F D Boateng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 43018 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F D Boateng |
| NOMBRES | F D |
| APELLIDO | Boateng |
| FIRMA | BOATENG F D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8411-271X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Plural Policing in the Ivory Coast
Baker’s idea of policing, as broadly defined, involves organized activities by state and non-state groups for ensuring the maintenance of order, security, and peace through prevention, deterrence, investigation, and punishment. The purpose of this article is to explore plural policing in the Ivory Coast and to understand how the various actors/providers negotiate to provide security and peace and maintain order in the country. Importantly, an eff…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Plural Policing in the Global South
The articles in this Special Issue explore case studies from Global South contexts to show how plural policing is negotiated and navigated. They highlight variances in law-and-order maintenance arrangements, primarily in contexts where state policing is recognized as an adapted colonial import that exists alongside local and indigenous governance mechanisms, which at times exist in parallel or in conflict with each other. Collectively, the articl…
For Love or Need
Firearm ownership in the United States represents a significant and controversial social issue, shaped by historical, cultural, psychological, and socio-political factors. While previous studies have frequently emphasized self-defense as the primary motivation for gun ownership, recent evidence suggests that motivations for firearm possession extend beyond fear and protective necessity. Using a nationally representative sample, this study examine…
Bystander Intervention in the Ivory Coast
The present study attempts to understand factors that influence bystanders’ decisions to intervene in risky sexual situations in the Ivory Coast. The study aimed to examine the influence of personality traits, history of sexual violence victimization, sense of community, and rape myths on bystander intervention among college students. Two hundred college students from one of the major cities in the Ivory Coast were invited to participate in the s…
Negative Police-Citizen Encounters Ramp up Perception of Justice
Most encounters between officers and citizens occur in low-visibility settings, where front-line officers exercise significant discretionary power. Previous research has highlighted the crucial role of police–citizen contact in shaping citizens’ perceptions of procedural and distributive justice. This study goes beyond the simple focus on voluntary versus involuntary contact by examining how specific officer demeanors, such as shouting, impact ci…
Factors that Impact Attitudes Toward Terrorist Violence in Iraq
Understanding Iraqi citizens’ views about terrorism is important for transforming attitudes in Iraq, the larger Middle East, and Western societies. Terrorism is a global concern with far-reaching consequences for both perpetrators and victims of violent acts and reprisals. To add to our understanding of attitudes toward terrorism, we analyzed data from a convenience sample of 347 respondents who were university students in Iraq in 2017. The resul…
Broken Ties, Broken Lives
Numerous studies have explored domestic violence from a broad perspective, examining factors such as mental health, alcohol, and substance abuse. However, limited research has focused on the lethality of domestic violence incidents. This research aims to investigate the impact of relationship dissolution on domestic violence outcomes, particularly when firearms are involved. Analyzing more than 300 domestic homicide cases using multiple analytica…
Gendered Criminality and Punishment
In this paper, we examine the connection between gendered criminality and punishment in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, we examine how the presence of a criminal associate, type of criminal associate, prior criminality, type of court, and number of presiding judges affect what types of punishments are meted out to juvenile male and female offenders. Using a sample of 437 court cases drawn from several court systems, we found that males were more like…
Police empowerment hypothesis
This study contributes to the literature by being the first to examine the relative impacts of normative (procedural justice and obligation to obey) and instrumental (police effectiveness and risk) factors of policing on police empowerment in Saudi Arabia. Conducting this study in the Middle East also broadens our understanding of attitudes toward the police beyond Western societies, as the Middle East has rarely been studied by researchers. Usin…
Officer Gender and Procedural Injustice
Perceptions of policing are shaped by the subculture of hypermasculinity in law enforcement. Consequently, the behavior of women police officers may face increased public scrutiny. This study employs role congruity and procedural justice theories to experimentally assess the effects of procedurally un just treatment on favorability towards women police officers among a college-based sample ( N = 525). In general, female participants were signific…
Leaving Home and Living Abroad
Objective: This study comparatively examined the individual‐ and country‐level factors influencing migration decisions of Africans using large‐scale cross‐sectional data from 34 African countries. Methods: Employing a multilevel analysis technique, specifically hierarchical linear modeling (HML), this study addresses design, methodological, and analytical limitations in the existing literature. Results: At the individual level, gender, age, educa…
Immigrants and the Dying American Dream
