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Books on: violent literature

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Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic Differences

Book by Darnell F. Hawkins; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Crime And Race, Crime And Race--United States, Minorities--Crimes Against, Minorities--Crimes Against--United States, United States--Ethnic Relations, United States--Race Relations, Violent Crimes, Violent Crimes--United States

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Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. The risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. Some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent ...
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Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. The risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. Some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups in societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the U.S. and several other contemporary societies.
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Excluding Violent Youths from Juvenile Court: The Effectiveness of Legislative Waiver

Book by David L. Myers; LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2001

Subjects:

Juvenile Justice, Administration Of--United States, Juvenile Recidivists--United States, Prosecution--United States--Decision Making, Violent Offenders--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...with the longest imposed on violent offenders. However, it is...has been addressed in the literature, there is a need to improve...of a policy that targets violent juvenile offenders for prosecution...punishment imposed on specified violent youths in both the juvenile...
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Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime

Book by James F. Short Jr.; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Ethnicity--United States, Poor--United States, Social Problems--United States, United States--Social Conditions, Violent Crimes--United States

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...of the research literature, the contemporary...is a dangerously violent place, and individuals...in the research literature. In particular...behavior--including violent behavior--appeared...large and growing literature identifies macrosocial correlates of violent offending and victimization...
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Casualties of Community Disorder: Women's Careers in Violent Crime

Book by Deborah R. Baskin, Ira B. Sommers; Westview Press, 1998

Subjects:

Female Offenders--United States, Violent Crimes--United States, Women--Drug Use--United States, Women--United States--Social Conditions

Collections: Entire Library

Based on some 170 case studies, this volume delves into the heart of the criminal subculture to produce evidence that challenges traditional gender-based assumptions about women and crime.
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Violent Crime in North America

Book by Louis A. Knafla; Praeger, 2003

Subjects:

Violent Crimes--Canada--History, Violent Crimes--United States--History

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...preserve their cultural beliefs. VIOLENT CRIME IN THE EARLY TOWNS AND...part of the growing body of literature on aspects of violence in...twentieth- century America .22 VIOLENT CRIME ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER Robert Waites chapter, Violent Crime on the Western Frontier...

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Journal Articles on: violent literature

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Why Have We Been More Successful in Reducing Tobacco Use Than Violent Crime? [1]

Journal article by Anthony Biglan, Ted K. Taylor; American Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 28, 2000

Subjects:

Deviant behavior--Psychological aspects, Social action--Psychological aspects, Tobacco habit--Prevention, Violent crimes--Prevention

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...discourage it. This corpus of literature can be thought of as the cultural...tobacco control efforts. The literature and media include not only...high risk to contribute to violent crime. In what follows, we...Kitzman (1993) reviewed the literature on home visiting programs...
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Human Agency, Capable Guardians, and Structural Constraints: A Lifestyle Approach to the Study of Violent Victimization

Journal article by Thoroddur Bjarnason, Thordis J. Sigurdardottir, Thorolfur Thorlindsson; Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 28, 1999

Subjects:

Violence research--Reports, Violence--Social aspects, Violent crimes--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...in violent encounters. Previous studies of lifestyles and violent victimization have primarily been based on data collected...present study thus broadens the empirical base of the current literature by applying the relevant theoretical constructs in the significantly...
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Volunteerism and the Decline of Violent Crime

Journal article by Warren Friedman; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 88, 1998

Subjects:

Crime prevention--Social aspects, Violent crimes--Statistics, Volunteerism--Social aspects

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...points out in his review of the literature on neighborhood anti-crime...driving down the number of violent crimes over a two-and-a-half...more democratic, safer, less violent nation? It will be difficult...grassroots efforts in the decline of violent crime. Those who want an...
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The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent

Journal article by Thomas Gabor; Canadian Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...environment at home, which in turn fuels their aggression. These shortcomings aside, Boyds command of a wide range of relevant literature, along with the books accessibility to readers with diverse backgrounds, should stimulate considerable interest in it. The...
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Assessing Violent Offending in Serious Juvenile Offenders

Journal article by Scott W. Henggeler, Gary B. Melton, Linda A. Smith, Sharon L. Foster, Jerome H. Hanley, Christine M. Hutchinson; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 21, 1993

Subjects:

Behavioral assessment--Research, Juvenile delinquency--Research, Violent crimes--Research

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...measures of violent offending in...with the extant literature. High self-reports...contrast with the literature, self-reported...Measures of Violent Offending and...predicted by the literature. Moreover, self-reported violent offending was...

