72 Antisocial Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
About time to give animals their rights, right?
Animal – what comes to your mind when you hear this word? Perhaps something furry, something feathery, something slimy, something with a beak or lots of sharp teeth, - right? I am sure this what comes to almost everyone’s mind when they think “Animal”. However, do you think o....
Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Behavioral Problems
Introduction
This paper shall examine the field of child psychology in respect to the topic of conduct disorder (CD). In child psychology, conduct disorder is an extremely difficult subject to accurately address and clarify, due primarily to the need to distinguish between normal childhood behavi....
Adult ADHD and Comorbid Anxiety
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This psychological disorder started out as a mere counterpart of ADD, which stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. ADHD is a well-recognized condition that is distinguished by inattention, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, or a combination. The c....
antisocial behaviour
Antisocial behaviour.
What is antisocial behaviour? As it is writen in Wikipedia , the free enciclopedia, Anti-social behavior is often seen as public behaviour that lacks judgement and consideration for others and may cause them or their property damage. It may be intentional, as with vandalis....
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is defined as "a pattern of irresponsible behavior that lacks morals and ethics and brings the person into conflict with society" (A.D.A.M). This definition highlights the two major features of the disorder. The first is that the individual does not have a regar....
Antisocial Personality Disorders Psychopathy and Conduct Disorder
Abstract
The Idea of a criminal personality type was first discussed by Philippe Pinel, an 18th century psychiatrist, who was concerned about patterns of behavior that were marked by a complete lack of remorse and restraint. However it was not until 1941, when Checkley described 16 criteria based o....
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a sailor with an anger-management problem that is threatening to ruin his adult life before it even has the chance to get started. He is an honest and hardworking man who looks to the Navy in hopes of finding a way to better himself, but in first must fight ....
Autism
How would you feel if you were in a crowded room, yet still all alone? How would you feel if you knew this feeling was because of a disorder given at birth that renders you simply socially awkward for the rest of your life? Different. A terrible feeling for everyone, but some live with this wretched....
Baz Luhrmanns Romeo & Juliet: Analytical Essay
William Shakespeares, Romeo and Juliet, is a cherished piece of literature which has been transformed and reinterpreted throughout the course of history. This tale has been manipulated, revolutionized and restructured into an array of theatre and film versions, yet no version has strayed fr....
Book Of Romans
The letter written to the Church at Roman is thought of more as theological discourse written by the apostle Paul who identifies himself as the author. It is more than likely that Paul found himself in the vicinity Corinth for a time, probably in about AD 55 to 57 and from there dictated his lette....
Borderline Personality Disorder
Thesis Statement
Borderline Personality Disorder is a psychological abnormity that affects 10 to 13 percent of the gross population. In the research paper I plan to define the disorder, describe the etiology and signs and symptoms, reference the diagnosis, which will validate the treatment, thou....
Bullying and Curing the Symptoms
Bleich 1
Bullying and Curing the Symptoms of this Disease
For ever problem, theres a solution, but in some cases it may be too late to find
an alternate answer.....
Bullying and Curing the Symptoms of this Disease
Bleich 1
Bullying and Curing the Symptoms of this Disease
For ever problem, theres a solution, but in some cases it may be too late to find
an alternate answer.....
Can we still distinguish between party families of Left-Right. etc
Can we still distinguish families of parties Left/ Right Liberal RE / national?
Western Europe has a long history of democracy, having experienced both continuity and change throughout the last century; it seems the perfect forum for the examination of political party families and affiliation.
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Child Abuse
Child abuse affects one out of every four children (Friends of Children, 2006). A victim of child abuse has life scarring from the signs and symptoms of child abuse, even though safe places and support lines are available. There are many children who are victims of several types of child abuse.....
Childhood and Adolescent behavioral problems
Childhood and
Adolescent Behavioral Problems
This paper shall examine the field of child psychology in respect to the topic of conduct disorder (CD). In child psychology, conduct disorder is an extremely difficult subject to accurately address and clarify, due primarily to the need to distingu....
