Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D.

3 days ago

I don’t like Spring Semesters

May 13, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross Unless your university operates on a quarter system, most North American post-secondary educational institutions have three semesters: Fall, Spring, and Summer. Depending on one’s objectives and life circumstances, some of these semesters are better than others for administration, faculty, staff, and students. As…

Academia

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May 6

On the possibilities of interactive graffiti and street art

May 6, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross From culinary practices to painting, over time the work that creative people and organizations produce, not to mention the context in which it is made, changes. How does this happen? Actors, artists, chefs, musicians, etc. integrate new ideas and perspectives in to their…

Graffiti

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Apr 28

Do the signs of our time work?

April 28, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross If you live in an urban, suburban or even exurban environment you will encounter a number of signs. Signs may be so pervasive like the ones that are placed in subway cars or they may be intermittent, such as those placed beside interstate…

Signs

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Apr 22

Does where scholars live affect the subjects they choose to investigate?

April 22, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross What motivates academics to choose certain topics, fields, issues, and questions for intense study? Numerous factors are typically at play here. Although serendipity may be an important motivating factor, in some cases the place where and circumstances under which a scholar grew up…

Scholarship

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Does where scholars live affect the subjects they choose to investigate?

Apr 15

Making the case for the creation of a national Correctional Officer Database

April 14, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross Over the past decade numerous incidents of police use of excessive and deadly force and deaths of unarmed citizens under questionable circumstances have captured the attention of the news media, politicians, experts, activists, and the general public. In many cases, when the news…

Corrections

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MaMaking the case for the creation of a national Correctional Officer Database

Apr 10

Sins of omission? Why do researchers neglect to review or cite relevant scholarship, but reviewers and editors accept this material for publication?

April 9, 2022 Most academics, editors, and reviewers constantly make decisions about what types of scholarship to review, what to cite, and what is necessary for researchers to make their case. Failure to review or cite appropriate scholarship or literature should be expected if the publishing venue does not engage…

Peer Review

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Apr 2

Forget gun control. It’s time to repeal the 2nd amendment

April 1, 2022 I can hear and see them now. Chanting and standing with their pitchforks and lanterns. “No way,” they yell. “The 2nd Amendment, just like 1 through 27 are sacred and unchangeable.” Let’s face it. Most gun users are sane. They believe in gun safety, gun control, etc…

2nd Amendment

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Mar 24

Making sense of graffiti and street art in local, state and national parks

March 24, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross Graffiti and street art can be found in most big cities and urban environments, and on almost any type of surface. One of the less acknowledged and academically studied places where graffiti and street art exist are the numerous local, state, and national…

Graffiti

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Mar 19

Reconsidering Hirschman’s EXIT, VOICE, AND LOYALTY in the context of the great resignation

March 18, 2022 by Jeffrey Ian Ross The 1960s were a tumultuous time in American political history. One of the legacies of this period was the publication of Albert O Hirschman’s classic and influential book, Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Declines in Firms, Organizations, and States. (1970). Although Hirschman’s…

Great Resignation

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Mar 10

Painting without permission: Graffiti & Street Art as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

March 10, 2022 In the weeks leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and ever since tanks rolled over the border, an increase in anti-war, more specifically anti-Russian, and anti-Putin graffiti and street art has been produced. This type of urban public art, collectively referred to as “Conflict Graffiti”…

Graffiti

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