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Magazine Articles on: violent literature

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Disintegration of the Family Is the Real Root Cause of Violent Crime

Magazine article by Patrick F. Fagan; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 124, May 1996

Subjects:

Dysfunctional families--Social aspects, Problem families--Social aspects, Violent crimes--Analysis

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...evidence in the professional literature of criminology and sociology...Federal social programs. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement...of such social problems as violent crime. Nevertheless, ordinary...the current social science literature to know that a family life...
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Management and Treatment of Institutionalized Violent Juveniles

Magazine article by Henry R. Cellini; Corrections Today, Vol. 56, July 1994

Subjects:

Juvenile offenders--Care and treatment, Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders--Management

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...interventions to minimize juveniles involvement with gangs: A literature review. Topics in Community Corrections. Cellini, H. 1993...Development. 65:7. 356-62. Monahan, J. 1981. Predicting violent behavior. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Ross, R., E...
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A Violent Birth: Disorder, Crime, and Law Enforcement, 1849-1890

Magazine article by Roger D. Mcgrath; California History, Winter 2003

Subjects:

California--History, Gold miners--Crimes against, Prospecting--History, Robbery--History, Vigilantes--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...early years were certainly violent, with no one group having a...fictional nature of most of the literature on Murieta and demonstrated...Dueling also reflected the violent character of many Californians...end was characteristically violent. Evidently suffering from delirium...
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Television Is Accused of Creating a Society of Violent, Illiterate Slobs. Yes, It Can Show Us How to Kill - but It Can Also Teach Us How to Love

Magazine article by Stuart Jeffries; New Statesman, Vol. 127, May 1, 1998

Subjects:

Television and children--Social aspects, Television programs--Psychological aspects, Violence in television--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...world of experiences,not just to monomaniacs, not just to violent addicts or perverted voyeurs, but to all of us. You could...for thinking about our sentimental lives as the best Russian literature. Perhaps more. Stuart Jeffries is a staff writer on the...
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Deadly Group Spreads Its Tentacles: Ed Blanche Reports on a Violent Militant Group Whose Members Have Reportedly Been Involved in Operations in Chechnya, Bosnia, the Philippines and around the Middle East

Magazine article by Ed Blanche; The Middle East, October 2004

Subjects:

Insurgency

Collections: Entire Library

...operational reach into Southeast Asia and Australia from its traditional preoccupation with Kashmir," it went on. LeT statements and literature in recent months have also been pointing to a wider conflict. A training manual purportedly compiled by Al Qaedas leader in...

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Newspaper Articles on: violent literature

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Dream-Like, Violent Stories of Women Adrift in Japan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Dream-Like, Violent Stories of Women Adrift...has a remarkably rich literature. The glories begin with...Japans prestigious Womans Literature Prize when first published...has a strong, often violent, plot: Arson, adultery...with a degree in French literature. Kyoto is a bastion...
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Perspective: Just Another Night on the Mean City Streets; According to the Latest Figures, Violent Crime Is on the Increase in Birmingham. Tell Surgical Registrar Alex Beaty Something He Doesn't Know

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Streets; According to the Latest Figures, Violent Crime Is on the Increase in Birmingham...decided to browse through the relevant literature in the library. As usual, the world experts...tea. That night, I dabbled through the literature on emergency chest surgery. He was right...
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THE ENGLISH INQUISITION; Eighty -Minute Police Interrogation for Couple Who Dared to Suggest Displaying Christian Literature Next to Gay Leaflets in a Town Hall

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 23, 2005

Subjects:

Police, Police officers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...steep rise in violent crimes. Last...gay rights literature in council...put Christian literature on display...I would be violent towards gays...I am not a violent man. Mr Roberts...nature of the literature. To call the...
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Love Triangles Literature and the Lakes; the Gang - Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 . by John Worthen (Yale, Pounds 20). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 3, 2001

Subjects:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Wordsworth, William

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Love Triangles Literature and the Lakes; the Gang - Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths...contained even more opium mixed with vegetable acids, which left him with violent stomach pains. All these things add greatly to the remarkable picture...
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Libraries Stock Books Which Preach Terror

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 6, 2007

Subjects:

Libraries

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Preach Terror. Byline: RASHID RAZAQ EXTREMIST Islamist literature linked to terrorism is being stocked inLondons public libraries...than 80 books in libraries inTower Hamlets which advocate violent jihad, anti-Semitism, sexism and hatred ofnon-believers, an...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: violent literature

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...South that ended in the Civil War was reflected in regional literature. The crusading spirit against Southern slavery in Harriet...successful novel Uncle Toms Cabin (1852) can be compared with the violent anti-Northern diatribes of William Gilmore Simms . While...
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German Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Century Sturm und Drang and Classicism The great age of German literature began in the 18th cent. The classicist theories of Johann Christoph Gottsched aroused violent critical reactions, indirectly paving the way for Friedrich Klopstock...
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...His early works, including the novel A Violent Life (1957; tr. 1985) and the film...imagistic and erotic adaptations of classical literature, include The Decameron (1970), The...of Salo, Pasolini was murdered under violent and mysterious circumstances by two street...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...information see the various national literature articles. Greek Drama...never transcended the level of violent melodrama. Even the nine tragedies...the great works of Spanish literature. Three vital figures of 20th-century...won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 and indicated the...
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Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli, Marchese D'

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and author, b. Turin. He studied painting, then turned to literature and wrote two historical novels. In 1845 he became a leader...unified policy but strongly opposed secret conspiracies and violent outbreaks. In his pamphlets he denounced the papal government...

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