Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The present study examines the ability of the MMPI-2-Restructured Form validity scales to identify criminal defendants who feign psychopathology on the SIRS. A sample of 125 criminal defendants was analyzed in a known groups design using the SIRS as the criterion and the MMPI-RF F-r and Fp-r validity scales as predictors. Results suggested the F-r and Fp-r scales significantly predict group membership, with both scales adding to the predictive utility of the other. Classification accuracy statistics substantiated the recommended cut scores in the MMPI-2-RF manual (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) (F-r > 120T; Fp-r > 100) in this forensic setting.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: How well do sex offender risk assessment measures predict reoffense when administered as part of routine correctional practice? We examined the predictive validity of the STATIC-99, MnSOST-R, PCL-R, and the Personality Assessment Inventory among a large (most n’s > 1,500) sample of convicted sexual offenders released to the community. Predictive validity was generally poor, particularly for the PCL-R, which was entirely unrelated to reoffense. Predictive values for the STATIC-99 and the MnSOST-R, though significant with respect to some types of reoffense, were lower than expected. Results for certain PAI subscales, though not designed as risk measures, were relatively strong.

Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: Dorothy Sayers reminds us of the importance of the mystery of the written word for those who would choose to communicate faith by way of fiction. Sayers’ work displays an astonishing thematic consistency: the importance of the incarnation, the need for the church to enunciate forthrightly the dogmas of the Christian religion and for believers to live as witnesses to these truths, and the necessity of maintaining integrity in one’s relationships with God, one’s neighbor, and oneself. These ideals run like a Pentecostal flame through her writings, thus deepening the mystery of the fictive word to indirectly convey the author’s profound faith. Her understanding of how to communicate will be examined in light of Bonhoeffer’s indirect communication.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper engages a variety of organizational theoretical approaches in order to understand change in military policy on personnel frequenting prostitutes around bases. Military prostitution is frequently cited as a problem around military bases in Korea, the Philippines, and more recently in Bosnia. Currently, while all houses of prostitution are officially off-limits, the military implicitly condones the commercial sex industry through a variety of means such as supplying condoms and providing a courtesy patrol that escorts personnel to bars where prostitution is available. In September 2004, the Department of Defense proposed a draft amendment to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which would make it a military offense to frequent a prostitute. This proposed change challenges us to think about what drives such policy change.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: IR's relationship to policy is at stake again. The issue was absent from IR’s agenda during the second debate and the “technocratic” disappointment after the Vietnam War, but a small but growing body of literature has been addressing the topic since the 1990s. The paper argues that the discussion of the science-policy nexus of IR so far has focussed too narrowly on questions of knowledge transfer and on the impact of IR on policy. In opposition to both positions that postulate the existence of a widening gap between IR and policy, and post-modern positions that seek to eliminate any cultural difference between IR and policy, we propose a network model of IR's science-policy nexus. In the knowledge society, IR and other sciences should be seen as “epistemic cultures” constituted by a variety of practices that are linked to policymakers and other social actors. By drawing on recent insights of practice theory and the concepts of theorists of the Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge such as Bruno Latour we first identify the basic practices of IR and their relationship to policy. Second, we set up an analytic framework by which these practices can be studied. We claim that the relevance and impact of IR and any gap that might exist between IR and policy should be empirically investigated before prescriptive conclusions for IR can be drawn. The central task of the reflective IR practitioner therefore not as to avoid or to bridge a gap, but to carefully balance his practices.