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Melissa M. Moon
Researcher at Northern Kentucky University
Publications - 14
Citations - 507
Melissa M. Moon is an academic researcher from Northern Kentucky University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Juvenile court. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 473 citations. Previous affiliations of Melissa M. Moon include East Tennessee State University & University of Cincinnati.
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Is Child Saving Dead? Public Support for Juvenile Rehabilitation
TL;DR: In a 1998 statewide survey of Tennessee residents, the respondents indicated that rehabilitation should be an integral goal of the juvenile correctional system, and they also endorsed a range of community-based treatment interventions and favored early intervention programs over imprisonment as a response to crime as discussed by the authors.
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Putting kids to death: Specifying public support for juvenile capital punishment
TL;DR: This article explored the extent to which the public supports the death penalty for juveniles and found that a majority of respondents favored juvenile capital punishment, often for young offenders, however, the respondents were less supportive of juvenile than of adult execution.
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Public Support for Early Intervention Programs: Implications for a Progressive Policy Agenda
Francis T. Cullen,John Paul Wright,Shayna Brown,Melissa M. Moon,Michael B. Blankenship,Brandon K. Applegate +5 more
TL;DR: Early intervention programs, which extend services to at-risk children and families, comprise an important progressive policy initiative that criminologists and policy makers should support as mentioned in this paper, and the public supports early intervention strongly and prefers it to incarceration as a strategy to reduce offending.
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The influence of occupational strain on organizational commitment among police: A general strain theory approach
TL;DR: In this article, the role of various strains on officers' organizational commitment to their agencies was examined using a General Strain Theory (GST) framework, and the mediating effect of negative affect was investigated.
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Individualization, criminalization, or problem resolution: A factorial survey of juvenile court judges' decisions to incarcerate youthful felony offenders
TL;DR: In this paper, a factorial survey of juvenile court judges was conducted to determine what factors shape disposition decisions for juvenile felony offenders, and the results suggest that judges focus primarily on offense characteristics, and are influenced only marginally by the offender's social characteristics.