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The Role Of The Bystander Effect On Domestic Violence Within College Relationships, Caitlin Gallagher
The Role Of The Bystander Effect On Domestic Violence Within College Relationships, Caitlin Gallagher
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This current study evaluates what factors contribute to bystander intervention when dealing with sexual assault and abuse on college campuses. Bystander intervention is a concept that is still in its infancy, concerning research and development. Through unsuccessful trials of spreading rape awareness on college campuses by focusing on the victims, the focus has shifted to educating the bystander, or college students as a whole. Factors that appear to be a major influence are drinking and going out more than twice a week. When alcohol is put in the mix, decision-making is impaired; therefore consent cannot be given. The collected data …
Revolutionary Identities And Competing Legitimacies: Why Pariah States Export Violence, Ari B. Weiss
Revolutionary Identities And Competing Legitimacies: Why Pariah States Export Violence, Ari B. Weiss
Honors Theses
Amid the burgeoning literature on international norms, the study of states that violate them, so called pariahs, remains sparse (Shannon 2000). Although recent studies of pariah states have the identified numerous ways in which they break international norms, we do not know why they pursue one action over another (E.g Geldenhuys 2004, Nincic 2005). I argue that the export of violence is caused by the state’s "revolutionary identity" which leads to the adoption of competing and incompatible norms. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) I test this against other alternate and prevailing hypotheses, demonstrating that a combination of sovereignty, existential threat, …