• 1. Overview: Crime in Japan and the United States
• 2. The Historical and Legal Framework
• 3. Overview of Police
• 4. Koban Police
• 5. Attitudes of the Police toward Their Work
• 6. The Hokkaido and Okayama Prefectural Police Forces
• 7. The Investigation of Crime
• 8. Courts, Corrections and Probation
• 9. Crime by Foreigners
• 10. Crisis with Youth
• 11. The Police and the Community
• 12. Conclusion.
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• Overview: crime in Japan and the United States-- the historical and legal framework-- overview of police-- Koban police-- attitudes of police toward their work-- the Hokkaido and Okayama prefectural police forces-- the investigation of crime-- courts, corrections and probabtion-- crime by foreigners-- crisis with youth-- the police and the community.
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A study of the Japanese police system, taking a comparative approach in which the author compares many Japanese police practices side by side with US policy practices. It places the investigation of police behaviour within the setting of other criminal justice institutions such as the courts.
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This study draws on direct observation of Japanese police practices combined with interviews of police officials, criminal justice practitioners, legal scholars, and private citizens. It incorporates data collected from different parts of Japan, including documents, reports, and other written material. As a key feature, the study compares many Japanese police practices side by side with U.S. police practices. It also places the investigation of police behavior within the setting of other criminal justice institutions such as the courts and prisons, and considers the role of the police in the broader cultural and historical Japanese framework.
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A comedy of Aristophanes was in large measure a musical performance, and his lyric verse covers a wide range of styles - from popular song to parody of tragedy. The music is lost, and our only way of recovering something of the experience of an Athenian audience is by studying the rhythms of the poetry. This book provides a full text, with scansions, of the lyric of the surviving plays, and an introduction to the different rhythms used by Aristophanes, their origins, and literary associations. Dr Parker pays particular attention to showing the role played by lyric metre in the structure of the plays and to distinguishing the different levels of musical style, thus illustrating the integral part metre plays in Aristophanes' dramatic art and satire. She also discusses fully the metrical aspects of textual problems in Aristophanes' lyric, and a section of the introduction traces the evolution of the study of Aristophanes' metres and the influence this has on the text.
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Describes the organization of crimefighting techniques of the Japanese police force and examines the role of the police in Japanese society.
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• 1. Introduction: The State of Developmental Education
• 2. The History of Developmental Education
• 3. Developmental Education as a State Strategy Toward State and Institutional Goals
• 4. South Carolina
• 5. Oklahoma
• 6. Colorado
• 7. North Carolina
• 8. Kentucky
• 9. Rethinking Developmental Education Policy and Practice.
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The State of Developmental Education captures the current condition of state developmental education policy as it is implemented in higher education institutions. Few studies have examined the role that policy plays in the implementation and execution of developmental education on campuses, particularly at four-year institutions. Parker, Bustillos, and Barrett examine state developmental education policies of five states by exploring the impact these policies have on institutions and documenting how institutional actors respond to these policies. If states and indeed the nation are to meet the educational attainment goals, particularly bachelor's degree attainment, it is important that both four- and two-year colleges and universities share in the responsibility of educating students.
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• 1. A "horrible lust for living blood": Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth-Century Literature--
• 2. A Comparative Reading of Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892)--
• 3. She Hid it Well: Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction--
• 4. Speculative Biographies: Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women--
• 5. The Murdering Woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese Cultural Context--
• 6. The Bodies of Lizzie Borden--
• 7. Increasingly Monstrous Representation of Real Female Killers in American Cinema: I Want To Live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)--
• 8. "Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma": Maternal Virtue and Mrs. Voorhees--
• 9. Women on Death Row: Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics of Identity--
• 10. Lethal Ladies: The Stars of John Waters' Female Trouble and Serial Mom--
• 11. The Birth of the Female Youth Rampage--
• 12. Women Who Kill: Law & Order, Dexter & The Wire--
• 13. Killing a Husband: Alice Arden and her Accomplices on the Early Modern Stage--
• 14. "There's so much I want to tell her": Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and the Transference of Femininity--
• 15. Sheila's Deposition, 1997--
• 16. Another Day in Court: Women Playwrights--
• 17. The Murdering Mother in Marina Carr's Plays.
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A collection that examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. It suggests that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as they apply to women criminals.
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• Series foreword
• 1. A climate change tale
• 2. Climate chaos : what may come
• What this book is about
• What's happening to our climate
• Why the climate is changing
• The greenhouse effect
• Greenhouse gases and temperature
• Sea level rise
• Dangerous climate change
• The most worrisome greenhouse gases
• The speed of climate change
• Greenhouse gas emissions across nations
• Peak petroleum
• The book's outline
• 3. Temperature : home is getting hotter
• It could get hot
• Heat and our health
• The most vulnerable to heat stress
• Poverty : another risk factor for heat stress
• Geography matters
• Gender considerations
• Race and ethnicity
• Fewer deaths from cold weather?
