While early research focused on the political roots of terrorism, many of today's investigators are probing the psychological factors that drive adherents to commit their deadly deeds. Are terrorists mentally ill or do they rationally weigh the costs and benefits of their actions and conclude that terrorism is profitable? Our author traces recent advances in using imaging and experimental resea...

Cardiovascular disease accounts for one in three deaths in the United States each year, and coronary heart disease and stroke account for most of those deaths. To try to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Million Hearts initiative, promoting proven and effective interventions in communities and clinical settings. In...

The literature on R&D contests implicitly assumes that contestants submit their innovation regardless of its value. This ignores a potential adverse selection problem. The present paper analyzes the procurement of innovations when the procurer cannot commit to never bargain with innovators who bypass the contest. We compare fixed-prize tournaments with and without entry fees, and optimal scorin...

Juvenile delinquency comes in many forms-one of which is theft. This a social phenomenon with continuation criminology. crimes are major concern because children generation thenation. Children who commit criminal Acts certainly have both internal and external causes. The treatment child criminals part the policy as protection effort form law enforcement. Criminology plays an important role this...

Criminals are drawn for the most part from, what are often mis-called, the criminal classes, that is, from the poor and needy, the maimed and the diseased?the halfstarved submerged tenth?whose main inducement to crime is that they have been less fortunate than their fellows in the division of this world's) goods. The majority are, on conviction, in decidedly indifferent health, and it is extrem...

White collar crimes are characterized by “deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent upon the application or threat of physical force or violence. Such acts are committed by individuals and organizations to obtain personal or business advantage” (Ref. 1, p 3). Health care fraud is a form of white collar crime that may be committed by health care providers, consumers, compa...