Manipulation, Domination and Control
Brian Douglas Wells: Victim or Criminal? This is a highly unusual, shocking crime. No possible explanation for what happened on August 28 in Erie, Pennsylvania will allow it to fall easily into a broad category of criminal behavior. Authorities have ruled out the possibility that Wells acted alone and are now working with two scenarios. [...]
The Sniper Mentality
There is one question asked by everyone, from investigators to victims’ families to the public, about violent crime: Why? There are volumes dedicated to the study of motive, one of my books included. We can come close to understanding motive only by recognizing that the question of motive is really a series of questions. For [...]
HOW SAFE ARE OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES?
As a member of the law enforcement community, I have always been interested in and concerned about how safe our colleges and universities really are. But this is a topic that has really gotten my attention since my kids started leaving the nest and going off to school. I have one daughter in law school [...]
SWIMMING WITH SHARKS: KID SAFETY ON-LINE
Shaq at the Center of Things I don’t know if you watch professional basketball or not. You probably either love it or hate it; the NBA has become as polarizing as NASCAR or figure-skating. Fans like what they like, and vice versa. But whether you’re an NBA fan or not, no doubt you know who [...]
Heat
What is it about fire? We can take it all the way back to our formative years: Why do kids, especially little boys, like to play with matches? It’s a rite of passage, something parents dread and expect, almost as routinely as they do nose-picking and name-calling. There is definitely a sense of power that [...]
Is Violence a Gender Thing?
Remember the movie Monster, for which Charlize Theron won an Oscar for her portrayal of Aileen Wuornos? It’s one of those movies that you know about even if you didn’t see it. That’s partially because of Theron’s transformation from beauty queen to monstrous serial killer for the role. But it’s also partially because the subject [...]
Phobia’s “J and K”
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese. Judeophobia- Fear of Jews. Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty. Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat. Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule. Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down. Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches. Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces. Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia) Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear [...]
Phobia’s “I”
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors. Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish. Ideophobia- Fear of ideas. Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. Iophobia- Fear of poison. Insectophobia – Fear of insects. Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone. Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood. Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, [...]
Phobias’s “H”
Hadephobia- Fear of hell. Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things. Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning. Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched. Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed. Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure. Heliophobia- Fear of the sun. Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology. Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms. Hemophobia or [...]
Phobia’s “G”
Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats. Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia) Gamophobia- Fear of marriage. Geliophobia- Fear of laughter. Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at. Geniophobia- Fear of chins. Genophobia- Fear of sex. Genuphobia- Fear of knees. Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges. Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or [...]
