Browsing Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Sociology by Title
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Understanding Social Factors Associated with the Geographic Distribution of Non-Violent Sex Crimes in a Southern California County
(2017)Macro-criminologists often try to understand the relationship between community characteristics and violent crimes or property crimes, but less attention has been given to explaining sex crimes, especially non-violent sex ... -
VULNERABILITY TO POWER OUTAGE EVENTS BY RACE, ETHNICITY, POVERTY, AND ENVIRONMENT
(2018)This dissertation investigates power outage frequency patterns for relationships with race, ethnicity, poverty, and factors in the natural and built environments. While engineers have previously studied the impact of ... -
Where the Only Work is Women's Work: Changing Rural Opportunities
(2012)This dissertation examines a number of issues related to how gender and social status shape out-migration, education, work, and family. In many rural communities, the bulk of local employment has shifted from high-wage ... -
WORLD-WIDE COMPARISONS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
(2015)This dissertation includes four journal-length articles with an introductory chapter. Two articles have been published in referred journals, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology and Journal of Environmental ...