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Collecting, also referred to as “gathering” or “foraging,” is a broad anthropological term used to describe a food production strategy....

Colobine primates make up one of the two major groups of Old World monkeys. All Old World monkeys are members...

Globalization has inevitably become part of all industries, as we observe the economy stretch worldwide due to cheaper travel, better...

Although the biotech industry is a relatively new source of medical therapies – its first new drug approvals came in...

The specialty of radiology, diagnostic imaging, has revolutionized the practice of medicine across the globe. No other form of diagnostic...

Diagnostic imaging uses noninvasive devices to visualize internal human anatomy and physiology. In higher-income, developed economies of the world there...

There are two likely sources for the word gambling: the Old Saxon gamene, which became abbreviated to the contemporary ‘‘game’’;...

Gender refers to the socially constructed differences between women and men, while the term ‘‘sex’’ is a reference to the...

There is widespread acceptance of the idea that ‘‘sport is good for health.’’ The ideology linking health and sports has...

Ideology and sports refers to the way in which the latter, as a distinct form of leisure activity, impacts upon...

According to the ideal type suggested by Freidson (2001), sport does not exhibit all of the characteristics of a profession....

Race and sports have been in complex articulation since the nineteenth century, yet a critical sociology of sport and race...

Despite acknowledgments of sport as a legitimate focus of sociological analysis from early thinkers such as Spencer, Simmel, Weber, Scheler,...

For sociologists subscribing to a hierarchical model of culture, sports may be regarded as its antithesis: a bodily practice, of...

Identity is a rather loose concept which has various degrees of currency in a number of different disciplines. For example,...

The literature on sport and social capital is scarce and discussions are fragmented because there are disagreements about the definition...

Domestic violence risk assessment is the evaluation of characteristics of an offender, offense, or other circumstances considered relevant to the...

In correctional settings, risk assessment serves to classify offenders by their likelihood of future offense-related behavior and misconduct by identifying...

Offender risk assessment is the foundation of many interventions in the criminal justice system that affects public safety and the...

Evaluating risk of reoffending for a young person who has come into conflict with the law serves several important functions....

Predicting violence and criminal behavior is a particularly challenging endeavor for the criminal justice system and forensic mental health clinicians...

Although legal definitions of sexual offenses vary, the term sexual offending typically denotes offenses whereby an individual engages in unwanted...

Stalking can be defined as a pattern of targeted, repeated, and unwanted intrusive acts that can be reasonably expected to...

Structured professional judgment (SPJ) is a formal method of evaluating the risk of future violence. Such evaluations are required in...

Violence risk assessment is a professional task that is required in numerous legal and clinical settings. It has as its...

The Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sexual Offense Recidivism (ERASOR) is a risk assessment tool using a structured professional judgment...

A moral panic is an episode or period of community fear or hysteria generated by a perceived social crisis or...

Reports often indicate fears that violence in society is on the rise, especially on high school and college campuses throughout...

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey is administered every spring to approximately 50,000 total students randomly selected in grades 8,...

Serious violent victimization rates were lower at school than away from school from 1992 through 2004. An online edition is...

Assessing school violence in the Middle East is difficult because there are so many potential compounding and contributing factors. First,...

Since the surge in juvenile violence in the 1980s and the very visible school shootings of the 1990s, activists, juvenile...

Although speculation about the mental stability of school shooters has generally ensued after each major incident, there seems to be...

The music of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (real name Brian Warner) is definitely controversial. This musician was banned from performing in...

On November 1, 1991, 28-year-old Gang Lu, who had received his doctoral degree in physics during the previous spring, killed...

Fourteen-year-old honor student Barry Loukaitis entered Frontier High School in Moses Lake, Washington, on February 2, 1996, armed with a...

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“Man’s consciousness has no fixed boundary.”  Avalon: Shakti & Shakta In this our age of fear, anxiety and materialism, the doctrine...

Put simply, walking  is a series of forward falls. Keep falling forward, one  foot after the other (without falling on...

What I’ve discussed so far applies to any kind of terrain, but you’ll experience different challenges when you head off...

For  safety,  make  sure  someone  is  with  you  when  you  complete  this evaluation. For an exact distance, use a track or...