Different Forms of Violence – Selected Issues

Selected Issues of Software Engineering

The paper deals with some common problems present in knowledge and software engineering, related to the practical design, analysis, and implementation of systems. With different design methods used at subsequent design stages, the socalled semantic gaps appear, due to important differences in semantics between design methods. The paper discusses the semantic gaps present in software and knowled...

Traumatic stress symptoms of women exposed to different forms of childhood victimization and intimate partner violence.

Interviews of women with (n = 193) and without (n = 170) recent exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) were used to examine how IPV and past exposure to child abuse influence self-reports of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The measurement of IPV included assessing psychological, physical, escalated physical, and sexual abuse. Women's retrospective accounts of childhood victi...

Selected Identity Issues of Adolescence

Show How Several Forms of Violence

Blood revenge is one of the most commonly cited causes of violence and warfare in tribal societies, yet it is largely ignored in recent anthropological theories of primitive warfare. A theory of tribal violence is presented showing how homicide, revenge, kinship obligations, and warfare are linked and why reproductive variables must be included in explanations of tribal violence and warfare. St...

Key issues in domestic violence

Domestic violence is traditionally associated with cases of physical violence occurring within intimate relationships and in a domestic setting. It is most commonly perpetrated by a male against a female partner, but it also includes violence against men. Domestic violence occurs in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships and includes married, de facto and separated adolescents and adult...