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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...

Buddhism and Conflict Transformation

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

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 ...

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...

Australian Family Law and Custody Concerns

& Amato, 2000, p.660). In the end, the hypothesis is only partially supported. Authors say that their research reveals "mixed supp...

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...

Homegrown Terrorism: Violence in the Pro-Life Movement

methods used by Islamic fundamentalists. That is, each faction uses bombs. Sometimes, assassination is used as well. There have be...

Article Critique/Dating Study

previously tested instrument, indicates that issues of validity and reliability were also adequately addressed. The results are ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Law Enforcement and Gang Violence

national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...

School Violence and its History

community partnerships. Romines vision is simple: if people choose to come together, they can combat the campus violence that has...

TV Violence and its Impact

by the characters is the same behavior that children are reprimanded for. The study noted suggests that a high amount of exposure ...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Issues Pertaining to School Policy Formation

to commit themselves to achieving academic excellence within the boundaries of their abilities and teaching and support staff are ...

State Legitimacy of Haiti

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

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 ...

Program Proposal on School Violence Prevention

an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...

Evaluating Domestic Violence Research Methodology

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