Alumni Dissertation Titles

2009: Coyne, Peter. "Domestic Partner Benefit Policy Implementation Barriers in Maine Small Businesses"

2009: Harge, Reginald. "African American Students: Perceptions Of High-Stakes Testing In Massachusetts: Can The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Examination Raise Students Above The Separate and Unequal Social Class Status?"

2009: McDevitt, John. "Factors Influencing Racial Disparities in Traffic Enforcement in Massachusetts"

2008: McDevitt, John. "Factors Influencing Racial Disparities in Traffic Enforcement in Massachusetts"

2008: Mastrorilli, Mary Ellen. "THE WOMEN IN TRANSITION PROGRAM: APPLICATION OF RELATIONAL THEORY TO AN EVALUATION OF A MINIMUM SECURITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER FOR FEMALE OFFENDER"

2008: Langlie, ML. "The Effect of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy on the Mathematics Achievement of Black and Hispanic High School Students"

2008: Gildae, Catherine. "Good, old-fashioned, traditional family values? - The meaning of marriage availability for female same-sex couples and their families"

2008: Egbuiwe, Rose. "WHERE THE DEAD ARE BURIED: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN AFRICA"

2008: Albuja Bayas, Sebastian . "A Case Study on Global Socialization and the Diffusion of Regulatory Frameworks"

2008: Leach, Todd "The Impact of For-Profit Privatization on Higher Education in the State of Massachusetts"

2008: Solomon, Samuel "Social Security - Financial Viability in the 21st Century"

2008: Porter, Veronica �The Bachelor Level College Graduate with a Physical Disability in the American Economy: An Analysis of Earnings�

2008: Mann, Timothy �An Exploratory Study on the Feasibility of National Criminal Background Checks in College Admissions�

2008: Larrain, Beatriz E. �Judicial Behavior and Judicial Policy-Making A Survey of the Field�

2007: Wilson, Charles E. "Identifying Criminal History Antecedents Of Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Development of a Centralized Integrated Response Program for Domestic Violence in the City of Boston"

2007: Williams, Francis "Student Assistance Programs (SAP): An Organizational and Theoretical Perspective on Building Bridges for Healthy Youth."

2007: Ouellette, Bert "The Life Span of Religious Social Movements and Public Policy"

2007: Noyes, Lysbeth "Parent Experiences of Waiting Lists: New Hampshire Families And Community Services in Developmental Disabilities"

2007: Dutt, Kuheli "Governance, Institutions and the Environment-Income Relationship: An International Perspective"

2007: Whelpley, David "The State and Municipal Effect: Enforcing the Clean Water Act in Massachusetts/California - Boston/San Diego"

2006: Balboni, Jennifer "It's not about the money: Truth, Consequences and the Real Meaning of Litigation for Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors"

2006: Aboo Talib Khalid, Kartini "Policy Implementation in People Processing Organizations: A Case Study in Two Anti Poverty Community Agencies"

2006: Ippolito, Rosann Maria "State-Mandated Private Payer Reimbursement for Physician Assistant Provided Medical Services: A Policy Analysis"

2005: Becker, Wendy "If They Would Only Ask: Women on Welfare Suggest Policy Reform"

2005: Gardinier, Lori "What Happened to the Paid Family Leave Campaign in Massachusetts Examining Paid Family leave as a Social Movement and Policy Issue"

2005: Golub, Dawn "Factors Contributing to a Successful Work Experience for Employees Who are Blind or Visually Impaired."

2005: Griffith, Roberta "System of Accountability: The Legal, Organizational, and Technical Context of Firearms Tracing in the United States and the Potential Implications for Controlling Firearms Trafficking."

2005: Hall, Kimberly "A Study of Adult Women Students in Distance Education at the Post secondary Level: Convenience or Quandary?"

2005: O'Brien, Carolyn "Using E-mail To Supplement Communication Between Clinicians and CareGivers of Community Dwelling Elders. "

2005: Howard, P. Tim "We've Been Framed!: Progressive Cause Lawyer Leadership in Florida Tobacco Liability Litigation"

2005: Vautour, Karen "Implementation of the Pre-admission and, Annual Resident Review Regulations for the Mentally Ill in MA 1989-2003"

2005: Ventura, Susan "A Middle-Range Theory to Guide the Promotion, Support, or Improvement of Spiritually Sensitive Care in Hospital Settings"

2004: Antonio, Michael "Arbitratiness and the Death Penalty: The Impact of Psychological Factors"

2004: Boardman, Judith "Treatment Outcome Measurement in Behavioral Healthcare: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly."

2004: Lamar, Demetrieus "When Meritocracy Prevails in Higher Education: An Empirical Study of American Black Social Mobility."

2004: Lester, Toni "Assessing the Effectiveness of Sexual Orientation deiscrimination Law."

2004: Martirossian, Hasmik "Community Associations ans Condominiums: Community, Governance and Group Dynamics."

