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take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

to violence are absenteeism, lateness, inability to focus, nervousness, poor performance, unexplained injuries and inappropriate c...

husband. In many physical abuse situations, no one person controls all aspects of the home other than the male, including all pro...

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

The Journal of Interpersonal Violence was the source for an article on Valerie Whiffen and Melissa Judd's 1999 study on childhood ...

common, and even hitting children with sticks or belts has been common and often recommended through history for controlling child...

likely to have substance abuse problems, which ultimately establishes a cyclical arrangement for both living and socializing. ...

will make up for what the sexual abuse compromised during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix t...

home (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001). Those who live in poverty have always been the victims of the most violenc...

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

This paper first describes 2 cases of abuse, one that pertains to elder abuse and the other to child sexual abuse. Then, the write...

universality of Islam, tending to believe it is a "grim and stern faith, given to forcible conversions, appalling treatment of wom...

specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsk...

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

sometimes an individuals perceived reality can hinder his or her ability to see things as they truly are, which then requires the ...

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

many motivated families waiting for help; the resistant families will call back when they finally feel the need; there is no need ...

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

the Catholic Church and in work communities. Juans mother, Marianna, lives a block away and spends time with the children after s...

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...