Discrimination has serious effects on the health and well-being of immigrants, and research shows that immigrants face unfair treatment in various aspects of their lives, including education, healthcare, employment, housing, and loan applications. Using social identity theory (SIT) and self-categorization theory (SCT) as foundational frameworks to explain immigration-based discrimination, the current study analyzed longitudinal data from adolesce…
The impact of Geospatial Inquiry lessons on student interest in science and technology careers
Advances in online geospatial technologies (GST) have expanded access to K‐12 classrooms which has implications for the support teachers require to effectively integrate GSTs to promote learning. Previous studies have shown the impact of GST‐integrated lessons on student engagement, spatial thinking skills, and/or content knowledge; however, most of these studies have been small in scope and scale and frequently focus on the affordances of the te…
Truth about Rape Myths
Purpose: Rape myths acceptance is a global phenomenon with dire consequences on how sexual assault victims are perceived and treated. People who hold strong sexual violence beliefs tend to blame the victims for their victimizations while praising the offenders. It has widely been acknowledged that such attitudes hinder crime reporting while promoting violence in society. The main purpose of the current study was to examine the factors that influe…
Third-party intervention in high-risk situations in Africa
In recent times, bystander intervention has become an integral part of the effort to address the high prevalence rates of sexual violence on college campuses. Bystanders put their lives at risk by preventing high-risk situations from happening. Despite their critical role, bystander intervention has not been adequately examined to understand their decision-making process. The current study examined the behaviour of bystanders from an African pers…
Immigration Policy and Attitudes Toward the Police
Immigration in the United States has historically been a contentious issue marked by intense debates. The United States is often seen as a melting pot, yet immigration policies frequently have adverse effects on immigrants, varying from one government to another. The 287(g) program, which allows local police to perform immigration duties, exemplifies such policies. This program can harm police-immigrant community relations and weaken trust in the…
Africanization of immigrants
Immigration in Africa has increased significantly in the past two decades, with a record number of people moving to Africa from other non-African countries as well as Africans moving to other countries on the continent. This increase in immigration requires an empirical exploration to understand how Africans feel and think about immigrants. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to explore Africans’ willingness to accept immigrants and fo…
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Memorandums of Agreement
Exploring the Effects of Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Justice on Correctional Staff Job Stress
The primary purpose of the current study was to assess the role of organizational justice in understanding prison staff job stress. Specifically, the authors surveyed 322 correctional employees across two prisons located in Guangzhou, China to explore the effects of distributive, procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice on work stress. Results from ordinary least squares analysis revealed significant contributions from three dimension…
The Criminal Police Officer
Although police decision making and behavior always face intense public scrutiny, officers’ criminal lifestyles have largely been ignored in national debates and discussions. The primary focus of this study was to understand factors that predicted police criminality. To achieve this objective, we analyzed a nationally representative dataset on officers who were arrested from 2005 to 2011 using advanced statistical approaches. Results obtained usi…
Predictors of public support for the death penalty in the Americas
The primary purpose of this study was to explore public support for capital punishment in seven Latin and North American countries to determine factors that influence citizens’ support for the death penalty. Currently, most of the countries examined in the study do not have death penalty for ordinary crimes, but do have it for cases involving murder, war crimes, genocides, terrorism, and crimes against humanity. Our analysis made several importan…
Capital Punishment in Brazil
The primary purpose of this study was to examine public support for the death penalty in Brazil and to determine factors that influence such support. Currently, Brazil has the death penalty for cases involving war crimes, genocides, terrorism, and crime against humanity. The country’s constitution, however, prohibits the use of the death penalty in ordinary crimes. Analyzing individual-level cross-sectional data collected by the American Baromete…
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development
The current study examined the effects of a nationally scaled up Professional Learning and Development (PLD) model on teachers’ classroom implementation of the Geospatial Inquiry instructional framework. Geospatial Inquiry is defined as: asking and answering a research question through the analysis and communication of data that is linked to a geographic location on, above, or near Earth. These data are often represented visually via maps and exp…
Exploring the Relationship of Organizational Justice with Chinese Prison Staff Life Satisfaction
