This paper was presented at the Conference on Strategies of Longitudinal Research on Drug Use, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976. The conference proceedings were supposed to be published by Denise Kandel who organized the conference, but that didn’t happen. In 1989, after more than a decade of waiting, I decided to revise the paper and see it into print, but after some minor editing I stopped, feelin...

Malicious software, such as viruses and Trojan horse programs, can automate a variety of attacks for criminals and is partially responsible for the global increase in cybercrime. Criminology, however, has been slow to explore the theoretical causes and correlates of malware victimization. This study uses a routine activities framework to explore data loss caused by malware infection in a colleg...

This study investigates gender differences in adolescent drug use in terms of parental monitoring and peer deviance. Females are found to be more highly monitored than males, whereas males are more exposed to deviant peers than are females. There is a significant interaction between parental monitoring and peer deviance for the sample as a whole. The effect of this interaction is greater among ...

This article attempts to show and map the feminist agenda in writings of Indonesian women writers. Focusing on selected prominent writers whose works can be categorized as articulating ideas perspectives, namely Suwarsih Djojopuspito, Nh Dini, Oka Rusmini, Ratih Kumala, Intan Paramaditha, I demonstrate how these question examine cultural attributes a crucial part gender construction their works...

Background: Organizational cynicism is one of the important behavioral issues affecting employee performance, thereby reducing organizational efficiency. This study aims to design and evaluate a model for antecedents and consequences of organizational cynicism in employees of an industrial company in Iran. Materials and Methods: In this applied descriptive-correlational study, the statistical ...

A nonparametric method and a Bayesian hierarchical modelling method are proposed in this paper for the detection of environmental thresholds. The nonparametric method is based on the reduction of deviance, while the Bayesian method is based on the change in the response variable distribution parameters. Both methods are tested using macroinvertebrate composition data from a mesocosm experiment ...

Abstract The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies countervailing forces of attraction excitement are at the heart subcultural account crime. underground hacker subculture is no exception, commonly represented as based around exciting, technically skilled practices high-profile deviance. However, illicit economy associated with these has become industrialized, developing share...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...