Supernova impostor pegged as repeat offender

Physics Today ◽  
2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Offender

An experimental evaluation of the phoenix repeat offender program

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan F. Abrahamse ◽  
Patricia A. Ebener ◽  
Peter W. Greenwood ◽  
Nora Fitzgerald ◽  
Thomas E. Kosin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Repeat Offender ◽  
The Phoenix

Evaluation of a Repeat Offender Unit in Phoenix, Arizona, 1987-1989

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Petersilia ◽  
Allan F. Abrahamse ◽  
Patricia A. Ebener ◽  
Peter W. Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Offender

Sherlock Holmes: Pioneer in Forensic Science

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Forensic Science ◽  
Body Measurements ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Repeat Offender ◽  
Poor Academic Performance ◽  
High Regard

Holmes may have admired Bertillon’s work, but that did not prevent him from being resentful about it in The Hound of the Baskervilles (HOUN). When Dr. James Mortimer told Holmes that Bertillon was the highest expert in Europe, Holmes admitted that he was off ended by the ranking. So who was this man held in such high regard? Alphonse Bertillon was a French anthropologist born in 1853. His poor academic performance was followed by difficulty holding a job. In 1879, his influential father Louis, a famous physician and anthropologist, obtained a job for him as a clerk with the Parisian police (Wagner 2006, 97–98). He started work in March 1879, and became interested in the problem of identifying recidivists, that is, repeat off enders. It was French policy to exile recidivists to their colonies (Cole 2001, 33). But there was no procedure for identifying them. Fingerprinting did not exist, and even mug shots were not yet used. Upon a second arrest, recidivists would merely use a pseudonym. Bertillon wanted to develop a system of identification based on ideas mentioned in 1840 by a Belgian statistician named Quetelet (Wagner 2006, 98). Bertillon found his job with the police to be very boring, as he collected and filed much information, most of it never used again and worthless. So, on October 1, 1879 (Cole 2001, 49), he submitted a report proposing a method of identification using body measurements. The report was ignored (Wagner 2006, 98). Louis Bertillon liked his son’s suggestion. Louis had in fact attempted to classify people, not identify them, by measuring the lengths of their bones. So he was naturally attracted to Alphonse’s idea to use such measurements to identify criminals (Cole 2001, 34). In 1882, with help from his influential father, Alphonse Bertillon was given two assistants and some funding. He was given three months to identify a repeat offender. He succeeded with one week remaining.

Supernova impostor pegged as repeat offender

Physics Today ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
Ashley G. Smart
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Offender

scholarly journals Guilt and Shame of What Might Have Been in Optimistic Offender Drivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Hugo Criado del Valle
Keyword(s):  
Driving Simulator ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Repeat Offender ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Driving License ◽  
Driving Task ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Simulated Driving Task

Habitual offender drivers are required to recover points lost on their driving license by attending reeducation courses, an experience that may, upon reflection of the incident in question, induce feelings of guilt or shame for the infractions they committed. A simulated driving task studied optimistic offender drivers to analyze the extent to which the controllability of the situational context influenced their use of internal and external factors in counterfactual thoughts and emotions such as guilt and shame. The study involved 160 drivers, of whom 54 were categorized as repeat offender drivers while 106 drivers attended courses for advanced professional driving licenses. The participants drove along a route in a driving simulator, which had been previously adjusted for the difficulty to generate a perception of high or low control. Based on the outcome obtained by the participants in this stage, each driver had to report which resources they required to improve their outcomes. Different factor ANOVAs were used to analyze our findings. The results indicated that optimistic offenders, unlike other groups (i.e., optimistic non-offender and pessimistic non-offender), thought that their results could have been better if external factors had been present (i.e., upward counterfactuals), both under conditions of high and low control. They believed their results would have been worse had it not been for their internal resources (i.e., downward counterfactuals), especially under conditions of low control. Concerning emotions of guilt and shame, offender optimists had the lowest values in both conditions compared with the other groups. We may contend that optimistic offender drivers thought they could have obtained better outcomes if external factors had been involved. In the low control condition, they justified that if it were not for such internal skills, their results could have been worse. When they generated such thoughts, the emotions of guilt and shame were minimal.

The Lasting Impact of NCAA Sanctions: SMU and the Death Penalty

2021 ◽  
pp. 152700252110246
Author(s):  
Kerianne Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Synthetic Control ◽  
Synthetic Control Method ◽  
Repeat Offender ◽  
School Year ◽  
Southern Methodist University ◽  
The Cost

In 1987, the Southern Methodist University (SMU) football program received the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA’s) harshest penalty, often referred to as the “death penalty.” SMU was caught committing two or more major violations of NCAA rules in [Formula: see text] years. Therefore, under the repeat offender clause, their football program was terminated for the 1987–1988 school year, and they chose to take the next season off as well. In the years following the death penalty, the team struggled to find success. Using the synthetic control method, this article measures the cost of the death penalty in terms of athletic performance and the university’s finances.

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