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Factors associated with a history of firearm injuries in juveniles drug traffickers and violent juvenile offenders
Get PDFFirearm injures have reached epidemic proportions within both Juvenile and adult correctional populations Relatively little is known. However, About the Individual and community factors associated with an increased risk violence in offender populations Understanding these correlates of Violent Victimization would represent the First step in the Identification of putative risk factors: permitting the development of mean1nglul and effect1ve Prevention programs the primary objective of the present study was to develop a model of individual and Community factors associated with firearm Injury prevalence in a sample of incarcerated juvenile drug traffickers (n = 217). And violent juvenile offenders (n = 239) The results indicated that the pattern of offending. Drug selling or violence . Was important in determining the particular factors assoc1ated w1th firearm injures in juvenile? Offenders. The results were consistent w1th the hypothesis that Juvenile drug traffickers may have been Injured As a result of a generalmabil1ty to lunction effectively within the drug trafficking arena. or adequately Judge Dangerous situations . including situations where they were at increased risk for robbery or other violent victimization The profile that emerged fort he injured via lent offenders suggested that they may have prec1p1tated a violent attack through an aggressive interactional style. or the predatory nature olther offending . A preliminary review olcommun1ty vandals Indicated that the firearm Injury prevalence for the two different offender groups varied across locality, again suggesting that community or environmental factors may interact w1th offend1ng in defining the overall risk for Injury
Ideal world or real world: Using Monopoly to teach social stratification
Get PDFThe instruction of social stratification can be a difficult subject to teach. In particular, one of the most challenging connections for students to make is the relationship between social class and life chances. Students new to the subject commonly equate an individual's class position to their work ethic and/or moral standing. Here we revisit the board game, Monopoly, in an attempt to make students more aware of the structural impacts on social class. Student groups, separated by monetary, property and power allotments, compete against one another in order to become the wealthiest group within the game. Game play scenarios and student reactions are offered to this version of monopoly. Such reactions appear to provide support for the application of the game as a teaching tool
Farmed-out: A case study of differential oppression theory and female child farm labor in the early 20th century
Get PDFThis paper examines the experiences of rural, female orphans in early 20th century United States. A content analysis was conducted and oral histories collected from which the following themes about rural, female, orphan's lives emerged: non-agency, consummate caretaker, martyrdom, and strength. Regoli and Hewitt's theory of differential oppression was utilized in the analysis. Differential oppression posits that all children are oppressed, that female children are doubly-oppressed based on their status as child and female, and that to adapt to this oppression children employ one or more of four modes of adaptations: passive acceptance of their circumstances, exercise of illegitimate coercive power, manipulation of one's peers, or retaliation. This paper concludes that rural female orphans most commonly utilized the mode of passive acceptance
Presentations of the paranormal: The impression management strategies and professionalization tactics of physics and spirit mediums
Get PDFThis is a study of psychics and spirit mediums. It focuses on concepts of deviance neutralization and professionalization. Using a literary ethnography, it identifies five types of psychics and mediums. They are charismatic, intraorganizational, cross-occupational, interorganizational, and charlatans. The findings show that each fight off the stigma associated with working with the "paranormal." This often involves various impression management strategies and professionalization tactics. These strategies and tactics have created acceptance by the dominant culture in traditional fields. They have also opened the door for a "psychic liberation movement" that is seeking to further the use of metaphysics in everyday life. This analysis builds on other studies of paranormal beliefs. It specifically complements a recent study by Evans, Forsyth, and Foreman (2003) examining stigma management among psychics
Reviewers for FICS 1999
No full textThe journal would like to thank the following individuals who have served as referees for the articles published in volume 27 number 2 and/or for articles submitted since May 1999