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Assessment of Domestic Abuse

as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

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

Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

legal gay/lesbian relationships contends that same-sex marriages do not fall into the traditional category of accepted matrimony. ...

Backlash from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

The 1999 Shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City

In a paper consisting of five pages the shooting of an immigrant by four policemen in NY is examined through the critical analysis...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

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

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Violence

story we are offered a look at the power of searching for ones identity, the tentative hold we all have upon life, and the search ...

Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Counseling and Family Violence

to understand that it has also been a very real part of American society since the early days. In a review of the book "Domestic T...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

Personality and Aggression

In a paper consisting of twenty one pages personality as a predictor of aggression is examined through reviewing pertinent literat...

Violence and Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Impoverished Children and Violence Effects

Both of the Rivers brothers have regularly seen their friends and relatives die from simply being in the wrong place at the wrong ...

Satanic Verses/Salman Rushdie

This research paper addresses Salman Rushdie's most famous novel and the controversy that is associated with its publication. The ...

Research Proposal on Conducting a Community Needs Assessment on Domestic Violence

of community outreach education efforts which could be employed to target domestic violence issues. The most appropriate mechanis...

Understanding Domestic Violence

effects of spousal abuse. Particularly vulnerable are those countries where women have no marital rights and are deemed as nothin...

Youth Violence and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

In six pages this paper discusses whether or not FAS is a contributing factor in youth violence in an examination of control devic...

Intervening in Crises

Crisis Intervention has become a growing field in the 21st century. This research paper examines intervening in issues of anger, v...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Negative Impacts of Television's Violence and Bad Language on Children

p. 56). Another author in the article suggested that children who are physically disciplined and watch violent television may well...

Articles on Counseling Examined

Six articles related to various types of counseling are discussed in seventeen pages and include among others such methods as viol...

Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement

bit ambiguously as "discipline administered in a reasonable manner" does not qualify as domestic violence (Domestic Violence and Y...

Women Victimized by Violence

that this authority has been invested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jews, Muslims and Christians among others, man is mast...

Family or Domestic Violance High School Examination Guidelines' Establishment

and Adolescent Psychiatry, "in 1996, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect reported 969,018 cases of violent crimes commi...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Themes of Violence and Female Sexuality in the Films The Exorcist and Carrie

A thematic analysis of these films focuses upon their depictions of violence and female sexuality in 5 pages. Two sources are cit...

Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Violence

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...