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An Exposition of Police Badge Policy: Ten Reasons in Support of a Single-badge
(Texas Police Journal, 1197-12)Modern police departments allow for a variety of police badges, i.e., one for patrol officers, one for supervisors, one for detectives, etc. While the rationale behind this policy may have been embedded in tradition, its ... -
Andrew Jackson and Gamal Abdul-Nasser: A Behavioral Study in Comparative Political Leadership
(University of Utah, 1971)The purpose of the present study is twofold: (1) to examine the essential components of leadership in general and charismatic leadership in particular, and (2) to deduce some predictive generalizations pertaining to the ... -
Stopped for a Traffic Ticket: A Getaway Scale Index
(Sentry, 1979)Have you ever wondered why you wind up each year with more traffic tickets than your friends whom you consider worse drivers than you are? The chances are they talk their way out of them, at least some. They know how to ... -
Police Training and Police Professionalism in Egypt
(Police Chief, 1983-04)A small portion of the police community in the U. S. are familiar with Egypt beyond perhaps being the "cradle of ancient civilization", a developing nation, a Muslim society, and the birthplace of President Sadat who ... -
Law, Crime and Society in Islamic Jurisprudence
(Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1987-12)Judging the religiosity of individuals 1s difficult in itself, is often misleading, and is biblically condemned. Juding the religiosity of societies can be easier since in their aggregate, and in comparison with each other, ... -
Comments on the Essence of Management
(Justice Professional, 1988)The purpose of this article is to articulate the essence of management "outside the shop," through a process of fine tuning based on contrasting its tenets with those of the traditionally better known concept of organization. ... -
Criminal Justice and Policing in the Kingdom of Nepal
(Journal of CJ International, 1988-03)Nestled in the cradle of the highest mountains on earth, it is not surprising that Nepal has come to be known as the kingdom where deities mingle with mortals. In the Nepalese Himalaya, called the "Abode of the Gods," there ... -
The Global Poultry Agro/Food Complex
(International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 1991)The globalization of the food system is a topic of growing concern as various nation/states try to obtain food security. This analysis test the hypothesis of the existence of a poultry agro/food complex being constructed ... -
The Globalization of the Agricultural and Food Sector and Theories of the State
(International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 1991)The paper investigates the theoretical dislocation between the domestic oriented character of theories of the State and the transnational character of theories of socio-economic development. Employing the case of the food ... -
Theory, Epistemology and Critical Rural Sociology
(International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 1992)This paper would like to provide an alternative to the Marx-Weber dichotomy which has recently emerged in rural sociological studies. It consists of the re-proposition of critical sociology as a mode of scientific investigation ... -
Dividing the world: The dichotomous rhetoric of Ronald Reagan
(Multilingua, 1993)The language of politics often divides our world into two groups: those who share our own values, and those who supposedly oppose them. Ex-President Ronald Reagan was a master of the use of dichotomous language. His ... -
Structural relations and Finnish-English code switching
(Linguistics, 1993)While several initially convincing code-switching theories have been proposed, the introduction of a new pair of code-switched languages often seems to present puzzles to the earlier proposed constraints. In this paper I ... -
Global Post-Fordism and Concepts of the State
(International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 1994)Following a review of the literature on the State and some of the basic features of global post-Fordism, it is maintained that global post-Fordism can be synthesized through a set of four dialectical relationships: ... -
The Global Agri-food Sector and the Case of the Tuna Industry: Global Regulation and Perspectives for Development
(International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture, 1994)Employing the case of the global tuna fish industry the paper investigates the effect of globalization on political institutions and social agents. Three interrelated points are argued. First, it is maintained that while ... -
Transforming Personalized Speech: Bridging the Worlds of Home, School, and Clinic for the Preschooler with Language Delays
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation), 1995)Teachers and speech and language therapists worked with language-delayed and language-disordered preschoolers in a program to remediate communication problems (Haas, 1993). Despite these efforts, the children failed to ... -
The United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Offenders: An Overview With Specific Reference to the Situation in Developing Countries
(1995-03)Anyone who reads the newspapers or watches the miracle of CNN on television cannot escape noting the atrocities committed against prisoners in so many parts of the world. Just recently, atrocities have been reported by the ... -
The quality inclusion process: Assuring the quality of inclusive practices for students with disabilities
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The Global Economy and Democracy: the Tuna-Dolphin Controversy Revisited
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CAFO CONTROVERSY IN THE TEXAS PANHANDLE REGION: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OF HOG PRODUCTION
(Culture and Agriculture, 1999)In this analysis we use the case of the expansion of mega hog operations in the Panhandle area of Texas to illustrate the strategies corporate actors employ to counter environmental concerns expressed by activist groups. ... -
The crisis of representation: the limits of liberal democracy in the global era
(Journal of Rural Studies, 2000)In liberal thought, democracy is guaranteed by the unity of community and government. The community of citizens elects its government according to political preferences. The government rules over the community with powers ...