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one is out of the house is to be aware that such a situation is Possible. The days of "it wont happen to me," are long gone. Wha...

to make ends meet and in order to feed her children, without the aid of a deadbeat significant other, must resort to some sort of ...

diagnosed with what many assume was AIDS, though this was never confirmed. Faced with the certainty that Caroline would never see ...

levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...

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...

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

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

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

them a growing population in the world of crime and incarceration. The first section of the book deals with such things as "Trends...

where Irish American presence was predominant well into the 1980s. The organized crime studies that discuss connections between n...

5) have a court transcript proceedings and 6) appeal (Dane County Clerk of Courts, 2006). The one most distinguishing difference b...

a reality, or a society, wherein women were taken advantage of and often victims of crimes, primarily sexual crimes. In the United...

vs. battery are surrounded by many misperceptions and, in some instances, actually reflect the bias the law sometimes holds when i...

to convict. This particular offenders filter ends with him walking out the courtroom once again a free man (Petersilia, 2006). A...

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

lack of education that leads to poverty. Also, there are few work opportunities for women (Kang, 2005). As a result of being invo...

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

59.2% 1971 59.5% 1981 59.2% 1991 69.9% 2001 76.3% 2004 77.0% Notice that women earned 63.9 percent of what men earned in 1951; t...

is societally acceptable to that which is societally reprehensible. There is, of course, no one place to lodge the blame for juve...

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

Canada. Canadas blue collar workplaces and her professional workplaces alike are characterized by gender stratification. ...

course, on the home front, many women complain that men simply do not do chores or take care of the children. Often, it is the cas...

the Indiana County Police Academy in 1991. This was a comprehensive and intense program that included numerous areas of study [Tut...

to many other like-minded societies, Romans looked upon women as possessions to be treated in often a violent manner. What this i...

may be more equal than others, having the funds to hire the most experiences and persuasive lawyers that will not only be able to ...

charge of other countries. In some way, the fact that the most powerful nation in the world is run by males plays into the idea th...

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

This 12-page paper deals with the effect of plea bargaining on the criminal justice system. It argues that the relatively new pra...

In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...

In ten pages juvenile justice is considered in an overview of whether state laws assist or prevent justice with Miranda Rights fed...