Archive for the 'Violence/Victimization' Category
“Human trafficking” aka modern day slavery
Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Personally, I find it surprising that people are trafficked in the United States. Human trafficking seems like something that should happen somewhere else, in some different time, certainly not in the United States in the 21st century. I’ve looked around for statistics on how many people are victims [...]
Read More..>>Recent Bullying and Victimization Research
In the past several weeks, numerous reports and bulletins about teenage bullying and victimization have crossed my desk and bounced into my inbox. Given that the topic of teen bullying is on our production schedule in 2012, I have been especially interested in these reports. While each report could be the basis for numerous blog [...]
Read More..>>Thurston High School Shooting
This semester I’m taking a policy advocacy class at the University of Southern California, for the masters of social work program. Over the semester we were asked to study a piece of legislature; I chose HR 227 Child Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2011. Looking at this piece of legislature opened my eyes [...]
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