Author: David Lester
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Keywords: american, native, crime
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0398069840
ISBN-13: 9780398069841

It is believed that Native Americans have a high frequency of criminal behavior and in addition are subjected to great discrimination by the criminal justice system, as are other minority groups. This book explores the data and research that has been conducted on criminal behavior in Native Americans in order to see whether these beliefs are indeed valid. To prepare this book the author researched and read all published articles on criminal behavior in Native Americans. Chapters are grouped into five sections. Part 1 covers the personal and social conditions of Native Americans and the frequen

Author: David Lester
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: personality, theories
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1560323507
ISBN-13: 9781560323501

Designed as a text for both graduate and undergradute students, this book presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour, concepts based on psychological processes and "structures" within the mind. In this context, a unique theory treatment of personality theory is introduced. The text focuses on Freud, Kelly and Angyal, whom the author puts forth as the most comprehensive authorities for their particular theories in the field: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality based on desires; Kelly’s personal construct theory theory for thinking; and Angyal’s holistic c

Author: David Lester
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: death, dying, bereavement, series, millennium, prevention, resources, suicide
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $75.95
ISBN-10: 0876309872
ISBN-13: 9780876309872

Suicide Prevention presents an evaluation of the past, present, and future of suicidal behavior and efforts to prevent or facilitate suicide. Authors from varying disciplines of psychology, sociology, and psychiatry analyze suicide in the opening chapters. Through the exploration of the roles of these disciplines, the roles of primary physicians, and the impact of suicide prevention education in schools, the contributors describe the history of suicidology and the changes necessary for improvement. The book concludes with a section detailing the goals and activities of organizations designed t

Author: David Lester
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: century, scourge, murder, mass
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2004-06
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1590339290
ISBN-13: 9781590339299

When a spate of mass murders occurs, people often get the impression that this is a modern phenomenon and, since most of the mass murders heard about have occurred in America, the popular opinion is to think that it is an American phenomenon. Both impressions are false. Mass murders have been common throughout history, and other countries have played host to them too. This book correlates the many mass murders that have taken place all over the world and attempts to explain to the reader what some of the causes and effects of these murders have on society and culture.

Author: David Lester Richardson
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: gardens, flower, flowers
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0554335026
ISBN-13: 9780554335025

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Authors:Mark Lindsay, David Lester,
Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company
Keywords: suicide, death, value, meaning, shoot, police, cop, committing, provoking
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-04
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0895032902
ISBN-13: 9780895032904

The phenomenon of suicide by cop has increased in frequency in recent years, creating great concern in the law enforcement community. In suicide by cop, an individual behaves so as to provoke police officers into attempting to disarm him, sometimes killing him in the process. For example, an individual may hold a gun and advance toward police officers, refusing to stop or drop the weapon. It has proven difficult but important to distinguish these acts from those in which there is no justification for police officers’ killing an individual, and from those in which a person is killed during a

Authors:David Desser, Lester D. Friedman,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: filmmakers, jewish, american
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-11-07
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0252071530
ISBN-13: 9780252071539

Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant Jewish directors. The effects of the Holocaust linger, both in gripping dramatic form (Mazursky’s Enemies, a Love Story) and in black comedy (Brooks’s The Producers). In his trilogy co