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Youth Violence in the United States

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

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

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...

Sex and Violence on Television

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

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

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...

Social Bias

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

Social Constructionism and Child Sexual Abuse

there is an argument among sociologists as to whether a "weak" or "strong" reading of the stance of claims-makers is more effectiv...

Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

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

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

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

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

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

Preventing Fraud,Waste and Abuse

Further, there are some instances that the government would label practices as being fraudulent when they are not, or are fraudule...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Mood Disorder: Case Study

Being a temporary mood lifter, marijuana actually creates even more of a problem for someone experiencing the throes of major depr...

Congressional Bill on Repeat Child Sex Offenders

In five pages this paper discusses the life imprisonment advocated for offenders who have repeatedly sexually abused children as d...

Courts and Corruption

ex-sports stars has come about in recent years. Since the advent of new technology which allows DNA matching, many death row inmat...

How Children are Impacted by Media Violence

In five pages this research study proposal on how children are impacted by media violence includes an abstract, a hypothesis, lite...

Fundamentalism Religion and Its Roots

In five pages Israel and the United States are the focus of this discussion of the roots of religious fundamentalism with such top...

Problem of Violence in Schools

a report; "Violence and Discipline Problems in U. S. Public Schools" was generated from the national poll. More than twelve hundr...

The Theme of the Violent African American Patriarchy in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In five pages the focus of this paper is on how women of the African American community must come together and form a unified sist...

The Problem of Violence in America

4 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of a potential proposal for the American Commander-in-Chief to address the...

Political Philosophy Debate on the Abuse of Authority

In this paper consisting of seven pages a better understanding of such abuses as Amadou Diallo's murder by NYPD officers is provid...

Female Sex Offenders and the Prison Environment

the number of suspected incidents of child abuse and neglect topped 1.9 million cases; by 1994, over 3.1 million children were rep...

Lesbian and Gay Students and the Impact of Curricula Design

In twenty one pages the various approaches to school sex education programs and the impact they have on lesbian and gay students a...

Modern Youth and a Violent Subculture

In six pages this paper examines crime subculture and the 3 premises of its existence with the emphasis being upon youth violence....

DSM IV, Alcohol Abuse, and Family Effects of Diagnosis

In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...

Combatting Violence in Schools

In fifteen pages a student based survey on school violence is discussed in terms of overview and implementation and includes inves...

Three Novels on Women as Victims of Violence

In five pages this research paper analyzes how women were victimized by social oppression and violence in Edwidge Danticat's Breat...

High Noon in Lincoln by Robert Utley

In five pages this paper analyzes frontier violence in this summary of Robert Utley's High Noon in Lincoln. There are no other so...

1917's Bolshevik Revolution and Terror

were not a! unique episode in Soviet history, but rather part of a continuing cycle of terror. This regime did not, in fact, dis...

Language and Development of Speech in Neglect and Child Abuse Instances

In a paper consisting of 9 pages child neglect, mistreatment, and abuse are discussed in terms of whether or not they are responsi...