2004: Tran, Anh Le "The U.S. Antidumping Law: Its rhetoric Administration, and Impact."

2004: Weiss, Jillian Todd "Transgender Human Resources Policy in the U.S. Employers."

2004: Yurianto, Yurianto (M.S)

2003: Cotton, Harvey "The Evolution of a Regulatory Relationship: the Management of the Liquidation of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England."

2003: Giglio, Joseph "An Evaluation of Transportation Financing Tools"

2003: Gildea, Timothy "An Assessment of Small Arms and Light Weapons Control Regimes: Policy Implications of the U.S. Experience."

2003: Grometstein, Randall "The Activity and validity of Claims-Making During a Moral Panic: The Example of the Day Care Center Cases, 1983-1995"

2003: Lambert, David "Organizational Structure and Community Policing: Officer Perceptions of Change and Reform in New England Police Departments."

2003: Merseburgh-Martin, Sybil Anae "Judicial Decision-Making: Massachusetts Trial Court Judges and the Emergincy Judicial Response System."

2003: Penninah, Ogada "Struggle for Survival Among Rural Women in Kenya, Difference to Culture vs. Social-Ecomomics Needs."

2003: Soule, David "Managing Sprawl: A Boston Area Case Study."

2003: Trainor, Maureen "Transportation Barriers to Employment and Welfare Reform: Addressing the Needs of Poor Women in Boston, 1997:-2000."

2003: Walsh, Martin "Trade Policy and New England Investment in China."

2002: Bellavance, Diane "Worker resources as capital in computer home based work."

2002: Haynes, Wendy "A Case Study of Two Boston Megaprojects: The Central Artery/Tunnel Project and the Boston Harbor Cleanup"

2002: MacKenzie, Susan "The Effect of Prescription Co-Payment on Drug Utilization in a Veterans' Administration Population"

2002: Talty, Francis "Public support for the courts: an examination of the determinants and consequences of public perceptions of courts in Massachusetts"

2002: Wortman, Mary Alice "Workers; compensation: a study of the evaluation of a societal good from a social contract to an economic pariah salvaged through radical reform"

2001: Block, Heidi "An exploration of the criminal justice response to "acquaintance" and "date rape"

2001: Cleary, Paul "An analysis of internet use: patterns among children in the age of information"

2001: Farrell, Amy "The effect of gender and family status on downward departures in federal criminal sentences"

2001: Govern, Frank "The Impact of Problem Definition on the Formation of National Health Insurance. "

2001: Krumholz, Susan "An exploratory study of the purpose of domestic violence units in Massachusetts police departments"

2001: Thomas, Dawna "Understanding disability in the Capeverdean community: an analysis of disability and race in Massachusetts"

2001: Watt, Hope "Community case management: an examination of the effect of community-based care on cost, self-perceived health status, and well-being of high-risk, noninstitutionalized elders"

2001: West, Doe "The Standard of the day - the interfacing of science and society in human subject research: a gap study in the development of informed consent"

2000: Mhlaba, Sondlo "Structured electronic transborder contact (setc) as a response to cost disincentives in international exchange"

2000: Santos, Susan "Stakeholder involvement and environmental decision-making, substance or symbolism: the use of Restoration Advisory Boards"

2000: Sullivan, John "The financial and operational evolution of end stage renal disease service providers as an example of health care cost containment and profitability"

1999: Majamba, Hamudi "Indigenous knowledge systems and wildlife management: a framework for legislation and policies for Sub-Saharan Africa"

1999: Mbunda, Luitfried "Freedom of speech and association in Tanzania: a study of rights and constitutional development, 1961-1992"

1999: Rae, Andrea Post "The Affect of Ageism on HIV/AIDS Eduction Programming Decisions."

1998: Antonakes, Steven "Assessing the Community Reinvestment Act: Do existing criteria allow banks to underserve communities with low income and high minority populations?"

1998: Balboni, Barbara "Through the "lens" of organizational culture perspective: a descriptive study of American Catholic bishops' understanding of clergy sexual molestation and abuse of children and adolescents"

1998: Cannon, Jananne "Education for a changing world: a study of two current school-to-work programs"

1998: Engel, Margorie "Pockets of poverty: the second wives club: examining the financial [in]security of women in remarriages"

1998: Garcia-Fierro, Luis "Fear of crime in the city of Boston"

1998: Garre, Patricia Pierce "A survey of Massachusetts physicians and nurses regarding knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and activities concerning the use of advance directives and the implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act"

1998: Gelpke, Richard "Siting controversial facilities: a case of the NIMBYs"

1998: Hansen, Norman "Current attitudes of bankruptcy judges regarding bankruptcy process, law, and proposed changes to the law"

1998: Ireland, Roderick "Throwing the baby out with the bath water: an appraisal of the proposal of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Commission on Juvenile Justice to eliminate status offenses from the Jurisdiction of the juvenile court"

1998: MacDonald, Diane "The New Deal model of collective bargaining and the secondary labour market: problems, potential solution"

1998: McNabb, Joseph "Examining decision making in a family court: the (re)construction of fatherhood by the legal system"

1998: Oppenheim, Dorothy "An analysis of whether the public interest is served through the regulatory policies of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc."

