Contemporary Dilemmas in Personality Assessment Illustrated in a Diagnostic Case Study

1977 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 967-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Inventory Data ◽  
Large Samples ◽  
Hand Test ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
Psychological Inventory ◽  
Study Format

Hand Test and California Psychological Inventory data produced by two nonviolent sex offenders are presented in case study format. Marked similarities in personality of these subjects are noted and discussed in relation to difficulties which plague the field of measurement and evaluation. Social relevancy is noted and the need for systematic study of large samples is emphasized.

scholarly journals Politics and Audit in Malaysia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Azham Md. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Study Format

This work investigates the role and contribution of external auditing as practised in Malaysian society during the forty year period from independence in 1957 to just before the onset of Asian Financial Crisis in 1997.  It applies the political economic theory introduced by Tinker (1980) and refined by Cooper & Sherer (1984), which emphasises the social relations aspects of professional activity rather than economic forces alone. In a case study format where qualitative data were gathered mainly from primary and secondary source materials, the study has found that the function of auditing in Malaysian society in most cases is devoid of any essence of mission; instead it is created, shaped and changed by the pressures which give rise to its development over time. The largely insignificant role that it serves is intertwined with the contexts in which it operates. 

scholarly journals “Mr S, you do have sexual fantasies?” The Parole Hearing and Treatment of a Sex Offender at the Turn of the 21st Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Treatment Program ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
Offender Treatment ◽  
Sex Offender Treatment ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Parole Board ◽  
Clear Sign ◽  
Prevention Plan

How does the Parole Board decide a sex offender is rehabilitated and can be released into the community? This case study of a parole hearing reveals the significance the Parole Board gives to a sex offender’s management of his arousal as a clear sign of his rehabilitation. To explain the Board’s preoccupation with a sex offender’s sexual fantasies and arousal, I draw on a prison ethnography of a sex offender treatment program. Rehabilitation as risk management relies on the development of a crime cycle and relapse prevention plan designed to grasp the connection between fantasies, arousal and offending. I argue the parole hearing and treatment program exist in a symbiotic relationship that fabricates the sex offender into a species larger than life, one at risk of offending all the time. Key words: rehabilitation, sex offenders, parole, sexual fantasies, ethnography, prison.

scholarly journals Water Distribution Network's Modeling and Calibration. A Case Study based on Scarce Inventory Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Alves ◽  
J. Muranho ◽  
T. Albuquerque ◽  
A. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Water Distribution ◽  
Inventory Data

I cambiamenti nei sistemi di misurazione e valutazione manageriale nelle aziende ospedaliere universitarie come contesti multi-stakeholder: proposizioni teoriche ed evidenze empiriche

2012 ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Antonio Leotta ◽  
Daniela Ruggeri
Keyword(s):  
Health Professional ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Given the growing attention to changes in performance measurement and evaluation systems in healthcare contexts, the present study aims at improving our understanding of such processes within teaching hospitals, examining how managerial and health-professional logics contribute to these changes. In the theoretical part of the study we analyse teaching hospitals as multistakeholder contexts. Particularly, we propose a theoretical approach that represents changes as dialectical phenomena so as to explain how the interaction among influential stakeholders (representing managerial and professional logics) affects changes in performance measurement and evaluation systems. The empirical part of the paper is devoted to a case-study focused on changes in performance measurement and evaluation systems in a Sicilian teaching hospital. The empirical analysis aims at examining the observed changes in the light of the theoretical framework proposed, emphasizing the interactions among the logics that characterize the teaching hospital context.

scholarly journals Policing paedophilia: Assembling bodies, spaces and things

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Citizen Involvement ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Mixed Economy ◽  
The Us

In recent years, digital vigilantism, often dubbed ‘paedophile hunting’, has grabbed media headlines in the US, UK and Europe. Though this novel style of policing carries no legal or moral authority, it is nonetheless ‘taking hold’ within a pluralised policing landscape where its effectiveness at apprehending child sex offenders is capturing public attention. While the emergence of digital vigilantism raises normative questions of where the boundaries of citizen involvement in policing affairs might be drawn, this paper is concerned with firstly, how this kind of citizen-led policing initiative comes into being; secondly, how it emerges as an identifiable policing form; and thirdly, how it acquires leverage and makes its presence felt within a mixed economy of (authorised) policing actors, sites and technologies. The paper sets out a detailed case study of a ‘paedophile hunter’ in action, read through a provocative documentary film, first broadcast on mainstream UK television in October 2014. This lays the groundwork for thinking through the cultural relations of digital vigilantism, and how this proliferating mode of policing practice is engendered and mobilised through affective connectivities, performative political imaginaries and culturally-mediated dialogical praxis. In seeking an entry point for theorising emergent policing forms and their connectedness to other policing bodies, spaces and things, the paper concludes with a thumbnail sketch of assemblage thinking.

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