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year in the United States there are hundreds of thousands of children who are abused (Hwang 1999). A recent issue of JAMA reporte...
In thirty pages this paper discusses physical, sexual, and verbal spousal abuse in America and then considers its impact upon Las ...
Spousal abuse -- which is defined as "a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, and psychological...
and recent mothers determined that, in general, the rate of alcohol consumption for women, aged 15 to 44, was lower among pregnant...
often likely to downplay the violence they are experiencing, even to doctors and health professionals (Dickson, 2004). It ...
abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...
as Community Health personnel and teachers to report suspected abuse. Children continue to be abused and to suffer the impacts of...
juice etc. This mixture of yeast and juice is left to ferment for several weeks in a container that does not allow air to enter, ...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
(Nester, 1998). The physical harm a child incurs as a result of child abuse, of course, is inextricably coupled with the...
toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...
to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...
of the agencies are broad, there has been criticism waged (Hick, 2002). For example, child protective services do not address issu...
community. This is when inner cities begin to influence public policy to such a point that "efforts to reverse drug prohibition f...
an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....
more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...
harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...
two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...
would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view...
The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author Jam...
the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...
2004). Schedule II drugs, in comparison are not allowed to be refilled and: "are...
to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...
in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...
context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...
have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...
or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...
told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...