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Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

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...

Domestic Violence in Today's World

that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...

Modern Gladiator Days

pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...

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 ...

Video Games and Social Responsibility

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

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...

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...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

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...

Homicide and Domestic Violence

comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...

Domestic Violence and Prevention

In eight pages this paper presents an overview of the domestic violence issue in a consideration of how it can be reduced through ...

Violence and Video Games

further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

Film and Social Violence

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

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

The Psychological Factors that Impact Women's Decision to Return Home

abusive ultimately create a cycle of abuse whereby children whose innate defense against such inhumane treatment is to become abus...

Violence in Schools

This paper discusses the most prevalent violence in schools - bullying. Data are reported. Categories and venues of bullying are d...

Violence against Women: The Sociological Perspective

looked at the use of sexualized violent imagery in advertisements and came to the conclusion that the use of such images impacted ...

Issues in Social Psychology

women would respond to the financially independent and ambitious ad than they would to the other. In other words, more women would...

Violence in Rap

Crime is a constantly growing problem for society as a whole. It is not only the actual victim that pays for crime but...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Black Boy by Richard Wright

a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...