A Historical Look at the Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement
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The Symposium provides undergraduates from all academic disciplines with an opportunity to share their research with the university community and other guests through conference-style oral presentations. The Symposium represents part of a larger effort of Iowa State University to enhance, support, and celebrate undergraduate research activity.
Though coordinated by the University Honors Program, all undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to participate in the Symposium. Undergraduates conducting research but not yet ready to present their work are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the presentation process and students not currently involved in research are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the broad range of undergraduate research activities that are taking place at ISU.
The first Symposium was held in April 2007. The 39 students who presented research and their mentors collectively represented all of ISU's Colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate College. The event has grown to regularly include more than 100 students presenting on topics that span the broad range of disciplines studied at ISU.
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With the lack in current research on how people’s attitudes towards law enforcement have changed over time and what caused these changes, I will be putting together a timeline of what the perception of law enforcement was during that time and what events were happening around that time that would have contributed to how the public felt. There are numerous factors that contribute to a person’s beliefs and feelings towards the police that have already been researched, however the highly publicized events being shown on the news or social media at specific points in time and their affect on public opinion towards law enforcement has not been researched. Because there is a lack of research on the specific area I am interested in, I may also have to rely on media outlet archives to determine what stories about law enforcement were predominant in the media at specific points in time as well as other journals and studies that have been conducted.