Loreen Wolfer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6029644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loreen Wolfer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfer |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Scranton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Current Inmate Expected Post-Release Needs and Perceived Barriers to Future Voluntary After-Care Program Attendance
When attendance in after-care programs that may help ex-offenders successfully reenter society is not a mandated condition of prison release, getting individuals to voluntarily attend these programs is challenging. In order to help social service agencies better encourage ex-offenders to participate in these programs, it is important to understand ex-offenders’ anticipated needs (thereby increasing possible motivation for attendance) and perceive…
Disapproving But Invisible: College Student and Adult Views, Reasons, and Responses to On-Line Posts about Alcohol
Most research about alcohol on social media focuses on visible posts college students share, but not how others, including adults, view this information and what they do in response. An online survey of 572 students and 190 faculty/staff at a northeastern Pennsylvania university asked respondents to rate, explain, and react to two hypothetical Facebook posts about alcohol. One post was a bland statement of intoxication, while the other depicted t…
Age Differences in Online Communication: How College Students and Adults Compare in Their Perceptions of Offensive Facebook Posts
With the most recent US Presidential election, civility in online communication has resurfaced as a social issue. Asurvey of 409 college students and 190 faculty / staff at a liberal arts college in northeastern Pennsylvania used open-ended questions to identifythe types of communicative posts people of different ages have seen and considered offensive on Facebook. Content analysis identified twenty unique themes of online inappropriateness, many…
No Sex, Cursing and Politics: Adult Views of Inappropriate Facebook Posts
With the increasing popularity of Facebook among adult users and the diverse social networks, especially based on age, that adults form on Facebook, it is important to examine what adult Facebook users have seen on Facebook and deem inappropriate. Previous studies only address college students and most of them involve hypothetical post-scenarios. This study addresses these gaps by examining 190 adult Facebook users from a northeastern Pennsylvani…
Female Drug Offenders Reflect on their Experiences with a County Drug Court Program
This paper examines the experiences of a group of female drug offenders who successfully completed a county drug court program in northeast Pennsylvania. Using the constant comparative method, we analyzed interviews with these women for thematic patterns in order to provide an evaluation of this program based on participants' subjective perceptions of its strengths and weaknesses. While other drug court evaluations identify rewards for good behav…
Why Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Withdraw Protection Orders
A Theoretical Exploration of a Drug Court Program based on Client Experiences
While many agree that drug court programs work, researchers generally have not examined any conceptual frameworks for why. Twenty-six graduates of a county drug court were interviewed about their views of the program. Findings suggest that this program was effective because 1) its model of treatment assisted participants in their reintegration back into society without further stigmatizing them; 2) it provided a form of “outer containment” that h…
Graduates Speak: A Qualitative Exploration of Drug Court Graduates' Views of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Program
A noticeable omission from the plethora of existing drug court research is the voice of those experiencing the program itself. This is an exploratory analysis of the exit interviews of 55 graduates of a Pennsylvania drug court that attempts to address some of this omission. Findings suggest that, in retrospect, graduates find the program structure and random urine screens beneficial to drug rehabilitation; however, there are concerns over perceiv…
The crime triangle: Alcohol, drug use, and vandalism
This research illustrates the benefits of the police-researcher partnership in preventing park crime in a suburban community. Parks can attract illegitimate users who engage in criminal activities. The park in this research project gained a reputation as a hot spot for alcohol, drug use, and vandalism. The social use of drugs and alcohol prompted the youthful offenders to target victims and engage in criminal behavior. A questionnaire evaluated t…
A commitment to justice at a jesuit university: A comparison of criminal justice majors to non-majors
While both criminal justice programs and Jesuit institutions claim commitment to the realization of justice, their conceptions of justice differ. This exploratory survey of 31 criminal justice majors and 51 non-majors compares criminal justice majors' concept of justice with that of non-criminal justice majors. We find that criminal justice majors and non-majors generally do not differ in their views of justice or their rank of goals for specific…
Strengthening Communities: Neighborhood Watch and the Elderly in a Pennsylvania Town
Teaching organized crime patterns: An active learning approach
