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State Legitimacy of Haiti

make use of a dozen political, social, economic, and military indicators for internal instability ("The Failed States," 2005). The...

Evaluating Domestic Violence Research Methodology

is about methodology. In a study using quantitative data, Ramsay & Richardson (2005) examine the effectiveness of screening fo...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Gays, Lesbians, and Domestic Violence

become intimate with other men, and found himself in trouble, that it sparked her interest (McClennen, 2003). It seems that while ...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

Violence and the Role Models of Professional Sports Figures

enjoy playing sports, to adults who love sports and perhaps dream of being a professional athlete, professional athletes serve as ...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Women Fighting Domestic Violence

by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...

Video Games and Violence

have been more willing to help people in need. Now, they shrug off horrific events. For some, this is evidence of desensitization....

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence

and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Family Culture of Violence

in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to ...

Article on Violence, Terrorism, and Justice

will consider for even a moment. The authors begin by trying to separate the characteristics of terrorism from the idea of the ri...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Overview of Prison Violence

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

Reducing Playground Violence

take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...

Censorship is Necessary in a Civilized Society

law, or in various school systems around the nation, or on executive boards, decisions are made to censor material. The FCC for ex...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Understanding Terrorism Based Upon The Terrorist Act of 9/11

Security Research, no date), a point duly clarified by International Terrorism and Security Research: "The strategy of ter...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Buddhism and Conflict Transformation

tolerance, and forgiveness. Indeed, many religions have a history of instilling peace in not-so-peaceful times. Buddhism...

The Social Impact of Gangsta Rap

down the street. We needed to talk about stuff that other people are scared to talk about" (Shank, 1996). It wasnt an attempt to b...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...