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James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

Domestic Abuse

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

Reducing Playground Violence

take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...

Censorship is Necessary in a Civilized Society

law, or in various school systems around the nation, or on executive boards, decisions are made to censor material. The FCC for ex...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Teens

2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Safety in Schools

remains a mystery. Professor Ewing has studied juvenile murders for years and has written several books about this topic (Perrita...

Modern Computing and PC Gaming

play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...

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...

Violence in Media and Child Behavior

on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...

Businesses Are Responsible for Workplace Violence

causes of different types of violence, workplace violence is attached to more specific causes. Zachary (2000) examines workplace ...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Lateral Violence in a Nursing Workforce

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

Television and Its Negative Effects on Children

comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...

Television Articles

the things they see on the television they should simply turn the television off. The author indicates that some people enjoy a so...

Increasing Violence in Sports

an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...

Similes of Violence

ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

Gender, Violence and Infotainment: Issues in the Entertainment Industry

about girls of all ages and their dreams," still manages to send up, "at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of th...

Impact TV Violence Has on Children

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

Social Workers and Violence

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...