He would bounce from home to home as a child never really having a family. ... Will Hunting's view is that he does not deserve to be loved and accepted is due to the fact he was born into a violent home, in which violence was accepted in his South Boston home as a child. When the judge cited past records of Hunting's past, it showed Hunting was abused in all of the homes he was ever in. ... The abused from when he was a child held him back from reaching his potential and living life to the fullest.. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The public reacts to the detailed accounts with outrage, but remain ignorant to the real facts of what is happening in many homes across the nation. ... As a result, parents of abusive children suffer from tremendous anxiety, depression and guilt that often keep them as psychological prisoners in their own homes. ... In our society a person's earliest experience with violence occurs in the home in the forms of spanking and physical punishment from parents. ... The victims of violence in the home are disproportionately the smaller, the weaker and the less powerful. ... Joint classes fo...

• Word Count: 2032
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Parental abuse and neglect was persistent in Hall's home as the judge noted, 'He was abused, and he was neglected from the womb forward' (Wallace, 2013). ... Hall was expelled from many schools, and then finally home-schooled by his parents (Wallace, 2013). Hall had inadequate or no conventional support, as he was not only neglected by his father, but also lacked peers or teachers he could turn to, being home-schooled and distanced from society. ... Hence, Hall held beliefs favorable to criminal coping, as the aggressive coping mechanism was instilled through the heavy influenc...

• Word Count: 2185
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In todays society, even with a move towards equality, men are often seeking a position of power over women and causing discrimination against woman in just about every societal situation, whether it be at work, on the town, or even in the privacy of ones own home. ... With each situation of this, it would of course be taken on a case-by-case basis to determine whether or not the attack was justified and the battered wife should be held accountable, but there are scenarios that could heavily determine what the outcome of the trial would be. ...

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Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). ... This is similar to figures from England and Wales, which reveal that sexual offences account for less than one per cent of all notifiable offences (violence against the person, burglary, robbery, theft, motor vehicle theft and criminal damage) (Home Office 1998, p. 29). ...

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Yet, as the public looks toward improving the lives of the elderly, abuse and neglect of elders living in their own homes have gone largely unidentified and unnoticed. ... Elders living in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, or other institutional or group facilities were not included in the study. ... Its findings confirm some commonly held theories about elder abuse and neglect, notably that officially reported cases of abuse are only the "tip of the iceberg," or a partial measure of a much larger, unidentified problem. ...

• Word Count: 6948
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Violence Against Women Survey held in 1993 focused upon four central variables in order to reveal weaknesses that lie in previous studies. ... The VAWS avoids the problem of situating abuse only in the context of settling disputes in conflict situations by asking respondents straight out whether or not they have experienced any violence in their home and by acknowledging the existence in many different types of families. ... Routine Activity theorists believe that adolescents and young adults are at a higher risk of becoming victimized due to the large amount of time spent in peer group ac...

• Word Count: 3590
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Violence Against Women Survey held in 1993 focused upon four central variables in order to reveal weaknesses that lie in previous studies. ... The VAWS avoids the problem of situating abuse only in the context of settling disputes in conflict situations by asking respondents straight out whether or not they have experienced any violence in their home and by acknowledging the existence in many different types of families. ... Routine Activity theorists believe that adolescents and young adults are at a higher risk of becoming victimized due to the large amount of time spent in peer group ac...

• Word Count: 3590
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Home Office figures state that "of men born in England and Wales in 1953, 7 in 1000 have a conviction of sexual offences against a child, by age 40- (One in Four website, 2003). ... "The issue of the sexual abuse of children appears to have touched a nerve in the sport establishment because it both challenges long held assumptions about the moral goodness of sport and attempts to empower children through affording them legal and social rights- (Brackenridge, 2001: 10). ...

• Word Count: 3857
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate