Joel faces a number of barriers such as poor living conditions, a mother who is mentally unstable whilst being subjected to a large amount of domestic violence. ... Being surrounded by domestic violence at this stage in life can have major impacts on her children. ... What is the impact of the household violence on the parents, children's and Holly's development? Connie's attachment to her mother would have been seriously disrupted as a result of domestic violence. ... Growing up with domestic violence then having to rais...

• Word Count: 2194
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2364
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1391
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a letter to John Hawkes, she explained how violence and grace come together: More than in the devil, I am interested in the indication of Grace, the moment when you know that Grace has been offered and accepted-such as the moment when the Grandmother realizes the Misfit is one of her own children. ... Grace is the uneasy cloak O'Connor designed to cover and justify the violence in the story. ... Her limitations are so extreme that it seems impossible to imagine her thinking about anyone but herself, even for a moment. ...

• Word Count: 2384
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Not only does she scheme and plot alongside Goneril, but manages to take things a step further by enacting physical violence, torture and murder. ... Pulling the beard of Gloucester, an extreme insult, she and her husband capture and tie him down, plucking out the elder's eye as punishment. ...

• Word Count: 1537
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When looking through the eyes of Murdock, it is easy to see the benefits of the family, although, his outdated views can be critiqued due to the lack of consideration to other aspects under the umbrella of 'family' such as homosexuality, domestic violence and poverty. ... Media coverage has affected parenting in recent years, with extreme cases of child abuse such as 'Baby P' shaming violent parents' as a message to show society childhood is no longer ignored. ...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate