By David Siegmund – Executive Summary – The escalating challenge of insider threats, referred to herein as adversarial insider personnel (AIP) within critical infrastructure, where trusted personnel might exploit their legitimate access to cause harm, remains significant to critical infrastructure […]
By Michael Pfaltzgraff – Executive Summary – One of the most stressful and dangerous situations a firefighter may ever encounter is calling a Mayday – when a firefighter is trapped, lost, disoriented, or otherwise incapable of getting to safety. Between
By Bobby Garcia – Executive Summary – The rising volume of irregular migrants poses a significant challenge for the U.S. government. Although irregular migrants were once composed predominantly of Mexican and Central American nationals, the makeup of contemporary migrant flows
By Christopher Huhn – Executive Summary – “Honey this our opportunity to be together mylove, i will never do anything that will hurt you, mylove noting bad is going to happen, i promise the money there is my money and
By Matthew Davison – Executive Summary – Electoral violence was a common occurrence during Reconstruction (1865-1877). The concentrated terror around voting rights and elections was not random. Nearly every local and national election during the decade after the Civil War
Reconstruction Terror: Origins, Applications, and Implications →
By Eric M. Cooper – Executive Summary – Both the executive and legislative branches of government have mandated that evidence-based policymaking be implemented in federal governmental decisional processes.[1] Evidence-based policymaking is the theory that governments should develop “public policies, programs,
Defeating and Deterring Domestic Terrorists Through Evidence-Based Policymaking →
By Jonathan Miller – Executive Summary – The objective of this thesis is to identify the extent to which defining cyberspace as a domain will affect the formulation of homeland security enterprise (HSE) policy related to cyberspace in the future.
The Space Between: Policy Implications for the Conceptualization of Cyberspace as a Domain →
By Jonathan Graham – Executive Summary – Many Americans disapproved of the immigration enforcement policies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the Trump administration. This thesis begins by asking what can be learned about DHS’s communications strategy during
By Brian Hollan – Executive Summary – The dominant model of professional policing in the United States is the so-called “standard model,” which coalesced during the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Weisburd and Eck have identified key characteristics of the standard model
Policing for the 22nd Century: A Complexity Theory-based Approach →
By Jaime Lier Chen – Executive Summary – The U.S. asylum program at the Southwest border is the locale of a dynamic, contentious crisis. The number of asylum seekers at the Mexico-U.S. border began to soar in 2014 as families
Muted Voices: Toward an Understanding of the U.S. Asylum Program at the Southwest Border →
