Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Mabry, John"
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Forensic science curriculum for high school students.
Burgess, Christiana J. (2015)Over the last several decades, forensic science--the application of science to civil and criminal legal matters--has become of increasing popularity with the public. The range of disciplines within the field is immense, ... -
Learning strategies of digital forensics examiners and students studying digital forensics
Elliott, Rachael (2011)Digital forensics, also known as computer forensics, is the investigation of any digital media in order to find evidence. This media can include computer hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, etc... This discipline is ... -
Mobile forensics : analysis of the messaging application Signal.
Judge, Samantha M. (2017)This study reviewed if there are ways to recover messages, image, videos, and call logs within the mobile application Signal, developed by Open Whisper Systems. The purpose of this study was to research the data recovery ... -
Nonconscious mimicry and its effect on rapport and recall
Petties, Fulani (2018)Nonconscious mimicry is used to build rapport as well gain the liking of others, during first encounters and when there is a perceived threat to belonging or existing relationships. Mimicry can occur through verbal and ... -
Oklahoma's juvenile justice : disproportionate minority placement among Oklahoma's juveniles
Mooney, Trenton J. (2021)America has a long history of placing a disproportionate number of minorities in the criminal justice system. Disproportionate incarceration/placement rates occur in both the adult and juvenile justice systems. This study ... -
Personality and situational correlates of false confessions.
Schrantz, Kathryn (2014)Personality correlates, such as the need to belong, unstable self-esteem, and insecure-anxious attachment style may predict false confessions and internalization. Study 1 examined the influence of these personality correlates. ... -
Physiological measures of anti-social behavior within psychopathy.
Chaliawala, Kruti (2016)The purpose of the current study was to utilize new physiological measures associated with psychopathy and criminal behavior. Research has demonstrated a link between psychopathy and criminal behavior (Douglas, Vincent, & ... -
Promoting eyewitness recall through sketching in the self-administered interview
Paramo, Christy (2022)The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a widely researched investigative method that promotes accurate and detailed recall from eyewitnesses. The Self-Administered Interview (SAI; Gabbert, 2009) is a booklet emulating the CI ... -
The Psychological Impact of Investigating Crime Scenes
Mountain, Whitney M. (2021)The goal of this study was to determine if there are stressful or psychological impacts from investigating crime scenes. This was accomplished by analyzing ninety-four anonymous surveys that had been distributed to various ... -
Quantitative assessment of barrel wear from solid copper bullets
Hassett, Natali (2024)Forensic firearm analysis is based on the principle that firearms impart individual characteristics on bullets and cartridge cases during the firing process, and these individual characteristics can be used to trace a ... -
Sad eyewitnesses and jurors' perceptions of their believability
Ridley, Cassie Ann E. (2023)Eyewitness testimony is heavily relied on in court, and there is a large amount of research on how an eyewitness's and defendant's behavior and emotion can influence a jury's verdict decision. The emotional victim effect ... -
Serial homicide cases : patterns in dormant periods.
White, Mia L. (2016)The study of serial homicide offenders has been extensively investigated, however, there is a significant gap in the literature with respect to the dormant period. Little information is available with regard to patterns, ... -
Social-envenomation : a ritual of snake-handling churches.
Waters, Amy (2018)This study focused on the deaths that had taken place within the Pentecostal church sects that handled venomous snakes during their religious services. This was accomplished by gathering statistics of 105 cases that were ... -
The evaluation and validation of IDenta Corporation's Bullet-hole Testing Kit (BTK).
Crandell, Katelyn J. (2016)Originally developed in 1982, IDenta Corporation’s Bullet-hole Testing Kit (BTK) is currently being used around the world in the field of crime scene analysis. IDenta claims the kit can successfully be used to identify ... -
The use of image analyzing software for muzzle to target distance determination.
Edwards, Kimberly A. (2011)Muzzle to target distance can be an important aspect in criminal investigations. For most distance determination opinions to be of value to an investigation, the range must be stated such that it gives meaningful information ... -
The utilization of forensic corpora in validation of data carving on SATA drives
Willimon, Caitlin G. (2019)The field of digital forensics has become more prevalent in the court of law due to the increase of availability of technology. With digital evidence coming up in court consistently, digital forensics and its tools are ... -
What's the verdict: how disgust dictates jury verdict and the mitigating role of symbolic cleansing
Kurbanova, Selbi (2024)Approximately 1% of the US prison population (about 20,000 individuals) is currently wrongfully convicted (The Innocence Project, 2023). Wrongful convictions are influenced by ambiguous evidence, cognitive heuristics, and ...