Kutztown University

Confrontation or mediation?: Episcopal responses to autocracy in Cuba and Nicaragua

Abstract In what conditions are national episcopates in Latin America likely to confront autocratic regimes? In what conditions are bishops positioned to mediate state-society conflicts? This article offers a structural account of episcopal responses to autocracy through comparat...

Predicting disciplinary infractions and recidivism with PICTS spiked profiles in an effort to determine whether sentimentality is a genuine criminal thinking style

In an effort to ascertain whether sentimentality (justifying criminal behavior by engaging in ostensibly positive actions and carrying out presumably good deeds) qualifies as a criminal thinking style several analyses were performed on subgroups of a larger sample of 3,039 male f...