If, statistically speaking, 60 percent of drug dealers lapse into their former behavior within 3 years of being released from prison, then I think that minimum sentence imposed should be no less than five or ten years. Maybe after that much time in prison, they will have mulled over what...
Dr Lamble adds: in the rare cases where this happens, there issomeevidence to suggest that sex offenders may want to try taking hormones because they think it will lessen their desire to reoffend, and others might think that changing their identity will help them to start ...
But what we can or should do with that kind of information is a philosophical and legal question, not a statistical one. If we can build a model that identifies offenders correctly 80 out of 100 times, what happens to the poor souls in the 20 percent? Our model is going to harass ...
Seventy-five percent of pedi- atric poisonings, including one death, were attributed to generators being used specifically to power video games or televisions. Fortunately, extreme physical risks associated with video game play are all avoidable with good judgment. Seizures The risk of video or ...
If you survey American parents about what they want for their kids, more than 90 percent say one of their top priorities is that their children be caring. This makes sense: Kindness and concern for others are held as___in nearly every society. But when you ask children what their parents...