Browsing by Subject "Violence"
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Alcohol Use and Violence-Related Injury in Moshi, Tanzania: A Mixed Methods Study
(2019)Background: Harmful alcohol use and violence are both major contributors to global mortality and morbidity rates, despite being both predictable and preventable. This study seeks to quantitatively determine the scope of ... -
Association Between Substance Use and Gun-Related Behaviors.
(Epidemiologic reviews, 2016-01-13)Gun-related violence is a public health concern. This study synthesizes findings on associations between substance use and gun-related behaviors. Searches through PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO located 66 studies published ... -
Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990-2015.
(American journal of preventive medicine, 2017-11)<h4>Introduction</h4>Firearm violence injures or kills 100,000 Americans each year. This paper applies the Host-Agent-Vector-Environment model to this issue. Research on firearm violence tends to focus on two elements-the ... -
Citizens in Fear: Political Participation and Voting Behavior in the Midst of Violence
(2014)How does violence affect political participation and voting behavior? Why does a violent context push some to be politically active, while others decide to stay at home? Our current understanding of political behavior is ... -
Defying the odds on gun regulation: The passage of bipartisan mental health laws across the states.
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Experiments in Violence: The Problem of Oppositional Politics in Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction
(2020)Paradoxically, Benedict Anderson’s notion of the nation as an imagined community occupying a territory at once bounded and sovereign became commonplace around the same time that prominent global novelists were beginning ... -
Factors related to posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescence.
(Trauma Violence Abuse, 2012-07)Studies of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescence published from 2000 to 2011 indicate that adolescents are at greater risk of experiencing trauma than either adults or children, and that the prevalence of PTSD ... -
Fighting for Life: War Trauma, Healing, and Ritual Communities in the American Pacific Northwest
(2022)This dissertation traces the complex connections between violence, trauma, healing, and medicalization in North America. The project connects to conversations in medical anthropology and American studies, and intersects ... -
Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian Power
(2009)Victorian England was the first empire in history to imagine itself as liberal, believing that its own power could bring law to the darkest and most unruly corners of the world. But despite covering nearly the entire period ... -
Georges Sorel, Autonomy and Violence in the Third Republic
(2012)How did Georges Sorel's philosophy of violence emerge from the moderate, reformist, and liberal philosophy of the French Third Republic? This dissertation answers the question through a contextual intellectual history of ... -
Healthcare Experiences, Needs, and Strategies of Survivors of Violence
(2018)The long-term and multi-faceted consequences of trauma are well documented and health conditions associated with traumatic life events are often those that benefit from early and regular attention from a healthcare provider. ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior ... -
Polyvictimization and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Trauma-Exposed, Clinic-Referred Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System.
(Child maltreatment, 2022-11)Polyvictimization is a robust predictor of emotional and behavioral problems and is linked to involvement in juvenile justice and other public sector systems. This study extends prior research by employing person-centered ... -
Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
(2009)Secession is a watershed event not only for the new state that is created and the old state that is dissolved, but also for neighboring states, proximate ethno-political groups and major powers. This project examines the ... -
Shadow Zones: Contraband and Social Contract in the Borderlands of Tunisia
(2018)Although Tunisia has been celebrated as the unique success story of the Arab Spring, its emergent democracy has failed to resolve the structural inequalities that caused the 2011 revolution, or meaningfully include marginal ... -
The Impact of Violence in Mexico on Education and Labor Outcomes: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Have a Mitigating Effect?
(2019-04-12)This research explores the potential mitigating effect of Mexico’s conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on the education and labor impacts of increased homicide rates. Panel data models are combined with a ... -
‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
(2019)“‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827” examines the various ways ordinary people, legal officials, lawmakers, and editors negotiated the ...
