crime is a human behavior that has captivated the thoughts of scholars of various disciplines throughout history. philosophers, sociologists, psychologists and others have investigated and analyzed the concept of crime from different aspects. crime is the main topic of criminal law, and in its legal meaning is a well-known term with a certain conceptual load that should not be confused with sim...

Introduction The production of knowledge is dominantly organized in disciplines. At the same time, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research is developing at the boundaries of the scientific disciplines. In this paper we compare disciplinary and non-disciplinary forms of knowledge production in terms of communication patterns. We will suggest an indicator for measuring the degree of inte...

he ambitious and integrated framework of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates that complex global problems span the natural and social sciences and that solutions to such problems demand a joint approach of the two. Despite decades of efforts toward better integration, much of society still presumes a stark divide between the disciplines, and most scientists...

Academic disciplines see research questions through the biases created by their presuppositions and preferred methods. Political science and communication are no different. In the past, political scientists more often focused on outcomes and the social and economic judgments that seemed to shape them while communication researchers have focused more intensely on the structure and content of the...

Is there a cross-disciplinary design theory and methodology? This special issue includes three contributions from disciplines that are not typical engineering fields where design theories and methodologies have intensively applied and well received. The first paper, titled “Agile Forward-Reverse Requirements Elicitation as a Creative Design Process: a Case Study of Illimitable Space System v2” ...

This study examines predictors of disciplinary problems for female inmates at a juvenile correctional facility. The study was an archival analysis of the records of inmates who were housed in an all-girls maximum security juvenile correctional facility and released during the months between June and December of 2010. Records from 112 girls ranging from the age of twelve to nineteen were used. D...

Th e Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney has recently undertaken signifi cant undergraduate curriculum reform aimed at reducing the number of similar, overlapping units of study and increasing the opportunities for disciplinary mingling at an undergraduate level. Th is paper presents some preliminary fi ndings concerning the impact of curriculum change in the context of a sin...

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This longitudinal study evaluated the effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary community-based service offering conservative treatment for Australian women suffering urinary incontinence and living independently in the community, in terms of urinary incontinence symptom severity, impact on quality of life and knowledge outcomes. One hundred and twenty-three women attending The Waterworx Centre, a ...