Nine incidents of multiple-victim homicide in American secondary schools are examined and common risk factors are identified. The literature dealing with individual, family, social, societal, and situational risk factors for youth violence and aggression is reviewed along with existing risk assessment methods. Checklists of risk factors for serious youth violence and school violence are used in...

CONTEXT While the nature of common fears changes over development, we do not know whether genetic effects on fear-proneness are developmentally stable or developmentally dynamic. OBJECTIVE To determine the temporal pattern of genetic and environmental effects on the level of intensity of common fears. DESIGN Prospective, 4-wave longitudinal twin study. Structural modeling was performed with...

Businesses may apply concepts of agility as a strategy to take up challenges in the rapidly changing business environment. Agility is defined as “the ability of a sensitive [organization] that exhibits flexibility to accommodate expected or unexpected changes rapidly, following the shortest time span, using economical, simple and quality instruments in a dynamic environment and applying updated...

Purpose – This study aims to examine important situational factors impacting expatriate compensation and common practices utilized in compensating expatriates. Design/methodology/approach – A synthesis of literature was reviewed, leading to the identification of numerous situational or contextual factors impacting expatriate compensation. A review of extant literature also identified several cu...

This paper compares the risk factors for becoming a victim of two types of phishing: high-tech phishing (using malicious software) and low-tech phishing (using e-mails and telephone calls). These risk factors are linked to possibilities for situational crime prevention. Data from a cybercrime victim survey in the Netherlands (n=10,316) is used. Based on routine activity theory, the multivariate...