The enhancement of intimacy and the reduction of loneliness among child molesters

The present report describes the component of our treatment program that is aimed at enhancing intimacy skills and reducing loneliness in sexual offenders. The evaluation of this component, although limited in sophistication, offers data that encourages confidence in the value of the treatment component.     

DIFFERENTIAL CRIMINAL PATTERNS OF NARCOTIC ADDICTS OVER AN ADDICTION CAREER*

In a further study of the addiction-crime relationship, 214 narcotic addicts were classified according to their criminal involvement during a 2-year preaddiction period. The sample was divided into two groups—those who reported involvement in any of 20 categories of criminal activity (N = 108) and those who reported no such activity (N = 106). The criminal behavior and drug-use patterns of the two groups were then compared during subsequent addiction and nonaddiction periods. As expected, the impact of addiction was much more prominent in the low-crime group. The implications of results for rehabilitation strategies are discussed.     

C7 typing of blood stains using isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting

By means of isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting C7 types were clearly demonstrated from bloodstains which had been stored at 37 degrees C for up to three weeks, at room temperature for up to six weeks and at 4 degrees C for over ten weeks. The C7 typing is practically useful in medicolegal individualization of unknown bloodstains.     

Organizational differentiation and integration: the case of regional economic development policy in Canada

Abstract: Over the past two and a half decades regional development policy and administration has gone through at least five distinct stages: in 1961 the government started with a number of uncoordinated boards and agencies; in 1969 it created the high profile and centralized Department of Regional ECOnomic Expansion (DREE); a few years later (1973), DREE was decentralized and became more low key in its approach; in 1978 the government struck the centralized Board of Development Ministers, supported by the Ministry of State for Economic Development (MSED), to revamp the national economy while maintaining DREE in its decentralized format; and in 1982 DREE was abolished and the Cabinet Committee for Economic and Regional Development (CCERD), headed by a Minister of State for Economic and Regional Development and supported by a Ministry of State for Economic and Regional Development (NSERD), was given the responsibility of integrating economic and regional development activities of all line departments. The logic of and reasons for the 1982 reorganization are assessed. Although innovative, particularly with regard to the placement of a Federal Economic Development Coordinator (FEDC) in each province, the reorganization does not necessarily mean improved regional policy. Major obstacles are identified which may serve to prevent the objectives of the reorganization from being realized. Sommaire: Au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, In politique et l'administration du développenient régional sont passées par au moins cinq étapes distinctes: en 1961, le gouvernement a commence avec un certain nombre de commissions et dorganismes isolés; en 1969, il a créé le ministère de l'Expansion éonomique régionale (MEER), organisme centralisé et très en vue; quelques années plus tard, en 1973, le MEER a été décentralisé et est devenu beaucoup plus modeste; en 1978, le gouvernement a mis sur pied un autre organisme centralisé, la Commission des ministres du développement qui, appuyée par le département d'État au Développement économique (DEDE), devait réorganiser l'économie nationale tout en maintenant la décentralisation du MEER; puis en 1982, le MEER a été aboli et c'est au comité du Cabinet pour le Développement économique et régional, dirigé par le ministre d'État au Développement économique et régional et appuyé par le département d'État au Développement économique et régional, qu'a été donnée la responsabilité d'intégrer les activités de développement économique et régional de tous les ministères verticaux. L'article suivant évalue les raisons de la réorganisation de 1982. Bien que cette réorganisation ait été innovatrice, particulièrement en ce qui concerne le placement d'un coordonnateur fédéral au développement économique dans chaque province, la politique régionale ne s'en est pas trouvée nécessairement améliorée. Les auteurs mettent en relief les obstacles majeurs qui empêcheront peut-être la réalisation des objectifs de la réorganisation.