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Have LEGO Products Become More Violent?

Although television, computer games and the Internet play an important role in the lives of children they still also play with physical toys, such as dolls, cars and LEGO bricks. The LEGO company has become the world's largest toy manufacturer. Our study investigates if the LEGO company's products have become more violent over time. First, we analyzed the frequency of weapon bricks in LEGO sets...

Violent death, violent states, and American youth.

DRING the past two decades, more and more young Americans have been dying violent deaths. Although rates for every age group have been rapidly declining since the turn of the century, the death rates for those aged 15-24 have, since 1960, been on the rise. In these years the rate of youths involved in motor vehicle and other accidental deaths has been climbing while suicide and homicide rates h...

Non-Violent Strategies in Violent Contexts

The association between schizophrenia and violent or homicidal behaviour: the prevention and treatment of violent behaviour in these patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE This review article aims to discuss and evaluate the risk factors for the development of violence and homicidal behaviour and the effectiveness and outcomes of the preferred atypical antipsychotics in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. METHOD For this purpose, the psychiatry literature was comprehensively reviewed. A screening of the articles in the international ...

Violent Environments

According to co-editors Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts, Violent Environments is meant to provide “both a critique of the school of environmental security and alternative ways of understanding the connections between environment and violence” (p. 5). This new and thought-provoking book takes particular aim at the neo-Malthusian approach to studying environmental conflicts (an approach that m...