The issue of gang violence on the youth and communities in St. Kitts has been compounded over the last decade and have drastically increased over the years. As a direct result of the rise in gang violence‚ St. Kitts has been negatively impacted economically‚ socially and politically. Gangs thrive in an environment in which illegal and deviant behaviors are learned and improved upon‚ and methods for avoiding detection are taught. Gangs create a natural anti-social and defiant mannerism amongst its
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Mitigating Lateral Violence: Design for Change in Practice Stacy Lacaillade Chamberlain College of Nursing NR451 Capstone Course 28 November‚ 2010 Design for Change in Practice Evidenced based practice (EBP) is an empowering process for improvement in the health care professions. Rosswurm and Larrabee (1999) credit the research studies which used meta - analysis‚ randomized clinical trials and systematic studies of patient outcomes over the last few decades as having started this shift
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Gangs constitute one of the greatest threats to public safety. gangs contribute to 48% of crime in cities. Gangs should have stiffer penalties. Laws are too weak to scare off and oppose gangs and their members. Cities should sue and bid to make laws to stop the violence. Many kids and teens are joining gangs. Laws are weak in the face of rising gangs. Gangs have existed in the U.S. since the time of the American Revolution. It costs taxpayers five times more to incarcerate a child than to educate
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and any apparent relationship between them is illusory. Substance abuse‚ as used in this paper‚ refers both to the abuse of alcohol or other drugs‚ and to dependency on alcohol or other drugs. While partner violence includes same-sex violence‚ this discussion of partner violence will be limited to abuse of women by their male partners or ex-partners‚ so the term woman abuse will be used throughout this paper. Perspectives On Substance Abuse and Woman Abuse The relationship between substance abuse
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Domestic violence is a terrible problem that we all must face‚ not only the people who are victims. We need to stop this before the problem develops into anything bigger than it already is. The battered woman‚ it has been said‚ lives in a world of terror and her home is her prison (Berger‚ 1990‚ pg. 35). For many hundreds of years people weren’t worried about domestic violence. In fact‚ a popular family journal‚ the Journal of Marriage and Family‚ did not include a
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The Effect of Child Abuse and Exposure in Domestic Violence Abstract The purpose of this research is to identify the hypothesis‚ variables‚ concepts‚ and to specify what the author intended to do with this study. The main focus in the study is the effects of child abuse and violence exposure of an adolescent as a child and the behaviors that have or have not occurred within time. The participants in the study range from age‚ gender‚ as well as race. This will help evaluate the effects that have
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executive summary Domestic violence is defined as behaviour that is threatening‚ through physical‚ verbal‚ sexual‚ financial or psychological abuse (Mullender‚ 1996). This essay explains how domestic violence can affect its victims and those who are witnesses to it. As this form of abuse has many long term effects that are not only physical but deeply psychological. Research has found that around one in four women will experience domestic violence in their lives (Domestic Violence‚ 2008). The victims are
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While violence is not new to the human race‚ it is an increasing problem in modern society. With greater access to firearms and explosives‚ the scope and efficiency of violent behavior has had serious consequences. We need only look at the recent school shootings and the escalating rate of youth homicides among urban adolescents to appreciate the extent of this ominous trend. While the causes of youth violence are multifactorial and include such variables as poverty‚ family psychopathology‚ child
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immediately began to blame the media‚ and the violence that these young men had been exposed to by it. But is it the media that is to blame for all these deaths? Is it violent movies‚ television shows‚ music‚ and video games that made these two‚ and other killers like them‚ do what they did? In this
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