• Global warming and behavior
• Solutions
• 4. Air : breathing harder
• The climate-air pollution connection
• Ozone and health
• Who is most vulnerable to ozone effects?
• Children
• Other vulnerable populations
• Particulate matter
• Forest fires and breathing
• Dust
• Other air toxins
• Pollen and climate change
• Who decides how clean our air will be?
• Air quality and your mental health
• Solutions
• 5. Water : water, water everywhere or neverthere
• Risks to our water
• How we use water
• Where our water comes from
• How much water we need
• Droughts affect health
• Droughts and infectious disease
• Droughts and fires
• Floods affect health
• Climate change and water availability
• Melting snowpack
• Melting glaciers
• Desalination
• Bottled water
• Water conservation--more than just personal virtue
• Water scarcity, conservation, and mental health
• Solutions
• 6. Cataclysmic events : pounding people and the planet
• A cavalcade of harm
• Floods and inundations
• Floods, contamination, and disease
• Floods, mold, and more
• Storm surge
• Saltwater contamination of wells
• Erosion
• Other effects of cataclysmic events on health
• Risk to infrastructure and health
• Displaced people
• Conflict --Cataclysmic events and mental health
• The science of a rise in sea level
• Thermal expansion
• Melting inland glaciers
• Greenland's melting ice
• Melting Arctic Sea ice
• Melting Antarctica
• Melting ice = sea-level rise
• The science of hurricanes and other storms
• Solutions.

• 7. Infectious disease : bacteria, viruses, and parasites, oh my
• The relationship between climate and infectious disease
• Malaria and climate change
• Other diseases mosquitoes carry
• Diseases from other insects
• Diseases carried on ocean and wind currents
• Foodborne diseases
• What's next?
• Infectious disease and mental health
• Solutions
• 8. Food : nature's bounty bashed
• Plants, climate change, and our food supply
• How crops grow
• Heat's harm to crops
• Climate change and pesticide use on crops
• Soil, erosion, and climate change
• Plants and ozone
• After peak oil and its effect on food
• Aquatic and marine food supply
• Climate change and food toxins
• How much of an effect?
• Meat : what we eat drives climate change
• Other contributors to climate change
• Biofuels
• Climate, food, and mental health
• Solutions
• 9. Ecosystem health : cycles of life ... or death
• Ecosystems and our health
• Farms and prairies
• Mountains
• Forests and biodiversity
• Coastal wetland ecosystems and storm buffers
• Marine ecosystems
• Marine dead zones
• Biodiversity loss and infectious disease
• Biodiversity loss = extinction
• Energy and ecosystem health
• Coal's damage to ecosystems
• Oil's damage to ecosystems
• Reducing the impact of fossil fuels on the climate and ecosystems
• Energy efficiency
• Geoengineering
• Alternatives to fossil fuels
• Renewable energy
• Nuclear energy
• A final word on ecosystems
• Solutions
• 10. Human behavior : choice to change
• Where human behavior and climate change meet
• How we come to behave
• How we change our behavior
• Individuals and climate change
• Brains and behavior
• Environmental concern and emotions
• Thinking : beyond concern to attitudes, beliefs, values ...
• Personal responsibility and self-efficacy
• Risk perception and fear
• Sociodemographic variables
• Hope for individual behavior
• Community factors and climate change
• Economics
• Government and institutional policies
• Media and communications
• Social identity : norms, connections, and movements
• Place
• Other external factors
• Hope for the meeting of individual and community factors
• Solutions
• 11. Epilogue
• References
• Index.

Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human activity is the primary cause. The debate now is in the scientific and policy worlds about just how harmful climate change will be and what are the best ways to stop it. One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who believes climate change is the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced. Parker has thus immersed herself during the past ten years in educating the public and health professionals about how climate change will affect our well-being. Here, she and husband, Steve Shapiro, a psychologist and former journalist, describe what we can expect if climate change continues unabated. The authors explain our possible physical and mental responses to such climate change factors as heat stress, poor air quality, insufficient water resources, and the rise of infectious diseases fueled by even minor increases in temperature. They also show how other changes that may result from climate change-including sea level rise, extreme weather events, and altered food supplies can harm human health. Parker and Shapiro have found, however, that just talking about the problem is not enough. Actions that can prevent or reduce climate change's harm are presented in each chapter. To illustrate how much global warming will affect our lives, Parker and Shapiro begin their book with a chapter showing the worst-case scenario if climate change continues without intervention, and end the book with the best case scenario if we act now. Their eye-opening work will appeal to everyone who wants to remain healthy as we challenge this world-altering problem of our own making . While written for a lay audience in a manner that limits technical terminology, the book will also appeal to students and professionals of public health, medicine, environmental psychology, and science who will find the focus on health and the extensive referencing useful.
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