The relationship between cortical grey matter density and media violence exposure in healthy male adolescents was investigated using voxel-based morphometry and the Childrens' Report of Exposure to Violence. Adolescents with more frequent exposure have lower left lateral orbitofrontal cortex density--a possible risk factor for altered socioemotional functioning.

In this paper we develop and test an encompassing theoretical framework for the explanation of the geographical and temporal spread of extreme right violence. This framework combines internal precipitating factors related to ethnic competition, social disintegration, and political opportunity structures, which make certain localities more prone to exhibit ethnic violence, with diffusion variabl...

BACKGROUND Following the April 20, 1999, massacre at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colo, school administrators, law enforcement officials, and the media reported a rash of successive bomb threats and threats of school violence that were attributed to imitation. OBJECTIVE To establish that the clustering of threats of school violence following the Columbine massacre was initiated by imitat...

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Attacks on journalists are worthy of particular attention because, first, this profession constitutes a distinct vulnerable group in conflict areas and, second, there are wider implications for human security because of the importance of media reports pertaining to armed violence. We use a methodology for studying attacks on journalists that builds their “security profile” and which could be ap...

Domestic violence is a hotly discussed issue. Its coverage in the mass media constantly conveyed to public. From any point of view, terms "stop domestic violence" and "zero tolerance for must be echoed. One efforts DKI Jakarta provincial government establish Pos Sahabat Perempuan dan Anak (Pos SAPA) which expected service forum related violence. This article aims describe role minimize research...

Recent research found that training men and women to understand the role of bystanders in situations where violence against women (VAW) is occurring may reduce the incidence of VAW (Moynihan & Banyard, 2004). Therefore a public awareness campaign to increase understanding of the prosocial role of bystanders in reducing VAW was developed and implemented. The current article discusses the role of...

Violent acts such as a school shooting, domestic violence, suicides, gang fights, sexual assault, homicides, violence seen in the media (real or fantasy), and acts of terrorism have sudden, unpredictable and dramatic effects on children and their families. In addition, the sudden death of a family member, friend, or pet can devastate a child. Acts of violence have an inordinate negative impact ...