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Predicting Violent Behavior, 1999.
Examines technical research into the nature and causes of domestic and workplace violence and the possibility of predicting it. Discusses at-risk population and variables used for predicting (age, church attendance, education and sexuality). Includes tabl
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Aggressive and violent behavior has become an increasing concern in American society over the past two decades. Violent behavior is a serious problem both in homes and in the work place.
There is an epidemic of family violence in the United States. Victims include women, children, and the elderly. Approximately two million women are assaulted annually, and husbands or partners kill one-third of the female murder victims every year (Arbetter, 1995
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"VIOLENT BEHAVIOR RISK: A PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS
Introduction
Aggressive and violent behavior has become an increasing concern in American society over the past two decades. Violent behavior is a serious problem both in homes and in the work place.
There is an epidemic of family violence in the United States. Victims include women, children, and the elderly. Approximately two million women are assaulted annually, and husbands or partners kill one-third of the female murder victims every year (Arbetter, 1995).
The American Medical Association reported that one in three women will be assaulted by a domestic partner in her lifetime?four million in any given year. Of the 5,745 women murdered in 1991, as a ..."
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Research Study on Violent Behaviors of Adolescents in School, 2002.
An examination of the characteristics of the lives of adolescents (from functional and dysfunctional families) and links to violent behavior and gun related violence.
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 24 sources, $ 135.95
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Examines characteristics of the lives of adolescents (from functional & dysfunctional families) & links to violent behavior & gun related violence. Concludes that behaviors may be predicted & measures developed to prevent occurrence. Theoretical framework. Review of literature on teenage criminal behavior. Motivations. Role of gangs. Cultural aspects. Substance use. Abstract. Presents analysis of data;Tables; Questionnaire used.
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This problem investigated in this study focused on the identification of characteristics of the lives of adolescents that are linked to violent behaviors in school environments. The primary research question that was investigated through the conduct of this study was as follows: Are there specific characteristics of the lives of adolescents that are linked to violent behaviors in school environments, and, if so, what are these characteristics?
Three hypotheses were formulated and tested in this study. These hypotheses were as follows:
1. Adolescents from dysfunctional and functional families are characterized by a higher frequency of violent offending in school than are such persons from stable families.
2. Adolescents who..."
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Inmate Violence During Incarceration, 2007.
An examination of violent behavior in prisons and an assessment of predicting risk of violence by inmates while incarcerated.
9,638 words (approx. 38.6 pages), 38 sources, MLA, $ 197.95
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This paper examines prison violence and describes existing methods for assessing risk for violent behavior. It analyzes factors contributing to or reducing institutional violence. It also looks at factors contributing to violent behavior in general and discusses major theories of aggression and violent behavior. The paper then analyzes current methods for predicting short and long term risk of violence in various settings, in order to develop a conceptual framework for predicting inmate violence while incarcerated.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Strategies for Assessing Future Risk of Violence
Actuarial Risk Assessment
Clinical Risk Assessment
Psychopathy and Violence
Method
Violence among Inmates
Assaults In Correctional Facilities
Mental Health Screening In Correctional Facilities
Violence Prevention Programs
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"A computer-based test interpretation (CBTI) system is a system that screens inmates for mental health issues in correctional facilities. This system was reviewed and tested to see if it is valid and useful. To begin this review, 100 adult male felons were administered a brief mental status interview and a series of psychological tests, including the MMPI, the revised Beta IQ Examination, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. Psychiatric diagnoses and CBTI ratings of victimization, violence, suicide, and substance abuse potentials were compared with clinicians' evaluations. Second, CBTI diagnosed 109 inmates and were compared with Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) diagnoses. Finally, CBTI risk ratings were compared with institutional infraction records of 1, 718 inmates. An agreement between CBTI and clinicians' risk ratings decided that this was in fact a fair diagnosis, and the diagnoses ranged from 60% to 93%. (Psychological Assessment, 1992, p. 138)"
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Predicting Tornadoes, 2002.
An examination of the process of predicting tornadoes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines and analyzes the process of predicting tornadoes. The use of technologies such as Doppler radar and Optical Transient Detectors is discussed, as are meteorological indicators of tornado formation in supercell storms.
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Predicting Job Performance, 2006.
This paper examines the methods and strategies used in predicting future job performance.
2,970 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 87.95
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This paper explores the information that a selection specialist uses to predict future job performance which can be obtained from several different types of methods including application forms, interviews and tests. The writer of this paper details how a comprehensive selection process gives a more reliable and valid measure of a person's future potential job performance. For example, the cognitive test is comprehensive because the interviewee can demonstrate interpersonal skills while the personality test gives a picture of the more static traits that can either positively or negatively relate to job performance.
Topics covered in this report include:
Identification
Interviews
Summary of Interviews
Types of Interviews
Tips
Types of Personality Tests
Job Analysis
A Rational for Usages
How the Device or Devices Will Be Used in the Selection Process
List of Resources Cited
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"Designed to measure the ability to make rapid and precise movements with the hands and fingers. Also measures, according to the authors, the temperamental willingness to perform highly repetitive, routine, and monotonous work. The test taker is to put a pencil dot in as many circles as he or she can in five minutes, without letting the dots touch the sides of the small circles."
