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A plea for open access to qualitative criminology: With a Python script for anonymizing data and illustrative analysis of error rates
Full text linkQualitative researchers are expected, sometimes required, to publish their data open access (OA). This is for the sake of science, impact, and social justice. Yet, understandably, qualitative criminologists are worried about what this means for their workload and their ability to protect subjects’ confidentiality. To be solutions-oriented, we developed an open-source Python script for anonymizing qualitative data. It uses named-entity recognition and fuzzy-rule based merging to identify and replace personally identifiable information (PII) with unique pseudonyms. This tool doesn’t eliminate the need for manual work, but it reduces the cost and associated risk. In this article, we describe and explain how our script works and how to use it. We conclude by discussing the implications for open (qualitative) criminology
Aging on parole: A thematic analysis of the parole officer’s perspective
Full text linkA growing proportion of people leaving prison are over 50 years old and will live at least temporarily under the supervision of a parole officer. While recidivism rates are lower for older people, there are physical, mental, and societal challenges that accompany advancing age that make successful reentry and reintegration a challenging experience compared to their younger counterparts. This presents novel challenges for parole officers who are tasked with supervising and counseling elderly people on parole. Surveys containing closed and open-ended questions were administered to N=25 parole officers to understand the differences in working with, counseling, and supervising older and younger people on parole. Results indicated that parole officers did perceive differences in working with and supervising younger and older people on parole, but there were no differences in counseling strategies. Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses indicated that parole officers perceived older people on parole as requiring more significant assistance with technology and accessing social services. Parole offices also felt older people had better attitudes, greater maturity, and a greater willingness to complete parole successfully. This presents an opportunity for officers and administrators to increase their understanding of issues specific to aging people on parole to increase officer empathy, facilitate easier access to services, and offer age-specific programs to improve reintegration experiences
January 2026
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January 2025
Full text linkThis is the January 2025 issue of Rural Rocks from the SWOSU College of Pharmacy
The Bright Sword and its Sharpness: Swords, Symbolism, and Medievalism in \u3ci\u3eThe Lord of the Rings\u3c/i\u3e
Full text linkSwords are paradoxical objects that hold in tension both aesthetic beauty and repulsion, and how one goes about resolving this paradox has much to say about one’s personal ideology. This paper investigates Tolkien’s representation of swords in The Lord of the Rings as ideologically loaded objects with shifting symbolic significance between the cultures of Rohan, Gondor, and Hobbits. These changes in significance produce three kinds of medievalism, shaped by differences in their interaction the cultural imagination of the medieval sword. Through the Rohirrim, Tolkien provides a medievalism of spectacle—an idealized world of valor to be marveled at from the safe distance that separates the Secondary World of fantasy from our own. With Gondor, Tolkien offers a medievalism that critiques the shortsightedness of a culture that prioritizes the weaponness of a sword over the values that would characterize its symbolism and govern its justified use. Finally, Hobbits offer a third kind of interaction with medievalism, since their characteristic unfamiliarity with swords connects their experience with that of the reader who also comes from a largely swordless society. By filtering the warrior-cultures of Middle-earth through the experiences of Hobbits, The Lord of the Rings closes the space between the Secondary World of fantasy and the Primary World of reality, turning the reader’s attention to their own experience of the medieval imaginary. Throughout, Tolkien’s treatment of swords as complex signifiers creates an ideologically robust medievalism that offers profoundly sophisticated structures for appreciating the dangerous beauty of an enduring symbol of the medieval past
Evolution Podcast Project: How Life Moved from Water to Land
No full textTitle: Evolution Podcast Project Teacher: Dr. Marcella Santos Course: Spring 2025 Evolution (BIOL-4853) Recording Month: April 2025
Jonathan Almanza and Erik Mesta – How Life Moved from Water to Lan