Christmas Carol: The Supernatural
Almost everyone goes through times when they change for the better or the worse. There are those who experience traumatic events that either depresses them or makes them angry. Even more so, there are those who learn from those situations and change for the best. Either way it goes life changing sit....
Classroom Performance of Abused Children
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection. Although growing up can be difficult, most children and young people receive the love and care they need to develop into healthy, happy young adults. For their developme....
Comparison Essay of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nwoye from Things Fall Apart
Some people would expect that two entirely different people, such as Huckleberry Finn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nwoye from Things Fall Apart, could not possibly share a single aspect of life in common. Through the choices that these individuals make, it can be concluded that their ....
Conflict between Bismarck and the Reichstag in 1871
After the much awaited declaration of the new united German empire in January 1871, the new German Reichstag was also later formally declared on 4 May 1871. By this point in time, Bismarck had fulfilled his aims, as far as territorial expansion was concerned. He was now faced with the teethin....
Control Theories of crime
CONTROL THEORIES OF CRIME
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." (Bertrand Russell)
Control theories take the opposite approach from other theories in criminology. As their starting point, instead of asking what drives people to commit crime, they ask ....
Criminals are born, not made
What makes someone a criminal?
To begin it is impossible to put down one cause of criminal behaviour. The result of any kind of behaviour is the interaction of genetics, social and environmental causes.
To cover any of these issues the question should be raised; what is criminal behaviour? ....
Critically evaluate the medical model of mental disorder
In this essay Im going to examined medical model of mental disorders. I want to start my work form describing what is it the mental disorder. How the mentally ill people was treated in past, can we find any evidence for existing mental disorder i....
Depression and Children
Depression and Children
When I think or hear about children and depression, I have to ask myself; how something like this could happen to a child. How do you know if a child is depressed? What causes depression in children? What are the symptoms? What can you do to help a child with this illness? ....
Depression in Adolescents
. Introduction
Depression is said to be one of the most common emotional problems that all human beings, especially the youth have to undergo and surpass. It may be caused by many risk factors, including both the biological and environmental aspects of an individual. It may also have one or more....
Discuss the emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime and the formation of youth gangs
Along the lines of this assignment the overwhelming emerging phenomenon of juvenile violent crime will be discussed, however the author will also provide an overview of one specific form of peer group relationship, the youth gang and why in particular adolescents become gang members. This is follow....
Divorce...In a Christian Country
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page: Divorce . In a Christian Country
Approval Sheet
Preface
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Chapter I Problem and Procedure
a. Introduction
b. Statement of the problem
c. Scope and Limitation
d. Significance of the study
e. Statement of the procedure
f. Vocab....
Do Video Games Lead to Violence??
Do Video Games Lead to Violence??
There are many topics that are heavily debated by the media and by individuals as a whole, and for the most part when those topics are brought up each individuals has many different opinions on the topic and arent too easily persuaded otherwise. It will be my ....
Edward Hopper vs George Tooker
Surrealism or magic realism is a style of art that captures the essence of a painting by faithfully portraying its exterior. Two artists, Edward Hopper and George Tooker, both have a painting that captures the essence or spirit of urban America. Nighthawks by Hopper and The Subway by Took....
EMINEM or SLIM SHADY?
As shtick, Eminems somewhat petulant late-2005 decision to prepare the second act of his American life in rehab was tedious, like the Hollywood role that in late 2002 persuaded pundits to validate an artist whose three hip-hop albums had enriched public discourse more than they ever would by the t....
empathy
Empathy
Melanie Chartrand
Brandon University
If youre a young single person whom has just learned that a friend of yours has become pregnant and asks your advice on how to tell her parents, you can sympathize with her situation, even if youve never had ....
Erik Eriksons theory of personality as successor of Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic theory
A Critical Evaluation.
Abstract
Personality is acknowledged as the consistent set of characteristics and predilections that establish those commonalities and disparities in the psychological behaviour of animals across diversified socio-cultural and biological circumstances. This essay criticall....
essay on education
Education is so multifaceted that it is difficult for me to know where to begin discussing it, or how to prioritize the many factors. Relaying my own experience is easy: I had a standard classroom approach, supplemented by inordinate reading. In only the briefest and least memorable instances did I ....
