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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though fair-minded and often generous to its intellectual opponents, the book is obviously an effort to discredit the reigning view that crime is largely, or entirely, the by-product of poverty, racism, broken families and other social disturbances. By focusing narrowly on environmental conditions that help breed crime, the authors write, criminologists overlook traits that many offenders seem to share. Criminals tend to be young males who are muscular rather than thin, and who have lower-than-average IQs and impulsive, "now"-oriented personalities, which make planning or even thinking about the future difficult. While these factors...
...were looking at the end product, the perception of those who hire," said Richard Brecker, chairman of Brecker & Merryman, the management consulting company that conducted the survey of 21 arbitrarily selected "top" business schools. For the survey, the firm asked personnel directors to rate schools' graduates in more than 40 different areas...
There are several competing systems. Digital Product's On Guard is an electronic handcuff. The offender wears a wristwatch-like device that must be inserted into a verifier box in response to random telephone calls from a corrections computer. Control Data's Home Escort system and Controlled Activities' Supervisor attach at the ankle. The Supervisor system used in Florida keeps constant vigil by sending a radio signal every 35 seconds to a central computer. If the signal stops, it tells officials that the prisoner has strayed more than 150 ft. or so from his house. The computer can be programmed...
...style and fashion which is today so central to the average person's sense of identity. During the second decade of this century the expansion of market relations into new spheres of social life generated major shifts in the cultural outlook for thousands of young Americans. This was the product of a deliberate attempt to equate consumption and the satisfaction of prefabricated desires with freedom and youthful rebellion, thereby facilitating the production of new conceptions of personal identity which were almost completely dependent upon the possession of status commodities. As cultural historian Stuart Ewen has noted, the object...
Regulations and Standards. Imagine how confused a professional football team would be if it faced a different set of game rules every time it played away from home. That is precisely the predicament of the world's exporters. Every nation has its own distinctive, and sometimes impenetrable, thicket of product standards, customs procedures, health and safety regulations and testing requirements...