally motivated crime. Creating … plagiarism is a crime and those where the failure to mark the authorship of a work results from the customs prevailing in their …

property crime, have sex, join gangs, attempt suicide, or run away from home. We employ propensity score matching methods to …

analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that teenagers use or sell drugs, commit property crime …

Abstract Donohue and Levitt (2001) attribute over half of the decline in U.S. crime rates during the 1990s to abortion …, as more than a quarter of the drop in violent crime can be attributed to the increase in teenage abortions that occurred … after legalization. These results suggest that lower crime rates from abortion legalization are due to better timing of …

on crime rates. The elasticity of violent crime with respect to childhood lead exposure is estimated to be 0.8, and this … little evidence indicates an effect of lead on property crime. Overall, I find that the reduction in childhood lead exposure … in the late 1970s and early 1980s was responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s and may cause …

Abstract Although political leaders and the public believe that California’s “tough on crime” policies, most notably … its “Three Strikes” sentencing framework, put into effect in 1994, are responsible for a 100% crime drop in California … since 1992, the evidence from research and a logical examination of data on violent crime state by state over the past 50 …