The bulk of the limited research on prison staff life satisfaction has been conducted in Western nations, particularly in the U.S., and only two studies have explored the relationship between organizational justice and life satisfaction, both of which only examined two of the four dimensions of justice. The current study investigated how all four dimensions of organizational justice (informational, interpersonal, distributive, and procedural) wer…
Immigration Politics and Policymaking in the USA (2017–2021)
Police legitimacy in Africa
Using data obtained from multiple sources, with more than 40,000 individuals nested in 29 countries, a multilevel analysis was conducted to predict the effects of country-level variables on police legitimacy. Results from the unconditional analysis suggest that a significant variation in police legitimacy was at country level. Of the individual predictors included, being employed, being satisfied with democracy, and being an urban dweller showed …
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Victims of sexual assaults
The present study utilized a subsample of 72 respondents to investigate sexual assault victims’ reporting behavior and their experiences with the reporting process in a setting which is highly understudied. Using data collected in Accra, Ghana, the study found many reasons explaining why female sexual assault victims reported incidents to the police. The most important reason cited by victims was that they wanted offenders to be caught and punish…
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police
In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra…
I May Be an Immigrant, but I Am Not a Criminal
Immigrants, Crime, and the American Dream
The immigrant-crime relationship is often misunderstood and highly complex. To date, criminological research has largely ignored theory testing of this relationship. This paper examines the extant literature on intergenerational offending amongst immigrant youth and subsequently tests whether the segmented assimilation theory- a theory borrowed from the interdisciplinary social sciences- adequately explains immigrant offending. The study uses dat…
Police legitimacy in Asia
Analysing data obtained from several sources, with more than 42,000 individuals nested in 28 Asian countries, a multilevel hierarchical non-linear analysis was conducted to assess the predictive powers of macro-level factors on police legitimacy. Results from the unconditional analysis suggest that a significant variation in police legitimacy was at country level. Of the individual predictors analysed, being exposed to the media and being employe…
Perceived police fairness
The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting citizens’ perceptions of police procedural fairness. More specifically, using data systematically collected from two large metropolitan areas in Ghana, the current study examines the independent contributions of three categories of factors – demographic factors, attitudinal factors, and experiential factors – on perceptions of fairness. An ordinal regression analysis conducted to assess th…
Differential perceptions of fear of crime among college students
Despite the rising crime rates on U.S. university campuses, few empirical studies—either quantitative or qualitative—have examined the rate of fearfulness among college students. The present analysis supplements previous efforts by exploring racial effects on college students' feelings of fearfulness and determines the influence of individual characteristics on white and nonwhite students' fear of crime. Using cross-sectional data from a large pu…
Africanization of immigrants
Immigration in Africa has increased significantly in the past two decades, with a record number of people moving to Africa from other non-African countries as well as Africans moving to other countries on the continent. This increase in immigration requires an empirical exploration to understand how Africans feel and think about immigrants. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to explore Africans’ willingness to accept immigrants and fo…
An Analysis of 287(g) Program Memorandums of Agreement
Residential stability and fear of crime
Even though social scientists have investigated the importance of homeownership in providing individuals with a sense of belonging, security, the welfare of the community, and informal social control within their neighborhood, the impact of homeownership yet has remained largely unexamined within the context of fear of crime. This study aims to fill the gap in the literature and examines the relationship among factors of residential stability on …
Leaving Home and Living Abroad
Objective: This study comparatively examined the individual‐ and country‐level factors influencing migration decisions of Africans using large‐scale cross‐sectional data from 34 African countries. Methods: Employing a multilevel analysis technique, specifically hierarchical linear modeling (HML), this study addresses design, methodological, and analytical limitations in the existing literature. Results: At the individual level, gender, age, educa…
Immigration Policy and Attitudes Toward the Police
Immigration in the United States has historically been a contentious issue marked by intense debates. The United States is often seen as a melting pot, yet immigration policies frequently have adverse effects on immigrants, varying from one government to another. The 287(g) program, which allows local police to perform immigration duties, exemplifies such policies. This program can harm police-immigrant community relations and weaken trust in the…
Transitioning From Victim to Perpetrator
Some criminologists have focused on understanding the role of childhood experiences on an individual's likelihood of offending during adulthood. Although research has consistently linked these two phenomena, little is known about the extent to which childhood victimization influences later criminal behavior. The current study analyzed self-reported data to examine the abused-abuser relationship in the context of intimate relationships. Specifical…
