Daniel Patten

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Purdue University Fort Wayne

With the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, several consequences have followed. The current study is a case study of the negative harms primarily felt by Mexican farmers. Using the copious research on NAFTA, the trade deal is shown to have ingratiated transnational corporations while leaving poor rural farmers to cope for themselves in a newly shaped...

Rwanda’s reconciliation process after the 1994 genocide highlights the power of forgiveness in successfully reintegrating people who have committed serious harms back into society. In contrast, the US criminal justice system has struggled with successful prisoner reenter. One possible factor contributing to this struggle is American’s levels of for...

The current study investigates the relationship among media, war knowledge, and military culture through survey data collected at a major eastern university with a sample bifurcated nearly evenly by individuals (currently or previously) in the military and others having no military experience. Survey results demonstrate that the effect of media on...

Successful peace policy that enshrines human rights allows individuals to thrive economically, politically, and socially with minimal conflict. Building from literature on crimes of globalization, genocide, and human rights, the current research investigates the concept of a criminogenic policy that at its core is antithetical to peace policy. Usin...

Increasing globalisation increases the difficulty of studying crime (and analogous social injury) exponentially and necessitates new methods and theoretical. The current paper proposes a new analytical framework for studying criminogenic policies created bi- or multilaterally which serves several purposes. First, this fills a major gap in the state...

Several scholars have referenced the US public’s lack of knowledge on foreign policy. Yet, many fewer studies have actually explored the impact of this supposed lack of awareness. This study examines the relationship between the media, knowledge held of war and military foreign policy, and attitudes towards war. Online survey data were collected fr...

Environmental issues have increasingly been examined as criminal in recent decades. The current study builds on this criminological momentum by investigating water pollution using a state-corporate crime perspective. Although Kramer and Michalowski’s [1] integrated theoretical model of state-corporate crime has mostly been employed as a categorizat...

State-corporate crime frameworks have typically been applied to crimes committed by a single state. In a globalizing world, multiple states are more likely than ever before to commit crime in collusion as evinced in the growing crimes of the powerful literature. Studying international policy formation offers one unique avenue for investigating soci...

This article offers an overview of the current domestic war on drugs in the United States and the subsequent mass incarceration of individuals. The domestic and foreign drug policy fronts are compared by focusing on Plan Colombia. The cornerstone argument is that a “global war on drugs” is occurring with very similar characteristics to the domestic...