Kenneth S. Gunasekera, Olivier Marcy, Johanna Muñoz, Elisa López‐Varela et al.
BACKGROUND: Many children with pulmonary tuberculosis remain undiagnosed and untreated with related high morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in childhood tuberculosis algorithm development have incorporated prediction modelling, but studies so far have been small and localised, with limited gen...
Stephen W. Baron, David R. Forde
Utilizing a sample of 400 homeless street youths, the paper explores the role control balance plays in the generation of crime. Using vignettes designed to represent violent crime, serious property crime, and minor property crime, the paper tests whether these youths sense of control over their pove...
Stephen W. Baron
Utilizing differential social support and coercion theory, the study examines how levels of social support and coercion lead to involvement in organized criminal activities through the development of anger, low self-control, low social control, and access to illegitimate social support. The findings...
Stephen W. Baron
The paper explores the conditions under which the code of the street is more likely to lead to violence. Utilizing a sample of 400 homeless youths the paper examines how anger, self-centeredness, nerve, parental warmth, physical abuse, homelessness, negative attitudes toward the police, violent peer...
Stephen W. Baron
Utilizing a sample of 300 homeless street youths, the research examines the individual‐level sub‐model of Baumer’s interpretation of Merton’s anomie theory. The paper explores the role the interaction between monetary goals and weak commitment to legitimate means plays in the generation of instrumen...
Stephen W. Baron
Research focusing on deterrence has stressed the negative relationship between perceived formal sanctions and criminal behavior, ignoring the possibility that in some populations formal sanctions may serve to increase offending under some conditions. Utilizing a sample of 300 homeless street youths,...
Kenneth S. Gunasekera, Olivier Marcy, Johanna Muñoz, Elisa López‐Varela et al.
ABSTRACT Background Many children with pulmonary tuberculosis remain undiagnosed and untreated with related high morbidity and mortality. Diagnostic challenges in children include low bacterial burden, challenges around specimen collection, and limited access to diagnostic expertise. Algorithms that...
David G. Haglund, Joshua D. Kertzer
Abstract There has been much controversy over the role that ethnic diasporas (sometimes called “lobbies”) do or should play in shaping American foreign policy. This article looks at one particular ethnic group, American Jews, with a view to assessing the claim made by some authors, to the effect tha...