Sentences with phrase «of violent victimization»

Students may also learn skills to protect themselves from the risk of violent victimization in a relationship.

Boney - McCoy, S. and Finkelhor, D. (1995) Psychosocial sequelae of violent victimization in a national youth sample.

«We found that international students may not engage in the same daily or recreational activities as do their domestic peers, therefore reducing their risk of violent victimization.»

Not exact matches

Second, the researchers assumed that maltreatment of young boys increases the risk that they will grow up exhibiting antisocial symptoms and being violent offenders — that a social environment of victimization exerts a strong influence toward becoming a victimizer.

Terrorism / gay agenda is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

Terrorism is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

Results of new study led by Linda Pagani, professor at the University of Montreal's School of Psychoeducation, show that young children who watch too much television are at risk of victimization and social isolation and adopting violent and antisocial behaviour toward other students at age 13.

Using data from the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment II, criminologists from Georgia State University and the University of West Georgia assessed the extent to which international college students experience violent victimization, comparing their risk to that for domestic students.

Artist Nancy Spero talks to Sue Williams about her «violent, cartoonish, explicit, voracious» paintings, influenced by past victimization and interpreted in a myriad of ways.

Victimization is not as obvious as in violent crimes because harm is usually spread out over a substantial number of victims.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Adult survivors of early childhood traumatic victimization are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and for heightened anxiety, depression and suicidality, addiction, personality disorders, antisocial or violent behavior, serious mental illness and sexual disorders.

Describes the prevalence of minor and violent IPV victimization and discusses the unique consequences of IPV for male and female respondents.

The prevalence (total number of cases) and frequency (number of occurrences of a repeated event) were measured for total peer violent and sexual victimization, dating partner violent and sexual victimization, and sexual harassment.

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.

Cost comparisons of raising a child from birth to 17 years among samples of abused, delinquent, violent, and homicidal youth using victimization and justice system estimates

Despite the fact that between 1995 and 1996 the violent crime rate declined 10 percent, continuing the downward trend seen since 1994, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics» National Crime Victimization survey, and that property crime continued its 20 - year decline, consumer perception of crime still lingers (For more recent stats, posted after press time, see www.ojp.usdoj.gov).

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics» National Crime Victimization Survey, which has been recording yearly crime data since 1973, more men have historically been victims of every type of violent crime except rape than women.