Congratulations to Lt. Beverly Pettrey, Cleveland State University Police Lieutenant and MA student in Applied Social Research
for winning 2nd place in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)'s 2021 Research Paper Master's Competition for her paper “Diversifying Police Departments Through Community-Oriented Based Policing”. The paper uses data from Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2016 (ICPSR 37323), provided by the Michael Schwartz Library.
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ABOUT THE ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
The Michael Schwartz Library provides access to this vast data archive for more than 80,000 studies across a variety of disciplines including: behavioral and social sciences, education, economics, political science, public health, and more. Datasets are available for download in SAS, SPSS, and ASCII formats. Learn more about ICPSR.
ABOUT LIEUTENANT PETTREY
Officer Beverly Pettrey joined the CSU Police Department in January of 2006 and worked diligently on many of the Crime Prevention and Safety Programs and Services offered on campus today. She was promoted to Lieutenant in November, 2014, and currently serves as the University's second female Lieutenant.