Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency<\/em> 19 (1982): 4-24.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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[Postscript, to those who eagerly scan these blog entries in hopes of finding evidence of plagiarism: \u00a0The entries that I identify as \u201cnotes\u201d are, as I say, notes<\/em>. \u00a0In the particular case above, they are notes from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go to Church, Besides the Obvious Ones<\/em> (Chicago: ACTA Publications, 2004). \u00a0They are notes from that text. \u00a0I do not count them as my original creation. \u00a0I do not count them as a publication of mine. \u00a0They are notes<\/em>, of the kind that, in earlier days, I would have written onto an index card or into a notebook for future use. \u00a0I share them here because I think that some might find them of interest in and of themselves, and also because using them as blog entries gives me an incentive to extract them from my readings. \u00a0(It\u2019s plainly easier and faster to read and to mark passages than actually to copy the notes from those marked passages out, but making double use of them [here currently, and as resource material for a planned future book] makes the task more agreeable to me.) \u00a0Sometimes, they will be all or mostly actual quotations. \u00a0At some other times, very much including this particular little book, they will all or mostly be my closely paraphrased jottings. \u00a0Sometimes, they will be something in between the two.]<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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