Female vs.Male Brain
Male and Female Brains
Abstract
This paper is a selective review of experiments and studies that have been conducted over the
past decade in an attempt to understand how male and female brains differ. The various methods
used to explore the question how are men and women different are discus....
Giver / Fahrenheit 451 - comparison
Lois Lowrys novel The Giver and the movie Fahrenheit 451 have lots of similar things but also many things that differ from each other. Happiness of the people in the novel and in the movie is similar thing and both societies have very tight rules, which are made to have happy people. However, ever....
How do the school and home (including TV) impact student achievement?
In todays society, the art of learning is a key ingredient in the recipe for a successful
future. Once short term goals that are set by students are accomplished and a sense of
achievement comes to fruition, student performance excels. However, with so many
distractions nowadays, it is....
Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Criminal Justice
Proposal for Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice
Sacred Heart University
The Impact of Stability in the Family and Home on Violent Juvenile Convictions
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James Joyce
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is entirely concerned with the development of its main character, Stephen Dedalus. By comparison with Joyce's earlier version, Stephen Hero [1], we see that he has cut out all....
Juvenile Crime
Juvenile crime rates have nearly doubled in most countries. In the news we keep hearing about youngsters got mixed up in shady affairs and committing petty crimes. Firstly they just steal an apple from the market stands, then rob a small shop, next day we learn about a 17-year-old kid who killed his....
juvenile crime
Juvenile crime rates have nearly doubled in most countries. In the news we keep hearing about youngsters got mixed up in shady affairs and committing petty crimes. Firstly they just steal an apple from the market stands, then rob a small shop, next day we learn about a 17-year-old kid who kille....
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency
I am studying Criminal Justice, so I am doing my research on Juvenile Delinquency. My first search was threw Google. I visited a web site (www.agyp.org) I learned of The Andrew Youth Program. This program provides an alternative to incarceration that works. The ide....
legalization of marijuana
While marijuana is, in fact, remarkably free of toxicity, the consequence of annually arresting 300,000 mostly young people isnt. In the last ten years New York City has arrested and jailed over 360,000 people for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Nearly everybody arrested has been put in han....
Love as a whole
Love is undoubtedly the most powerful human emotion. Love has touched and affected all of us. The parent, the sibling, the lover, the passion for a profession. It is our major push and pull of society. There are far too many loves that I could describe and show in this essay, therefore these are t....
media violence
¡°United States is a violent nation. In 1992, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were almost two million murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults. A U.S. Department of Justice report revealed that the U.S. violent crime rate is many times higher than that of other industrialize....
My life and all about me
I grew up in Southern Georgia a very poor area; it was indeed a struggle for me looking back now I knew I had a good life growing u compared to today. I find it hard today even in the society I live in to make it. I'm a single parent of three kids, going through a divorce, and trying to obtain a c....
Narcissism
Every person has their own image of that ideal person that they wish they could be. Some may even take it to the next level and superficially act that way with acquaintances they meet everyday. There is however a fine line between occasionally pretending to have qualities one wishes they had and c....
Of Mice and Men
Intro to book:
Well reading the first section of the novel Of Mice and Men, the two characters Lennie and George have a relationship in which one is subserviently humble to the other. In figure, Lennie is a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, and wide sloping shoulders. George is wel....
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Diagnosis of McMurphy With Personality Psychological Disorders
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest was a movie released in 1975 directed by Milos Forman and based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. The films main character, Randal McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson), is sent to a psychiatric hospital from a prison work farm. McMurphy is under the false assumptio....
Physical Punishment On Our Children
In this paper I will be talking about physical punishment on children. I chose this topic, because I have a three year old daughter and I wanted to find out information that can guide my parenting. I can take all the information I receive and apply it to my everyday life. I will be hitting the ar....
Playing Dinosaurs
Slight glimpses into the past race my mind, but not much becomes of them. I like to pretend that I remember more than I really do. These images reside in me, for no reason more than the fact that my mind has a memory at all, but I can't help but remember particulars and act as if they had some meani....
