One of the most persistent research findings in criminology is that men commit much more crime than women. This typically is referred to as the gender gap in offending. Many researchers have noted that during the past several decades, women and men have converged in their rates of crime and the gender gap in offending has narrowed. Several explanations of this convergence have been proposed, in...

The underlying thesis of this paper is that crime control policy is politically constructed. In developing our thesis and its implications, we depart from much of the conventional wisdom in three basic ways. First, in demonstrating the political derivations of crime control policy we reveal how, why, and to what extent criminological knowledge is marginalized in the policymaking process. Second...

1 Gary LaFree is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. Robert J. Bursik, Sr., is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. James Short is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. Ralph B. Taylor is a Professor in the Departm...

This note accompanies the DCA algorithm [1] proposed by Daniels et. al. The algorithm relies on assigning channels while satisfying a cumulative interference criteria. All channel assignments must satisfy the constraint S( ci, ci) ∑ j =i S( ci, cj) ≥ B, where S( ci, cj) represents the signal measured at cell ci due to a transmitter in cell cj , both operating over the same channel. The approach...

The Deligne-Simpson problem (DSP) (resp. the weak DSP) is formulated like this: give necessary and sufficient conditions for the choice of the conjugacy classes Cj ⊂ GL(n,C) or cj ⊂ gl(n,C) so that there exist irreducible (resp. with trivial centralizer) (p + 1)-tuples of matrices Mj ∈ Cj or Aj ∈ cj satisfying the equality M1 . . .Mp+1 = I or A1+ . . .+Ap+1 = 0. The matrices Mj and Aj are inter...

The Deligne-Simpson problem (DSP) (resp. the weak DSP) is formulated like this: give necessary and sufficient conditions for the choice of the conjugacy classes Cj ⊂ GL(n,C) or cj ⊂ gl(n,C) so that there exist irreducible (resp. with trivial centralizer) (p + 1)-tuples of matrices Mj ∈ Cj or Aj ∈ cj satisfying the equality M1 . . .Mp+1 = I or A1+ . . .+Ap+1 = 0. The matrices Mj and Aj are inter...

The question of potentiation of warfarin anticoagulation by cranberry juice (CJ) is a topic of biomedical importance. Anecdotal reports of CJ-warfarin interaction are largely unconfirmed in controlled studies. Thirty patients on stable warfarin anticoagulation (international normalized ratio [INR], 1.7-3.3) were randomized to receive 240 mL of CJ or 240 mL of placebo beverage, matched for color...