... al. 1995). Rappers seem to take pride in their use of drugs and many of them have a history of drug dealing or drug abuse. Rapper Dr. Dre promoted drug use and had an album titled "The Chronic" with a marijuana leaf on the cover. Although there are limits set by the networks ... rap and hip-hop artists. Often these artists refer to women as "bitches" and "whores" and they take pride in describing their power in sexual situations. Rapper Dr. Dre's most popular song "Nuthin" but a "G" Thang" can be considered a misogynistic anthem. Lyrics include "...before you hit on a bitch you have to fi...

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... reduction of flair up child abuse. Spanking is not a form of discipline that should be used as an everyday disciplinary action, but as said by Dr. John Rosemond, a family psychologist, in an interview with Talk of the Nation "spanking is, at times, with certain children and certain situations, ... there is a need to establish firm habits of good behavior so that the discipline can be relaxed during adolescence. According to a child sociologist, Dr. Robert Larzelere, "parents can relax control during adolescence if, as a young child, there has been an establishment of firm habits of good...

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... Violence and Victims, 8 (3), 251-267. Fantuzzo, J., Boruch, R., Beriama, A., Atkins, M., & Marcus, S. (1997). Domestic violence and children: Prevalence and risk in five major U.S. cities. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, (1) , 116-122. Hanson, M. (1993) . Feminism and family therapy: A review of feminist critiques of approaches to family violence. ... ) . Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: Vol . 37 , California: Sage. Kolbo, J. R., Blakely, E., H., & Engleman, D. (1996). Children who witness domestic violence: A review of empirical li...

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... and Victims, 8 (3), 251-267. Fantuzzo, J., Boruch, R., Beriama, A., Atkins, M., & Marcus, S. (1997). Domestic violence and children: Prevalence and risk in five major U.S. cities. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, (1), 116-122. Hanson, M. (1993). Feminism and family therapy: A review of feminist critiques of approaches to family violence. In H. ... Ed.) . Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: Vol. 37, California: Sage. Kolbo, J. R., Blakely, E., H., & Engleman, D. (1996). Children who witness domestic violence: A review of empirical literat...

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... aggressive and make them at risk to act out on their video game fantasies.(Funk) Some objective conditions relating to this social problem would be the studies done by Dr. Craig A. Anderson and Dr. Karen E. Dill, two psychologists who study teenage behavior. The conducted two studies to try to relate aggressive behavior to violent video game playing. The first study involved two ... played the violent video game punished their opponents with the noise blast for a longer amount of time then the students who didn't play the violent video game did. According to Dr. Anderson, "Violent video...

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... him as a member of Long Beach Insane Crips, a notorious street gang (Cheevers A1). He was also a drug dealer and user. His music also glorifies violence and demeans women. Andre Young, a.k.a. Dr. Dre, served five months in a halfway house in 1993 for violating his probation for breaking another rap producers jaw in 1992. He was also convicted of hitting a New Orleans police ... slamming a TV talk-show host into a wall at a Hollywood club in 1991 (Sims E3). His music demeans women and generates bad vibes against police officials. The Chronic, an album by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, has...

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... policies and the use of alternative methods of ensuring school safety "beyond the scope of the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994" (Insley, 2001). A study published by the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (2011) more specifically examined the unintended negative consequences of zero-tolerance policies in schools and explores an innovative alternative means of enforcing discipline. The ... ...

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... accommodation. The power to hurt is bargaining power." In Dolf Zillmann's book Hostility and Aggression he states that since there is such an overwhelming amount of research and books and journal articles on the subject of aggression that many people get the impression that aggression is a well understood phenomenon, but the true is just the opposite of that, there has been ... ...

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... K. Dynamics and Risk Factors in Partner Violence. Ed. Jana L. Jasinski & Linda M. Williams. London: Sage Publications, 1998. McDonald, Gerald W. "Family Power: The Assessment of a Decade of Theory and Research, 1970-1979." Journal of Marriage and the Family 4.1 (November 1980) : 841-851. Nykon, D. Psychology of the Family and Marriage, 2319. Vancouver: Langara College, 2003. Pagelow, Mildred D. The "Battered Husband Syndrome": Social problem or ... ...

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... of Christ, 1988), Henry (GoodFellas, 1990), Sam Bowden (Cape Fear, 1991), Sam Rothstein (Casino, 1995), Frank (Bringing Out the Dead, 1999), Amsterdam (Gangs of New York, 2002) or Teddy (Shutter Island, 2010) are just some of the characters in Scorsese's filmography whose stories of redemption constitute the central conflict of their respective narratives. This search for redemption usually involves the character ... ...

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... some video games, "could make children less empathetic towards the suffering of others and could possibly make them more likely to inflict such suffering" on others. ("Video Games and Violence") Dr. Bruce Barthalow Associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri says," I believe that there is a real reliable link between exposure to violent video games and aggression in the short ... ...

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... , so no positive research has been done. According to Montgomery, Alabama pediatrician Den Trumbull, when you look at the anti-spanking research, it doesn't quite ring true.11 For instance, Dr. Straus' research that stated that spanking caused anti-social behavior was widely criticized by Trumbull. First off, the mothers polled in Straus' study ranged in age from 14 to 21 ... ...

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... own policies regarding domestic violence. The most proactive states are notably California and Minnesota, with other states close behind. For example, in many states, such as North Carolina and Rhode Island, women can now get temporary restraining orders against their abusers without a lawyer (Crawford & Unger, 2000). Indiana does not currently have any supplemental laws beside what the nation acts dictate, although ... ...

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