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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Violent Death"”.
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The Process of Parental Bereavement Following the Violent Death of a Child
… process of parental bereavement following the violent death of a child. The death of a child is considered to be the most difficult death anyone can experience which can often result in changing lives forever. Grounded theory was used for this study in an attempt to define the primary concepts …
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Grieving the violent death of a child: synthesizing the private and public response
… and homicides are the leading causes of death in the young. These are all modes of violent deaths. Although the response to loss has been a prevalent area of inquiry, limited research exists how or whether the context of violent death affects the response of parents to the loss of a …
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Workplace Suicides Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2013-2020
… from the Centers for Disease Control's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The study analyzes demographic, geographical, occupation, and circumstantial factors in workplace suicides and explores changes in these factors during the pandemic. The data spans from 2013 to 2020, focusing …
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Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon
… a family. Joni and Grace face the sudden, violent death of their estranged mother, Beverly, and decide to search for their father’s family. As Joni struggles with commitment and Grace is conflicted about impending motherhood, one relative leads to another and they travel across the country …
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A case study of death and bereavement arising from political violence in Nepal
This thesis is about death and bereavement arising from political violence in Nepal. Throughout the thesis, an attempt is made to analyse death and bereavement in the context of a post-conflict situation with an emphasis on the people‘s engagement with death and their coping mechanisms for grief …
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No Way Out: Violence in Selected American Expressionist Plays
… and Susan Glaspell all feature some type of violent death. These types of violence can be seen in German expressionist plays, as well as in proto-expressionist plays. The acts of violence are a recurring motif of expressionism, and their importance cannot be ignored. This thesis seeks to …
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Firefighters who died by suicide : an epidemiologic study of suicide means, sociodemographic and psychiatric risk factors, and other precipitating circumstances.
… problem and it is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Firefighters, in particular, are thought to be at high risk for suicide due to chronic workplace stress. In recent years, more firefighters have died from suicide than in the line of duty. The purpose of this thesis was …
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A differences-in-differences approach to the UPP policy and crime displacement in the city neighborhoods and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
… Five types of crimes were taken into account: Violent death, rape, robbery, drug related and death caused by police intervention, each of them with a certain degree of relationship with the "drug trading cycle" Rio suffers. The model reveals statistically significant results for all types of …
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QUANTITATIVE GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF OPEN-SOURCE DATA TO PROVIDE MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS OF OPERATIONS IN THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
… data, including social media messages, violent death records, and news articles, to evaluate the impact of U.S. military and coalition forces' leaflet drop operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The findings of this research indicate that the leaflet drop …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… lay, and royal identities. St. Edmund's violent death as a result of his defiance of Danish invaders makes him an exceptional model of English royal martyrdom, and the vitae emphasize the king's sacrifice for the land and subjects as much as for his faith. Unlike other saints that …
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Orkney's first farmers. Reconstructing biographies from osteological analysis to gain insights into life and society in a Neolithic community on the edge of Atlantic Europe
… tombs had some special role possibly related to violent death or supernatural liminality.
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Post-mortem toxicological analysis of hair in violent fatalities: an investigation into long-term drug exposure
… research has demonstrated an association between violent mortalities and drug use. Furthermore, long-term drug use has been shown to alter behaviour that may lead to violence. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the effect of long-term drug use on violence-related mortalities. Due to the drug …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… subjects believed in and practiced the Good Death. The culture of the Good Death in seventeenth-century Mexico City shows that their Mexican Catholicism represented a localized religious practice that was completely hispanicized. Death permeated Mexico City's population base due to cyclical …
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Kenosis as Performance of Power in the Theology of Julian of Norwich
… of a divine person becoming human, suffering a violent death and returning to an exalted state. It then examines uses of kenosis as a model of power and submission in late 20th century thought and proposes critical questions from a feminist standpoint, specifically its potential to justify or …
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Voces de Las Madres: Traumatic bereavement after gang-related homicide
… gang-related event. Responses to gang-related deaths from Latino communities were also studied. The mothers' bereavement included six processes: (1) dehumanization; (2) ongoing shock; (3) diversity in bereavement responses; (4) spiritual and religious aspects; (5) construction of meaning; and …
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A post-mortem toxicological investigation: Understanding the role of drugs of abuse in violent fatalities in Cape Town, South Africa
… health burdens worldwide, accounting for the death of millions of individuals annually. The literature reports an association between drug use and violence, providing data indicating that the use of psychoactive substances increases the risk of morbidity and mortality due to violent acts. …
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Suicide and Firearm Access among Legal System Involved Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
… others forms of violence, including suicide death. Several risk factors for perpetration of DV overlap with suicide; however, few studies have examined suicide-related behaviors among individuals who perpetrate DV. Quantifying the risk of suicide and firearm suicide among perpetrators of DV …
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Examining the scope of homicide-suicide perpetrated by law enforcement: A population-based retrospective study using multiple frames, 2003 - 2017
… perpetration data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) with population data from the American Community Survey for the years 2003 – 2017, analyzing the joined data as a multiple-frame sample. Our exposure of interest was occupation type, classified as employment in …
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