(causal order, causal direction, confirmatory model, evaluating significance, and sensitivity testing) are presented in the opening section of this paper as a means of providing guidelines for proper implementation of the mediation model. Second, a review of research published over the past several ...
2007.01.31Toronto Police Services makes arrest based on geographic profile - An alleged sexual predator on the loose for a year was snared by geo-profiling. Sex Crimes Unit investigators called upon D/Const Manny San Pedro, a geographic profiling analyst at Corporate Planning, to put his knowled...
By Dr. Mark Griffiths (BSc, PhD, PGDipHE, CPsychol), Professor of Gambling Studies and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University, UK Although there is an association between crime and gambling there is relatively little information and research on the...
Objectives Many police agencies now find it difficult to recruit and retain officers. To learn more about these issues, we used a factorial survey experiment to test whether recruitment materials inspired by the intergroup communication literature are more effective than standard police recruitment materia...
After all, usually only one or two officers patrol each living unit at any one time. Nearly every eye observing any prisoner's actions, therefore, belongs to a fellow convict. If prisoners have the consideration and discipline not to allow their eyes to wander into areas outside their ...
(https://mediacloud.org). Media Cloud collects and archives news content published online from over 50,000 digital media sources. We deemed online news media to be an appropriate unit of observation for this project because of the growing consumption of online news. In the US, access to the...
For instance, although the odds of students with low levels of self-control consuming alcohol at T1 (contemporaneous effect) were increased by about 12%, the odds of students with low self-control drinking alcohol at T2 (lagged effect) were increased by only 10% with a one unit change in ...
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Furthermore, although t-value was above critical value in assault, drug-related crime, and property-related crime, the additional controls of drift and trend resulted in a clear rejection of the unit root null hypothesis, meaning that means, variances, and covariances were approximately equal with...
the BBC Natural History Unit produces hours and hours of content with a natural history or wildlife theme, earning it a reputation for spectacular imagery of the natural world.Blue Planet IIdiverged from previous examples, with an explicit acknowledgment of the precarity of ocean life and, importan...