Author Robin Shephard Engel attempts to answer whether or not patrol supervisors effectively influence their officers' behavior. Engel examines data collected for the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN). The POPN is a large-scale systematic observational study of police behavior including patro...

Scientology is a fairly new religion. Founded in the twentieth-century by a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. He began his studies long ago and wrote a book in 1950 called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He claimed that this book was one of the first tools used to solve the ...

Little Red knew exactly what her mother wanted since she had gone along to Grandma's house many times before. Being in the phallic stage, Little Red was always modeling her mother's behavior. As Little Red skipped along the path, a big, but not too bad looking, wolf approached her and ...

Value Issues- Social work values call for everyone, regardless of their beliefs, practices, or backgrounds, to be treated with dignity, given equal access to societal institutions, opportunities and resources, and supported in contributing their unique talents to their families, communities and c...

"In Philadelphia, a pulsating tavern juke box that has caused irate neighbors to log 500 Police calls in six months, was moved away from a common wall with the adjoining building. (Author unknown US News) The calls stopped. Though it seems simple, such a move is at the heart of what we know as Com...

Five Design Styles Schools were originally set up to handle a society in which it was imbedded in a society of farms and factories (Reinventing Schools). Today only about twenty percent of employed population now works in these areas (RS). Schools not only have to deal with career changes in o...

Last Christmastime, I was trying to entertain a thoroughly bored five-year-old while one of my co-workers at The Home Depot sold her mother some flooring. The child, used to getting her way, pointed to a colorful wallpaper book that was out of her reach and demanded that I retrieve it for her. Not t...