S. Kirson Weinberg

Bio: S. Kirson Weinberg is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Big Five personality traits and culture. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 7 publications receiving 1276 citations.

Culture and symptoms-an analysis of patients' presenting complaints *

Abstract: Physical disorder is often thought to be a fairly objective and relatively infrequent phenomenon. An examination of the literature reveals, however, that the empirical reality may be that illness, defined as the presence of clinically serious signs, is the statistical norm. Given that the prevalence of abnormalities is so high, the rate of acknowledgement so low, and the decision to seek aid unrelated to objective seriousness and discomfort, it is suggested that a socially conditioned selective process may be operating in what is brought in for medical treatment. Two such processes are delineated and the idea is postulated that it might be such selective processes and not etiological ones which account for many of the previously unexplained epidemiological differences between societies and even between subgroups within a society. A study is reported which illustrates the existence of such a selective process in the differing complaints of a group of Italian and Irish patients-a pattern of differences which is maintained even when the diagnosed disorder for which they sought aid is held constant.

Inside Criminal Networks

Abstract: Acknowledgements Chapter 1: The Criminal Network Perspective 1. A Criminal Network is a Social Network, but... 2. Flexible Order 3. Centrality and Key Player Designations Direct Centrality and Visibility Brokers as Key Players 4. Seek, Rather than Assume, Structure Organization of the Book Chapter 2: Case Study Sources and Designs 1. Case Selection and Access 2. Case Study Descriptions Krebs' Terrorist Network Project Ciel Project Caviar Projects Siren and Togo Operation Springtime 2001 Street Gangs and Drug Distribution in Montreal North 3. Designing the Criminal Networks The Matrix and the Sociogram Assembling the Final Network Representation 4. Centrality and Analogous Network Measures In the Thick of Things In Between In the Thick of the Thick Less Efficiently In Between Localized Clustering 5. Challenges in Criminal Network Analysis Clarity and Attributes in Relational Data Missing Data Beyond the Final Network Representation Missing Data Within the Final Network Representation Are Central Participants Simply Central Targets of a Police Investigation? Are Law-enforcement Intercepted Networks Simply Failed Criminal Networks? Chapter 3: Partnership Configurations in Illegal DrugImportation 1. Resource-Sharing in Crime 2. Two Networks in One 3. Direct and Indirect Connectivity Within the Ciel Network 4. Conclusion Chapter 4: The Efficiency-Security Trade-off 1. The Network's Objective and Time-to-Task 2. Snakes and Clusters 3. Centrality Issues and Distinctions 4. Conclusion Chapter 5: Legitimate Strengths in Criminal Networks 1. Legitimate Actors in Criminal Settings 2. Differences Between Trafficker and Non-Trafficker Subsets 3. Seeds in the Network 4. The Direction of Contact 5. Discrete Participants and Pawns 6. Conclusion Chapter 6: Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug Importation Network 1. Coding for Criminal Network Dynamics The Context of Control The Uniqueness of the Caviar Case 2. Characteristics of the Overall Caviar Network 3. Changes in the Caviar Network Across Investigative Phases Decentralization and Core Changes Disorder and Accountability 4. Conclusion Chapter 7: Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Scripts 1. Crime Scripts and Flexibility 2. Merging Crime Script and Social Network Frameworks 3. The Case Study Design Determining Brokerage Qualifications Assessing Participant Removal Impact on Script Permutation 4. Criminal Network Flexibility and Script Permutation Overall Scripts

The social dimensions of correctional officer stress

Abstract: Based on a survey of line staff in a southern correctional system, we analyzed how various stressors, coping factors, and status characteristics influenced three types of stress: work stress, job dissatisfaction, and life stress. The stressors of role problems and perceived dangerousness were positively related to multiple forms of stress. While supervisory support mitigated both work stress and job dissatisfaction, the effects of other coping factors were variable. Black and educated officers had higher levels of dissatisfaction, while female officers experienced more stress on the job. Taken together, the independent variables in our framework accounted for a large amount of the variance of work stress, a moderate amount of job dissatisfaction, and a relatively low amount of life stress. Apart from the specific findings, the data suggest that theoretical models of officer stress must incorporate coping factors and specify how the dimensions of an officer's occupational role and personality differentiall...

Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment

Abstract: The ‘pains of imprisonment’ have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology. This article revisits the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new burdens and frust...