College of Business & Public Management Faculty Books

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Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions

Michele P. Bratina

Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice–mental health nexus that touches every population—juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics to illustrate the most prevalent disorders encountered by police and other first responders. Bratina demonstrates in detail how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration of the U.S. healthcare and justice systems to offer more positive outcomes for offenders with mental illness.
Pennsylvania's Criminal Justice System

Mary P. Brewster and Harry R. Dammer

Pennsylvania’s Criminal Justice System provides a comprehensive overview of the crime trends, criminal law, and the criminal and juvenile justice processes within the Commonwealth. The text describes the structure and role of the state's federal, state, and local level police, courts, and corrections agencies. Also addressed in the book are crime victim services within Pennsylvania, as well as the important rights afforded to victims through the Crime Victim's Act and other legislation. This text affords the undergraduate student reader a deep understanding of the structure and processes of Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system — far beyond that which can be provided by a generic, non-state-specific text. The book is also an excellent resource for law students who anticipate practicing within the Commonwealth.
Animal Cruelty: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding

Mary P. Brewster and Cassandra L. Reyes

Animal Cruelty is an anthology that addresses all critical aspects of animal cruelty including: its history and prevalence; related legislation; special types of cruelty (hoarding, poaching, blood sports, etc.); its link to other types of violence and crime; theories used to explain animal cruelty; the role of the media; and emerging issues related to animal cruelty. The text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in criminal justice, criminology, psychology, law, sociology, animal studies, and other disciplines, and is especially well-suited for use in classes on such topics as animal cruelty, animal welfare, deviant behavior, animal law, violent crime, veterinary studies, abnormal psychology, and animal husbandry.
Managerial Accounting (2nd edition)

Anthony Cataldo

This text covers the material required in an introductory managerial accounting course and compliments my text on introductory financial accounting. Both are texts and courses required for all business degree undergraduates. My objective is to make this material available to students at a very low cost. I have used variable costing and other techniques included in this text in business litigation engagements involving GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan and other automobile manufacturers, testifying in Nevada, California, Texas, and Arizona.
CPA Yaeger Review - Financial Accounting and Reporting

Anthony J. Cataldo II

Featuring fully-integrated course content designed to prepare you for: A new exam structure. An added emphasis on critical thinking and higher order skills. And most importantly, the blueprints that map out exactly what to study to pass the CPA exam!
Information Asymmetry, Volume 13: A Unifying Concept for Financial & Managerial Accounting Theories

Anthony J. Cataldo II

This monograph seeks to provide a theoretical foundation and linkage between financial and managerial accounting. Just as the lines between the CPA-auditor or the financial analyst and consultants, underwriters, and management have been blurred through the Enron audit failure, so, too, will the lines between research streams relating to management (management accounting) and external parties (financial accounting) be less easily drawn. After providing the theoretical foundation for information asymmetry in the first three sections, emphasis shifts to case studies. Section four focuses on case studies and issues relating to the transmission of symmetric and asymmetric information on the Internet.
Introduction to Financial Accounting (2nd Edition)

Anthony J. Cataldo II

Introduction to Financial Accounting covers all material covered and tested in an undergraduate degree level course required for all business majors. This text should have a shelf-life of 20-years, if past experience is any indicator.
Introductory Financial Accounting

Anthony J. Cataldo II

Work on this open-access Introductory Financial Accounting text began in early 2014. The completion of this text was made possible through a spring 2015 sabbatical from West Chester University. This is a first edition. Email Professor Cataldo at acataldo@wcupa.edu if you would like to contribute time to this effort, and help correct typos and make improvements to later editions of this text.
Marijuana Stocks: Variables for You to Consider & a List of 231 Marijuana Stocks Traded on U.S. Capital Markets

Anthony J. Cataldo II

This book will provide insights and 2016 calendar year charts for all 231 marijuana stocks identified at the beginning of 2017.
For the first 28 days of January, an equal-weighted portfolio of all of these stocks generated a return of 51%.
More than 20% of the U.S. population has the right to legally use marijuana, as a result of the November 8, 2016 Election Day results from ballot measures in several additional states, including California.
This market is in its infancy, and will grow larger.
Now is the time to learn to trade and/or invest in this segment of the economy!
Nontaxable, Like-Kind Exchanges Under Internal Revenue Code Section 1031

