Culture, Context, and Homicide of the Elderly

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the criminal victimization of elderly persons. Given that homicides of the elderly are thought to occur primarily in the context of robbery/burglary situations, this study seeks to identify situational as well as structural and cultural factors that influence the murder of older persons. In particular, it has been noted that Southern culture promotes a notion that one should 'respect their elders.' Using conservative Protestant affiliation as a proxy for Southern culture, this study also examines the relationship between Southern culture and homicide of the elderly. Findings show that Southern culture as reflected in conservative Protestant affiliation does not insulate the elderly from victimization.     

Coping and adaptation by children with mild physical differences

This comparative study of 60 parents' and teachers' views of how elementary school children cope with their own mild physical differences and with current psychosocial development and academic tasks in mainstream classrooms identified statistically significant differences in use of defensive-adaptive imagery and psychosocial functioning between children experiencing academic success and failure.     

Moments of the sampled autocovariances and autocorrelations for a Gaussian white-noise process

Cumulants, moments about zero, and central moments are obtained for the mean-corrected serial covariances and serial correlations for series realizations of length n from a white-noise Gaussian process. All first and second moments (and some third, fourth, and higher moments) are given explicitly for the serial covariances; and the corresponding moments for the serial correlations are derived either explicitly or implicitly.