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Crime and Drug Abuse

and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the i...

Domestic Violence Yesterday and Today

Spousal violence has a history that stretches back to mankinds earliest chapters on earth. This...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

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

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Implications of Family Abuse for Victims and Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer discusses abuse in a family situation, its origins, prevalence and ramifications. The writer ...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

MEDIATION FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

were expected to endure within the confines of matrimony is now considered nothing short of abuse. That victims of domestic viole...

Stepparents and Child Sexual Abuse

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

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Emotional Abuse and its Impact

inadequate parenting and emotional abuse? 2. What do studies suggest about the impact of emotional abuse? 3. What are the long t...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Child Abuse Causes and Effects

(physical, sexual, and emotional), neglect (physical, medical, and educational), abandonment, and multiple maltreatments that enco...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and the Power Concept

states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...

Predatory Crimes and How to Prevent Them

myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...

Sports and Steroids

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

Pastoral Counseling

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

Children's Psychological Treatment and Ethical Issues

counselor, not wanting to agitate the situation but realizing she had to uncover more information, asked whether or not Jennifers ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character Mrs. Joe

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Formidable Issues Confronting Kenya's Constitution

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

Delinquency and Child Abuse Connection

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

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...

Legally Protecting Animals in Arizona

6 felony. Signed by former Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 4, 1999, the law gave animal protection agencies the legal teeth it need...

Overview of Melanie Klein's Child Research

childhood, that influenced the function of their own offending (Gerber, 1994). Goncu (1993) also applied a Kleinian mode...

Arkansas and California Abuse Reporting

the child is going to avert further physical and/or emotional battering. It stands to reason that children who are forced to endu...

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...

Drug Abuse and the Influences of Psychology and Sociology

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching 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...