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Impact Of Co-Active Coaching On Insufficiently Physically Active 12-14 Year Olds In London, Ontario, Canada, Paul Gorczynski, Don Morrow, Jennifer Irwin

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Iconicity And Word Order In Koyukon Athabaskan, Chad Thompson

Chad L Thompson Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Review Of The Literature Concerning Practical And Clinical Implications For Uk Doctors., M Hicks

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

No abstract provided.

Being White Among A Sea Of Brown: Transformative Moments When Teaching In Navajoland, Edward Brantmeier

Edward J. Brantmeier

No abstract provided.

The Tools Of Government In The Digital Age, Christopher Hood, Helen Margetts

Helen Z Margetts

No abstract provided.

Social Skills Training: Effects On Behavior And Recidivism With First-Time Adjudicated Youth, Kathleen Bailey, James Ballard

Kathleen Bailey

This study examines the effects of social skills training on a group of first-time adjudicated male offenders from the juvenile justice system. Three types of groups were used to evaluate the effects of such programs on behavioral change. These groups included youth who received: 1) social skills training with parents or guardians; 2) social skills training without parents or guardians; 3) no skills training. Differences in the scales and subscales scores from the Jesness Inventory standardized test were evaluated and analyzed in conjunction with the type of offenses (status, misdemeanor, and felony) for the three groups. This exploratory study yielded …

Variability In Contact Spanish: Implications For Second Language Acquisition, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Cristina Atoche

Joyce Bruhn de Garavito

No abstract provided.

Inequalities Of Crime, Kathleen Daly, Robyn Lincoln

Robyn Lincoln

This chapter explores seven major propositions on the relationship between crime and social inequality, moving from the societal level to the individual criminal act. We then turn to the image that criminologists have of inequalities of people and the ways they explain the disproportionate presence of disadvantaged groups in the criminal justice system. This image, which we term the familiar analysis of inequality, focuses on class, and to a lesser extent, on race/ethnicity and age. However, the familiar analysis has a major flaw: It ignores sex/gender. When sex/gender is drawn into the analysis, two observations can be made. The first …

Friendship And Culture, Kristine Fitch, S. Duck

Kristine Muñoz

No abstract provided.

Assessing Student Perceptions Of School Victimization And School Safety: A Psychometric Assessment Of Relevant Instruments, Preston Elrod, Irina Soderstrom

Preston Elrod, Ph.D.

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. In an effort to assess students' perceptions of victimization in their schools, as well as their schools' safety, over 1,900 students from elementary, middle, high, and alternative schools were administered a 154-item questionnaire. The responses on the items were used to establish the psychometric properties of 19 theoretically driven scales and subscales developed by the researchers. The results support the use of these scales and indices to measure students' self-reported levels of school victimization and victimization response, school safety, delinquency, weapons threat response, severity of school problems, school climate, …

Sexually Abused Female Inmates In State And Local Correctional Institutions, Kristine Botsford Mullendore, Laurie Beever

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Constructing Crime: Perspectives On Making News And Social Problems, Gary Potter, Victor Kappeler

Gary W. Potter

This intriguing collection of articles explores the many actors, practices, and techniques involved in constructing the social reality of crime. The first section offers an overview of the issues associated with studying crime and the media. The next section explores the making of crime problems from gang rituals to less mature constructions of crime like road warriors. The final section looks at the effects of media constructions of crime. The frames through which crime is projected increase fear and shape perceptions of the amount of crime committed, the types of crime, who commits crimes, and what crimes are social problems. …

General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Danching Ruan, James Lee, Shanhua Yang

Dr. RUAN, Danching

Principal Investigator (Co-PI James Lee & Yang Shanhua)

Duration: 2006-2008

Funding: HK$ 819,500; HKBU 2447/06H

Additional Funding from Hong Kong Baptist U. Faculty Research Grant (HK$68,120; SOX/05-06/CERAS-18)

Student Assistant Training In A Small Academic Library, Patricia Mileham, R. Connell

Patricia Mileham

No abstract provided.

Juvenile Justice In Japan, Preston Elrod, Minoru Yokoyma

Preston Elrod, Ph.D.

