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- 371: Pedophilia: Causes and Typologies
- ... of the horrors that they have endured. There is also a pedophile enhancement movement, with confessed pedophiles insisting that their behavior is not wrong or immoral. Organizations dedicated to the social acceptance of sex with children are not new, yet have had a large upstart in membership since the early 1970's(Charon, 1979). Because of the extreme sensitivity of the ... however, common ground which may enable us to combine theories into a workable start to a solution of the “unspeakable crime”. Pedophiles can be classified into different categories by several issues, the most common of which are causation, and victim-relationship. Using different classifications to isolate pedophiliac behavior can help us to understand this behavior and begin to find methods in ... a learned behavior is due to sexual abuse of the abuser as a child. The pedophile then begins to imitate this behavior later in life(Groth, Hobson, and Gary, 1982). Social Skills Theory Social skills that have been underdeveloped or dysfunctional social skills have been suggested as a possible explanation for pedophilia, especially relating to persons of the opposite sex. ...
- 372: Role of Women In The Developing Countries
- ... education opportunity. While in the developing world, only 30% of female are literated ("Women¡±10). This situation decides that women in the industrialized countries are more active in political and social issues. There more and more women join various election campaigns as candidates and equal pay movements. Their social communication circles are more independent, having their own ways to take a big part of social activities. However, in the agricultural countries women are indifferent to politics. They seldom ...
- 373: A Civil Action Position Paper
- ... problem. Even though the case was somewhat of a failure, I feel that it had a great societal impact. It did not fulfill the task of being a vehicle for social change, although it had great potential, and did create an important awareness. Social change is a term conveying that a lawsuit of a civil action should result in justifying the impartiality. This does not always happen- like in A Civil Action. The city ... to be responsible for their hurt. They want the defendants to pay, in terms of money and in terms of truth, to justify the pain that they have suffered. The issues and complaints in this specific case is that the water in East Woburn, which was consistently used, was contaminated with harmful and toxic chemicals. Because the ingestion of this ...
- 374: Medical Miracles on the Horizon
- ... face a multitude of problems in the 21st Century, including drug addiction, deadly disease, violent crime, warfare and hostility, hunger, and homelessness to name a few. All of these critical issues have been present to some extent in the 20th Century and, left unsolved, will continue to plague society and mankind as we enter the new millennium. As we rapidly approach the next era, new issues of equal or even greater importance for mankind will almost certainly arise. I personally envision health issues, concerns related directly to medicine, as the central, most critical and comprehensive problem facing leaders of the 21st Century. In my opinion, physicians and others associated with the medical ...
- 375: Is the Criminal Justice System Racially Biased?
- ... the system is corrupt and works' against them. 50% of my non-white sample and 20% of my white sample felt the courts discriminate. James Henslin, author of the text Social Problems, states "[Violent crime] recedes with income ... people with higher incomes live in better, more affluent and less violent neighborhoods"(Henslin 141). The criminal justice system is made up of ... prophecy and labels. The problem arises when "the Criminal Justice System discriminates against these groups of citizens" (Henslin 182). In William Chambliss' study of "Saints and Roughnecks" he proved that social class does matter. People and police in the local community labelled the lower class kids as worst than the upper-class kids based on their parents' SES (Henslin 190). The ... black man got the worst sentence (Henslin 184). The issue of discrimination in the criminal justice system has been in the eye of the Supreme Court for years, however with issues of capital punishment it has taken a new twist. In the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, the court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual ...
- 376: Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle
- ... awareness as a key component to multiculturalism. Students must become aware of their own culture and how they are similar and different from others. Awareness also involves an understanding of issues involving differences in culture and a knowledge of which of these issues are present in their community. After becoming aware of these issues, students often react emotionally. With an awareness of the richness and variety of cultures in their community and a personal emotional reaction, students can take social action, another goal ...
- 377: The Sociological Quest - Summa
- The term 'sociology' is an amalgam of the Latin and Greek word meaning reasoning about the social'. Sociologists attempt to find the quest for sociological understanding through explanation and reasoning. Whilst studying different societal groups, four aspects are addressed, their purpose to raise arguments and issues. These involve historical, cultural, structural and critical components, which indicate styles of analysis and social phenomena. Sociologists use historical evidence to explain the current shape of society, which enables them to prove certain ideologies as incorrect. The view that 'marriage is going out of ...
- 378: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... love and affection going back to early infancy, according to the Heritage Foundation. A father's attention to his son has enormous positive effects on a boy's emotional and social development. But a boy abandoned by his father in deprived of a deep sense of personal security, In a well-functioning family," he continued, "the very presence of the father ... a growing body of scientific evidence from a variety of academic disciplines that indicates that churches ameliorate or cure many severe socioeconomic ills. "Let [the liberal elite] argue church-state issues...all the way to the next funeral of an innocent kid caught in the crossfire," he says. "Our guiding principle should be, `Build churches, not jails'--or we will reap ... and child abuse are twins, and self-respecting young men literally aspire to get away with murder. Scholars who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families, churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban ...
- 379: Brave New World
- ... and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technology plays a key role in the social control of Brave New World. Reproduction takes place in a "Hatchery". Stolen ova are inspected for abnormalities, fertilised, put into incubators and then undergo the "Bokanovsky Process". Each embryo ...
- 380: Treatments of Alcoholism
- ... all treatments for alcoholism is to get the alcoholic to stop drinking and refrain from abusing alcohol in the future. The paths to this goal are diverse. Several factors - biological, social and psychological - influence why an individual becomes an alcoholic. So treatments vary, depending upon why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician or therapist believes is the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological cravings. Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with counselors, who may help patients ... the most effective treatments are those that combine medical treatment with counselling. Such treatments enable the alcoholic to more easily break the physical addiction to alcohol as they evaluate their social and psychological reasons for drinking. Two of these treatments are: Nutritional Therapy and Network Therapy. Nutritional Therapy "Alan Dalum was 37 years old and thoroughly convinced he was soon ...
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