Developing Convict Criminology Beyond North America

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America

Outside North America

ions and first-class procedures We've seen two ways to express the square-root computation as an instance of a more general method, once as a fixed-point search and once using Newton's method. Since Newton's method was itself expressed as a fixed-point process, we actually saw two ways to compute square roots as fixed points. Each method begins with a function and finds a fixed point of some tr...

Travel in North America

Australian Institute of Criminology 3 North - Shore ` Granny ' Murders

There is at present a good deal of alarm, both in government and the community generally, concerning the level of violence in Australian society. Although the incidence of murder has in fact remained quite stable for many years, it remains the subject of widespread public anxiety and persistent media coverage. Serial murder in particular, because of its savagery and apparently random nature, ca...