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Body Shape and Gender: Desirability Differences Diagram

I’ve noticed a lot of people being brought to this site courtesy of search terms such as ‘body shape and gender diagrams’ so decided to put these up in the hope they will help. Click on the image for the full scale image. These are courtesy (and in relation to results) from a journal paper written by Zellner, Harner and Adler (1989) and published in the ‘Journal of Abnormal Psychology’ under the title ‘Effects of Eating Abnormalities and Gender on Perceptions of Desirable Body Shape’.

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posted by Ewan Williams

August 3, 2009

Over time this list of links will become an excellent, easy to refer to list of all forensic and criminal justice system related organisations, law enforcement agencies and educational resources for people wishing to pursue a career in a certain field of expertise.

Forensic Psychology

APAC Accredited Courses – Full list by state of courses in Australia that have been accredited. This means by undertaking any of these you qualify for registration as a psychologist within Australia.

Forensic Psychology Arena – A general informative website with forensic psychology news, has featured articles from our website on it in the past

Victims Support Services

National Center for Victims of Crime – An American organisation that provides victim’s services as well as plenty of other useful and helpful information

24 Hour Victims Support NSW, Australia – A 24 hour counseling and information service for victims of crime in NSW, although they do offer a 1800 freecall number so theoretically anybody in Australia can utilise this service.

Sexual Predators / Rapists / Pedophiles

Perverted Justice – An organisation that works alongside law enforcement doing online sting work to prevent pedophiles and rapists from perpetrating crimes against real children.

Virtual Global Taskforce – A conglomerate of different law enforcement agencies from around the world who work towards preventing child pornography, abuse and other related issues

General Crime Related

Crime Stoppers Australia – Report a crime, provide information for unsolved crimes and the like within Australia

Crime Stoppers USA – Same as in Australia just the American division of it.

Internet Crime Complaint Center – Report internet or online crime in the United States

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