Substance Use among Students
The primary purpose of this study was to examine substance use among university students to identify factors that influence the use and abuse of substances. Specifically, we explored the influence of psychological and personality traits on students' use of substances. Two research questions guided this study: do psychological problems increase an individual's risk of using substances such as drugs and alcohol? and do personality traits increase t…
Perceived police legitimacy in Ghana
Victims of sexual assaults
The present study utilized a subsample of 72 respondents to investigate sexual assault victims’ reporting behavior and their experiences with the reporting process in a setting which is highly understudied. Using data collected in Accra, Ghana, the study found many reasons explaining why female sexual assault victims reported incidents to the police. The most important reason cited by victims was that they wanted offenders to be caught and punish…
Students and the police in Ghana
This study examines university students’ perceptions of the Ghana police service in contrast with general population studies that explain citizens’ attitudes toward the police. Two research questions guided this study: (1) What are university students’ perceptions of the police? and (2) What factors influence university students’ perceptions of the police? Using data collected from one large university in Ghana between the months of December 2012…
Police legitimacy in Asia
Analysing data obtained from several sources, with more than 42,000 individuals nested in 28 Asian countries, a multilevel hierarchical non-linear analysis was conducted to assess the predictive powers of macro-level factors on police legitimacy. Results from the unconditional analysis suggest that a significant variation in police legitimacy was at country level. Of the individual predictors analysed, being exposed to the media and being employe…
Police legitimacy in Africa
Using data obtained from multiple sources, with more than 40,000 individuals nested in 29 countries, a multilevel analysis was conducted to predict the effects of country-level variables on police legitimacy. Results from the unconditional analysis suggest that a significant variation in police legitimacy was at country level. Of the individual predictors included, being employed, being satisfied with democracy, and being an urban dweller showed …
Differential perceptions of fear of crime among college students
Despite the rising crime rates on U.S. university campuses, few empirical studies—either quantitative or qualitative—have examined the rate of fearfulness among college students. The present analysis supplements previous efforts by exploring racial effects on college students' feelings of fearfulness and determines the influence of individual characteristics on white and nonwhite students' fear of crime. Using cross-sectional data from a large pu…
The interface between exercise of state power and personal powerlessness
Police legitimacy is crucial to the maintenance of law and order in any society. In communities marred by high instances of societal manifestations of dysfunction, tenuous legislative frameworks, poradic implementation, and dismantling of crime fighting strategies, there is greater emphasis placed on quick-fix crime fighting solutions and policing initiatives. The focus is placed primarily on what police officers are mandated to do as opposed to …
Perceived police fairness
The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting citizens’ perceptions of police procedural fairness. More specifically, using data systematically collected from two large metropolitan areas in Ghana, the current study examines the independent contributions of three categories of factors – demographic factors, attitudinal factors, and experiential factors – on perceptions of fairness. An ordinal regression analysis conducted to assess th…
When Women Work at the Iron Cage
Given the increase in the percentage of female employees in correctional institutions, it is important to note that female correctional officers often hold different values relative to justice and fairness than their male counterparts. The current study attempts to understand whether gender differences would affect correctional officers’ perceptions of organizational justice in Ghanaian prisons. Results indicate that women and men did differ in h…
The challenges of execution of Islamic criminal law in developing Muslim Countries
Islamic criminal law serves as the system related to the legal system of law and Islamic principles. Sharia is the guiding way directly associated with the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah that cannot be challenged and thus are mandatory to follow. The study aims to review Islamic Criminal Law’s execution in the developing Muslim States based on its development and challenges. The paper is prepared based on secondary data such as books, articles…
Encouraging and discouraging factors to crime reporting in South Africa
The aim of this study was to explore issues concerning dispositions of crime-reporting behaviour of both witnesses and victims and comes against a backdrop of a rise in crime levels in South Africa. The study specifically examined the discouraging and encouraging factors for crime reporting in Mthatha area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. A quantitative methodology was adopted, wherein a closed-ended questionnaire was used to gather …
Missing in action
This article explores the pervasiveness of employee absenteeism in the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the station level and the factors that contribute to it. Employee absenteeism is a critical problem for most organisations and the SAPS is no exception. While measures have been put in place to curb this problem in the SAPS by the police authorities, employee absenteeism has persisted and remains a significant problem for the SAPS in cont…
