Psycho-Social Characteristics of Cannabis Abusing Youth

Psycho-Social Medicine

The Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective the Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective

Individuals become criminals because of the presence of a persistent criminal identity which has its origin in processes of negative social comparisons carried out by individuals who have failed in their pro-social roles and have exhibited non-conforming behaviour, aggravated and compounded by contextual factors such as a dysfunctional family environment and/or the presence of criminal peers. D...

Youth and employment in post-conflict countries: The psycho-social dimension

Volume IV, Number 2 September 2010 There are over 3 billion people under the age of 24 in the world today, comprising 47% of the world’s population. Nearly 90% live in developing countries and the challenges they face poor health, low quality education, lack of marketable skills, high rates of unemployment, early pregnancy, social exclusion, and the highest rates of new HIV/AIDS infections are ...

Abusing Social Networks for Automated User Profiling

Recently, social networks such as Facebook have experienced a huge surge in popularity. The amount of personal information stored in these sites calls for appropriate security precautions to protect this data. In this paper, we describe how we are able to take advantage of a common weakness, namely the fact that an attacker can query the social network for registered e-mail addresses on a large...

Cannabis legislation fails to protect Canada's youth.

CMAJ | MAY 29, 2017 | VOLUME 189 | ISSUE 21 E737 All editorial matter in CMAJ represents the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of the Can adian Medical Association or its subsidiaries. W ith tabling of Bill C-45, the federal government has moved one step closer to fulfilling its election promise to legalize the use of cannabis in Canada, despite concerns over the many health ris...