Anthony J. Cataldo II

This book takes the form of 3 courses, at Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Each course or level contains 6 sections and each section contains 17 to 21 questions, with the correct answer in bold type, to reinforce the learning. IRS or Treasury Department guidance and professional journal articles become available, every few years, but the basic concepts and mechanics for a successful IRC §1031 exchange are not likely to change. Therefore, by retaining this material and adding articles as they become available via Internet or library searches, you should be able to maintain a high level of expertise in this area of tax law.
Tax Planning Strategies for the Self-Employed, 3rd Edition

Anthony J. Cataldo II

This book provides you with more than 120 simple examples of tax planning strategies to illustrate what you can do to legitimately reduce your combined federal and state income tax and self-employment tax liability.
The January Effect and Other Seasonal Anomalies: A Common Theoretical Framework

Anthony J. Cataldo II and Arline A. Savage

This book applies John Maynard Keynes' theory of investor liquidity preferences to the examination of the stock market literature on the January effect and other seasonal anomalies. Keynes' theory provides a common theoretical framework and represents a paradigm shift for the examination of all seasonals. An extensive literature review is provided along with identification and empirical examinations of the intergenerational transfers hypothesis, special closings of the New York Stock Exchange, tax (estimated tax) payment effects, and an historical/contemporary retail merchandising industry seasonal.
U.S. Individual Federal Income Taxation: Historical, Contemporary, and Prospective Policy Issues

Anthony J. Cataldo II and Arline A. Savage

This is a monograph that examines US individual federal income taxation. It is suitable for academics, graduate students, and those interested in tax policy and the historical evolution of contemporary individual federal income tax issues.
Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis

Jaeyong Choi

Limited access to subscription-based statistical software poses obstacles when students want to apply the skills they acquired in college. Although students may learn programs like SPSS or Stata while at the university, they often find themselves unable to continue using these programs after graduation, making their acquired skills obsolete. As an open-source software program, R offers a solution to this challenge. It is freely accessible to anyone, including students, after they graduate. Therefore, I decided to write a freely available book for those interested in becoming crime analysts, focusing on learning statistics without delving too deeply into mathematics. Moreover, this book emphasizes practical applications by utilizing R for data analysis, ensuring students can develop relevant skills beyond the university. I hope that students can easily follow the instructions in this book and replicate the same outcomes using the provided data. This practical experience will demonstrate the value of statistics and R, ideally inspiring students to further their learning in these areas.
Ethics for Contemporary Bureaucrats: Navigating Constitutional Crossroads

Nicole M. Elias and Amanda M. Olejarski

In the current United States (U.S.) context, we are facing a constitutional crisis with frequent government shutdowns and new debates surrounding immigration, climate change, budgeting practices, and the balance of power. With competing interests, unclear policy, and inconsistent leadership directives, the question becomes: How do contemporary bureaucrats make sense of this ethically turbulent environment? This collection provides a lens for viewing administrative decision-making and behavior from a constitutional basis, as contemporary bureaucrats navigate uncharted territory. Ethics for Contemporary Bureaucrats is organized around three constitutional values: freedom, property, and social equity. These themes are based on emerging trends in public administration and balanced with traditional ethical models. Each chapter provides an overview of a contemporary ethical issue, identifies key actors, institutions, legal and legislative policy, and offers normative and practical recommendations to address the challenges the issue poses. Rooted in a respected and time-tested intellectual history, this volume speaks to bureaucrats in a modern era of governance. It is ideally suited to educate students, scholars, and public servants on constitutional values and legal precedent as a basis for ethics in the public sector.
CJ 2019

James A. Fagin and Michele P. Bratina

CJ 2019 engages students with real criminal justice issues using interactive components and eye-catching visuals. Students explore a repertoire of current events and the resulting challenges faced by practitioners in the subfields of law enforcement, correctional management and administration, and the US court system. Along the way, learners critically consider the cross-systems nature of crime, law, and justice as well as the benefits of integrative approaches to problem-solving. Building on CJ 2010, this 2019 edition adds current events, victimization theories, and significant new content representing changes to the field of criminal justice in 2017 and 2018.
Envisioning Sustainable Development in World Regions

