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CHDS Theses: Executive Summaries

CHDS Master's students summarize their research and the impacts of that work on agency practices and the nation's security.

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CHDS Theses: Executive Summaries

Avoiding Unnecessary Conflict: How Might Understanding Honor Culture Enhance Police-Citizen Encounters?

By Jose Garcia – Executive Summary – Policing requires that officers make serious choices when faced with various criminal occurrences, often with the mandate to bring order to situations towards achieving safe, non-violent outcomes. Officers often decide tactics, deployment strategies, …

Avoiding Unnecessary Conflict: How Might Understanding Honor Culture Enhance Police-Citizen Encounters?

Dual-Use Research and Synthetic Biology an Invitation into Pandora’s Box?

By David Follett – Executive Summary – The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the potential threat synthetic biology can produce when it is combined with advanced technology regarding dual-use research, dual-use research of concern, and ultimately gain-of-function research. …

Dual-Use Research and Synthetic Biology an Invitation into Pandora’s Box?

Reconstruction Terror: Origins, Applications, and Implications

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

Word Bombs: Using Strategic Communication to Counter Domestic Violent Extremists

By Jeremy Chedester – Executive Summary – This thesis sets out to investigate how strategic communications can be incorporated into countering domestic violent extremist (DVE) violence in the United States. Strategic communications use messaging or counternarratives based on research and …

Word Bombs: Using Strategic Communication to Counter Domestic Violent Extremists

Establishing Stronger Bonds and Preparing for Future Disasters in Tribal Communities

By Denise Bordelon – Executive Summary – Tribal nations are an important part of the homeland security community, as tribal lands form both north and south U.S. borders, employ 4,500 law enforcement personnel, and comprise 100 million acres.[1] The 574 …

Establishing Stronger Bonds and Preparing for Future Disasters in Tribal Communities

Feeling Safe and Secure: Analysis of the Chico Police Department’s School Resource Program through the Teachers’ Experience

By Michael Williams – Executive Summary – For many years, school violence has been a major concern for school administrators and local law enforcement.[1] As a result of school violence, teachers are leaving the profession at an alarming rate, leaving …

Feeling Safe and Secure: Analysis of the Chico Police Department’s School Resource Program through the Teachers’ Experience

The Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Technology: A Case Study of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

By Jeni Best – Executive Summary – The tragic events of 9/11 fundamentally changed how the United States approached personal and homeland security. American citizens questioned how terrorists could operate undetected for so long in the United States and how such …

The Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Technology: A Case Study of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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