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Lumadi, Mutendwahothe Walter – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2008
In 2004 South Africa embarked on a mission of reforming its higher education system, merging and incorporating small universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions university. The democratic country's universities and technikons, which were incorporated with others and thus no longer exist, will be mentioned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, College Students, Student Behavior
Van Vugt, Eveline; Stams, Geert Jan; Dekovic, Maja; Brugman, Daan; Rutten, Esther; Hendriks, Jan – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2008
This study compared the moral development of solo juvenile male sex offenders (n = 20) and juvenile male non-offenders (n = 76), aged 13-19 years, from lower socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. The Moral Orientation Measure (MOM) was used to assess punishment- and victim-based moral orientation in sexual and non-sexual situations. Moral…
Descriptors: Punishment, Victims of Crime, Moral Development, Moral Values
Sisco, Melissa M.; Figueredo, Aurelio Jose – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2008
Surveys and focus groups were administered to two samples of US university undergraduates to compare sexual aggression prevalence as assessed based on the Power-Assertion model (n = 139) versus the Confluence model (n = 318). Men were more likely to commit all illegal acts, especially conventional rape. Women also committed illegal acts,…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Incidence, Focus Groups
Jackett, Mark – English Journal, 2007
"Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson, is one of the most powerful young adult novels to come along in the past decade. It has won numerous awards, including the "School Library Journal" award for "Best Book of the Year," and was a National Book Award Finalist. Despite this acclaim, many English teachers are uncomfortable teaching "Speak" in their…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Novels, Social Problems, Language Arts
Woodhams, Jessica; Gillett, Raphael; Grant, Tim – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
Understanding factors that affect the severity of a juvenile-stranger sexual assault has implications for crime prevention, and potentially, the assessment and treatment of juvenile sex offenders. This study investigated how victim characteristics and the number of suspects affected the use of physical violence and weapons and the occurrence of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Rape, Victims of Crime, Age Differences
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006
This fact sheet defines unintentional injuries and violence as the terms are used by the CDC and provides statistics on the leading causes of injury mortality and morbidity among children and adolescents, as well as information on the context of injury occurrence. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Injuries, Violence, Definitions, Children
Loiselle, Marci; Fuqua, Wayne R. – Journal of American College Health, 2007
Researchers have established that alcohol is a risk factor for date rape for both victims and perpetrators. Objective: The authors tried to experimentally address the link between alcohol consumption and women's risk detection abilities in a risky sexual vignette. Participants: The authors recruited 42 women from undergraduate classrooms at a…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Risk, Drinking
Abbey, Antonia; Parkhill, Michele R.; Clinton-Sherrod, A. Monique; Zawacki, Tina – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
This study extends past research by examining predictors of different types of sexual assault perpetration in a community sample. Computer-assisted self-interviews were conducted with a representative sample of 163 men in one large urban community. As hypothesized, many variables that are significant predictors of sexual assault perpetration in…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Drinking, Empathy
Fyson, Rachel – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
This paper outlines the key findings from a recent study of statutory service responses to young people with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours, with a particular focus on the involvement of criminal justice agencies. The study found that although inappropriate sexual behaviours were commonplace in special…
Descriptors: Intervention, Criminals, Young Adults, Special Schools
Gidycz, Christine A.; Orchowski, Lindsay M.; King, Carrie R.; Rich, Cindy L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
The present study utilizes the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey to examine the relationship between health-risk behaviors and sexual victimization among a sample of college women. A prospective design is utilized to examine the relationship between health-risk behaviors as measured at baseline and sexual victimization during a 3-month…
Descriptors: Violence, Child Abuse, Smoking, Females
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
"Summers To Step Down, Ending Tumult at Harvard" kicked off in 2006 as one of the most talked about news stories in higher education. Only a few months later, an event involving another elite institution would grab even more headlines, and with more serious ramifications. Three Duke University men's lacrosse players were indicted on rape…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Rape, Death
Bergen, Raquel Kennedy; Bukovec, Paul – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
This article explores men's use of sexual violence against their intimate partner. Although there is a growing body of information about men's use of physical violence, there is less data about men's sexual violence in intimate partnerships. Data were collected from 229 men who were enrolled in an intervention program for men who abuse. Of men in…
Descriptors: Rape, Intimacy, Males, Individual Characteristics
Nelson, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The Carlisle Indian School, founded by Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 to educate American Indian youth as an assist to having those youth success in mainstream America, is featured in two recently published books, "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation," by Sally Jenkins (Doubleday, 2007), and "Carlisle vs. Army:…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Social Attitudes, Stereotypes, Political Attitudes
Miller, Mark W.; Resick, Patricia A. – Behavior Therapy, 2007
This study replicated and extended findings of internalizing and externalizing subtypes of posttraumatic psychopathology (Miller, M. W., Greif, J. L., & Smith, A. A. (2003). Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic combat exposure: Internalizing and externalizing subtypes. "Psychological Assessment, 15",…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Psychological Evaluation, Females, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Allen, Rebecca S.; Phillips, Laura Lee; Roff, Lucinda Lee; Cavanaugh, Ronald; Day, Laura – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: With the rapid growth in the older inmate population, emerging issues regarding physical and mental health require greater research and clinical attention. We examined the relation of religiousness/spirituality; demographic characteristics such as age, race, and type of crime; and physical and mental health among 73 older male inmates in…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Religious Factors, Depression (Psychology)