The Salt March and Political Power

This paper explores the vision of Gandhi, one most important leaders of the 20th Century, from a theoretical perspective. According to Gandhi, rulers cannot have power without consent of their subjects. Nonviolent movements of civil disobedience, such as the famous Salt March, are manifestations of the power that can be best interpreted considering the theory of pluralistic dependency, addressing the legitimate origins of power and power contestation

Implicit vs Explicit Mood Congruent Memory Bias in Depression.

Mood congruent memory (MCM) in depressed individuals, tends to be biased toward memories consistent with their mood, i.e. negative or unpleasant memories. Although MCM is a robust finding, the large majority of studies have used free-recall paradigms, and that methodology does little to delineate the cognitive mechanisms determining MCM. This study was designed to investigate whether MCM bias is a function of implicit or explicit memory. Implicit memory is taken as a measure of the organization or strength of association of the aspects of a memory representation, whereas explicit memory also taps elaboration that may involve control procedures such as retrieval strategies. Thus a comparison of implicit and explicit MCM bias may provide important information about the involvement of the structure of the memory representation, or the involvement of elaboration processes in MCM. Two groups, a group of clinical depressives and a comparison group, were studied. Each group engaged in an encoding task involving words of varying affective valence. Following this encoding task, all subjects engaged in an explicit memory task (cued recall), and an implicit memory test (word completion). As expected, a MCM bias was found in explicit memory, however, contrary to predictions, no MCM bias was found in implicit memory. This finding was interpreted as supporting the involvement of elaborative mechanisms in MCM. A second finding showed that MCM was found with depression items but not with physical threat words. Thus, the MCM bias in explicit memory is somewhat specific to information that is congruent with depression rather than to all negativistic information

The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts.AIDS/HIV, data quality, interviewer effects, representativeness, response reliability, sample attrition, Sub-Saharan Africa

Liaison psychiatry services in Wales

Aims and method: Recent funding from Welsh Government for mental health has helped to develop liaison psychiatry services in Wales. Systematic data collection was undertaken to map the liaison psychiatry services in Wales in collaboration with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales and Public Health Wales 1000 Lives Improvement. A questionnaire was designed and circulated to all the health boards in Wales to gather information to map liaison psychiatry services in Wales. Up-to-date information was confirmed in January 2018, via email. Results: Over the past 2 years, liaison psychiatry services have been set up in six out of seven health boards in Wales. Staffing levels have increased and the remit of services has broadened. Clinical implications: Mapping has highlighted that liaison psychiatry services in Wales continue to evolve. It will be important to continue to monitor these developments and their effects. Comparison with services in England will provide a useful comparison of service provision. A particular challenge will be to establish and monitor liaison psychiatry standards in Wales. Declaration of interest: None

The Nature of Crime by School Resource Officers: Implications for SRO Programs

School resource officers (SROs) have become a permanent presence in many K-12 schools throughout the country. As a result, an emerging body of research has focused on SROs, particularly on how SROs are viewed by students, teachers, and the general public. This exploratory and descriptive research employs a different focus by examining the nature of crimes for which SROs were arrested in recent years with information gathered from online news sources. The current findings are encouraging insofar as they reveal that SROs are rarely arrested for criminal misconduct. When SROs were arrested, however, they are most often arrested for a sex-related offense involving a female adolescent. These sex-related incidents generally occurred away from school property or during nonschool hours and rarely involved the use of physical force. The implications of these findings for SRO programs are discussed

Purchase Behaviors During Emergencies: Exploratory Analyses and Predictive Models

In this study, we distinguish between traditional emergency events (i.e., those that occur frequently) and novel emergency events (i.e., those that occur rarely in one’s lifetime). We examine consumers’ shopping behaviors during both types of emergency events. Using data from a U.S. supermarket chain, we answer three research questions. First, we conduct multiple cluster analyses and identify three distinct shopping behaviors during emergency events, namely strategic, routine, and stocking. Second, we examine how consumers change their shopping behaviors toward novel emergency events and find that majority of consumers continue to engage in routine shopping behaviors. Third, we examine how to predict shopping behaviors before emergency events and show that all three types of shopping behaviors can be predicted with reasonable levels of accuracy based on consumers’ spending before emergency events

“Waltzing with the Monster,” Interventions with the Substance-Abusing Adolescent for Pastors, Treatment Providers, and Family

The biblical story of the Prodigal Son is a universal experience made significantly more precarious by the use of mind altering chemicals. A review of the literature reveals that approximately half of all problems impacting American families are caused or exacerbated by the abuse of alcohol or other drugs. This project\u27s focus is the impact of substance abuse on the developing adolescent. Chemical hijacking of the brain\u27s pleasure centers and resultant dysfunction is examined. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention are discussed. Interventions which facilitate the young person\u27s homecoming and implications for the community of faith are integrated

An Exploration of Change or Stability Over Time (2005-2018) in the Number and Likelihood of Police Officers Arrested, Dismissed, and Convicted for On- and Off-Duty Misconduct

This research was presented at the annual conference of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association on September 28, 2023, in Chicago, IL

An Exploration of the Nature and Disposition of Crimes Committed by Sheriffs and Sheriff’s Deputies

Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, on March 18, 2022