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sj-docx-1-ccj-10.1177_10439862231219470 – Supplemental material for Explaining the Extraordinary Decline in Chicago’s Homicide Arrest Rates, 1965 to 1994 and Beyond: Trends in Case Mix Versus Standards for Arrest
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ccj-10.1177_10439862231219470 for Explaining the Extraordinary Decline in Chicago’s Homicide Arrest Rates, 1965 to 1994 and Beyond: Trends in Case Mix Versus Standards for Arrest by Philip J. Cook and Javier Lopez in Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice</p
Franklin Zimring i Philip Cook laureatami Sztokholmskiej Nagrody Kryminologicznej 2020
No full text5 listopada 2019 r. ogłoszeni zostali kolejni zdobywcy Sztokholmskiej Nagrody Kryminologicznej. W tym roku laureatami zostali dwaj wybitni amerykańscy naukowcy: Philip J. Cook – profesor socjologii i ekonomii z Duke University w Durham oraz Franklin E. Zimring – profesor prawa z University of California w Berkeley. Wyróżnienie to zostało przyznane za badania dotyczące skutków polityki w zakresie broni palnej, które wpisują się w nurt evidence-based criminolog
Obituary: Philip J. Davis
No full textWith deep sorrow, we announce the passing of Philip J. Davis on March 14, 2018, at the age of 95. Phil was one of the founding fathers of SIAM and a prolificcontributor to SIAM News; he was an innovative mathematician, an inspiring teacher, an entertaining and wide-ranging author, and a profound thinker on the nature and significance of mathematics
The gun debate ::what everyone needs to know /
No full text"No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. With a balanced and broad-ranging approach, noted economist Philip J. Cook and political scientist Kristin A. Goss thoroughly cover the latest research, data, and developments on gun ownership, gun violence, the firearms industry, and the regulation of firearms. The authors also tackle sensitive issues such as the effectiveness of gun control, the connection between mental illness and violent crime, the question of whether more guns make us safer, and ways that video games and the media might contribute to gun violence. No discussion of guns in the U.S. would be complete without consideration of the history, culture, and politics that drive the passion behind the debate. Cook and Goss deftly explore the origins of the American gun culture and the makeup of both the gun rights and gun control movements. Written in question-and-answer format, the book will help readers make sense of the ideologically driven statistics and slogans that characterize our national conversation on firearms. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in getting a clear view of the issues surrounding guns and gun policy in America"-
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The gun debate ::what everyone needs to know /
No full text"No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. With a balanced and broad-ranging approach, noted economist Philip J. Cook and political scientist Kristin A. Goss thoroughly cover the latest research, data, and developments on gun ownership, gun violence, the firearms industry, and the regulation of firearms. The authors also tackle sensitive issues such as the effectiveness of gun control, the connection between mental illness and violent crime, the question of whether more guns make us safer, and ways that video games and the media might contribute to gun violence. No discussion of guns in the U.S. would be complete without consideration of the history, culture, and politics that drive the passion behind the debate. Cook and Goss deftly explore the origins of the American gun culture and the makeup of both the gun rights and gun control movements. Written in question-and-answer format, the book will help readers make sense of the ideologically driven statistics and slogans that characterize our national conversation on firearms. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in getting a clear view of the issues surrounding guns and gun policy in America"-
Can ChatGPT Be Considered an Author of a Medical Article?
No full textKazuki Ide, Philip Hawke, Takeo Nakayama, Can ChatGPT Be Considered an Author of a Medical Article?, Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, Volume 33, Issue 7, Pages 381-382, Released on J-STAGE July 05, 2023, Advance online publication April 08, 2023, Online ISSN 1349-9092, Print ISSN 0917-5040, https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20230030, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/33/7/33_JE20230030/_article/-char/e
After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States
No full textThe epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In parallel with our earlier treatment (Cook and Laub 1998), we assess two types of explanation for this drop -- those that focus on 'cohort' effects (including the effects of abortion legalization) and those that focus on 'period' effects (including the effects of the changing crack-cocaine trade). Once again we are able to reject the cohort-type explanations, yet also find contradictions with an account based on the dynamics of crack markets. The 'way out' of this epidemic has not been the same as the 'way in.' The relative importance in homicide of youths, racial minorities, and guns, all of which increased greatly during the epidemic, has remained high during the drop. Arrest patterns tell a somewhat different story, in part because of changing police practice with respect to aggravated assault. Finally, we demonstrate that the rise and fall of youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the rates of juvenile violence, forecasting rates is a risky business indeed. Effectively narrowing the range of plausible explanations for the recent ups and downs may require a long time horizon, consideration of a broader array of problem behaviors, and comparisons with trends in other countries.
Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick
No full textThis essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities
The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus
No full textDrinkers earn more than non-drinkers, even after controlling for human capital and local labor market conditions. Several mechanisms by which drinking could increase productivity have been proposed but are unconfirmed; the more obvious mechanisms predict the opposite, that drinking can impair productivity. In this paper we reproduce the positive association between drinking and earnings, using data for adults age 27-34 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979). Since drinking is endogenous in this relationship, we then estimate a reduced-form equation, with alcohol prices (proxied by a new index of excise taxes) replacing the drinking variables. We find strong evidence that the prevalence of full-time work increases with alcohol prices %u2013 suggesting that a reduction in drinking increases the labor supply. We also demonstrate some evidence of a positive association between alcohol prices and the earnings of full-time workers. We conclude that most likely the positive association between drinking and earnings is the result of the fact that ethanol is a normal commodity, the consumption of which increases with income, rather than an elixer that enhances productivity.
Measurement of the Branching Fraction ratioB(B[subscript c] ⁺→ψ(2S)π⁺)/B(B[subscript c]⁺→J/ψπ⁺)
No full textFurther distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Using pp collision data collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies √s = 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb⁻¹, the ratio of the branching fraction of the B[subscript c]⁺→ψ(2S)π⁺ decay relative to that of the B[subscript c]⁺→J/ψπ⁺ decay is measured to be 0.268±0.032(stat)±0.007(syst)±0.006(BF). The first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the uncertainties on the branching fractions of the J/ψ→μ⁺μ⁻ and ψ(2S)→μ⁺μ⁻ decays. This measurement is consistent with the previous LHCb result, and the statistical uncertainty is halved
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