Sentences with phrase «victims from their perpetrators»

Bullying has gone from the schoolyard to the internet and there is no respite for victims from their perpetrators.

Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator.

Not exact matches

Not only will the state enforce payment with the threat of jail time, but the money is funneled through the state agency from the perpetrator to the victim so that there is no direct contract between the two, and all at little or no expense to the small business owner.

Although financial abusers of the elderly come in all shapes and sizes, the most common perpetrators, sadly, come from the victim's own family.

From blaming the victim to the way lyrics which glorify rape and smacking or killing your «bitch» seem to go unnoticed by people who should be in an uproar about it, to the ridiculously light sentences handed out to perpetrators of rape and even murder of a woman or child, our culture is tacitly condoning this mind - set by their very silence.

If you know anything about child abuse you know the perpetrator has ways of preventing the victim from telling.

It seems that when a crime has been committed that there often is a lot of attention from authority on the perpetrator but frequently not much support provided for recovery for the effect of a crime for the victim.

A great example of both redemption and transformation which can become possible when people walk through their pain and have a willingness to step away from the traditional paradigm of what it means to be victim and perpetrator.

Victims and / or perpetrators come from all backgrounds.

He is not playing a cruel joke but «educating them in otherness,» as Sacks puts it, so that «they will understand what evil feels like from the other side, not as perpetrator but as victim.»

Then, the concept that, for the sake of the victim, the perpetrator is removed from the prior community.

Without excusing vile behavior, it is a phenomenon in which both victim and perpetrator are born from the same scourge of utter desperation.»

Furthermore, only two streams of numbers come out from the system, identifying potential victims or perpetrators.

I'm not going to argue that a closed fist didn't elevate everything, but I have trouble being the arbiter of victim vs perpetrator without more information (which, admittedly, I have not sought out so I am shooting from the hip).

Drs. Berdahl and Johnson are authors of the new book, Warning Signs: How to Protect Your Kids from Becoming Victims or Perpetrators of Violence and Aggression available now at bookstores and online.

When researchers questioned 231 young adolescents about their cultural values and experiences with peers, they found that kids from authoritarian homes were more likely to have experienced bullying — both as victims and perpetrators (Georgiou et al 2013).

«Right now, the State Senate leadership is once more trying to block victims of child sex abuse from seeking justice, and protect the perpetrators of these horrible crimes.

«If government does not exempt child victims of rape or defilement from the compulsory payment of N5000 for obtaining medical reports from hospitals as evidence for prosecution, perpetrators of these evil and criminal acts would continue to escape justice and such acts would continue to increase in our society,» she said.

But the fact is the vast majority of those suffering from mental illness are more likely to be the victim of an assault rather than the perpetrator.

New York is among the most restrictive states in the nation when it comes to allowing victims of sexual abuse from years ago to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators.

But New York is one of the most restrictive in the nation when it comes to allowing victims from long - ago abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators, and so neither the former priest or the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is liable for the acts he told The Buffalo News he committed long ago.

New research from North Carolina State University and Palo Alto University finds that young black men and teens who are most likely to be victims or perpetrators of violence are also those who feel that they have the least power to effect social change - highlighting the importance of ensuring that young black men do not feel alienated by society and social programs.

However, if the violence was more severe, perpetrators gave victims a wide berth, and victims often sought consolation from a crow that hadn't been involved in the squabble.

Universities have traditionally put the onus of prevention on the victim, with less attention on promoting education that instructs would - be perpetrators about why it is inappropriate to coerce sex from women.

I love that these women grabbed the reins of this conversation we're having about previously accepted societal norms and took it away from just focussing on the victims and perpetrators and the salacious stories and moving it towards pay - equity, legal defense and accountability.

Too often do people in the twenty - first century automatically associate acts of terrorism with Muslim perpetrators; In the Fade turns that misguided stereotype on its head and reminds us that terrorists and their victims come from every race and religion.

New York has gone from perpetrator to victim.

