Although the latest school
violence study points to a decrease in the overall number of intentional school injuries from 2001 through 2010, the decline was slight.
Not exact matches
«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found
points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street
violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous
studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.
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violence can provide a
point of potential intervention as specific types of TDV have been associated with increased alcohol and tobacco use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, eating disorders, and high - risk sexual behavior, according to the
study background.
But Hasni Abidi, director of the
Study and Research Center for the Arab and Mediterranean World in Geneva, Switzerland,
points out that other ministries have been targets of
violence as well and says the kidnapping may have been aimed at destabilizing the Iraqi government.
Nonna Mayer, a CNRS political scientist at the Center of European
Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, welcomes the call but
points out that researchers have already done a significant amount of work on issues such as
violence, radicalization in jail, and Islam.
The recent
study into sexual victimization by a group of American researchers
pointed out that objectification is the core precondition of
violence against women.
A recent Commonwealth Foundation blog post offers a series of articles and
studies that
point to the role of education and the lack odf school choice in crime and
violence.
Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200
studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10
points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including
violence, diminished.
Pointing to
studies that have found links between animal abuse and physical
violence against people, supporters seek to prevent those who are convicted of these crimes from acquiring and harming additional animals.
In some cases, 60 % of domestic
violence offenders also abused animals at some
point and 70 % of the most violent prisoners in a
study of federal prisons, had serious animal abuse in their histories.
The Entertainment Software Association has released its own statement applauding the researchers for their efforts, while also
pointing to other
studies that found no causal link between violent media and real - world
violence.
In addition, they often fail to adequately record exposure to
violence, including to domestic abuse which, as is
pointed out above, is itself associated with other confounding risk factors for ADHD, such as prematurity, maternal alcohol abuse, and maternal smoking; for example, domestic abuse is identified in the ALSPAC cohort by the parental question «Has anyone been cruel to you», a question that renders this cohort unsuitable for any
study investigating the impact of domestic abuse on children as it is likely to be very insensitive.
Recently, a meta - analysis of over 200
studies by Joe Durlak and colleagues published in Child Development found that in schools intentionally implementing comprehensive and continuous social - emotional learning programs, students attitudes toward school and learning improved, they gained an average of over 10
points on standardized academic tests, and their problem behaviors, including
violence, diminished.