In this paper the authors suggest how instructors can use small groups to facilitate critical thinking and an active approach to learning. This pedagogical method attempts to initiate problem-solving and decision-making strategies by emphasizing a cooperative classroom climate where students learn from each other. In our example, the instructor presents content information that enables students to perform four basic progressions which apply criti…
Howard, Mary and Ann v. Millard, Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro
HOWARD, Mary and Ann V. MILLARD, HUNGER AND SHAME: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 30(1), pp. 156–157
Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores
The 50+ point decline in mean SAT-verbal scores between 1963 and 1979 is widely attributed to changes in the composition of the test-takers. Several inconsistencies in that explanation are identified. That explanation also ignores the pervasive decline in the difficulty of schoolbooks found by analyzing the texts of 800 elementary, middle, and high school books published between 1919–1991. When this text simplification series is linked to the SAT…
Staying in School: Maternal Employment and the Timing of Black and White Daughters' School Exit
Most research examining the influences of maternal employment focuses on the mother and the child at only one stage of the child's life. By contrast, this study examines how temporal and status aspects of mothers' jobs during daughters' early childhood (aged 0 to 6), preadolescence (aged 7 to 12), and adolescence (aged 13 to 18) affect a key transition: the rate that daughters leave school. The sample consists of 246 White and 188 Black daughters…
Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores
The 50+ point decline in mean SAT-verbal scores between 1963 and 1979 is widely attributed to changes in the composition of the test-takers. Several inconsistencies in that explanation are identified. That explanation also ignores the pervasive decline in the difficulty of schoolbooks found by analyzing the texts of 800 elementary, middle, and high school books published between 1919–1991. When this text simplification series is linked to the SAT…
Why Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Withdraw Protection Orders
Graduates Speak: A Qualitative Exploration of Drug Court Graduates' Views of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Program
A noticeable omission from the plethora of existing drug court research is the voice of those experiencing the program itself. This is an exploratory analysis of the exit interviews of 55 graduates of a Pennsylvania drug court that attempts to address some of this omission. Findings suggest that, in retrospect, graduates find the program structure and random urine screens beneficial to drug rehabilitation; however, there are concerns over perceiv…
Staying in School: Maternal Employment and the Timing of Black and White Daughters' School Exit
Most research examining the influences of maternal employment focuses on the mother and the child at only one stage of the child's life. By contrast, this study examines how temporal and status aspects of mothers' jobs during daughters' early childhood (aged 0 to 6), preadolescence (aged 7 to 12), and adolescence (aged 13 to 18) affect a key transition: the rate that daughters leave school. The sample consists of 246 White and 188 Black daughters…
No Sex, Cursing and Politics: Adult Views of Inappropriate Facebook Posts
With the increasing popularity of Facebook among adult users and the diverse social networks, especially based on age, that adults form on Facebook, it is important to examine what adult Facebook users have seen on Facebook and deem inappropriate. Previous studies only address college students and most of them involve hypothetical post-scenarios. This study addresses these gaps by examining 190 adult Facebook users from a northeastern Pennsylvani…
A Theoretical Exploration of a Drug Court Program based on Client Experiences
While many agree that drug court programs work, researchers generally have not examined any conceptual frameworks for why. Twenty-six graduates of a county drug court were interviewed about their views of the program. Findings suggest that this program was effective because 1) its model of treatment assisted participants in their reintegration back into society without further stigmatizing them; 2) it provided a form of “outer containment” that h…
Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores
The 50+ point decline in mean SAT-verbal scores between 1963 and 1979 is widely attributed to changes in the composition of the test-takers. Several inconsistencies in that explanation are identified. That explanation also ignores the pervasive decline in the difficulty of schoolbooks found by analyzing the texts of 800 elementary, middle, and high school books published between 1919–1991. When this text simplification series is linked to the SAT…
Staying in School: Maternal Employment and the Timing of Black and White Daughters' School Exit
Most research examining the influences of maternal employment focuses on the mother and the child at only one stage of the child's life. By contrast, this study examines how temporal and status aspects of mothers' jobs during daughters' early childhood (aged 0 to 6), preadolescence (aged 7 to 12), and adolescence (aged 13 to 18) affect a key transition: the rate that daughters leave school. The sample consists of 246 White and 188 Black daughters…
Howard, Mary and Ann v. Millard, Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro
HOWARD, Mary and Ann V. MILLARD, HUNGER AND SHAME: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 30(1), pp. 156–157
Teaching organized crime patterns: An active learning approach
