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CONTENTS: The Problem of Murder; The Murderer; Methods of Murder; Victims of Homicide; The Psychology of Murder; The Urge to Confess; Mass Murderers and Serial Murderers; Sex Murders; Madness and Murder; Character Disorder and Murder; Children and Adolescents Who Kill; Self-Murder; Criminal Investigation; The Death Penalty; Prevention of Criminal Homicide; Homicide in Fiction

Robbery accounts for almost half the crimes of violence in the United States today. There are many books written on famous robbers, but few on the crime of robbery. This book explores armed robbery from many viewpoints. The actual words used by the robber to describe the crime, the use of violence and his experiences ""on the run"" are quoted at length. The victim is also allowed to tell his story. Their accounts contribute to the understanding of the crime and its impact on victims. Lieutenant Donald Brannan, who spent eleven years in the Denver Police Department investigating robberies, is A

This book is based upon a study and an analysis of offenders and their victims. The modus operandi of this offense is reviewed and the response of the victims outlined. Evaluations on why, where, and when men expose themselves, what their methods of committing this offense are, how they select their victims, and other sex offenses commonly associated with indecent exposure are discussed. Police response, criminal investigations, and legal aspects of this problem are reviewed. The concluding chapters on treatment includes recent advances in behavior therapy

AbstractI assess farm sector consolidation in the United States from the 1980s through the most recent (2017) Census of Agriculture. Consolidation has been large, widespread across crop and livestock commodities, and persistent over time. Research on this topic benefits from access to farm‐level datasets, which provide more comprehensive insights into consolidation and alter what we thought we knew about farm consolidation in earlier studies using aggregated data. I close with a reflection on the applications and challenges that I have found in using firm‐, plant‐, and transactions‐level microdata through my career.

In this autoethnographic cartography, I argue for the need for alternative embodied maps for academic life. Using my experiences as a budding pharologist (someone who studies lighthouses), I bear witness to my cultural experience of academia through a collaged autoethnography of mapping and composing space. I bring together autoethnography, theories of cartography, as well as my experiences researching lighthouses as sites of public memory performance, to demonstrate that there is a need in the culture of academia for real discussions about anxiety and similar issues—among faculty and students—and that autoethnography, cartography, and pharology provide an entry into such a discussion. In fragmented sections designed to highlight the ways experiences intertwine, I move through four phases of feeling "blue": the deep blue of confusing academic anxiety and depression; the search for a methodology to lead me to a brighter, more pleasant kind of blue; the research journey that moved me forward; and the "blue sky" blue it led me to. Through autoethnographic writing and stylistic experimentation, I map my experience of journeying through academic anxiety, providing an example of working toward alternative mappings, compositions, and visions of academic life.

What accounts for the variation in the influence of scientists in the policy-making process? Why is it that scientists sometimes appear to exercise significant autonomy in shaping policy agendas, while at other times very little? Scientists are most influential, this paper contends, when they can leverage their recognized expertise by strategically co-opting institutionalized channels of advice. This is most likely to occur in issue areas of high complexity and ambiguity when key policy makers are dependent upon scientists for their counsel. Policy entrepreneurs within competing scientific communities, prevented from accessing key decision makers, wait until windows of opportunity open to undermine the credibility of the incumbent experts, gain access to political leaders, and refocus the policy agenda. This theory is developed and tested through a case-study analysis of the nuclear test-ban debate during the Eisenhower administration from 1954 to 1958. The findings of this paper underscore the need to treat foreign policy decision making as a series of strategic interactions between multiple actors with a broader capacity to influence the policy-making process than traditionally conceived. By doing so, scholars can better understand variations in government decision making across time and issue area, providing important insights into the role of experts in a wide range of public policy domains. Adapted from the source document.