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In the U.S. legal system, mitigation (known also as mitigating evidence or mitigating factors) encompasses facts about a defendant’s background,...

Native American tribal courts are grounded in the principle of sovereignty. Many of the more than 500 tribes recognized by...

When someone is assaulted by a family member, has his or her identity stolen, or arrives home to find the...

The past forty years have been marked by a dramatic increase in awareness, education, specialized services, and system reform for...

In an irony of history, on April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed legisla­tion creating the U.S. Secret Service, the...

The offices of U.S. Marshal and Deputy U.S. Marshal were created by the Judi­ciary Act of 1789, the same law...

The U.S. Border Patrol is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. It represents a line of defense for...

Although unionization of police officers is not universal in the United States, all major agencies have either a formal labor...

Of all available statistical series on crime, criminality, victimization, and criminal justice processing of offenders, unquestionably the most widely used...

Undercover investigations involve covert means of discovering information based on the actions of a human agent. The agent may be...

Tribal police are the primary law enforcement agencies on Native American Indian (hereafter, Indian) reservations. Historically, enforcement of tribal law...

Without doubt the most compelling development in organized crime at the end of the twentieth century is the trend toward...

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Moral  disengagement  is  the  conditional  endorsement  of  transgressive  behavior  through  the  use of  any  of  eight  psychosocial  mechanisms  and  is...

Moral judgment refers to the determination a person  makes  about  an  action  (or  inaction),  motive, situation,  or  person  in  relation ...

Moral reasoning is focused on what, from a moral standpoint,  a  person  should  do  in  a  given  situation.  Moral  reasoning ...

The  study  of  morality  in  sport  has  attracted  the interest   of   many   sport   psychologists,   partly because  of  the  pervasive  and ...

Sportspersonship has long been a topic of interest in physical education (PE) and sport environments and  is  one  of  the ...

The  term  social  responsibility  refers  to  an  ethical ideology  whereby  organizations  and  individuals have an obligation to act in manners...

Motor development is the movement science discipline concerned with age-related changes in movement  patterns  and  the  underlying  processes  that drive ...

Coordination is something we all take for granted— at least until it breaks down under extreme stress (as it does...

Feedback,  or  response-produced  feedback,  consists  of  all  the  information  an  individual  receives as a result of a practice trial of...

Biological   organisms   cannot   repeat   a   movement  exactly  the  same  way  across  practice  trials or  attempts.  In  other  words,  there  is ...

With the increasing migration of communication and information provision to the web, new research methods are emerging to cope with...

Log-file analysis uses the records stored in the transaction logs of information retrieval systems, web search engines, and websites to...

Within a decade of its commercialization, mobile communication is now often used more than landline telephony. In the early 1990s,...

Network forms of organizations are characterized by reciprocal, lateral communication ties. They are often contrasted with hierarchies, which are vertically...

Open access (OA) refers to a publishing practice in which users are granted rights of free access to digital content....

Open source software (OSS) refers to software that can be freely used and modified. It is developed collaboratively over the...

The emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking shows that technological determinism can be turned on its head: rather than socio-economic systems...

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) includes electronic mail, group discussion systems, and real-time chat systems through which people send messages to others,...

The term “online media” primarily refers to technical communication media where digital content is transmitted from any kind of server...

Personal publishing by an individual or small group – generally not for profit and generally not aimed at a mass...

Defined as a communication process involving a seasoned professional who counsels, guides, and tutors a protégé (Waldeck et al. 1997),...

Pedagogy is commonly defined as the principles and methods of instruction. Instructional pedagogy, at all levels, is mediated through the...

Reticence is a communication problem with cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions and is due to the belief that one is...

Because a teacher is a manager of a communication environment, investigation into the teaching process analyzes the complexity of the...

Sesame Street is an educational children’s television series for preschoolers that teaches a broad range of curricula, from letter and...

Speech anxiety, also known as stage fright, refers to the feeling of anxiousness or fear associated with delivering a speech....

Stage fright is the anxiety and nervousness people experience when delivering oral presentations. In the field of communication, stage fright...

McCroskey and Wheeless, the first to introduce the concept of “affinity” in the communication literature, defined it as “a positive...