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Showing 1 to 20 of 1762 for “"violent"”.
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Women and the Violent Workplace
Globally workplace violence is a pressing concern. It is an ever increasing problem and thus an extensive field to research. Despite an increase in interest, there are specific areas of workplace violence that remain relatively unexplored, and this is further compounded because workplace violence …
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VIOLENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS’ DERADICALIZATION: THE MALDIVES
… an optimal design for the deradicalization of violent religious extremists in the Maldives. The study reveals that a successful deradicalization program requires a combination of several factors running concurrently to achieve the long-term goal of deradicalizing a violent extremist. The …
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The social origin of violent behavior
1 PDF file (vii, 86 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Women offenders' narratives of violent crime
… subjective accounts of women incarcerated for violent crime. By locating itself within a postructuralist framework, this study investigated the meaning which women attributed to their perpetration. It examined the identities which women posited and analysed how they either took up or rejected …
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The persistence of attitudes following violent and non-violent video game play using conventional versus embodied controls
The effects of violent video game play on hostility and support for violence are unclear. Previous studies have shown increases, decreases or no effect at all. At the time of the first study (2007) it was unclear if attitudes and opinions within a game persisted after game play. Also unknown was …
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Violent Imagery in Affiliation and Achievement Situations
… to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures. Violent imagery in the responses was interpreted as indicating fear. The authors suggest that women's perception of danger in achievement situations is related to the concept "fear of success" that was developed by Horner (1969), and that men may …
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Violet is one letter off from violent
… collection, Violet is one letter off from violent, aim to add to the critical conversation in contemporary poetry about violence, women’s anger, patriarchal oppression, and physical and sexual assault, specifically drawing on analyses from the poetry of Rachel McKibbens, Tarfia Faizullah, …
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Re-examining typologies of sexually violent offenders
… literature by utilizing data obtained from the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) database—a nationally populated violent crime database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Use of ViCAP data allowed for information to be obtained about sexual offenders who were …
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The intergenerational transmission of violence? : The self-report of physical abuse in childhood among violent and non-violent offenders
… of childhood physical abuse and subsequent violent offending, based on the concept of intergenerational transmission of violence. The study also examined the relationship between reports of childhood physical abuse and juvenile delinquency together with an examination of the links between …
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Assessing violent encounters: police use of lethality reporting
To identify individuals at greater risk for violent victimization, police agencies have begun to use lethality assessments. This strategy involves the use of screening questions asked of victims that assess dangerousness. Grounded in the criminological literature on domestic violence (DV), the …
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Predictors of children's violent media use
This study examined the predictors of children’s violent media use. Predictors of violent television viewing and violent game playing were studied for children ages 6 to 12 from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement. This nationally representative dataset provides several …
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Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in United Kingdom Prisons
… recruitment of inmates into radical ideology and violent extremist orientation. This study therefore posed several critical questions: What makes prison radicalisation distinct from other channels of radicalisation? What specific prisons administrative systems in the UK foster radicalisation and …
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Neuropsychological Functioning Among Violent and Nonviolent Sex Offenders
<p>Violent sex offenders, nonviolent sex offenders, violent non-sex offenders, and nonviolent non-sex offenders were compared on neuropsychological testing and on personality testing. A neuropsychological test battery and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2 (MMPI-2) were …
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Evaluating the sentencing of non-violent drug offenders
1 PDF file (vii, 59 leaves : color illustrations ; 28 cm)
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… question of what it is that makes these films so violent, limiting their descriptions to blanket terms such as “brutal”, “exploitative” and “sadistic”, in the process reaffirming the idea that the filoni are simply not worthy of further study. As a result, the suggestion that the films could …
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Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
… powers. This project examines the problem of violent secessionist conflict and addresses an important debate at the intersection of comparative and international politics about the conditions under which secession is a peaceful solution to ethnic conflict. It demonstrates that secession is …
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Working with violent clients : staff explanations and actions
… model of helping versus violent retaliation (after Weiner, 1995) in professional groups at high risk of encountering violence in the workplace. Weiner's model predicts that staff who perceive violent incidents as within the control of the client will be more likely to …
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