Jo Greenbury, Head of Sixth Form at Clifton College, organised the event and said that it was important that pupils could hear first - hand how both victims and perpetrators can learn and move on from the effects of crime.

All AMISOM personnel, including locally recruited Somalis, are immune from local legal processes in Somalia for any acts they perform in their official capacity, Don't you think this is injustice to the victims of sexual violence since perpetrators can't be prosecuted in Somali courts or even in AMISOM run military courts in Mogadishu.

The book, Voices From the Future: Our Children Tell Us About Violence in America, is a collection of interviews conducted by the Children's Express teenage editors with children and adolescents who had been perpetrators or victims of violence.

Violence against children takes a variety of forms and is influenced by a wide range of factors, from the personal characteristics of the victim and perpetrator to their cultural and physical environments.

With all of these figures, the actual number is likely much higher, as many victims of sexual violence never report their experiences to the authorities for various reasons, including fear of reprisals from authorities or perpetrators.

Coexist Learning Project Coexist is a documentary film about government - mandated reconciliation following the Rwanda genocide, told from the point of view of victims, perpetrators, bystanders, social commentators, and public officials.

We feel incredibly fortunate to have had Smith Publicity run our first publicity campaign for our book, WARNING SIGNS: How to Protect Your Kids from Becoming Victims or Perpetrators of Violence and Aggression.

25 teachers from around the world came together to discuss how to create a secure environment in the classroom, with an additional focus on how teachers can deal with discrimination, of which pupils can be both victims and perpetrators, inside and outside the classroom.

Police sketch artists interpret what can be vague descriptions from traumatized witnesses or victims, to help flesh out an image of a perpetrator.

July 8 - 31, 2009 In «Portraits,» American Artist - in - Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high - art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd's «Criminal / Victim» series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side - by - side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt.

In «Portraits,» American Artist - in - Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high - art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd's «Criminal / Victim» series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side - by - side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt.

Central to the project is the notion of breaking free from the double perspective of «for» or «against,» perpetrator or victim.

Mindless destruction of property by anti-capitalists gets the tick of approval among left - wing nutjobs — provided the property being destroyed belongs to McDonalds, Starbucks or Nike — even though the perpetrators never face any actual threat from their victims — unless the risk of choking on a giant Starbucks latte counts as a threat.

These homicides are different from most killings in that the perpetrator and the victim are victims.

A notice to quit is procured from the victim and possession is obtained against the perpetrator who has become a trespasser.

Second, Parliament considered it important to take responsibility for enforcement of a non-molestation order away from the victim of domestic violence, thereby removing the pressure that often can be brought to bear upon a domestic violence victim by a perpetrator to persuade her not to take enforcement proceedings.

If students, teachers, school staff and parents understand that bullying has countless detrimental effects on everyone involved, if there is a framework in place to encourage victims and witnesses to come forward, and if there is a promise to protect and counsel victims and perpetrators, while threatening legal consequences, we should be better able to deal with bullying as it happens, and hopefully to prevent violence from escalating.

Mid-Shore Pro Bono supports the vision of safer communities by focusing on preventing youth from becoming victims or perpetrators of criminal activity.

And the victims and their families received a financial settlement from the sorority and the perpetrators of the hazing.

Shutts & Bowen also has substantial experience in directly pursuing recoveries from perpetrators of commercial fraud and in obtaining insurance recoveries on behalf of victims of fraud.

The dissenting judges were mindful of concerns about absolving perpetrators from direct responsibility or limiting recourse for victims of covert workplace discrimination, but suggested that employees advise their employer or supervisor of any discriminatory behaviour and bring a claim if the employer fails to take appropriate action.

(3) On the request of a claimant mentioned in subsection (2)[i.e., a victim of domestic violence who is not a party to the lease] the landlord must advise the claimant of the status of the lease and serve the claimant with notice of any claim against the respondent [the perpetrator] arising from the lease, and the claimant, at the claimant's option, may assume the responsibilities of the respondent under the lease.

Primary legislation could be introduced with «urgency» to ban alleged domestic abuse perpetrators from cross-examining their victims in the family courts.