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School bullying as a predictor of antisocial behavior in adulthood

Antisocial personality disorder is a chronic mental illness characterized by abnormal and destructive ways of thinking and perceiving situations.

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Constraints on sociocognitive metaphors in social perception

What prompts people to describe aspects of their interpersonal relationships with terms such as "warm" and "close" and others as "cold" and "distant"?

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Joe Paterno's leadership failures and the Penn State sexual abuse scandal

Penn State / Joe Paterno controversy was the mythical atmosphere of the team and the fact that Paterno's personal agenda and weaknesses transcended the objective FO the team. He saw himself as a cult figure, structured the team around that, and this led to the team's collapse.

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Community policing as a valuable development in criminal justice

Traditionally, law enforcement has taken a somewhat narrow approach to public safety. It seeks to detect crimes and arrest perpetrators, taking these elements themselves to constitute the "threats" to public safety.

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The Hermes Birkin bag diffusion of innovations among adopter categories

The Hermes Birkin bag, named after the British film actress Jane Birkin when she worked with the CEO of Hermes to design the "perfect hand bag," was introduced in 1984 (The History Behind The Birkin Bag, 2011, The Brand International).

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Sartrean alienation and identity loss in Philip Roth's American Pastoral

The novel "The American Pastoral" by Philip Roth represents an important literary work that basis its construction on elements of literary existentialism through the way in which characters and their universe are created.

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Scholarly perspectives on family structure and child outcomes in non-traditional families

The two scholarly articles critiqued in this paper bring very different perspectives into view. They offer very different conclusions. And yet they are linked in the sense that they investigate and evaluate family success vs. family failure vis-a-vis the raising of children.

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Social policy's effects on individuals and society

Social policy is a rather vague term because the word 'social' can have different meanings for different people (Human Services 311, p. 1). Social policies, in and of themselves, affect individuals at different stages in their lives.

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The international political order and the problem of global anarchy

Discuss. Similar to all politics, international politics is basically about conflict management and the re-creation of the community. The nature of such politics is more than the combination of 18,000 possible mutual relationships between the 192 states across the globe today.

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Theft and plagiarism as forms of deviance in modern society

Deviance is all over society -- from the minor etiquette breaches that engender frowns or gossip to behaviors that require legal or psychological interference.

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