illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

The concept of multiple murders (mm) is as old as humanity itself but it has only become prevalent in academic thought within the last three decades. Over this period scholars have introduced two main attitudes regarding multiple murders. Some argue that multiple murders are, theoretically and empirically, one concept that includes different sub-types: mass murder, spree murder, and serial murd...

This chapter describes an experimental computer program that deduces the meaning of novel verbs from the context of story descriptions. The key idea is a variation on Winston's (Winston, 1975) program that learned the structural descriptions of block world scenes. Instead of learning descriptions of toy block assemblies like ARCH and TOWER, the word-learning program acquires frame-based descrip...