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

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...

Women who commit acts of extreme violence are considered an anomaly in our society. Those who do commit such acts, consequently, ...

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

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

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

impacts of criminal victimization, including interpersonal violence, sexual abuse and domestic violence, all of which comprise a s...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

and to feel safe" (Corby). After addressing the impact of violence on children, Levin describes how to build a peaceful classroo...

basis of the religion (Esposito, 1978). This began his quest for a true religion. Muhammad believed that both Judaism and Christi...

seen as fully individualized human beings. Medical Intervention One way to approach this problem is through medical interventio...

Daner is being forced to compromise his principles by a client who accounts for $1 million of his business (Velasquez, 2005). But...

to face threats and threats delivered by e-mail (twenty-four percent) to acts such as the downloading of computer viruses (sevente...

theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...

of the ED staff members had been threatened by a weapon; 55 hospitals (43%) reported that a physical attack on a staff member occu...

this concept, and in his attachment theory, he explained, "Evidence is accumulating that human beings of all ages are happiest an...

by firearms is the number one cause of death among black males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four (Lovett, 1997). The is...

because of domestic violence. According to the FBI, thats about 1,400 a year - with most of those killings occurring by what NOW d...

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

observed at the Council of the Americas, for example, that: "anti-globalization charlatans and the false...

the desire to destroy something or to remove it from the possession and control of its rightful owner. Enterprise crime most ofte...

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

whether or not a woman has actually been the victim of a "real" rape. What the student working on this project will want to consi...

have reason to hold such fears. Womens advocates have made headway over the years, however, in disseminating the information that...

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...