Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. From this perspective, it is reasonable to attempt to prevent crime by preventing known offenders from continuing their criminal behavior. This chapter focuses on the options for dealing with actual perpetrators once they are identified so that…
The main aims of this chapter are to summarize the findings on what works, what does not work, what is promising and what is unknown in preventing crime in seven institutional settings in which crime prevention takes place, and to bring together the main conclusions of the book. We hope that this bo…
Employment and crime have a complex relationship. For an individual, they can be substitutes or complementary activities. For example, some people choose crime rather than legitimate work because of an expectation that they can make more money from crime and/or because they find it more rewarding in…
Source:Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
(2003)
From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test—and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a work…
Source:Aspects of Teaching Secondary Mathematics: Perspectives on Practice
(2003)
The aim of this chapter is to raise awareness of the points of view of students in post16 education who are required to learn mathematics, or deal with mathematical ideas, whilst studying other subjects. These students are likely to be following vocational courses, such as the General National Vocat…
Source:International Journal of Project Management
(2003)
This paper examines the effect government policy has on the way managers of government-funded projects manage. The findings suggest that government reforms have improved the efficiency of processes undertaken during the life of the project, but have failed to address the issues arising from a lack o…
Background. The literature review presented here was conducted as part of an English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting funded project to evaluate the use of portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence. Initial consideration of the topic revealed the need to clarif…
Distance education is a growing area of interest in the academic literature. An explosion of articles has appeared in recent years documenting this trend at postsecondary institutions. The topics addressed in the literature include the demand for distance education, its acceptance by students and in…
Objectives: The objectives of this course were: to develop an induction course for vocational trainees taking up first SHO posts; to enable new dental SHOs to have enhanced skills from the beginning of the post; to create safe practitioners capable of performing SHO duties; and to assess whether suc…
