Executions, Deterrence and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities (2009)
Zimring, Franklin E., Fagan, Jeffrey, Johnson, David T.
We compare homicide rates in two quite similar cities with vastly different execution risks. Singapore had an execution rate close to 1 per million per year until an explosive twentyfold increase in...
Playgrounds of Unlimited Potential: Adaptation, Documentary, and Dogtown and Z-Boys (2009)
This article begins with the question, what does it mean to adapt in the realm of documentary? Noting at the outset commentary on this issue from Dudley Andrew and Walter Metz, the essay explores the...
The Vanishing Killer: Japan's Postwar Homicide Decline (2006)
Despite claims about the ‘collapse’ of public safety in Japan, the country has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Moreover, Japan’s homicide rate has fallen about 80% in the last 50...
The Vanishing Killer: Japan's Postwar Homicide Decline (2005)
Despite claims about the ‘collapse’ of public safety in Japan, the country has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Moreover, Japan’s homicide rate has fallen about 80% in the last 50...
The Vanishing Killer: Japan's Postwar Homicide Decline (2005)
Despite claims about the ‘collapse’ of public safety in Japan, the country has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Moreover, Japan’s homicide rate has fallen about 80% in the last 50...
Above the Law? Police Integrity in Japan (2003)
This paper presents data from an ‘integrity survey’ administered to 182 Japanese police officers and compares the results with analogous data from 30 American police departments. Although the...
Performance Methods for Lifting Entry Vehicle Range Analysis. (2002)
Johnson,David T., Bursey,Charles H., Nash,Richard C.
Parameter optimization methods were applied to maximize lateral range with and without down-range constraints to produce performance footprints. Three lifting entry vehicles with maximum lift-to-drag...
An assessment is made of the applicability of energy maneuverability techniques (EM) to flight path optimization. A series of minimum time and fuel maneuvers using the F-4C aircraft were established...
A General Equilibrium Analysis of a Major Project: The Multifunction Polis.
Dixon, Peter B, Horridge, Mark, Johnson, David T
A general equilibrium model is used in an assessment of different proposals for the establishment in Australia of a high-technology city (an MFP). Our approach emphasizes the roles of prices and of...
Australian Poverty Quantified by a Family-Based Poverty Index.
Johnson, David T, Dixon, Peter B
The authors postulate a family-based poverty index (JD) possessing focus, symmetry, monotonicity and decomposability properties commonly required of individualistic indexes. JD also satisfies...
Diagnosis of a Mass in the Neck
A mass in the neck can occur because of developmental factors, lymphadenopathy, salivary gland disease, or neuromas. It is important to examine areas other than the neck in assessing these masses,...
Dixon, Peter B, Horridge, Mark, Johnson, David T
ORANI is a detailed general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. In standard applications it generates results for about 100 industries, 6 regions and over 250 occupational groups. The model...
Pricing of Queensland Sugar Cane: Appraisal of the Present Formula and a Suggestion for Reform
Dixon, Peter B., Johnson, David T.
Production and milling of sugar cane in Queensland occur in a highly regulated environment. In particular the price of cane is determined by a formula which has been used virtually unchanged for...
The Cost of Australian Carbon Dioxide Abatement
Robert E. Marks, Peter L. Swan, Peter McLennan, Richard Schodde, Peter B. Dixon, David T. Johnson
This paper examines efficient means of abating the greenhouse effect in Australia by reducing the emissions of CO2. It examines the generation of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in Australia, and...