İletişimin gerçekleşmesine aracılık eden kitle iletişim araçları içerisinde hiç şüphesiz basının önemi büyüktür. Basının kitleler üzerindeki etkisine atfedilen öneme binaen Anayasa’nın 28 ilâ 30. maddeleri arasında basın özgürlüğü ve süreli-süresiz yayın hakkına münhasır ayrıntılı düzenlemelere yer verilmiştir. Anayasal düzenlemelerde bu denli önem özgürlüğünün kötüye kullanılması idari yaptırı...

A large international literature promotes restorative justice options as satisfying and empowering to crime victims. This paper examines restorative justice for sexual assault from the perspective of three groups of survivors: (a) adults victimized by adult perpetrators; (b) adults or juveniles victimized by juveniles; and (c) adults sexually molested as children by adults. Sexual violence with...

Friendships fulfill needs for intimacy, belonging, and support yet have rarely been the focus of forgiveness research. In this study, we explored forgiveness, unforgiveness, young adults’ experiences transgressions in same-sex friendships ( N = 407). Our results suggest that, although unforgiveness share important antecedents (e.g., apology status, perceived remorse, barriers to forgiveness), t...

Over the last 15 years, the number of incarcerated women in the United States has increased dramatically. While the number of men in State and federal prisons has grown 67% since 1990, the number of incarcerated women has increased by 92% (Beck and Mumola, 1998). Offenses related to illegal drugs account for nearly 40% of this increase. Historically, offenses such as larceny, forgery, embezzlem...

Driver history data, in combination with previously collected tenth-grade questionnaire data, for 4403 subjects were analyzed by Poisson regression models to identify the significant substance use and parental characteristics predicting subsequent high-risk driving of new drivers (starting at age 16) through age 23-24 years. Substance use (cigarettes, marijuana, and alcohol) reported at age 15 ...

Using data from a prospective cohorts design study, this paper examines the relationship between early childhood victimization and subsequent arrest for alcohol- and/or drug-related offenses. Complete official criminal histories are compared for cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect (n = 908) and a control sample (n = 667). After controlling for relevant demographic character...

Which characteristics of violent youth predict adult arrest for property crimes (e.g. burglary), and for personal crimes (e.g. assault)? We addressed this question by focusing on a group of particularly violent and assaultive boys. Separate logistic regression analyses were conducted to predict property and personal crime arrests as a function of adolescent psychiatric diagnosis, behavior probl...