Using data from a nationally representative survey of over a 1000 young people in the UK this paper proposes a typology of the ways young people are using the Internet outside formal educational settings; and examines the individual and contextual factors that help to explain why young people are using the Internet in this way. Specifically, this…

The Smoking Control Research Project showed that most smokers wish to quit and that many of them can. It is necessary to present these smokers with the opportunities to quit, and then make the environment supportive of nonsmoking. Presented at the University of California Extension Course, "Cigarette Smoking: Insight into a Perplexing Problem,"…

Investigated two dimensions of a typology of police officers: perspective and passion. Test results indicate these dimensions failed to identify the four police types proposed by W.K. Muir relating to dimensions of: the professional, enforcer, reciprocator, and avoider. The four types appear as general characters defined by several dimensions.…