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Why crime stats look different from family violence studies
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Parg and Jet both want to reject the results of the family violence studies, which unanimously show that women commit the same amounts and types of domestic violence as men, by pointing to crime statistics and hospital emergency room admissions which show more women showing up with complaints and injuries than men. The difference in results between crime surveys, hospital surveys, and family violence surveys is addressed in this paper by Murray A. Straus: THE CONTROVERSY OVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE B ...
Domestic Violence in the Workplace: Louisiana DOJ
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Domestic Violence in the Workplace Domestic Violence doesn't stay at home. It goes to school. It goes to the grocery store. It goes to work. Domestic violence is a workplace issue. It affects the workplace in terms of bottom-line economics, increased medical expenses, absenteeism, increased risk of violence at work, productivity, and employee safety and well-being. Believing that workplaces are ideally poised to make a difference in the lives of victims of domestic violence, Attorney General Ric ...
Ignoring Family Violence Statistics
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by Richard L. Davis If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. -Natalie Clifford Barney Approximately two decades ago I was drawn, like a Bostonian to baseball, to the issue of domestic violence because the criminal justice system minimized, marginalized, and ignored victims of domestic violence. Today I remain interested, invested and concerned because women and children, with the help of our public policy makers and domestic violence advocates have been accepted as victims wh ...
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The Caring Family Policy Agenda The family is essential for human survival, well-being, and development. As societies change, many of the needs and problems of families also change. Policies that effectively address these needs and problems must be a top political and economic priority. The result will be a nation that lives up to the American ideals of democracy, equality, and justice for all. The Caring Family Policy Agenda is essential to build strong healthy families and a just, caring and prosperous society. We invite you to join us in making this agenda a reality. For More Information, Please See www.partnershipway.org
Center for Nonviolence & Democratic Education | Home This course will explore the philosophical foundations of peace education, which examines issues critical to human survival on our planet. Beginning with helping students understand the peace education framework for learning, the Earth Charter will serve as an entry point and place of exploration of philosophical and global issues. William Lynn (2004) writes, the Earth Charter principles “serve as an educational tool, catalyze a dialogue on global ethics, inspire efforts toward sustainability, and inform national and international conventions, treaties and law...” Peace ...
Violence: a glossary -- Rutherford et al. 61 (8): 676 -- Journal What this paper adds This paper provides key definitions of major forms of violence. Common terms used in describing violence are explained. A comprehensive overview of why violence is important to public health is provided. Policy implications Public health must engage with issues of violence. Improved definitions and precise description will aid surveillance, help determination of burden, and enhance response. Violence can no longer be relegated to some other sector – public health must engage and help shape a safer future.
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Reluctant citizens gear up for first election It was the father who first determined that Bhutan would turn toward democracy, and speculation on the reasons for his decision includes the self-destruction of the Royal Family in nearby Nepal and the rise of a Maoist guerrilla movement there. Early in his reign, the Royal Family of neighbouring Sikkim was overthrown after India stirred up trouble among Sikkim's Nepalese population. Bhutan's Nepalese community, many of them living in refugee camps, has reason to resent the existing powers in Bhutan.
A former minister and the brother of Bhutan's queens -- four sisters who are married to the former king -- lead the People's Democratic Party. Bhutan's Prime Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuck and six cabinet ministers resigned to contest elections, a move widely seen to bring legitimacy to the election process, but one that has also brought dissatisfaction as would-be candidates, having given up their jobs, find they have been sidelined by political candidates.
A European Showdown Regarding Mexican Femicide Frontera NorteSur An alliance of Spanish, Polish and German legislators is watering down a resolution in the European Parliament that proposes tougher actions against femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Central America. Moving behind the scenes, the lawmakers have introduced more than 100 killing amendments to the strongly worded document. Sponsored by Green/European Free Alliance Deputy Raul Romeva Rueda, the original resolution would create a femicide coordinator; elevate women's murders to a priority status between governments; monitor the treatment of women ...
Watch out - the state is after your hard drive Rafael Behr Comment Watch out - the state is after your hard drive Rafael Behr Sunday August 12, 2007 The Observer The Ministry of Defence last week ordered British soldiers to stop blogging, putting videos on YouTube, joining online chats or sending text messages without a superior officer's permission. But the soldiers carried on regardless, posting caustic commentary on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was a mini digital mutiny. I'm surprised the MoD has taken so long to deal with the problem of khaki samizdat. Censorship is part of military life. Imagine ...
V-DAY, UNICEF call for end to rape, sexual torture against girls Highlighting the issue of violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), renowned playwright Eve Ensler has chronicled her first-hand encounters with women in eastern DRC, where sexual violence has become a routine weapon of war. Her account appears in Glamour magazine today. Since 1996, sexual violence against women and children in the eastern part of the DRC has been used to torture and humiliate women and girls and destroy families. UNICEF estimates that hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped since ...
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Amnesty Internation reports sexual violence is everyday May 31, 2007 Any lawyers out there? I’m sadly not qualified myself, but I still can’t help thinking that it’s probably against the law in the UK to threaten MPs. If, for instance, I started telling MPs that unless they voted in Parliament the way I wanted them to, I was going to make life difficult for them. I think if I did that, I would be on some pretty thin legal ice. And we have to remember that MPs are supposed to represent their constituents interests, not their own, so to treat their vote as a statement of their personal opinion and attempt retribution against ...
Social Work and Social Services Web Sites Social Work and Social Services Web Sites This site is a service of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, which offers the Master of Social Work and PhD in Social Work degrees. The Internet offers a wide variety of online resources of interest to social workers and those in the social services fields. The list below is not exhaustive; many of these sites will be jumping-off points which will lead you to other interesting, pertinent sites. One category often crosses over into another ...
US STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE FORMER In December 2004 the PSU found the use of force justified in the police killing of a 21-year-old male student earlier that month during an attempt to arrest an armed fugitive in the student's apartment. On April 22, a Skopje district court acquitted four persons--three former police officers and a businessman--implicated in the Rastanski Lozja case involving the 2002 police killing of seven South Asian illegal immigrants. Two other persons implicated in the case testified against their former coworkers in exchange for reduced sentences. The prosecution had charged that former interior ...
There were credible reports that police used violence or harassed persons, particularly members of ethnic minorities. A coalition of NGOs recorded 100 allegations of police abuse involving 122 victims in the first 10 months of the year. The victims included 47 ethnic Albanians, 52 ethnic Macedonians, and 18 Roma. The PSU reported receiving 54 complaints in 2004 that police used excessive force in the conduct of their duties; the PSU found that 22 of the complaints were justified. The interior ministry took a total of 331 disciplinary actions against police officers for misconduct. In September ...
local stuffs I began publishing g's digest on the blog on Sept. 30, 2006. g's digest was a collection of news commentary, poetry, calls for action, etc. that i'd been sending out by email for 5 years, since Sept. 11, 2001. Starting in July 2007, i start using it to put up my local stuffs lists in an archive and link to other sites i've made or am interested in. blogging will make it possible to add photos, links, and room for your comments.
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