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“marvin scott”

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  • As I Saw It

    A Reporter's intrepid journey

    by Marvin Scott ...
    Veteran journalist, eleven-time Emmy Award-winner, and member of the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame, Marvin Scott reflects on the stories that have stuck with him the most over the years.Marvin Scott has interviewed six presidents, visited the frontlines of war in the Middle East and Asia, and witnessed the rise of America's space program–all in a day's work. Now in As I Saw It: A ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reasoning Criminal

    Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending

    by Marvin Scott ...
    The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action. Hence, the notion of a reasoning criminal-one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating offending as they and the rest of us use when making other decisions-might seem a small ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

    by Keith E. Stanovich ...
    Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman—have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this ... Read more

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  • The Feeling of Risk

    New Perspectives on Risk Perception

    by Paul Slovic ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk perception research into the first decade of this new century.In this collection of important works, Paul Slovic explores the conception of 'risk as feelings' and examines the interaction of feeling and cognition in the perception of risk. He also examines the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Professionalizing Offender Profiling

    Forensic and Investigative Psychology in Practice

    Edited by Laurence Alison, Lee Rainbow ...
    Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender profiling is still influenced by misleading media portrayals, which fail to acknowledge the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Interpersonal Relationships

    by Diana Jackson-Dwyer ...
    Series series Foundations of Psychology
    With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key area of psychological research, while also developing an understanding of basic concepts, debates, and research methodologies. In this book Diana Jackson-Dwyer presents an introductory survey of classic and recent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    by Baruch Fischhoff ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Behavioral decision research offers a distinctive approach to understanding and improving decision making. It combines theory and method from multiple disciples (psychology, economics, statistics, decision theory, management science). It employs both empirical methods, to study how decisions are actually made, and analytical ones, to study how decisions should be made and how consequential ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Desistance from Sex Offending

    Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

    by D. Richard Laws, PhD, Tony Ward, PhD ...
    This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are "people like us," with the potential to lead meaningful, law-abiding lives—if given a chance and appropriate support. They describe an empirically and theoretically grounded rehabilitation approach, the Good Lives ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Quick Ethnography

    A Guide to Rapid Multi-Method Research

    by Penn W. Handwerker ...
    Quick Ethnography (QE) is an easy-to-read guide to the rapid collection of high quality ethnographic data for use in research, policy analysis, and decision-making. It addresses the needs of social scientists grappling with complex cultural social interactions and cultural change occurring in communities around the globe by offering a comprehensive, integrated multi-method approach that will ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships

    Love, Money and Daily Routines

    by Erich Kirchler, Christa Rodler, Erik Holzl, Katja Meier ...
    Series series European Monographs in Social Psychology
    Love and money are important aspects of the everyday lives of couples. This book focuses on the daily routines of disagreement, conflict and joint decisions on these, and other issues such as work, leisure and children, create in the household. Central to the authors' research is a unique diary study of forty couples, who kept a daily record of their joint decisions over the course of a year. The ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making

    Edited by Jean-Louis van Gelder, Henk Elffers, Danielle Reynald, Daniel Nagin ...
    Series series Crime Science Series
    Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such as sexual ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    by Lee Ellis, Richard D. Hartley, Anthony Walsh ...
    Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. It strives to offer a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply research methods and concepts to a multitude of scenarios. Even though the textbook has been written primarily for criminal justice and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD