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Not In My Neighborhood! The Harsh Realities of Sex Offender Registration Laws
Full text linkSex offender registration laws were created in response to public fear and high-profile tragedies, with the primary goal of enhancing public safety through stringent monitoring of sexual offenders. This paper explores the historical development of these laws, including high-profile cases that later influenced legislative acts, such as the tragic incidents of Jacob Wetterling, Megan Kanka, and Adam Walsh. This paper also explores how media portrayals and public opinion factor into these legislative decisions. While the laws aim to protect the public, they often result in collateral consequences for individuals who have to register. Sex offenders are often held back by barriers to employment, housing, social stigmatization, or various other psychological struggles. By highlighting the real-life impacts of the registration, this paper also aims to question whether these laws truly serve their intended purpose. Finally, this paper offers recommendations for balancing public safety with the protection of offenders’ rights, which includes evidence-based risk assessments to tiered registration systems, public education on sexual offenses, and better reentry & reintegration support
The Sword, October 2025
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Episode 74: Billy Schultz: The Idea of Vocation is Fundamental
No full textHost of the One Heart podcast, Billy Schultz, shares his CSP story and how the concept of vocation has been an enduring presence in his life thanks to CSP
Behind the Badge: Effects of Stress and Trauma in Policing -- Understanding the Importance of Evidence-Based Prevention, Early Intervention, and Wellness Programs
No full textLaw enforcement officers are exposed to occupational stress and trauma routinely and at rates that far exceed the general population. This chronic exposure places them at risk for physical and psychological injury and negative outcomes to include mental health disorders including burnout, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Prolonged exposure to occupational stress and trauma also increases the risk of suicidal ideation and dying by suicide, the most tragic outcome of the stress law enforcement officers face. This literature review focuses on individual risk factors, occupational stress, and trauma, and the development of mental health disorders in law enforcement officers. It also focuses on individual protective factors, prevention, intervention, and workplace support that can reduce negative outcomes for officers. Minnesota State Legislature mandated wellness training as a learning objective under Minnesota State Statute 626.8478. This literature review confirms the necessity of this required training but also identifies the need for actual wellness program initiatives within police departments to reduce the negative impacts of long-term occupational stress and trauma exposure.
Keywords: Law Enforcement, Police, Trauma, Occupational Stress, Resilience, Prevention, Interventions, Wellness Program
Unreal Closeness, Real Consequences: Pornography, Attachment Insecurity, and the Pathway to Relationship Harm
No full textThis capstone examines how pornography use and attachment insecurity interact to increase the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly within the context of today\u27s digital media environment. With the rise of online platforms offering constant access to explicit sexual content, pornography has become a significant social influence on beliefs about intimacy, emotion, and power in relationships. Research indicates that frequent exposure to pornography, especially aggressive or emotionally detached content, can reinforce insecure attachment tendencies by promoting unrealistic expectations, objectification, emotional avoidance, and sexual entitlement. These attachment-based vulnerabilities may heighten jealousy, reduce empathy, and impair conflict resolution, increasing the likelihood of harmful relational behavior. The normalization of explicit content through social media and subscription-based platforms such as OnlyFans further contributes to distorted sexual scripts and parasocial forms of intimacy, complicating how individuals interpret closeness, consent, and respect. These concerns hold significant implications for human service professionals and forensic behavioral health workers, who frequently encounter individuals coping with trauma histories, emotional dysregulation, and distorted relational beliefs. This review aims to synthesize current evidence on the overlapping influences of pornography use and attachment insecurity in IPV risk, emphasizing the importance of trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and media-literate approaches in prevention and intervention. By understanding these interconnected factors, practitioners can better address the emotional and social dynamics that contribute to relational harm.
