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In nine pages this paper considers how families have changed over the past two centuries and asserts that the effects of economic,...

establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, ...

When it comes to the child welfare system, parental substance abuse and child abuse have been major issues - and very much linked ...

family may be seen as different make up where there is a carting and safe environment, This may mean not looking at the characteri...

even though the clinic has endured periods of stress. Still, the counselors and other employees lean on each other whenever the cl...

sweeping" (Livio) laws in the nation. Going a step further, officials have mandated that the legal system enforce these stringent...

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

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...

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

In twenty pages a research proposal is presented in which the correlation between substance abuse in adolescents and being sexuall...

In five pages a literature review is presented regarding drug abuse in prisons with linkage between the abuse of substances and re...

In nine pages this paper examines how families are affected by substance abuse in a comparative analysis of rates in the United St...

was of paramount importance. Thankfully, after many beatings, lacerations, and threats she packed up and left before the headlines...

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

This essay provides information related to the ADA and substance abuse. It then discusses medical, social, psychological, and voca...

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

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

It must be remembered that young children lack the capacity to verbally articulate their feelings and emotions, so evidence of wit...

of girls during the same period rose 6% (Siegel and Welsh, 2005). Even more striking and troubling is the fact that arrests for se...

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

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

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

who is over the age of sixteen at the time the violence takes place. Children are defined as individuals under the age of 18 who a...

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

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

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

use of military drill and strict discipline. The first of these was opened in the states of Georgia and Oklahoma in 1983 (54). A...

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

While certain factors, such as poverty and low-educational achievement, are known to promote juvenile delinquency, it is also true...