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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “""willing victims""”.
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The nature and effect of sexual sadistic actions on non-consenting female victims in South Africa
… sexual sadistic actions on non-consenting female victims, particularly within a South African context. Accordingly, this study provides ground-breaking information regarding the nature of sexual sadism, the aetiology of sexual sadistic behaviour and the consequences of sexual sadistic actions on …
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The Contradictory Faces of “Sisterhood”: A Case-Study on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Its Theatrical Adaptation by James Willing and Leonard Rae, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Its Miniseries Adaptation on HBO
… a collective identity that portrays women as victims and thereby the ideology that is associated with this term reduces the complexity and fluidity of female identity. Various representations of female bonds, in the political, literary and filmic spheres, have valued the idea of collectivity …
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An investigation into factors that influence employees to support diversity in the South African workplace
… socio-emotional needs for them to be willing to engage with members of other groups is highlighted in Shnabel and Nadler’s (2008) Needs-Based Model of Reconciliation (NBMR), which states that groups are only willing to reconcile once their socio-emotional needs have been addressed. …
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The Socio-Economic Impact of Stroke on Households in Livingstone District, Zambia
… data. The study involved interviewing stroke victims and one spouse or caregiver or guardian. The data was analyzed using SPSS and content analysis. Chi square tests to associate age category and period of stroke, period of stroke and change in relationships, change in relationships and sex, …
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The Socio-Economic Impact of Stroke on Households in Livingstone District, Zambia
… data. The study involved interviewing stroke victims and one spouse or caregiver or guardian. The data was analyzed using SPSS and content analysis. Chi square tests to associate age category and period of stroke, period of stroke and change in relationships, change in relationships and sex, …
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Domestic Violence Court Intervention Project
… acquiring pertinent screening information from victims. The study also uses Prochaska and DiClemente=s (1982) AStages of Change@ to better gage the readiness of each victim to make substantial and lasting changes in their relationship with the abuser. The study uncovered three potential areas …
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Saving Sex Slaves: The A21 Campaign and the Mobilization of Christian Affect
… between audience members and human trafficking victims. My study intervenes in related literature surrounding Burke’s (1969) idea of identification by acknowledging that discourse can invite audiences to feel relationally close to or empathetic with others in the absence of consubstantiation. …
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Factors that Influence Mobile Bully-victim Behaviour on Mobile Social Networks: The Case of Facebook
… has been limited focus on one type called bully-victims. Bully-victims are adolescents that swing between being a bully and a victim and are difficult to identify. The present study aims to bridge the gap by examining the factors that influence the behaviour of mobile bully-victims on Facebook in …
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Exploring the Journey: Overcoming the Life of Sex Trafficking
… Gain a deeper understanding of how former victims of sex trafficking survive.</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Trafficking in persons, or human sex trafficking, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the United States, leading both drugs and weapons (U.S. Department of State, …
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The extraterritorial quest for justice: the case for imposing a "duty of care" on parent companies in the absence of a binding business and human rights treaty
… in the international sphere. This often leaves victims of human rights violations without recourse or forced to seek justice in other jurisdictions. Against the backdrop of the international negotiations for a binding business and human rights treaty, courts have been willing to impose a ‘duty …
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A Case Study of Sex Trafficking in Romania
… naïve to assume that all of these girls are victims, that they are driven by an enhanced perception of opportunities outside the borders of Romania which increase their social status back home, and will attempt to answer the question of whether the traffickers select these girls or if the …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… By highlighting variation in behavior across victims, I challenge previous work which only examines differences in participation between victims and non-victims. </p><p>Motivated by the assumption that attitudes are a precursor to action, my second study examines civilian attitudes on the …
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A critical appraisal of the engagement process between the police and adults with learning difficulties in South Wales
… of hate crime on a regular basis, with very few victims willing to approach the police in order to report such crimes and incidents.<br/>The research was undertaken in two stages, stage one participants included professional support workers, and stage two participants were adults who have …
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Child abuse: an assessment of recognition capabilities, attitudes and reporting practices of primary school teachers in Pietermaritzburg
… health problem with serious consequences for the victims and society. Most studies on child maltreatment in South Africa have focused on the role of teachers as perpetrators and the prevalence of abuse within schools. Due to their strategic importance in breaking the cycle of abuse, it is …
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The International Criminal Court in Self-Referral States: Legitimacy, Reputation, and the Court’s Anti-Impunity Mandate
… detrimental to the ICC’s legitimacy with many victims of ICC-level crimes and general proponents of international criminal law. Previous research has convincingly found that the ICC’s apparent inability and/or unwillingness to indict state elite in self-referral states emerges from its …
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Anne Enright’s Reply to James Joyce: A Nation’s Tale Told Through The Gathering
… itself in Anne Enright’s The Gathering. The victims of an atrocious sexual crime seem to circulate this hidden secret that all tragedy revolves around, yet no one is willing to speak about it. Enright suggests that the same oppressed past of Ireland’s history keeps creeping up to the surface, …
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Stories from adults stolen as babies during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983): a narrative inquiry into identity restitution
… practice, particularly when working with victims of organised abuse. Following the grandchildren’s accounts around what have helped them (or not) to workthrough such complex ordeals, approaches to practice that are willing not just to listen but to respond from within (reaching also …
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National Evaluation Policy Narratives: The Happening of Kenya's National Evaluation Policy
… setting, plot, characters (heroes, villains, and victims), the moral of the story, and the narrative strategies employed to sway opinions. Three main subgroup themes emerged from the analysis. First, the findings affirm that donor agencies remain dominant in Kenya's national evaluation …
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Residents’ Perceptions of Dark Tourism Development: The Case of L’Aquila, Italy
… ‘dark’ not only stigmatised the location and the victims of the earthquake but, importantly, also influenced the residents’ perceptions of tourists. That is, tourists are seen as ‘dark’ by the local residents, heightening negative feelings towards them and consequently, reinforcing the …