Almost 20 years ago, I authored an article in Crime and Delinquency, “Reintegrating the concept of community into community-based corrections” (Byrne, 1989), in which I argued that police and community corrections agencies were undergoing an unprecedented—and controversial— role reversal: Police departments were reinventing themselves as community problem solvers by incorporating the roles and ...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated a community-based program in China to prevent initiation of drug use in young men. METHODS Similar intervention and control areas were selected. Village leaders, teachers, and women and youth leaders were recruited to participate in the program. Community activities were organized and intervention activities in schools were implemented. Incidence of new drug us...

To better illuminate the elements of an effective community response to domestic violence, this study examined how survivors prioritized their help-seeking activities and what their priorities revealed about their patterns of need. This study expanded on Sullivan and Bybee’s findings regarding the utility of community-based advocacy by examining whether the extent to which such advocacy was eff...

Community sports fitness as one of important parts in China’s sports, it exerts influences on community’s every resident life and health. In current stage, though China’s community sports activities have some development, they still have problems in development process that need to be timely solved. The paper conducts comprehensive analysis of China’s community sports fitness activities, and co...

The community and voluntary sector is a complex web of service and information providers, ranging from government agencies to small, single issue support groups. This presents a number of challenges for those working (and volunteering) in the sector and for citizens looking for a particular service. There is a clearly articulated need amongst both providers and local government to coordinate su...

Detecting temporal trends in large networks has strategic importance in many domains, such as cybersecurity and social media analytics, where the activities of key actors (e.g., activists, terrorists, leaders) are concerned. In a large evolving network, the relationships of actors in the network often change over time. Characterizing these changes can provide important insight on individualand ...

Recently, the number of voluntary communities such as local communities and university club activities are increasing. In these communities, since there are various types of members and there are no binding forces, it is usually difficult to maintain and improve member's motivation. To maintain and improve member's motivation, most of these communities use social networking services (SNSs). How...

Mobile Education or M-Education is a new conceptual paradigm in the use of mobile and wireless technologies for education. M-Education encourages distributed peer collaboration over wireless devices and desktop computers to create opportunities for discovery and education in the field and community. It is a projectoriented approach that will use a wireless virtual community to facilitate the le...