Popular Dramas Between Transgression and Order

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Siemens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Crime News

This article examines the importance and the effects of crime news and courtroom journalism for modern societies, taking a global perspective. Mass media starting in the middle of the nineteenth century identified criminal courts as important places that allowed for popular and often-sensational stories of transgression and order. In the United States, in Europe, and in Asia, popular dramas based on criminal trials that appeared in the newspaper stimulated important societal debates, questioning the very notion of modern law and its application. However, it is argued that future research needs to pay more attention to the narratives and effects of courtroom reporting on democracy, both past and present.

scholarly journals Markets and Market Values of Nontimber Forest Products in the United States: A Review, Synthesis, and Identification of Future Research Needs

2019 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 613-631
Author(s):  
Gregory E Frey ◽  
Susan J Alexander ◽  
James L Chamberlain ◽  
Keith A Blatner ◽  
Alisa W Coffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Nontimber Forest Products ◽  
Informal Markets ◽  
Market Values

Abstract Although numerous and varied users harvest, trade, and consume nontimber forest products (NTFPs), relatively little is known about the organization of the markets for these products and the market value or contribution to local and regional economies. In this article, we review and synthesize economic research and information on the markets and market values of NTFPs in the United States. We describe formal and informal markets for NTFPs, and the extent to which and reasons why many of the details of these markets remain unknown to researchers and decisionmakers. We provide examples of the market values of various species and identify information gaps and research needs to improve resource management and increase economic development.

Reliability of Arrest and Incarceration Questions on the Risk Behavior Assessment

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis G. Fisher ◽  
Grace L. Reynolds ◽  
Michele M. Wood ◽  
Mark E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Behavior Assessment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

We examined 48-hour test-retest reliability of the arrest and incarceration questions on the Risk Behavior Assessment (RBA; National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1993). Participants were 229 street-drug users recruited in 11 cities throughout the United States. Results revealed that lifetime arrest and incarceration items demonstrated good to excellent reliability. The 30-day arrest and incarceration items provided such poor reliabilities that they would yield unreliable data with limited research or clinical use. Future research needs to identify alternative items that can yield reliable data regarding recent arrest history; until then, it is recommended that the recent arrest items be used with caution.

Assessing Employee Support during Union Organizing Campaigns

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-313
Author(s):  
Sean E. Rogers ◽  
Adrienne E. Eaton ◽  
Paula B. Voos ◽  
Tracy F. H. Chang ◽  
Marcus A. Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Representation Election ◽  
Flight Attendant ◽  
Employee Support ◽  
Depth Interviews

Many labor unions assess support among prospective members to guide decision making during organizing campaigns, and to predict voting in representation elections. However, research on the actual practice of how unions make assessments is limited. We fill this void through a study that combined quantitative and qualitative analysis of the assessment activities. The quantitative portion involved a survey of eligible voters in the 2010 flight attendant representation election at Delta Air Lines. The qualitative portion involved in-depth interviews with staff involved in that campaign and organizing directors or key organizing staff in nine of the largest labor unions in the United States. We focus on the factors that influence the accuracy of assessment predictions, describe practices currently being used to predict votes in these campaigns, and discuss future research needs.

Correlates of Attitudes Toward Dating Violence Among Police Cadets in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (16) ◽  
pp. 4888-4903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Qu ◽  
Liang Wang ◽  
Jihong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Internship Experience ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
First Time

Scholars have highlighted that incidents of dating violence are quite frequent among college students, and subsequent consequence can be devastating. A key factor that has been singled out in most studies on dating violence concerns an individual’s attitudes toward dating violence. It is assumed that there is a link between one’s attitudes and associated behaviors. The purpose of this study is to investigate correlates of attitudes toward dating violence among police cadets in a 4-year university in China. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time that police cadets were the subjects of research on this important topic. Besides several commonly adopted variables in the analysis in the United States, we incorporated three variables that were unique to this study (the assistance-oriented police strategy, internship experience, and knowing anti-domestic violence law). The findings revealed that preference of gender-role, perceptions of the nature of dating, and police strategies have significant effect on cadets’ sentiment of dating violence. We also discussed the limitations of this study and highlight several areas that future research needs to focus on.

Prevalence, Form, and Function of Consolidated Public Safety Departments in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Wilson ◽  
Clifford A. Grammich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Police Services ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Public Safety Departments

Most communities in the United States provide fire and police services through separate departments, but some operate a single consolidated one for police, fire, and, frequently, emergency medical services. The number of such public safety departments has grown in recent years, but little systematic research has been done on them. This article presents results of a census and subsequent survey of public safety departments in the United States to examine their prevalence, form, and function. It reviews characteristics of their distribution, capabilities and structure, staffing and management, budget, and approach to community policing. It concludes by identifying future research needs.

Green IT Perceptions and Activities of Internal Auditors in Australia, Canada, and the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 0000-0000
Author(s):  
Glen L. Gray ◽  
Kyunghee Yoon ◽  
Won Gyun No ◽  
Peter Roebuck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Green It ◽  
Internal Auditors

Green IT and sustainability reporting receive considerable attention. Internal auditors are considered control experts and provide assurance that controls have been designed and are functioning properly. However, literature indicate discrepant findings in terms of internal auditors' role in sustainability activities. Based on a theoretical link between environmental regulations and internal auditors' role in sustainability activities, this study examines whether internal auditors' roles in green IT differ across Australia, Canada, and U.S. We find that internal auditors' current green IT perceptions and involvements in the three countries are essentially interchangeable even though their regulations are significantly different. We do find that their perceived roles differ across most of green IT activities across industries, but their current involvement does not. Future research needs to identify whether there are cultural reasons or deeper, profound systemic reasons why internal auditors are not more proactively involved in the highly-visible, rapidly-growing, value-added areas of sustainability.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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