This is an innovative study of 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. This longitudinal field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release from the institution, and how different behavior, values, and feelings improved. This well-designed research has broad implications for use in graduate courses in sociology, criminology and penology, social and personality psychology, and group dynamics. The book is equally useful to administrators and policymakers dealing with delinquents and individuals with behavior problems. The field experiment was devised with both practical and theoretical purposes in mind, to develop corrective programs for delinquent youth and to test social science hypotheses in the context of a longitudinal experimental research design. The study presents a typology of delinquent boys that guides differential treatment, focuses on peer group and staff influences, and identifies factors in residential treatment and in the open community that facilitate prosocial reentry. The findings test hypotheses about group and staff impact on anti-social behavior within the institution and after release.

Helps to ease the transition between school/college and university mathematics by (re)introducing readers to a range of topics that they will meet in the first year of a degree course in the mathematical sciences, refreshing their knowledge of basic techniques and focussing on areas that are often perceived as the most challenging.

Each chapter starts with a "Test Yourself" section so that readers can monitor their progress and readily identify areas where their understanding is incomplete.

A range of exercises, complete with full solutions, makes the book ideal for self-study.

The widespread availability of high-quality, high-frequency data has revolutionised the study of financial markets. By describing not only asset prices, but also market participants' actions and interactions, this wealth of information offers a new window into the inner workings of the financial ecosystem. In this original text, the authors discuss empirical facts of financial markets and introduce a wide range of models, from the micro-scale mechanics of individual order arrivals to the emergent, macro-scale issues of market stability. Throughout this journey, data is king. All discussions are firmly rooted in the empirical behaviour of real stocks, and all models are calibrated and evaluated using recent data from Nasdaq. By confronting theory with empirical facts, this book for practitioners, researchers and advanced students provides a fresh, new, and often surprising perspective on topics as diverse as optimal trading, price impact, the fragile nature of liquidity, and even the reasons why people trade at all.

Meet Elliott Simon, the neurotic and totally lovable hero of "Wishful Thinking," a young man with a vivid imagination looking for romance, happiness and excitement in all the wrong places.

From his unconquerable addiction to cupcakes to his quest for finding the absolute perfect dream lover to his burning desire to become a 'toast of the town" cabaret singer, Elliott Simon's wild and crazy adventures in "Wishful Thinking" are hilarious and endearing.

Who else but Elliott Simon would travel back in time to the biblical sin city of Sodom with a famous movie superstar, dodge the Confederate Civil War draft by disguising in drag as a coquettish Southern belle, transform the President of the United States into a gay man for 24 hours and become Hollywood sleuth to solve the mystery of the missing infamous Pink Powder Puff? And that is only the beginning!

"Wishful Thinking" is the debut novel from the former Hollywood Reporter entertainment journalist Martin Gould.

Examines three model schools, established as alternatives to expulsion for selected disruptive students.