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One societal belief widelyheld at the start of the twenty first century is that we should do everything we can to nurture people’s self esteem. High self esteem is usualy viewed as a forerunner of success and accomplishment, ad low self esteem is seen as a problem to be remedied. Read the rest of this entry »

Guilty Of Murder In The First Degree

          That was the jury’s verdict in the case of George Franklin, Sr, who was charged with murdering his daughter’s plyamate. But this case ws different from -  most other murder cases. It was based on memories that had been repressed for twenty years. Franklin’s daughter claimed that she had forgotten everything she had once known about her father’s crime until two years earlier, when she began to have flashbacks of the event. Gradually, though, the memories became clearer in her mind, until she recalled her father lifting a rock over h is head and then seeing her friend lying on the ground, covered with blood. On the basis of her memories, her father was convicted – but then later cleared of the crime following an appeal of the conviction. Read the rest of this entry »

6-years old boy brings a gun to school and shoots a elassmate with whom, he had a playground dispute the previous day.

An elderl woman is killed by two teenage muggers during a robbery; she had less than $2 for them to steal.

Three white men tie a black man to a truck and drag him at high speed down a country road; he dies a gruesome death

Violence in the United has reached epidemic levels, and there are few signs that it will let up. Serveys consitently reveal that violence and crime rank near the top of the list of social problems that concern Americans most (Stone et Kelner, 2000; Taylor; 2000)

Yet violence has not gone unchallenged, and the field of psycology is playing a key role in efforts to reduce this social ill. Psycologists specializing in diverse areas and employing the major perspectives of the field are making a concerted effort to answer key questions relating to violence. Read the rest of this entry »