Legitimizing policing practices
In an attempt to better meet the needs of the communities, the Tuvalu Police Service (TPS) commissioned a survey to investigate stakeholder perceptions of police service provision across its nine islands. This paper presents the findings of the survey and examines the responses of community residents (N = 1896) to determine public perceptions of police trustworthiness, police effectiveness and the relationship between the TPS and the community. T…
Perceived police legitimacy in Ghana
Perception of Immigrants in Europe
Objective In recent times, immigration has been a controversial topic. Discussions about immigration have become common household conversation. The primary objective of the current study is to explore the dynamics of native‐born citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and examine the potential influence of macro‐level conditions. Methods The current study employed multi‐level techniques to examine macro‐level effects on attitudes toward immigrants …
Immigrants, Crime, and the American Dream
The immigrant-crime relationship is often misunderstood and highly complex. To date, criminological research has largely ignored theory testing of this relationship. This paper examines the extant literature on intergenerational offending amongst immigrant youth and subsequently tests whether the segmented assimilation theory- a theory borrowed from the interdisciplinary social sciences- adequately explains immigrant offending. The study uses dat…
I May Be an Immigrant, but I Am Not a Criminal
Capital Punishment in Brazil
The primary purpose of this study was to examine public support for the death penalty in Brazil and to determine factors that influence such support. Currently, Brazil has the death penalty for cases involving war crimes, genocides, terrorism, and crime against humanity. The country’s constitution, however, prohibits the use of the death penalty in ordinary crimes. Analyzing individual-level cross-sectional data collected by the American Baromete…
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development
The current study examined the effects of a nationally scaled up Professional Learning and Development (PLD) model on teachers’ classroom implementation of the Geospatial Inquiry instructional framework. Geospatial Inquiry is defined as: asking and answering a research question through the analysis and communication of data that is linked to a geographic location on, above, or near Earth. These data are often represented visually via maps and exp…
Exploring the Relationship of Organizational Justice with Chinese Prison Staff Life Satisfaction
The bulk of the limited research on prison staff life satisfaction has been conducted in Western nations, particularly in the U.S., and only two studies have explored the relationship between organizational justice and life satisfaction, both of which only examined two of the four dimensions of justice. The current study investigated how all four dimensions of organizational justice (informational, interpersonal, distributive, and procedural) wer…
Immigration Politics and Policymaking in the USA (2017–2021)
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police
In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra…
Residential stability and fear of crime
Even though social scientists have investigated the importance of homeownership in providing individuals with a sense of belonging, security, the welfare of the community, and informal social control within their neighborhood, the impact of homeownership yet has remained largely unexamined within the context of fear of crime. This study aims to fill the gap in the literature and examines the relationship among factors of residential stability on …
Transitioning From Victim to Perpetrator
Some criminologists have focused on understanding the role of childhood experiences on an individual's likelihood of offending during adulthood. Although research has consistently linked these two phenomena, little is known about the extent to which childhood victimization influences later criminal behavior. The current study analyzed self-reported data to examine the abused-abuser relationship in the context of intimate relationships. Specifical…
Substance Use among Students
The primary purpose of this study was to examine substance use among university students to identify factors that influence the use and abuse of substances. Specifically, we explored the influence of psychological and personality traits on students' use of substances. Two research questions guided this study: do psychological problems increase an individual's risk of using substances such as drugs and alcohol? and do personality traits increase t…
Exploring the Effects of Multiple Dimensions of Organizational Justice on Correctional Staff Job Stress
The primary purpose of the current study was to assess the role of organizational justice in understanding prison staff job stress. Specifically, the authors surveyed 322 correctional employees across two prisons located in Guangzhou, China to explore the effects of distributive, procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice on work stress. Results from ordinary least squares analysis revealed significant contributions from three dimension…
Psychology (32 obras) · Political science (29 obras) · Criminology (27 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (25 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Law (20 obras) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (18 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (12 obras) · Perception (12 obras)