In this paper the authors suggest how instructors can use small groups to facilitate critical thinking and an active approach to learning. This pedagogical method attempts to initiate problem-solving and decision-making strategies by emphasizing a cooperative classroom climate where students learn from each other. In our example, the instructor presents content information that enables students to perform four basic progressions which apply criti…
A commitment to justice at a jesuit university: A comparison of criminal justice majors to non-majors
While both criminal justice programs and Jesuit institutions claim commitment to the realization of justice, their conceptions of justice differ. This exploratory survey of 31 criminal justice majors and 51 non-majors compares criminal justice majors' concept of justice with that of non-criminal justice majors. We find that criminal justice majors and non-majors generally do not differ in their views of justice or their rank of goals for specific…
Strengthening Communities: Neighborhood Watch and the Elderly in a Pennsylvania Town
The crime triangle: Alcohol, drug use, and vandalism
This research illustrates the benefits of the police-researcher partnership in preventing park crime in a suburban community. Parks can attract illegitimate users who engage in criminal activities. The park in this research project gained a reputation as a hot spot for alcohol, drug use, and vandalism. The social use of drugs and alcohol prompted the youthful offenders to target victims and engage in criminal behavior. A questionnaire evaluated t…
Graduates Speak: A Qualitative Exploration of Drug Court Graduates' Views of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Program
A noticeable omission from the plethora of existing drug court research is the voice of those experiencing the program itself. This is an exploratory analysis of the exit interviews of 55 graduates of a Pennsylvania drug court that attempts to address some of this omission. Findings suggest that, in retrospect, graduates find the program structure and random urine screens beneficial to drug rehabilitation; however, there are concerns over perceiv…
Why Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Withdraw Protection Orders
A Theoretical Exploration of a Drug Court Program based on Client Experiences
While many agree that drug court programs work, researchers generally have not examined any conceptual frameworks for why. Twenty-six graduates of a county drug court were interviewed about their views of the program. Findings suggest that this program was effective because 1) its model of treatment assisted participants in their reintegration back into society without further stigmatizing them; 2) it provided a form of “outer containment” that h…
Female Drug Offenders Reflect on their Experiences with a County Drug Court Program
This paper examines the experiences of a group of female drug offenders who successfully completed a county drug court program in northeast Pennsylvania. Using the constant comparative method, we analyzed interviews with these women for thematic patterns in order to provide an evaluation of this program based on participants' subjective perceptions of its strengths and weaknesses. While other drug court evaluations identify rewards for good behav…
Age Differences in Online Communication: How College Students and Adults Compare in Their Perceptions of Offensive Facebook Posts
With the most recent US Presidential election, civility in online communication has resurfaced as a social issue. Asurvey of 409 college students and 190 faculty / staff at a liberal arts college in northeastern Pennsylvania used open-ended questions to identifythe types of communicative posts people of different ages have seen and considered offensive on Facebook. Content analysis identified twenty unique themes of online inappropriateness, many…
No Sex, Cursing and Politics: Adult Views of Inappropriate Facebook Posts
With the increasing popularity of Facebook among adult users and the diverse social networks, especially based on age, that adults form on Facebook, it is important to examine what adult Facebook users have seen on Facebook and deem inappropriate. Previous studies only address college students and most of them involve hypothetical post-scenarios. This study addresses these gaps by examining 190 adult Facebook users from a northeastern Pennsylvani…
Disapproving But Invisible: College Student and Adult Views, Reasons, and Responses to On-Line Posts about Alcohol
Most research about alcohol on social media focuses on visible posts college students share, but not how others, including adults, view this information and what they do in response. An online survey of 572 students and 190 faculty/staff at a northeastern Pennsylvania university asked respondents to rate, explain, and react to two hypothetical Facebook posts about alcohol. One post was a bland statement of intoxication, while the other depicted t…
Current Inmate Expected Post-Release Needs and Perceived Barriers to Future Voluntary After-Care Program Attendance
When attendance in after-care programs that may help ex-offenders successfully reenter society is not a mandated condition of prison release, getting individuals to voluntarily attend these programs is challenging. In order to help social service agencies better encourage ex-offenders to participate in these programs, it is important to understand ex-offenders’ anticipated needs (thereby increasing possible motivation for attendance) and perceive…
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