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Convergent Case Management (CCM) is a mandatory reentry program offered in Arizona state-run prison units. This study evaluates the success of this program through semi-structured interviews with correctional officers and incarcerated men and women at two Arizona prison units. These results are contextualized within the history of rehabilitative program evaluation from the "nothing works" paradigm of the 1970s through contemporary Good Lives Model and desistance thinking.
ContributorsBranaman, Benjamin (Author) / Wright, Kevin (Thesis director) / Young, Jacob (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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The Women’s Power and Influence Index uses publicly available information to rank companies based on their gender policies, with the thought that public rankings trigger the behavioral and policy changes that move us in the direction of gender equity and pay parity. This project employs survey analysis to take a closer look at four of the criteria the WPI uses to score companies - maternity leave, childcare, harassment and discrimination training, and professional development. Our work evaluates survey responses to determine optimal policies for each of the four criteria with the hope that in future iterations of the Index, these policies can be incorporated into the scoring methods as a standard against which respective company policies can be compared.
ContributorsBlessington, Katherine (Author) / Saraswat, Tushar (Co-author) / Zaffar, Ehsan (Thesis director) / Gel, Esma (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Department of Economics (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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There is an etiquette for most areas in life–bathroom etiquette, restaurant and dining etiquette, in person/virtual meeting etiquette, business etiquette, the list goes on and on. Social etiquette is also a part of that category and is one of the most important etiquettes as it informs an individual about the norms and behavior that society considers acceptable. There is research that has been done on social etiquette. There have been studies done, books written, and different interpretations of the definition for it. Despite this topic being increasingly relevant, relatable and modern transferable skills are not always conveyed in current research and self improvement books— given its emphasis on interviews, email structure, and “how to carry yourself”. While these tips are important as well, we would like shift the focus toward simplifying the interactions that should be common knowledge but sometimes turns out not to be given the exceedingly diverse cultural landscape of the college population. Here we touch on the broad topic of social etiquette for college students in a book sharing communicative experiences, displaying real life college student input, and providing advice to avoid or successfully handle social conflict.
Students coming together from different places both domestically and internationally means concentrating a copious amount of diversity within the campus(es) bounds. Connecting students from all over means everyone has grown up with different guardianships, boundaries and living situations. This unique melting pot or “Campus Kaleidoscope” means that everyone has developed different ways to communicate with others. This attracts a lot of opportunities for unsuccessful and/or successful communicative experiences.
Our goal is to combine social etiquette and the college student setting into a short (5-chapter), digestible (common language) book for the college community using an attention grabbing approach (including memes, comic scenarios, and asking questions) as the current state media is fast-paced and revolves on convenience. In addition, allowing readers to look deeper into the importance of self-awareness and significance in catering properly to different people with various boundaries. Lastly, providing solutions to facilitate the process of communication among heterogeneous individuals.
ContributorsSmith, Lailah (Author) / Molina, Melisa (Co-author) / Ocampo, Rachel (Thesis director) / Olson, DaNeil (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (Contributor)
Created2024-05
Building an ESG Metrics Database for US Law Firms: ESG Intelligence Group's Data Management Solution
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I built a database for ESG Intelligence (ESGi) Group, a consulting firm that advises law firms on implementing good environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices internally as well as how law firms can better serve their clients with respect to ESG. This paper explores my decision-making process for the design of the database and the challenges I ran into while creating and populating the database. I turned a list of things that ESGi Group wanted to track into an entity relationship diagram (ERD), which I eventually turned into a relational database in MySQL. I further defined the contents of the database by mapping the ERD into a relational model, normalizing the relational model, and creating an attribute domain table. I coded the database in SQL, collected data in an excel spreadsheet (downloaded from AMLAW 200 and NLJ 500 purchased data, manually searching individual firm websites, and scraping law.com in R), and then inserted the data into the database. I ran into issues with data completeness due to the lacking regulation of firm transparency about ESG reporting, but this project succeeded in proof of concept rather than implementation. I also discuss security and privacy considerations, and ESGi Group’s possible options for further development of this project in the future.
ContributorsSell, Lily (Author) / Sopha, Matthew (Thesis director) / Cone, Pamela (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor)
Created2024-05
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By assembling the countless work put in by past and current AAPASC community members, this guidebook aims to serve as a foundation for future AAPASC executive boards and organizations. The goal for this project is to be a living document, maintained and changed by future generations of AAPI student leadership to adapt to the needs and goals of their
university experience, but also to provide a connection to the learned experience of the
past.
ContributorsLiu, Sabrina (Author) / Kuo, Karen (Thesis director) / Yellow Horse, Aggie (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Economics Program in CLAS (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor)
Created2024-05