Essays on Draine

The Researchers, Project Focus and Project Completion

The article entitled Effects of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse on Criminal Offenses is an inquiry on the possible relation of serious mental illness and substance abuse on behavior that is potential for criminalization. It its authored by four Doctors of Philosophy who are deeply involved in the field of psychology – Dr. John Junginger, Dr. Keith Claypool, Dr. Ranilo Laygo and Dr. Annette Crisanti. The authors exacted their focus on potential linkages between serious mental illness and substance abuse (independent variables), on one hand, and criminalization of people ...

As a qualitative research this study will target data collection from various individuals that meet the criteria as discussed in this section. The study has targeted adequate amount of homogeneity in selecting the candidates that match the criteria of relative variables based on this study and there is an attempt to cover an effective population through randomized sampling. The sample of data collected for this study will include the persons who actually have participated in the study and will be called as participants for all further discussions. Persons who have declined or not answered are not counted as belonging ...

- Abstract This paper provides a detailed account of the theoretical issues that have existed with the researches on terrorism and also provides a clear view of the critical perspectives on terrorism researches. The study identifies extensive literature on terrorism based studies and offers a critical analysis of the approaches used and segregates between the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches that exist. The results reveal that mixed methodologies with epistemological design are adequate for terrorism researches and it is beneficial to avoid a judgmental attitude however the proposed system also provides a technique for customized selection of methodology.

1. Introduction Terrorism ...