A coloring book creates a great “leave behind ” for community visits. Hear from its creator, John Carroll, on page 4. See PRESIDENT, page 7 We are in the midst of a historic tornado season across the United States, and while we have seen the worst that Mother Nature can dole out, we have also seen some of the very best that operational meteorology has to offer. In spite of media reports that the “Twister hit without warning…” the truth about the Joplin, Mo., tornado on May 22 is that the warning for that particular storm had a 24-minute lead time. On April 27, one NWS forecaster in Alabama issued 19 tornado warnings, and nine tornado emergencies in a single shift. And, these are just the reports that have made it to my attention. Even more amazing stories are sure to exist, and it is sad that we don’t get to hear more of them. To be sure, the loss of life is mournful. Indeed, nearly as many people lost their lives in a 24-hour span in April due to tornadoes than from tornadoes in all of Dixie

violence. Personality char-acteristics, background characteristics, and personal exposure to rape, rape victims, and rapists are other factors used in predictions. Results from regression analysis of interview data indicate that the higher the sex role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs

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Little research has focused on the drugs–violence nexus in rural areas. As such, the purpose of this study is to use Goldstein’s tripartite conceptual framework to examine the relationship between drugs and violence among felony probationers in rural Appalachian Kentucky (n = 799). Data on demo

Violence impedes human freedom to live safely and securely and can sustain poverty traps in many communities. One of the challenges for academics, policy makers, and practitioners working broadly in programmes aimed at poverty alleviation, including violence prevention, is the lack of reliable

for future work are offered. Marital violence is a serious problem in the United States. Data from the 1985 National Family Violence Survey indicated that one of eight husbands carried out at least one violent act toward his wife and 1.8 million wives were beaten by their husbands during the year

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Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) by women against men has been the subject of much debate. Feminists typically argue that IPV is committed only by men against women. Others argue that violence is a human problem and women also commit much IPV. To resolve these debates, IPV has been

-service); (d) female representation; and (e) agency commitment to community poli-cing—on two indicators of police–citizen violence—(a) citizen complaints alleging excessive use of force and (b) reported assaults on officers—across 526 large muni-cipal law enforcement agencies. Results from ordinary least

It is questionable whether violence toward a hostage varies according to criminal or radical orientation of their kidnappers who hold them for ransom. This notion is important because it relates to the assumption that how the hostage is treated may indicate whether the victim may survive the ordeal