1998: Otto, Catherine "More than CLIA 88 certification: development of model integrating purchaser perspective criteria to evaluate clinical laboratory testing services"

1998: Pattavina, April "Neighborhood violence and public school children: a contextual analysis of academic achievement in Boston"

1998: Smirl, Todd "Brokers, agents and entrepreneurs: implementation of the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act"

1998: Stoessel, Judith "Environmental advocacy in Massachusetts 1976-1996:: public interest groups, the initiative, and the legislature"

1998: Warden, Francena "A framework for the development of organizational electronic privacy policy"

1997: Carlson, David "The potential role of firearms tracing in reducing illegal trafficking and violent crime"

1997: McAllister, Margaret "Policy implementation as advocacy: nurse administrators' experiences implementing prescriptive authority for nurse practitioners in Massachusetts"

1997: Pisano, Douglas "A study of regulatory and operational coping behaviors used by Massachusetts community pharmacists"

1997: Somers, Gary "Unfulfilled promise?: federal support and the expansion of cooperative education"

1997: Weber, Karen "A policy analysis of maritime fisheries management in Cote d'Ivoire"

1996: Rukuba-Ngaiza, Nightingale "Community participation in the conservation of forests and wetlands resources in the Lake Victoria region in Uganda: legal and institutional aspects"

1995: Kapinga, Wilbert "The role of law and public policy in workers' participation in Tanzania"

1995: Luther, Betty "The politics of criminal justice: a study of the impact of executive influence on parole decisions between 1985 and 1992"

1995: Mollo, Arlene "Arts in education policy and implementation: a search for outcomes"

1995: Nesbary, Dale "The transformation of crime statistics by police agencies"

1995: Osborne, Richard "A critical analysis of research on pre-adult sexual socialization"

1995: Seeley, Mary Frances "Hotline organizations as discrete services in the mental health and social services arena"

1995: Widianto, Bambang "Financial liberalization in Indonesia: Issues of political economy and banking structure"

1995: Zhang, Nong-ji "Old age insurance and retirement pension policy in China's market economy: a case study on policy making"

1994: Cochran, Maureen "Substitute judgement or justice: when judges make medical treatment decisions"

1994: Jenkins, Morris "Fear of the "gangsta": policy responses to gang activity in the city of Boston"

1994: Klein, Andrew "Re-abuse in a population of court-restrained male batterers after two years: development of a predictive model"

1994: Mtambo, Michael "Ground transportation and political economy in Southern Africa: the case of Malawi"

1994: Sullivan, Anne "The community correlates of residential toxic contamination: a case study"

1994: Testa, Martha "Economic, system, professional, and student characteristics influencing the provision of speech and language services in Massachusetts public schools"

1993: Barnet, Judith "Taking down the wall: a cultural approach to the environment and affordable housing"

1993: Gilbert, Arthur Lee "A contingent theory of information technology planning: rationality, learning, or negotiation? "

1993: Kovacich, Joann "Can the country take care of its own"?:opposing realities of aging in rural context, St. John Valley, Maine"

1993: McCarthy, Robert "Public policy and the therapeutic use of heroin"

1993: Mello, Jeffrey "Disorder in the courts: workplace discrimination based on HIV status"

1992: Chowdhury, Mahfuzul "Aid in the U.S. policy toward the third world: Bangladesh, a case study"

1992: Dupont-Morales, Maria Antonia "The political construction of the "Spectacle, the Camp Hill Prison Riots: a case study"

1992: Ogozalek, Virginia "The "automated pharmacist": a comparison of the use of leaflets, text-based computers, and video-based computers to provide medication information to the elderly"

1992: Schneider, Paula "Teamwork in the hierarchy: sustained "in the thick" of the organization's culture"

1992: Staples, Leonard "Sobriety checkpoints to deter drinking/driving: a legal and empirical analysis"

1991: Drainoni, Mari-Lynn "The experience of siblings of the mentally ill: implications for policy and program development"

1990: Calicchia, John "Multivariate prediction of dangerousness in juvenile inpatients: a heuristic model for psychology, law and policy"

1990: Goldstein, Arnold "Some impacts of professional regulation on the retail drug market"

1990: Panford, Kwamina "The influence of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on African workers' union and collective bargaining rights: a case study of Ghana"

1990: Wong, John "National health insurance: a simulation model"

1988: Cloutier, Charlotte "Medical malpractice: social problem v.political crisis"

1986: Chukwuezi, Henry "Nigeria: basic problems of development administration and policy priorities for the rural agricultural sector"

1985: Gbosi, Augustus "Functional analysis of wage commissions in Nigeria, 1955-1975"