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Description:: This dissertation examines caregiving contexts in early childhood. Specifically, I look at how caregiving contexts are related to or influenced by other caregiving contexts and broader social contexts. The dissertation is composed of an introductory chapter that provides a theoretical overview and summary of the dissertation followed by two additional...
Keyword:: parent, teacher, home, child development, neighborhood, and violence
Subject:: Early childhood education and Psychology
Creator:: Busby, Andrea Kinghorn
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15588 and etdadmin_upload_819838

Description:: This dissertation explores black litigation strategies, black legal culture, and the effect of black litigation on civil law. Not only did African Americans sue white southerners and white-owned companies for white-on-black violence under Jim Crow, they shared their collective legal knowledge through a network of black newspapers and contributed to...
Keyword:: civil litigation, sue, rights of personhood, damages, violence, and legal culture
Subject:: African American studies, History, and Law
Creator:: Eatmon, Myisha S.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_764297 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15265

Description:: "I Love You": Coercion and Consent in Sexual Relations in Postapartheid South Africa Judith L. Singleton This dissertation is an ethnographic study which explores and documents several discourses and practices surrounding sexual coercion and consent in the black South African township of Mpophomeni. I trace and examine discourses and practices...
Keyword:: sexual violence, gender, law, South Africa, sexuality, and violence
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Judith Lynn Singleton
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Child maltreatment and violence are two major public health concerns in the United States. The relationship between maltreatment and subsequent violent behavior, also referred to as the "cycle of violence", is not well understood. The present study examines whether a history of maltreatment predicts violent behavior in a sample of...
Keyword:: maltreatment, youth, delinquent, and violence
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Ursula Cornelia Thomas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-08-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation explains why some rebel groups act in a highly coercive fashion toward local populations, only to shift to increasingly contractual behavior, and why other groups that share similar circumstances evolve in the opposite direction. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, this study examines three rebel...
Keyword:: resources, war, insurgents, conflict, rebels, and violence
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Claire Margaret Metelis
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/28/2018
Date Modified:: 05/28/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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