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The six stages of criminal profiling in investigative analysis

Criminal profiling, or offender profiling, is a process by which law enforcement deduces a psychological and demographic picture of a perpetrator. Clues from the crime scene are used to develop a composite identity of a suspect or suspects.

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Homophobia, hate crimes, and discrimination against gay and lesbian individuals

There are not many social issues in the United States that are more controversial than same sex marriage.

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Crisis intervention theory and school-based applications

Crisis theory intervention can be traced back as far as 400 B.C. (Roberts 2005). However, more modern crisis theory came out of studies that were done on crisis and bereavement.

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John Dewey's introduction to ethics and moral conduct

Dewey's introduction in Ethics is rather broad in scope and makes an attempt to illustrate a brief overview of the reasons necessary to write this particular treatise.

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John Dewey's pragmatist approach to ethics and social theory

Other than Aristotle, John Dewey has been called the greatest philosopher who ever lived. His beliefs on ethics, though, are somewhat different than other philosophers and not always in line with what individuals such as Aristotle and Nietzsche discussed.

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Moby Dick as sociological commentary on nineteenth-century seafaring life

Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick has been read in countries and language from all over the world. It has been picked apart and analyzed from a plethora of analytical theories and contexts.

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Learner analysis and its importance in teaching

When presented with a teaching situation, one of the major challenges teachers must deal with is the various and often divergent sets of needs inherent in each student.

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Group therapy stages: initial, transition, and working phases

Group therapy has become a popular method for treating a wide range of addictions, disorders, and grief processes. As Corey and Corey (1997) state: "Groups provide a natural laboratory that demonstrates to people that they are not alone and that there is hope for creating a different life" (p.

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Russian banking system development and organizational culture

Anderson, RW & Chantal K. 1998, Transition banking: financial development of central and eastern Europe, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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Role-based aggression in Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

Studies of human aggression tend toward myriad and often competing conclusions about that which drives us to behave ethically or unethically, about the forces that incline us toward altruism as opposed to those which incline us toward aggression, about the impulses to behave according to internal…

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