YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Infatuation with Violence
Essays 661 - 690
"Children must come first in social policies and the allocation of social resources, children must come first in the words and dee...
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...
violence on television should either be eliminated altogether or at least reduced, and th television industry claims it is only im...
independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...
endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...
national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...
establish partnerships with lawmakers that resulted in criminal justice reform and the establishment of womens shelters. However, ...
in her lifetime (1998). While there are some cases of abuse against men, for the most part, the women are the partners at risk. Th...
some reference to violence, in the course of the consummation of the marriage. There are, she notes, elaborate rhyming stanzas, th...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
the Internet that dealt with three topics: the values and beliefs of Hinduism; the advantages and disadvantages of a college educa...
in the house? 5. Has your partner or child ever threatened or hurt any of the pets? 6. Are there any guns in your house? (Siegel, ...
have been more willing to help people in need. Now, they shrug off horrific events. For some, this is evidence of desensitization....
and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995...
in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to ...
as one of the manifestations domestic violence in the child that has witnessed that violence. She points out that PTSD is now:...
will consider for even a moment. The authors begin by trying to separate the characteristics of terrorism from the idea of the ri...
(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...
in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...
that the more violence and controversy surrounding a given television production, the more viewers it stands to attract. Th...
uncommon side effect of televisions assault on the senses, found particularly evident with teenagers. Television is responsible f...
by the characters is the same behavior that children are reprimanded for. The study noted suggests that a high amount of exposure ...
to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...
games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...
is about methodology. In a study using quantitative data, Ramsay & Richardson (2005) examine the effectiveness of screening fo...
broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...
to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...
an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...
behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...
by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...