A 2002 study indicates that it is more important than ever to instill perseverance and goal setting for modern students who may be entering the workplace. With globalism in effect, the number of multinational companies who expect a certain standard of behavior has increased; those without the necessary skills will likely fail (Costello, et
¶ … perseverance occurs where an emotional preference continues, even after the thoughts that gave rise to the original emotion are invalidated" (Straker 2008)
It was this combination -- perseverance and technology that enabled the criminal justice system to bring justice to the Walsh case. In today's world, when a "a child is abducted or reported missing every 40 seconds," that kind of perseverance and technology is desperately needed to ensure that the criminal justice system is doing all it can to bring justice to all the cases involving child victims -- and all victims for that matter (Carpenter, 2016, p
212). While this may have been standard operating procedure in the1980s, the need to retain samples could have been tested later and more proficiently down the road -- and this was something that the criminal justice system had to learn: namely, that empirical evidence (such as DNA testing) can make all the difference in a cold case like Adam's (Findley, 2002, p
As the Bible also says, "The truth will set you free," (John 8:32) and in the case of John Walsh, it did exactly that as the book shows. All the John had accomplished through his years of activism following the murder of his son -- the television show that helped solve countless cold cases through the years (Miles, 2005), the Adam Walsh Act and the center for missing and exploited children -- all of it contributed to ease the pain and give purpose and meaning to John's life, filling a small part of the whole left behind by the tragic murder of his son (Standiford, Matthews, 2011, p
When, finally, in 2008, police finally announced that Toole was indeed the killer (Toole had died in 1996), the case was closed -- but a debacle in the chain of custody of evidence showed how shoddy police work could lead to a killer going unpunished for a crime for years. In the case of Toole, the evidence that was lost consisted of the blood-stained carpet from Toole's car among others "as well as the car itself" (Standiford, Matthews, 2011, p