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gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...

that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...

content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...

play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

years, but it is difficult due to the different methodologies employed. What seems to be the case is that it is not easy to know h...

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

abuse. Education drills home the fact that domestic violence is not just a family issue, it is a societal one. If we are to reso...