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
DATE: JANUARY 7, 2007
SUBJ: FINAL EXAM RESEARCH PAPER
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
In the face of disaster, each of us reacts in our own way. Just hearing news of shattering events, such as the September 11th destruction of New Yorks World Trade Centre and incidents during ....
prejudice
Prejudice
In this essay I am going to be looking at prejudice and how prejudice affects people. The dictionary meaning of prejudge is: to judge beforehand or to judge prematurely. The dictionary meaning of prejudice is: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or with out knowledge tho....
Prejudice
Prejudice is the act of separating two distinct things by sex, age, culture, etc. in a negative manner. The three essential characters, who, in reality, are innocent, are victims of prejudice in Maycomb County. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the three mockingbirds, Boo Radley,....
psychoanalysis of walter mitty
Many people may seem to be strange, antisocial, or disturbed, but the truth of the matter is that these people suffer from many different disorders. Far too many people suffer from these diseases and that is summed up in the story the Secret Life of Walter Mitty. This story is about a man who....
rube carter
HURRICANE THE LIFE OF RUBIN CARTER
When they come to list the greatest boxers. Hurricanes name isnt likely to pop up in the Top 10. But when they come to list the greatest fighters of the 20th century, hell be alone at the peak.
Boston Globe
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School Violence : Causes And Remedies
Educators and policy makers have been grappling with the issue of violence in schools for decades, .Educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all weighed in on the possible causes. Sifting through the theories can be overwhe....
School Violence-Finding a Solution
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Serial Killers - Natural Born Killers?
Natural Born Killers?
It was the kind of smile that was both leering and arrogant, and it stayed with me as though the smile could, at any moment, grow feral, almost as if
he could sprout fangs. -- Helen Morrison, M.D. (Morrison 72)
The 19th century gave rise to a chilling new look in....
Sex Offenders
Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, ....
Significant Others
In my life there arent many significant others. I think I have pretty much eliminated everyone whose evaluations of me really mattered from my life. I dont know if you can call that cognitive conservatism. Cognitive conservatism is the tendency to seek information that co....
Sociological studies in serial killing
Serial killing, which became a major social concern only in the last 30 years , is viewed as the most senseless and violent form of criminal behaviour by creating much fear and panic within society. Most serial killers do not kill for reasons like money, love or revenge and their victims are ....
Spanking
Spanking
Were you spanked as a child? Do you think spanking effected you? Every parent has been in a situation where a good spanking seems like the only way to put an end to little Juniors temper tantrum. Parents use a number to reasons, some you may have heard, to use spanking as a f....
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. Themain character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floatingdown the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim.Before he does so, however, ....
The Affects of Illage Chemical on The Human Body
Marijuana is a popular, and illegal, drug. Its largest consumers are young adults. Marijuana is smoked in a pipe, bong, or rolled in a joint. Thirty-seven percent of people between ages 12-17 have tried marijuana. Marijuana gives a slight buzzing feeling of light-headedness. Experimentation with mar....
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Czechoslovak crisis was the crisis of the Soviet model of socialism (Crozier,1988, p. 3).The Soviet Union invasion of Czechoslovakia was seen by many as a betrayal by partners within the Warsaw Pact (Velinger,2003,p.1). The Czechs were faced wi....
To Corporal Punish or Not to Corporal Punish
To Corporal Punish or Not to Corporal Punish
Today many different people such as doctors, scientists, and even parents, are wondering if corporal punishment, spanking in this instance, leads to a violent society. So much involvement in finding out the answer is due to the raising crime rate in m....
Violence - men are more violent than women
Thai 1
Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and to a lesser extent animals and property. The term violence also connotes an aggressive tendency to act out destructive behaviors (Wikipedia). According to the article "T....
violence and pornography
Violence and Pornography
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he w....
Violence in media: Societys love for blood
Is media violence a problem? Through much research I have found that society enjoys violent behavior. People have found it to be entertaining for centuries. In Roman times they held vicious exhibitions in coliseums filled with people ready to watch gladiators kill each other for the sole reason of ....
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, (1874-1965), British leader. English on his father's side, American on his mother's, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill embodied and expressed the double vitality and the national qualities of both peoples. His names testify to the richness of his hist....