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Juvenile Delinquency, Domestic Violence, and the Effects of Substance Abuse

In twelve pages this paper examines how juvenile delinquency and domestic violence increases are affected by substance abuse in th...

Explaining the Increase in Marijuana Use

is a part and parcel of a recent fashion trend along with fuzzy lamps and tie-dyed tee shirts. Everyone sporting a hat with a leaf...

Grounded Theory Applied to Sexual Abuse

Grounded theory is driven by observation and analysis of data collected in the natural environment of the subject. Morrow and S...

Adolescent Treatment of Substance Abuse

In five pages this paper incorporates sections from the KTadldrg.wps paper file and briefly describes Mount Freedom, New Jersey's ...

Cinematic Portrayals of Human Rights Offenses

In five pages this paper examines how public awareness of human rights' offenses was heightened by the shocking abuses featured in...

Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children

in the testimony that is presented and many of these cases illuminate the inconsistencies and short comings that exist within the ...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Social Work Case Management

or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Domestic Abuse Cases and the 1973 Stockholm Syndrome

the issues, and potential solutions, for domestic violence more understandable. These methodologies are only applicable, however,...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Causes and Effects of Child Abuse

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Punishing Abuse

two of which occurred while she was incarcerated (Ackerman, 2004). Psychiatric patients are forbidden to engage in sex, "but San...

Fighting Child Abuse Proposal

p. 1) child abuse complaints. Child abuse is a significant problem in America today. In 1996 alone, there were 969,000 (Hewitt ...

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

In five pages this research paper examines Pelzer's account of his horrific childhood with an application of current theory on fam...

The Harmful Physical Effects of Sustance Abuse and Alcohol

It is approximately 6 to 13 percent now (PG). Some samples that have been seized are even higher. It takes less of the more pote...

Battered Women's Syndrome from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

This literature review consists of twenty five pages and explores abuse from psychological, economic, physical, and historical per...

1600s to 1900s Women in America

This paper examines this time period in terms of women with such topics as sexuality, domesticity, religion, crime, and substance ...

Emotional Aspects of Child Abuse

In five pages Sigmund Freud's and Erik Erikson's theories are examined within the context of child abuse and its emotional repercu...

History of Child Abuse 3

In eight pages child abuse is examined in terms of legal definition, history, social occurrence based on statistics, treatment, an...

House Bill 250: Analysis

context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...

Nursing Dilemma/Elder Abuse

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

The Liza Minnelli Case

have been abused themselves will inevitably abuse others if in fact they do not get help. Simpson (2000) writes: "In those familie...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Substance Abuse

that "as a consequence of their illness they may find themselves living in marginal neighborhoods where drug use prevails" (Hatfie...

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....