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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Elaine Cremin
Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior. Criminal Behavior:takes into account biological, genetic, developmental, familial, social, educational, cultural, political, and economic factors correlated with crime;references actual cases and events to serve as examples of the principles introduced;critically examines the roles of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and methods of punishment in the development of and response to criminal behavior;explores the effects of crime on victims and looks at correlations between crimes and victim characteristics and behaviors;examines the role of childhood and adolescent behavioral and mental health disorders in the development of criminal behavior; andinvestigates the differences between criminals and the rest of society, and the differences and similarities between and among criminals.Chock-full of personal anecdotes, this engaging text is unique in that it combines the experience of Doug Bernstein, a clinical psychologist and a successful textbook author, and Elaine Cassel, a practicing attorney who regularly teaches psychology and law. Organized around five dimensions related to the causes, characteristics, and consequences of crime, the book summarizes the programs that research suggest offer the best hope for doing a better job of dealing with crime in the 21st century. The authors argue that prevention is the key to dealing with crime, and present comprehensive suggestions for crime prevention.The new edition features the latest criminal statistics available, as well as the most current research on the causes and correlations of crime and violence. Other highlights include: discussion of the latest brain-imaging research in psychopathy - how psychopaths' brains are different from "normal" brains; the latest on gang activities and how their venues have migrated to suburban and rural areas; terrorism and its roots; Internet crimes, especially sexual predator crimes; the latest research on how media violence, especially violent interactive video games, contributes to criminal behavior; the examination of drug and mental health courts as alternatives to punishment; and recent Supreme Court rulings eliminating the death penalty for juveniles and the mentally retarded.Intended as a textbook for upper-level courses on criminal behavior, psychology and law, and developmental psychopathology taught in departments of psychology, criminology, criminal justice, law, and sociology and/or criminal justice training academies.
Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal, political, and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior. Criminal Behavior:takes into account biological, genetic, developmental, familial, social, educational, cultural, political, and economic factors correlated with crime;references actual cases and events to serve as examples of the principles introduced;critically examines the roles of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and methods of punishment in the development of and response to criminal behavior;explores the effects of crime on victims and looks at correlations between crimes and victim characteristics and behaviors;examines the role of childhood and adolescent behavioral and mental health disorders in the development of criminal behavior; andinvestigates the differences between criminals and the rest of society, and the differences and similarities between and among criminals.Chock-full of personal anecdotes, this engaging text is unique in that it combines the experience of Doug Bernstein, a clinical psychologist and a successful textbook author, and Elaine Cassel, a practicing attorney who regularly teaches psychology and law. Organized around five dimensions related to the causes, characteristics, and consequences of crime, the book summarizes the programs that research suggest offer the best hope for doing a better job of dealing with crime in the 21st century. The authors argue that prevention is the key to dealing with crime, and present comprehensive suggestions for crime prevention.The new edition features the latest criminal statistics available, as well as the most current research on the causes and correlations of crime and violence. Other highlights include: discussion of the latest brain-imaging research in psychopathy - how psychopaths' brains are different from "normal" brains; the latest on gang activities and how their venues have migrated to suburban and rural areas; terrorism and its roots; Internet crimes, especially sexual predator crimes; the latest research on how media violence, especially violent interactive video games, contributes to criminal behavior; the examination of drug and mental health courts as alternatives to punishment; and recent Supreme Court rulings eliminating the death penalty for juveniles and the mentally retarded.Intended as a textbook for upper-level courses on criminal behavior, psychology and law, and developmental psychopathology taught in departments of psychology, criminology, criminal justice, law, and sociology and/or criminal justice training academies.
A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts
Elaine Freer; Ryan Evans
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
2024
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‘Sets out the criteria and law surrounding orders and explains them clearly and in detail: it addresses an often overlooked area of the law but one that it is essential we understand and apply correctly.’Sir Brian Leveson, former President of the Queen’s Bench Division, Head of Criminal Justice – in his Foreword to the first editionA Practitioner’s Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts sets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders available on acquittal, such as Restraining Orders and Defence Costs Orders, as well as those available on conviction, such as Compensation Orders and Directors’ Disqualification Orders.Many of these orders are available in the magistrates’ courts as well as the Crown Court, therefore practitioners of all levels of experience and practice need to be aware of them. In addition to providing guidance on, and analysis of, those orders, this book also sets out the consequences of breaches.The Second Edition includes new coverage of the following orders:- Prohibition Order - Psychoactive Substances- Exclusion Order - Licensed PremisesThis book helps you to ensure that clients do not have an unwarranted or overly onerous order imposed on them. It is an easy reference guide for courts and advocates alike.
