In some extreme cases, teenagers are forced put their education to a halt and get married at such young ages. ... Like the famous expression goes "pressure burst pipes" and thus, in this case, as the above listed problems keep occurring in the marriage, it can escalate into the unfortunate issue of domestic violence. Forced marriage is one of the types of cases handled by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service. ...

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Social Control Theories take a sort of opposite approach from other theories in criminology. They start by asking why most people do not commit crimes rather then why they do commit them. They focus on restraining or controlling factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminals. If these restraining factors involve society in some way, then the theory is said to be a social control theory. Most control theories are a blend of psychiatric, phsychological, and sociological ideas. ...

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In Melissa's Farley's article, "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women, "she notes that "for women, prostitution is intimately associated with poverty." Furthermore, Colonization left many First Nations people in extreme poverty that has lasted for generations. ... Perhaps risk factors such as oppression, poverty, alcohol and drug abuse and family violence are all contributing factors as to why suicide among Aboriginal peoples in Canada is more common compared to non-Aboriginal peoples. ...

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