Data as I will use the term are records of a systematic sort about phenomena.I am concerned only with data from which statistics can be generated: hence records must exist for a reasonably large number of phenomena of the same class.Data depend upon selective abstracting, symbolizing, and recording of activities by those who make the records.Few records used in victimology are records from direct observation by the recorder of all the phenomena of interest.This is because victimology is concerned generally with phenomena, or sequelae of phenomena, that are imperfectly predictable with regard to place or time of occurrence.Recorders usually cannot readily position themselves to observe many instances of the same class.'The phenomena of interest to victimology are events (and their sequelae) in which persons, as individuals, or as groups (victims) have been affected by acts of other persons or groups (offenders) which some judger defines as wrongful (offenses), in terms of institutionalized criteria (law or less formal social norms).To qualify, the victim must be the subject of attempted or threatened harm, or be placed in special danger of harm as a result of an offense.While it is possible to define purely objective indicators for the normative components of this definition, such as victim, offense, and harm, these concepts remain nonetheless normative.Hence, there are extra-

: This report explores the implications for military personnel planning and policies of the tendency toward intergenerational occupational inheritance; that is, the probability that children will follow occupations similar to those of their parents. Our specific interest is in the prevalence of children of career military personnel ('juniors') in the current and future Navy, both for the implications their numbers may have for problems of quantitative manpower supply as well as for qualitative aspects of force composition. The limited objectives of the present exploratory effort were to: (1) conceptualize the issues, (2) ascertain the availability of pertinent data, (3) evaluate the dimensions of succession phenomena and their possible significance for concerns of the Navy, and, (4) suggest important research and routine data collection. The pool of juniors will remain a consequential source of new recruits for most of the remainder of the Century, although there will be some decline from a current peak period. Juniors have comprised far larger proportions of recent entry cohorts than those of any past period and should contribute significantly to greater re-enlistment rates in the immediate future.

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: Civilian employment for men retiring from the American military service is a manpower topic that is receiving continually greater attention. Current policies tacitly assume the possibility of smooth transfers from the military to the civilian sector for a steadily growing number of physically able military retirees (an estimated 1 million by 1980). This report deals with the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of the employment transition from military to civilian life by a portion of this large reservoir of trained manpower. The primary interest here is in the intrinsic significance of the problems of this segment of the national labor force. The problems faced by men seeking civilian employment following military careers of 20 years or more, and the methods they employ in the process, may also have much relevance for the growing number of civilians who similarly need to make a change in career during the middle years. One specific objective of the study was to determine the extent to which specific occupational skills have 'high' or 'low' transferability from military to civilian occupations, and the implications of these findings for needed training and retraining programs.

Journal Article Comment on Bennett M. Berger'S “Adolescence and Beyond” Get access Albert D. Biderman Albert D. Biderman Bureau of Social Science Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 11, Issue 2, Autumn 1963, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.2307/799227 Published: 07 August 2014

Effects of Communist Indoctrination Attempts: Some Comments Based on an Air Force Prisoner-Of-War Study Get access Albert D. Biderman Albert D. Biderman Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc. Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 4, Spring 1959, Pages 304–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/799363 Published: 08 August 2014

Journal Article The Prospective Impact of Large Scale Military Retirement Get access Albert D. Biderman Albert D. Biderman Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc. Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 1959, Pages 84–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/798763 Published: 09 August 2014