We conducted a systematic analysis of studies that involved the treatment of rumination and operant vomiting in individuals with developmental disabilities. A total of 21 studies involving a combined 32 participants were identified and analyzed in terms of (a) participant characteristics, (b) dependent variables, (c) intervention procedures, (d) functional assessment procedures and results, (e)...

Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence suggests that public prosecutors and their influence on...

The severity, certainty and celerity (swiftness) of punishment are theorised to influence offending through deterrence. Yet is rarely included in empirical studies criminal activity the three deterrence factors have never been analysed one model. We address this gap with an analysis using unique panel data recorded theft, burglary violence against person for 41 Police Force Areas England Wales ...

In nine experiments—one a questionnaire given to Israeli judges, the rest on the World Wide Web—we examined the effect of probability of detection of an offense on judgments of punishment. When cases differing in probability were separated, we found almost no evidence for attention to probability (as found previously by others). When cases were presented next to each other, however, a substanti...

Researching the correlates of men's sexually aggressive behavior (i.e., verbal coercion and rape) is critical to both understanding and preventing sexual aggression. This study examined 120 men who completed an anonymous online questionnaire. The study aimed to determine the relative importance of two potential correlates of men's self-reported use of sexual aggression: (a) perceptions that mal...

Abstract This study examined how illicit drug users perceived roadside testing (RDT) in Queensland, a jurisdiction that enforces zero-tolerance enforcement strategy to driving. Fifty-two were interviewed, and thematic analysis was used identify emerging themes. The results showed exposure RDT apprehension certainty reportedly low. targeted regime of had dichotomous implications towards certaint...

William Neal Moore was indicted by a grand jury in Jefferson County, Georgia, for the April 2, 1974 malice murder and armed robbery of Fredger Stapleton, an elderly black man and the uncle of an acquaintance of Mr. Moore. At a hearing conducted before Judge Walter C. McMillan, Jr. in the Superior Court of Jefferson County on June 4, 1974, Mr. Moore waived trial by jury with respect to both guil...