Those who tan and those who don’t: A natural experiment on colorism

Those Who Discourage Crime

Even by their simple presence, people can discourage crime from happening at specijic times and places. Such direct-contact discouragement can occur when "guardians" keep an eye on potential crime targets (Cohen and Felson, 1979), or when "handlers" do the same for potential offenders (Felson, 1986). Eck (1994) adds a third type of discouragement role: "managers" who monitor places. Eck present...

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them

Checking on those who care for children.

Assessment of families who have substance abuse issues: those who maltreat their infants and toddlers and those who do not.

Although an association exists among risk factors of age of child, substance use and child maltreatment, less is known about the differences between substance abusing families who maltreat their children and substance abusing families who do not maltreat their children. The relationship among substance use and maltreatment needs to be further explored to identify specific assessment techniques ...

Language and the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Those Who Use it: A Case of Vague Expressions

 The present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate EFL learners. More specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. The data include a 22-hour corpus of English-as-a-foreign-language conversations. A comparison is also made between this corpus and a...