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Predicting Marital Stability and Divorce, 2002.
This paper discusses the discussion section of Carrere, A., K. Buehlman, J. Gottman, J. Coan and Ruckstuhl, L. (2000). ?Predicting marital stability and divorce in newlywed couples.? Journal of Family Psychology.
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This paper examines the discussion section of Carrere et al.'s article to determine how well it achieves its purpose. The author believes that the article fails to either summarize the results or to even follow the results section.
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Predicting Natural Disasters, 2002.
A paper that depicts a natural disaster.
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This paper predicts a natural disaster in 50 years and suggests that the world will become more disaster prone place.
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Predicting Bankruptcy, 1986.
Examines techniques & models for foretelling corporate failure. Investigates ratio analysis, monetary policy, micro v. macro aspects, market data and possible forecasting errors.
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" The purpose of this research is to discuss the importance of predicting bankruptcy in the corporate sector. Corporate failure is a symptom that there is a misallocation of resources (Aharony, et. al., 1980, p. 1001). This is, of course undesirable from a social standpoint. Generally an early warning of such mismanagement, or failure)may enable investors and management to take appropriate steps toward preventing bankruptcy. Sometimes even voluntary liquidation will usually shorten the length of time that losses are incurred.
Most research that has been done on bankruptcy has used the ratio analysis as its foundation. The major causes of corporate (...)"
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Predicting Reading Achievement, 2002.
A discussion of the factors that affect reading outcomes for young children, especially those at risk for academic failure.
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Discusses factors that affect reading outcomes for young children, especially those at risk for academic failure. Cites three scholarly research studies that discuss early childhood develoopment programs. Issues of socioeconomic status, learning disabilities, behavioral conditions, instructional deficits. Need to develop interventions to enhance long-term rewading outcomes. Importance of assessment procedures.
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"Predicting Reading Achievement
One of the most significant areas of concern in American public education centers upon reading achievement among young students who are regarded as being at-risk for academic failure and/or unacceptably low levels of achievement because of a variety of factors such as low socioeconomic status (SES), behavioral conditions, learning disabilities, and instructional deficits. To examine this question and to determine trends in the empirical literature related to these effects, three separate research studies were selected from the literature. Each of the studies targets early childhood development programs such as Head Start and posits a relationship between attentional problems/hyperactivity and reading achievement at both the prereading and first through fifth grade levels."
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Behaviorism, 2001.
An analysis of J. B. Watson?s theory of Behaviorism which studies the overt, observable, and measurable aspects of human activity hoping to control and predict behavior.
1,260 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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The paper explains the theory of Behaviorism and explains that by taking thoughts, feelings, and sensations out of consideration, Behaviorists do not provide complete results from their experiments, as all possible explanations have not been explored. The paper also concludes that when results are taken and applied to society, overgeneralizations may take place. The paper provides an example of this overgeneralization by presenting and analyzing the Little Albert study done with R. Rayner in 1920.
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"In the twentieth century, a new school of thought emerged. John B. Watson?s Behaviourism is a structured and limiting system of psychology that dismisses subject matter that cannot be tested empirically or operationally. This strictness presented by Watson rejected the conscious mind creating a narrow point of view, which in turn led to the overgeneralization of results."
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HIV-Risk Behaviors in College Students, 2004.
Discusses the predicting factors of HIV-risk behavior in college students.
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The predicting factors of HIV-risk behavior in college students are assessed through a survey at a Midwestern university. One hundred and thirty-five participants (37 males, and 98 females) assess their HIV-risk behavior through a two-page, self-administered survey during the winter quarter of 2004. This paper shows how the survey assesses five areas: HIV-risk behavior, HIV-risk knowledge, HIV-risk reduction, HIV-risk reduction behavioral skill, and demographic characteristics. Through these five areas, survey administrators are able to assess the relationship between information, motivation and skills, and their risk-reduction behavior, as based on the IMB Model. The paper shows that, through statistical evaluation, it is established that participants who report greater motivation to avoid HIV infection also reported more frequent condom use. Further analysis also shows that women reported greater risk-reduction motivation, as well as better risk-reduction behavioral skills.
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"Further exploration may include the assessment of high-risk behavior through other models, such as the Health Belief Model, developed in the early 1950?s. Such a model was developed, similar to the IMB Model, to predict the likelihood of one taking preventative action against health risks (Hollar & Snizek, 1996). Future investigation might also incorporate a treatment within the study. The current study found that a greater motivation to avoid HIV infection resulted in a reported more frequent condom use. Though, perhaps with a treatment containing information on high HIV-risk behavior, the simple act of prevention through condom use, and facts and figures regarding the high AIDS rate within the college population, a follow-up survey assessment would find increased motivation to avoid HIV and a lower rate of risky behaviors within the participants."
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Ethical Punishments for Non-Violent Offenders, 2002.
An examination of the current prison system and the changes that need to be made. Shows that non-violent criminals deserve better treatment than violent offenders.
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What punishment does a non-violent criminal deserve? This paper shows how an examination of the U.S's current system's problems is necessary in order to understand how a solution will work. The paper asks if an eclectic approach could improve the current system and society as a whole. The paper tries to prove that a Commission should be set up to dictate the regulations of a new system that would allow non-violent criminals to be rehabilitated while receiving a punishment fit for the crime that was committed.
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Non-Violent Crime: An Overview
Internally-Based Prison Problems
Overcrowding
Recidivism
Making Non-violent Criminals Violent
Fights and Rapes
Stabbings and Beatings
In Prison Solutions
Drug Treatment
Boot Camp
Prison Commissaries
Out-of-Prison Punishments for Non-Violent Criminals
Intense and Inclusive Probation
Drug Treatment
Residential Restitution and/or community service
Day Reporting
Electronic Monitoring
Community-Based Employment Opportunities
Trouble shooting
Noncompliance
Increase in probationary case loads
Conclusion
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"A nonviolent crime is a crime committed in which no person is physically injured. Of the nonviolent crimes committed in America, only one in three are reported to police. The police arrest an estimated 20% of those crimes reported which means there are approximately seven arrests for every one hundred crimes. Of these arrests, the prosecution throws out nearly 50% and the rest are usually sentenced. The sentencing usually consists of nearly 50% going to jail or prison. In other words, in total, two people are incarcerated for every one hundred crimes committed (Colson & Van Ness, 1991, p. 70)."
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Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior, 2007.
This paper explores the connection between heredity and human behavior.
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The paper discusses the link between genetics and criminality and examines how predictions of any future threat have become an important factor within the criminal justice structure. The paper points out the inaccuracy of these predictions and explores whether modern research in behavioral genetics can improve this tool. The paper concludes that the probability of being able to use genetic research to predict human behavior or to explain expressed behaviors is, at present, unlikely.
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"The link between genetics and criminality is not a new idea. Since the nineteenth century, courts and prisons have been attempting to discriminate between those who act through force of circumstance and those who are innately criminal and, therefore, who are considered as a threat to society (Cesare Lombroso, Crime: It's Causes and Remedies, p.365, 1918). To enable this distinction, predictions of any future threat became an important factor within the criminal justice structure. This legacy persists today, with the prediction of future threat determining the use of the death penalty and the sentencing of sexually violent offenders (Donna Coker, Article, 2003)."
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Attitudes toward Health and Wellness Behaviors, 2002.
This paper is a class project consisting of an interview conducted with a friend, regarding her attitudes toward health and wellness behaviors, based on the Health Belief Model.
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This paper discusses the Health Believe Model, developed by Hochbaum, Kegels and Rosenstock, which is a systematic method to explain and predict preventive health behavior, focusing on the relationship of health behaviors, practices and the utilization of health services and general health motivation for distinguishing illness and sick-role behavior from health behavior. The author constructed a structured interview protocol in which the interviewee was asked several questions about her health and provided with set responses from which to choose. The paper reported that the interviewee Ms. C indicated that her two strongest barriers were "inconvenience" and "expense". Questionnaire included.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Health Belief Model
Structured Interview
Analysis and Discussion of Findings
Researcher-Designed Health Belief Questionnaire
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"Ms. C is a 35 year old woman who works as a supervisor for a major telephone company. She works during the day and is taking a business administration class at night. She hopes the class will help to foster a promotion in the company. She also works a good deal of overtime and is very devoted to her job. Regarding her responses to the structured interview, the first topic that can be discussed is the Health Belief Model's notion of "perceived susceptibility." Ms. C rated her health as "good;" however, when she was asked to indicate how likely she believed it was that she might experience a condition that could adversely affect her health, she rated it as "likely" and discussed being worried about her health because of her hectic schedule."
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Non-Violent Social Movements, 2005.
This paper discusses the idea of indirect approach in non-violent social movements as presented by Liddell Hart in "Strategy" and Gene Sharp in "Politics of Non-Violent Action".
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This paper explains that the philosophies of non-violent social movements of Liddell Hart's "Strategy" and of Gene Sharp's "Politics of Non-Violent Action" are vastly different in context: Hart's expertise is planning, fighting and winning a battle; whereas, Gene Sharp's reality is in search of maintaining a non-violent movement for peace and social change. The author points out that, in many ways, non-violence requires the same techniques of strategy as war; the results are just different. The paper states that the strength of non-violence lies in its ability to reduce the moral legitimacy of those who persist in using violence.
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Introduction
Indirect Approach
Nonviolent Movement
Conclusion
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"The indirect approach was born out of Liddell Hart's years of military study and review of historical accounts of war. The very essence of indirect approach is to discover the enemy's Achilles heal or weakness and strike it quickly to take best advantage of the situation. This will lead to a swift and decisive victory. It is determining the Achilles heal that creates an element of surprise. The enemy will be shocked such knowledge of their weakness is apparently known. By surprising the enemy, the opponent takes advantage of the human factor. Liddell Hart writes in "Strategy", "Throughout the ages effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach of has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadiness to meet it." Basically what this is saying is an indirect approach wears down the enemy's ability to fight back effectively. The surprise element is so profound the enemy loses its will to meet their opponent head on. Their resistance dissolves while their defense crumbles from exhaustion."
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