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hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...
global problem as it is estimated that over 40 million children worldwide are abused each year. Violence within the family and edu...
legal gay/lesbian relationships contends that same-sex marriages do not fall into the traditional category of accepted matrimony. ...
school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...
within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...
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...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...
violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...
as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...
therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...
violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...
wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...
benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...
in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...
property, dimensions and behaviors. Almost every research project has a specific dimension or many dimensions and can range from ...
goes on and on and on, but the results are always the same (Jasper). Black crime is growing, and is becoming an increasingly sign...
million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...
is almost a learned behavior, not socially speaking, but psychologically speaking. It is the human minds reaction and perhaps solu...
after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched with her tongue for any broken teeth...and that on th...
only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...
(Wilkinson, 1996, p. 12). Terrorism is a reaction against something, usually political oppression, and although it received its n...
the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside con...
this encompasses cartoons and comics, sports, soap operas and films through to snuff videos. The portrayal of violence n cartoons ...
and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...
of others" (Brannigan, Gemmell et al 2002, 119). Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it was a natural...