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Showing 1 to 20 of 4956 for “"violence"”.
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The problem of domestic violence. Private violence and Public Policy
… Mill, Principles of Political Economy. The violence which husbands inflict on their wives is different from other sorts of violence in that it normally takes place in a particular location and within a particular set of social relations. It takes place in a setting which we perceive as a …
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Violence in schools: A violence prevention project keeping the peace
… for development and implementation for this violence prevention program. Specifically the project concentrates on needs assessment, project development and implementation, teacher inclusion and in-service, life experiences, long term commitment and incentives. Also included as part of this …
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Domestic Violence Advocacy
… to help intimate partner or domestic violence survivors. Little is known the best practices for social workers and other helping professionals to assist survivors of domestic violence who present for services at shelters, non-residential outreach, and legal settings. This dissertation …
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Aesthetics of Violence
… developed for my thesis series, Aesthetics of Violence, which comment on violence as a destructive force while simultaneously employing a violent process to create them. The artworks are visual responses to violence as it manifests itself in the lives of individuals and collectively within …
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Adolescent dating violence
… made between those who had experienced dating violence and those who had not. A theoretical framework based on the resource aspect of exchange theory is used to frame the study. Factor analysis was used to identify coping strategies and negotiation styles. Discriminate analysis was used to …
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Intimate Partner Violence: Domestic Violence Service Providers' Perceptions of Male Victims
<p>Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women has been recognized as a serious issue which requires attention. Over the past 40 years there has been an increase in sensitivity to female victims of intimate partner violence, but the same has not been true for male victims. This may be attributed …
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Violence against women on the college campus: evaluating anti-violence programming.
Violence against women is a significant problem on America's college campuses. In response to this violence, many universities have developed direct service programs to assist the survivors of violence as well as educational programs to raise awareness about and/or reduce the likelihood of such …
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Racialized gendered violence : ‘domestic’ violence, black women and genocide in Brazil
… also impact women’s experiences with anti-black violence and terror. In order to better understand anti-black genocide in Brazil, we must take into account black women's multiple gendered and sexualized experiences with this violence. As a result, this thesis explores black women’s experiences …
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Political violence, fear, and democracy: how violence shapes democracy in Mozambique
… Since the end of the Cold War, intrastate violence has increased across developing democracies. This growing violence has occurred in parallel with the proliferation of elections. Although today, in almost every country globally, citizens are afforded the chance to select their leadership, …
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Violence Interruption And The Epidemiological Approach: A Systematic Review Of Cure Violence
<p>Violence around the globe is a key area of conflict management that should be addressed through evidence-based research. As a response to this needed area of research, violence prevention programs have begun to measure factors leading to violence in the last two decades as a potential strategy …
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The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women
… between toxic masculinity and rejection violence, here defined as instances where men react violently toward women who reject their expressions of romantic or sexual interest. It begins with an analysis of the definition and construction of toxic masculinity and, through the analysis of …
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Evaluating Violence and (Non)violence: A Critical, Practical Theology of Social Change
… theological approach to evaluate Christian (non)violence in light of interviews with twelve scholars and activists in the United States about the means of social change and the relationship of those means to social location. Social location conditions an understanding of what violence is and how …
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Reading Violence: Gender, Violence, and *Representation in India and Pakistan (1947--Present)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
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Deconstructing domestic violence policy
… circularly, deconstruct contemporary domestic violence policy while developing and evaluating methods for deconstructing policy. Policy is theorised as a discursive practice, which allows a variety of policies to be compared and critiqued by how they position the people they affect. These are …
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Patterns of skinhead violence
<p>Violence committed by racist skinheads has often been characterized as being motivated by racial hatred and by white supremacist ideology. This ideological aspect has been used to make a distinction between the violent acts committed by racist skinheads and violent acts committed by other groups …
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Rape Violence in India
… justified. While conflict-related sexual violence is devastating, it represents just one aspect of a broader and more pervasive problem. Rape is a systemic and deeply ingrained issue that occurs even in times of peace, often perpetrated by ordinary individuals within the nation. …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
… we read and understand the use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in this area has proved clear …
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Intimate Partner Violence and Its Influential Factors: Men Who Turn to Physical Violence
Abstract Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive problem in Canada. The rates of men who turn to physical IPV towards their female partners are higher than for any other couple relationship. Most studies to date focus on victim/survivor experiences and do not explore IPV by understanding the …
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Discrepancies in intimate violence reporting for men and women's violence: A meta-analysis
The report of intimate violence is often taken on face value in research. With no gold standard existing, one partner's report is often an accepted measure of violence in the relationship. This discrepancy in reporting between intimate partners has been thoroughly examined, yet researchers still …
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