This capstone examines how pornography use and attachment insecurity interact to increase the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly within the context of today\u27s digital media environment. With the rise of online platforms offering constant access to explicit sexual content, pornography has become a significant social influence on beliefs about intimacy, emotion, and power in relationships. Research indicates that frequent exposure to pornography, especially aggressive or emotionally detached content, can reinforce insecure attachment tendencies by promoting unrealistic expectations, objectification, emotional avoidance, and sexual entitlement. These attachment-based vulnerabilities may heighten jealousy, reduce empathy, and impair conflict resolution, increasing the likelihood of harmful relational behavior. The normalization of explicit content through social media and subscription-based platforms such as OnlyFans further contributes to distorted sexual scripts and parasocial forms of intimacy, complicating how individuals interpret closeness, consent, and respect. These concerns hold significant implications for human service professionals and forensic behavioral health workers, who frequently encounter individuals coping with trauma histories, emotional dysregulation, and distorted relational beliefs. This review aims to synthesize current evidence on the overlapping influences of pornography use and attachment insecurity in IPV risk, emphasizing the importance of trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and media-literate approaches in prevention and intervention. By understanding these interconnected factors, practitioners can better address the emotional and social dynamics that contribute to relational harm
Fall 2025 Dean\u27s List
No full textTo be recognized on Concordia St. Paul University\u27s Dean\u27s list, full-time undergraduate students must achieve a GPA of 3.6 or higher in a given academic semester. A full-time undergraduate student must be registered for 12 or more credits
A Law Enforcement Leader\u27s Response to Human Trafficking
Full text linkLaw enforcement leaders must consider how their agency can effectively investigate human trafficking in their jurisdiction. These leaders are tasked with creating an agency culture that prioritizes ethical decision making, which directly affects variables such as officer training and officer treatment of trafficking victims during investigations. Ethically sound decision making has rewards, such as inspiring other leaders to act in a similar fashion. Human trafficking training with an emphasis on the thought-behavior link will enable officers to understand the motivations of both traffickers and victims. Untrained officers rely on biases and assumptions when interacting with sex workers. This is because human trafficking is a nuanced crime that requires specialized training. Leaders can proactively combat human trafficking by developing a detailed action plan that considers specialized training, funding, partnership with local victim advocacy groups, implementation of policy, and community input. Due to the complicated nature of human trafficking, it is impossible to create a universal template for use by every law enforcement agency. Rather, agency leaders can draw information from this paper and improve their trafficking investigation policies and procedures
The Sword, January 2025
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Recidivism: The Hardships of Reentry
Full text linkThis paper will focus on the implementation of specific programs that can reduce recidivism rates. It will describe the process of how re-entry programs, with the policies and the services they provide, allow for a smooth transition from inmates/ incarcerated persons to successfully integrated members of the community. This paper will discuss how as an administrator, one would consider applying the concepts of the thought-behavior link (prosocial / criminal behavior), evidence-based models, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies throughout services provided within the program to the effects of pro-social support and lowering the rate of recidivism. It will also explore current court decisions and public policies by introducing and addressing legal concerns. It will also discuss legislation that will support and impede the goal. Throughout this paper, it will further discuss the application of ethical principles within community reentry programs to obtain their goal of reducing recidivism rates. This includes examining the development of an action plan from the perspective of an administrator while considering the impact on the peers, the community, and criminal justice entities. To conclude, this paper will focus on how applying specific programs focused on thought-behavior link, evidenced-based models, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies within reentry programs and current court decisions, public policies, and legislations are conducive in obtaining the goal of lowering the rates of recidivism
Strategies to Reduce Student Absenteeism in Private High Schools
No full textAccording to recent research, chronic absenteeism is prevalent within schools and has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. School administrators for both public and private schools need to address student absenteeism within their schools to help reduce the number of students who are missing school. This qualitative study gained insights from seven practicing private school administrators to help reduce student absenteeism and to enhance students’ learning success through improved student attendance. Online semi-structured interviews took place with these private school administrators within the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Three themes were highlighted in this study. The first theme identified mental health, illness, and classroom environment as factors leading to chronic absenteeism. The second theme recognized contacting parents, regular meetings, and a tiered system as supports for addressing chronic absenteeism. The third theme acknowledged personal communication and a collaborative approach as strategies to help reduce absenteeism. The recommendations are that private high schools need to have personal communications, have regular support meetings, and have a tiered level approach to communications. School administrators need to call home to parents about absences to understand the nature of the absence and how absences can affect student success. Regular meetings by school personnel need to be frequent, using data to address the cause of the absence, and then come up with a plan to address student absenteeism. Schools need to have protocols to address student absenteeism as absences accumulate over time to help reduce student absenteeism within their school. Additionally, future research should include expanding grade levels and sample sizes