Why has youth crime been increasing in the developing countries, and how well have their juvenile justice systems coped with this trend? This anthology profiles delinquency rates and juvenile justice systems in China, India, Japan, Macao, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. Each nation's distinctive response to youth crime is described in the contexts of: a) its indigenous culture and customary law, and b) its historical encounters with external legal traditions, including common law, civil law, Islamic law, socialist law, and Asian philosophies. The authors link the growth of juvenile crime in the developing world …

A Case Of Health Disparity, Donna Zucker

Donna M. Zucker

Although the incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in women is only slightly less than in men, women are poorly represented in research trials. As a result, not much is known about them as a subgroup. The specific aims of this article were to report on the problem, study methods, and findings focusing on HCV-positive women's health beliefs, how they identify and understand their health and illness states, and their explanatory models of illness behavior. A pilot study using three focus groups was conducted with women in the community, in recovery, and incarcerated. Two groups emerged: those with and those …

The Myth Of The Juvenile Superpredator, Victor Kappeler, Karen Miller, Gary Potter

Vic Kappeler

"It is very hard for me, knowing that I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. I'm still a kid, and kids make mistakes. We can learn from our mistakes. But nowadays, all people want to do is send a kid to prison and throw away the key." --S.S., 16 year old sentenced to life without parole.

Evaluation Of The Use Of Reflection Papers In Social Work Education: Social Work Students Speak, Lisa Mcguire

Lisa E. McGuire

No abstract provided.

Police And Society: Touchstone Readings, Vic Kappeler

Vic Kappeler

The articles in this collection reveal fundamental assumptions about the relationship of the police to society. Articles were selected for both their complementary and their competing natures. They serve as touchstones for one another, measuring and questioning the value of previous conceptions about how policing fits into the broader social context. Many of the articles challenge the methods by which information was acquired, how practices evolved from that information, and the background assumptions that drove the construction of practices and theories. The editor's purpose in assembling this provocative volume is to facilitate systematic inquiry to help readers discover connections, to …

Diction: The Power Of Pronunciation!, Sheridan Stormes

Sheridan Stormes

A Guide to Pristine Pronunciation of English, French, German, Italian, and Latin for Classical Singers and Choral Directors.

Response To Douglas Kellner, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

States Uses Of Terrorism, James Lutz, Brenda Lutz

James M Lutz

No abstract provided.

Management Of A Diverse Workforce: Meanings And Practices, Grace Lemmon

Grace Lemmon

No abstract provided.

Stepping Back From The Gate: Online Newspaper Editors And The Co-Production Of Content In Campaign 2004, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

In their coverage of the 2004 political campaign, editors of Web sites affiliated with major U.S. newspapers continued to emphasize their role as providers of credible information. But they moved toward seeing that information less as an end product than as a basis for user engagement, participation, and personalization. This study, which builds on a similar study conducted after the 2000 election, suggests journalists may be taking steps toward reshaping their gatekeeping role to accommodate the interactive nature of the Internet.

La Contabiità Generale Nel Sistema Amministrativo Integrato, Massimo Saita, Paola Saracino

Massimo Saita

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Information Access In Zimbabwe, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Proceedings of the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium Conference on Information and Creation of Knowledge Societies April 24-27, 2006, Harare, Zimbabwe

Freedom Of Expression®: Resistance And Repression In The Age Of Intellectual Property, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.

Is Our Cd/Dvd Collection Worth All This? A Cost-Per Use Study Of Accompanying Materials, Marie Kennedy

Marie R. Kennedy

No abstract provided.

Parenting Across Racial And Class Lines: Assortative Mating Patterns Of New Parents Who Are Married, Cohabiting, Dating, And No Longer Romantically Involved, Joshua Goldstein, Kristen Harknett

Kristen Harknett

In this article, we examine the assortative mating patterns of new parents who are married, cohabiting, romantically involved, and no longer romantically involved. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, we find that the effects of crossing racial and ethnic lines depend very much on whose perspective is taken. Crossing racial and ethnic lines has large effects on mothers' relationship status at the time of baby's birth but makes little difference from the fathers' perspective. Crossing educational attainment lines has little effect on relationship status at the time of baby's birth but same education-couples were slightly less …

Constructing Crime: Perspectives On Making News And Social Problems, Victor Kappeler, Gary Potter

Vic Kappeler

This intriguing collection of articles explores the many actors, practices, and techniques involved in constructing the social reality of crime. The first section offers an overview of the issues associated with studying crime and the media. The next section explores the making of crime problems from gang rituals to less mature constructions of crime like road warriors. The final section looks at the effects of media constructions of crime. The frames through which crime is projected increase fear and shape perceptions of the amount of crime committed, the types of crime, who commits crimes, and what crimes are social problems. …