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Critical criminology and public order crime analysis

The basic tenets and assumptions of critical criminology may be defined and described as a field in which the scientific method is utilized along with "biological, psychological, sociological, and critical methods" to examine the nature of crime in all its various contexts and consequential forms…

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Judith Bernstein's "When the Bough Breaks": parental grief and coping

Breaks addresses the unfathomable grief of losing a child. Author Judith Bernstein approaches the topic from numerous perspectives and points-of-view, addressing existential issues with as much care as psychological ones.

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Pay differences explained through expectancy, goal setting, and equity theories

Compensation differences are likely to be explained by loyalty to the organization and the organization's need to retain committed employees. Under the psychological empowerment theory, an employee values their contribution to the organization highly.

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Depression and stress among parents of autistic children

Depression has emerged as one of the most common psychiatric disorders among mothers with disabled children. Actually, this condition is regarded as the second most incapacitating condition among psychological disorders that affect young mothers of disabled children.

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Causes, types, and treatments of specific phobias

Phobias are seen to be unreasonable, and overwhelming fear of objects or situations posing little or no danger and evoke anxiety and avoidance. Specific phobias are known to last longer than the usual fears, and they cause psychological and intense physical reactions.

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Women leaders' effectiveness and gender differences in workplace experiences

The study published by Eurekalert! The Global Source for Science News entitled "Women most effective leaders for today's world" (2003) states that according to the findings of a study in Psychological Bulletin, 129(3), a meta-analysis indicates that "on average, women in management positions are…

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The criminal justice system's response to elder abuse in nursing homes

The topic I focused on for this exercise was related to the use of the criminal justice system in cases of elder abuse. Elder abuse refers mainly to the physical and psychological abuse experienced by elders who are residents of nursing homes.

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William Glasser's choice theory and human development across the lifespan

Mottern (2008) writes that Dr. William Glasser's internal control approach labeled as 'Choice Theory' postulates that the following five fundamental needs drive all of human behavior -- a physiological need to survive and 4 psychological needs (belongingness or love or acceptance; authority or…

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Parental factors and early obesity prevention in the ALSPAC cohort

Obesity has become a global epidemic, “a complex condition, one with serious social and psychological dimensions, that affects virtually all age and socioeconomic groups and threatens to overwhelm both developed and developing countries,” (WHO, 2018).

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Religion's distortion of the Golden Rule across world traditions

Religion is too often used as a justification to do harm to others, thereby negating the core function of religion in providing psychological salve, ethical frameworks for resolving conflicts, and for stimulating social cohesion.

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