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Child Abuse Hypothesis

example offered by Rubin and Babbie concerns an hypothesis that proposes that clients are more satisfied when a written contract i...

Case of Marta Laureano

It has always been the case that as immigrant communities progress through subsequent generations, they demonstrate a greater degr...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

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...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Drug Abuse Sociological and Psychological Causative Factors

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

Stepparents and Child Sexual Abuse

fiction? Before examining this issue in greater detail, it should be noted that scientific research oftentimes classifies any ins...

Sweatshops as a Women's Issue

that occurred in New York, before laws were implemented to take care of these harsh conditions. What is not widely reported is the...

Senior Citizens and Financial Abuse

view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...

Song 'My Name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

American Universities, Colleges, Drug Abuse and Effects

their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...

Nursing Homes and Elderly Abuse

report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Legal Problems/Family as Public and Private

1992). Women are those primarily affected by the private sphere support group, however in order to be eligible for support, certai...

Community Resources and How They Can Be Used and Abused

The uses and abuses of community service resources are discussed in a paper consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in t...

Abstinence is Less Important Than Alcohol Education

In five pages it is argued that educating individuals of the effects of alcohol has a greater impact than abstinence as far as abu...

Kayla McKean Child Protection Act

to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...

Video Games and Social Responsibility

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

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

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...

The Effects of Abuse on Childhood Development

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Piaget's stages of childhood development. The impact of neglect and abuse upon such ...

Increasng Sustainability of Medicaid and Medicare

It is public knowledge that the Medicare and Medicare programs are going broke. They are not sustainable with current expenses. It...

The Causes of the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

The writer looks at some of the potential influences that resulted in the abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison occurring and continuing. The...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

The Responsible Use of Technology in Law Enforcement

fire small barbed electrodes into a targets skin, and then send an electrical current passing through their body. This has the eff...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

2008). Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that using testing measures to screen for depression is beneficial, as this identif...

Child Sexual Abuse, Issues

This research paper/essay discusses issues in courtroom procedures that pertain to child sexual abuse cases. Four pages in length,...