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  1. Emerging Issues in Women’s Health

    Women represent 51.3% of the total U.S. population: 123.8 million people (Bureau of the Census, 1987). They are the predominant consumers of health...
    Mary P. Koss, W. Joy Woodruff in Handbook of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
    Chapter 1991

  2. Domestic Homicide

    () A 22-year-old woman who feared a former boyfriend might kill her was shot to death early...
    Daniel G. Saunders, Angela Browne in Case Studies in Family Violence
    Chapter 1991

  3. Accident Prevention

    The term accident has traditionally implied that injuries are random, unavoidable, and unpreventable, or acts of God. By contrast, the term...
    Russell T. Jones, Daniel McDonald, Fran Shinske in Handbook of Clinical Behavioral Pediatrics
    Chapter 1990

  4. Ethical Issues in Mandatory Drug Testing

    The idea seems remarkably practical: Since substance abuse can be a matter of life-and-death, not just to those who use drugs, but to all of us, we...
    Cynthia B. Cohen in Ethical Practice in Psychiatry and the Law
    Chapter 1990

  5. The American Psychiatric Association Insanity Rule—A Metaphysical Subtlety

    The acquittal of John W. Hinckley, Jr., by reason of insanity in June, 1982, although it aroused a public outcry against the exculpatory insanity...
    Abraham L. Halpern in Criminal Court Consultation
    Chapter 1989

  6. Aggression

    Similar reports of violence appear in each day’s newspapers. While the use of guns is a fairly recent development in human history, violence is...
    Kenneth J. Gergen, Mary M. Gergen in Social Psychology
    Chapter 1986

  7. An application of Megargee's Algebra of aggression to the case of theodore bundy

    The case of Theodore Robert Bundy, a young man allegedly responsible for the murders of more than 36 women in five states, has captured the...

    James D. Sewell in Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
    Article 01 March 1985

  8. Contributions of Aversive Experiences to Robbery and Homicide: A Demographic Analysis

    One of the most fundamental problems confronted in modern societies is the expression and control of violence. Within the past century, acts of...
    Charles W. Turner, Allen M. Cole, Daniel S. Cerro in Aggression in Children and Youth
    Chapter 1984

  9. The Measurement of Human Aggression

    Most social psychology textbooks include a chapter on aggression. The chapters typically begin with a discussion of the increase in the number of...
    Robert M. Kaplan in Aggression in Children and Youth
    Chapter 1984
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