Implementation of the Asthma Practice Guideline in the Army Medical Department
Donna O. Farley; Shan Cretin; Georges Vernez; Suzanne Pieklik; Elaine Quiter; J.Scott Ashwood; Wenli Tu
RAND
2005
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Can the Army effectively implement clinical treatment guidelines in its military treatment facilities to achieve consistent and high-quality practices throughout its health system? This is a 450-character abstract. In partnership with the Army Medical Department, RAND worked to implement clinical practice guidelines. This report evaluates the asthma guideline demonstration. It documents the actions, assesses effects, and measures the quality and limitations of data for monitoring outcomes. The authors found that the implementation scored successes but resource limitations and organizational barriers curbed progress. They conclude that flexibility, monitoring, and training are the keys to implementing the guidelines. They also found that patient education needed improvement.
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire, set between the dining halls of Cornell University and the raucous parties of midcentury New York CityWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that put her first marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet--a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author's mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one of the most inimitable contemporary writers in the English language, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by The Guardian. In this brilliantly conceived new novel Self turns his forensic eye and technicolor imagination to the troubled life of his mother, Elaine. Standing by the mailbox outside 1100 Hemlock Street in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her husband and child inside her house and wonders: is this . . . it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that places her marriage to an Ivy League academic and former Communist Party member in peril. Based on the intimate diaries Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm: a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Will Self working in an exciting new dimension, employing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
At 23 Elaine has achieved much more than a woman of her age in 1939 might have expected - or predicted. She is single minded, ambitious and highly intelligent and can handle the heavy responsibility that has fallen on her as war threatens. It seems that anything is possible. She is wooed by a neighbour, one of 'nature's gentleman', modest, unselfish, but limited. Frank desperately wants to marry her. Then she meets Robert Leonard, owner of the largest department store in Brighton, the most eligible man in the town and falls deeply in love with a man who seems to correspond to all her instincts and ambitions. The story takes Elaine and her family through the war and into the fifties and as she watches her bright daughter grow up she is determined that she shall not fall into the trap that ensnared Elaine. This is Part One of The Brighton Trilogy.
... Comment la blanche laine tait-elle en possession de ce bel cu de Lancelot, elle qui ne savait m me pas le nom du chevalier? Il le lui avait laiss en allant jouter pour le grand diamant dans les tournois qu'Arthur avait organis s sous ce nom, parce qu'un diamant en tait le prix...
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
'Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' GuardianStanding by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders...is this it? As she begins to push back against the strictures of her life in 1950s America, she undertakes a disastrous affair that ends her marriage and upends her life.Based on the intimate diaries Will Self's mother kept for over forty years, Elaine is a writer's attempt to reach the almost unimaginable realm of a parent's interior life prior to his own existence. Perhaps the first work of auto-oedipal fiction, Elaine shows Self working in an exciting new dimension, utilizing his stylistic talents to tremendous effect.
Eine finstere Ruine, eine tragische Legende, und ein Mann, der behauptet, ein Windbruder zu sein. Die 18-j hrige Marla ist weder so sch n wie ihre ltere Schwester, noch so klug und witzig wie die j ngere. Sie findet sich ziemlich unscheinbar. Das ndert sich, als sie im Wald den geheimnisvollen Arvid kennenlernt. Er gibt ihr das Gef hl, etwas ganz Besonderes zu sein. Sie allerdings h lt ihn f r einen Sonderling. Dennoch f hlt sie sich auf unerkl rliche Weise von ihm angezogen. Zudem ist ihre Neugier, von der sie reichlich besitzt, geweckt. Als sie ihn dr ngt, von sich zu erz hlen, r ckt er nach und nach mit seiner Geschichte heraus. Es dauert nicht lange und sie erkennt darin die Legende, die sich um den Klageh gel rankt - einer finsteren Ruine mitten im Wald. Dort soll sich vor vielen Jahren eine schreckliche Trag die ereignet haben. Fasziniert taucht Marla in das Leben der jungen Elaine ein. Bald kann sie an nichts anderes mehr denken. Als Arvid eines Tages von dem au ergew hnlichen Geschenk erz hlt, das er Elaine gemacht hat, besteht Marla darauf, es zu sehen. Von nun an nimmt das Schicksal seinen Lauf und sie hat M he zu unterscheiden, was real ist und was nicht.
