The UNCW Sociology and Criminology Department’s Brown Bag Series
Our faculty present in-progress projects for ideas and feedback. Open to faculty, staff and students.
3:30-4:30
281 Bear Hall
October 15
“The Hawk AI LLM Project”
Drs. Douglas Engelman and Shane Elliott
HawkAI plans to become a UNCW integrated large language model for empowering students and faculty to meet the information needs of the 21st century. This is a collaborative institutional effort to build a trusted LLM source. We do this on three fronts: 1) Integrated LLM pedagogy, 2) Student wellness, and 3) Applied interdisciplinary research projects. On each of these fronts, our philosophy emphasizes creating explicit, transparent public dialogue around the process of knowledge corpus construction, and the feedback powering the LLM. Please come to hear our ideas and share any of your own.
November 7
Relationship Between Police Legitimacy, Cooperation with the Police, and Compliance of the Law - An Empirical Assessment.
Dr. Vinod Kuma “TK” Thichempully Krishnadas
The police require the cooperation of the public and voluntary and willing compliance with the law to ensure security in society. People cooperate with the police and comply with the law because they share norms and values reflected in the law and police action. Cooperation and voluntary compliance depend on the public perception of the legitimacy of the authority. Using a model of legitimacy as a multidimensional concept, this study examines the relationship between the perception of police legitimacy and the lawfulness of police, procedural fairness, distributive justice, and police effectiveness. Using data from a survey of 669 victims of crime in India who interacted with the police, the research examines the relationship between legitimacy, and the respondent’s cooperation with the police and compliance with the law. The study indicates that legitimacy is an important antecedent to cooperation with the police and compliance with the law, which has significant policy implications.
December 5
TBD
Dr. Sarah Gaby
March 13
Title-TBD
Dr. Tiffany Rogers
This study examines patterns in animal cruelty offenses in the United States using 2022 data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Contextual and temporal trends are explored using descriptive and bivariate statistics. Conjunctive analysis is used to explore the interaction between variables and cruelty offending.
April 3
Graduate Students Preparing for Southerns Sociological Society