Joy Fritschle and Ryan Dicce

This book addresses sustainable development in the twenty-first century in a way that is accessible to students in introductory geography and environmental studies, or to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of what exactly is meant by sustainable development. The text surveys the fundamental conditions to achieving sustainable development on a global and regional scale, and reports on the progress of this global project to date. In the spirit of lessening its ecological footprint, the text is available from Kendall-Hunt exclusively as an e-book, which also allows for publication of its full-color maps and reduces its cost.
Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations

Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Richard Langlois

This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide Web and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. The volume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry: into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the business eco-system.
Encyclopedia of Career Development

Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and Gerard A. Callanan

With more than 400 articles, the Encyclopedia of Career Development is the premier reference tool for research on career-related topics. Covering a broad range of themes, the contributions represent original material written by internationally-renowned scholars that view career development from a number of different dimensions. This multidisciplinary resource examines career-related issues from psychological, sociological, educational, counseling, organizational behavior, and human resource management perspectives.
Career Management for Life, 5th edition

Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Gerard A. Callanan, and Veronica M. Godshalk

Career Management for Life provides students and employees with an integrative approach to managing their careers on an ongoing basis to achieve a satisfying balance between their work and their family responsibilities, community involvement, and personal interests. The career management model guides individuals through the different phases of their career from figuring out what their first job should be right to navigating the road to retirement.
Legal Environment: Business Law and Business Entities

Brian J. Halsey

Complete coverage includes all the elements of a traditional Legal Environment of Business Text. Also covers topics that make it suitable for “crossover” courses and courses that are traditionally business organizations or business law oriented. Designed for use in either general undergraduate legal environment classes or more practical paralegal courses.
Gangs (2nd edition)

Mario L. Hesse and Christopher J. Przemieniecki

Gangs, 2nd edition, specifically and sufficiently covers essential gang topics as well as new topics not found in any of the competing books in the marketplace. In addition to the traditional overview of gang history and topics (corrections, law and law enforcement), Gangs, 2nd edition, includes areas omitted or not extensively covered in other gang textbooks: Gangs and Mental Illness; Gangs and Native Americans; Entrepreneurship, Finances, and Gangs; The World of Sports, Athletes; Gangs, Gangs in the U.S. Military; and, Gangs, the Internet, and Social Media. Gangs, 2nd edition, not only is an appropriate supplement for use in introductory law enforcement, corrections, or justice type courses, but this text can also serve as a primary textbook for a lower or upper-level gang course.
Pennsylvania Elections: Statewide Contests from 1950-2004

John J. Kennedy

Pennsylvania Elections: Statewide Contests, 1950-2004 provides a systematic and thorough analysis of elections in Pennsylvania. The work focuses on voting trends across the state, analyzes the political geography of the state, and develops a narrative of the people and places that have shaped these elections.
The Contemporary Pennsylvania Legislature

John J. Kennedy

In The Contemporary Pennsylvania Legislature, John J. Kennedy explores a variety of topics that are relevant for any small lawmaking institution. He investigates to what degree current social and technological changes have affected the Pennsylvania legislature and how it has been transformed from a part-time lawmaking body to a full-time professional institution. The data for Kennedy's study comes from a survey of legislators who served in the 1993-1994 Pennsylvania Assembly as well as candidates who ran for office but were defeated. Noting that political parties are on the decline in the U.S., Kennedy examines whether lawmakers are more inclined to follow their own interests, their parties', or those of their constituents when voting on particular issues. In addition to discussing the philosophical dispositions of legislators, he also examines the electoral experiences of defeated candidates.
Russia During the Period of Radical Change, 1992-2002

Yury Polsky

This book is focused on current economic, political and cultural affairs in Russia. It is hoped that students of international politics in general and all avid Russia-watchers will acquire from this volume a better grasp of what is going on there, and what we might expect to see in Russia in the foreseeable future. Important events of Russian history are presented, the knowledge of which is necessary in order to assess the present situation in Russia. The following treatment is not a full inventory of events. Rather, it is a summary of what is commonly known to Russians and should be known to every student of Russian politics and culture.