The
reason for showing research and news about
violence is quite simple really - whether
we like it or not this is what major parts
of the martial arts are about.
Most people deal with the arts to face,
deal with, avoid or end violence
and negative behaviour
in some form or at some level.
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In
other words: Research and news about violence
- be that related to work or in the privat
sphere - can show us more of what we are
dealing with, and if our arts are "up
to the task".
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Mind you - we're not
simply talking about the physical side
of defending against an attack here. There
is so much more to violence than that! We
are talking about how a victim is dealing
with a trauma (mental, emotional, physical),
we are talking about other forms of violence
than the physical one (verbal, emotional,
sexual, psychological etc.).
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We
are also talking about how the martial arts
can be systems to deal with the processes
of violence - related to work, family and
more. Martial Arts training, in my opininon,
can be a fantastic tool to reduce the risks
of becoming a victim. Such training can
help install self-confidence, self-reliance and
self-worth - and indeed it can be a great
help in the healing process of a victim.
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So
yes, this is a huge subject, as well as
a very important one!
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If
you know about any research
and news about violence, please drop
us a line about it! It is impossible to
have access to all the information, research,
newsbriefs, studies and findings about violence
- it's causes and effects. But with your
help we can come one step closer...
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Books on research
and news about violence:
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Title:
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The
Evil That Men Do
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Author:
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Stephen
G. Michaud with Roy Hazelwood
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Language:
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English
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About:
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Criminal
minds, research, rape, killing
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Kicking causes most severe injury: |
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From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6175633.stm
(December 18, 2006):
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UK -- Kicking somebody during a fight can be more dangerous than using a sharp
or blunt weapon, research shows.
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A study of 25,000 people admitted to
A&E found use of feet was more likely to inflict serious injury than blunt
or sharp objects or fists. |
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However, the Violence Research Group in
Cardiff, found weapons caused a greater number of severe injuries. |
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In
total, the researchers assessed 31,000 injuries inflicted on patients attending
the University Hospital Wales A&E between 1999 and 2005. |
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Read
the rest of the story on News.bbc.co.uk
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Kicks not cash is motive for mugging: |
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From: http://www.stv.tv
(November 29, 2006):
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UK -- An increasing number of muggers carry out violent crime for the thrill of
it and not financial gain, a report has said.
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Boosting street cred or
feeling a rush - especially when the victim fights back - are among the reasons
why muggers carry out their attacks. |
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A poll of over 120 persistent
offenders comes a day after two teenagers were jailed for the death of City
lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce who was killed while being mugged. |
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The study, by
Professor Trevor Bennett, director of the University of Glamorgan's Centre for
Criminology, and Dr Fiona Brookman, says: "Both the amount and the severity of
gratuitous violence used in street robbery are increasing in the UK." |
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Read
the rest of the story on Stv.tv
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A tragic truth about teen pregnancy: |
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From: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=498441
(September 16, 2006):
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Only six months ago, the relationship between sexual violence and teen pregnancy
was revealed in a report titled "If Truth Be Told" by United Way of Greater
Milwaukee and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Advisory Committee. |
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The report's statistics are almost incomprehensible. More than half of teen
mothers are sexually molested prior to their first pregnancy.
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Between 30% and 44% of teen mothers have been victims of rape or attempted
rape, and 23% of assault victims become pregnant by their assailants. |
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Nationally, 42% of girls younger than 15 reported that their first intercourse
was non-consensual. As a parent, that is terrifying. |
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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Kids run, shout, fight — and foil abductions: |
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From: usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-05-child-abductions_x.htm
(September 5, 2006):
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The assailant put a towel over her face. She screamed for help. "Shut up! Shut
up!" he ordered. "I have a knife. I'll stab you."
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"He was trying to force
me to walk with him, but I kept fighting him," says Stephanie, then 14. Two men
working nearby heard her yell and ran to help. |
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Stephanie's case fits the
pattern of most attempted abductions, according to a study released today by the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The typical victim is a
teenage girl on her way to or from school. |
The study, released as a new
school year gets underway, examined 403 attempted kidnappings by strangers or
slight acquaintances that were reported by police or news media in 45 states
from February 2005 to July 2006. It was conducted to learn how such attempts are
foiled. The study did not look at successful abductions.
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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NSW leads kidnapping statistics: |
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From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1732168.htm
(September 4, 2006):
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The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research says there is a
higher rate of kidnapping and abduction in New South Wales than any other state
in Australia.
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The bureau says there were 238 alleged kidnappings or
abductions reported to police between January and June 2004 across the
state.
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But it says just over half of the cases involved an actual
abduction, which was most likely to be motivated by sexual desire, robbery or
retribution.
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In most of the other reported cases, the bureau says
victims experienced an attempted abduction or a false report was given to
police.
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Some female Citadel grads surprised by survey numbers: |
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From: http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/15352403.htm
(August 24, 2006):
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South Carolina -- Surveys that showed almost 20 percent of
female cadets at The Citadel said they had been sexually assaulted since
enrolling surprised some of the military school's female grads. |
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The college this week released surveys taken last spring in which almost 20
percent of the female cadets and 4 percent of male cadets said they were
sexually assaulted since enrolling. The news made headlines nationwide but the
effect on recruiting women cadets is unclear. |
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Nancy Mace, the college's first female graduate, said the numbers were about
on par with other colleges, but The Citadel is held to a higher standard "and
that's the surprise here."
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129 women have graduated from the formerly all-male
military college since it opened its doors to women a decade ago.
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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From: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060527/bob8.asp
(May 26, 2006):
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New research focuses on interacting factors that encourage young people to
become violent. These include a genetically mediated weakening of brain
impulse-control areas, wayward family and peer interactions, and coercive school
situations. |
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Henry was headed for serious trouble. The 15-year-old provoked an endless series
of fights at school and frequently bullied girls. |
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Henry liked violent video games. He downloaded information from a Web site on
how to make pipe bombs and drew pictures of gory deaths of people who mistreated
him. The boy openly expressed jealousy of the attention lavished on the youths
in Columbine, Colo., who in 1999 fatally shot 12 of their classmates and a
teacher and then committed suicide. |
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In 2001, Henry's life took a fortunate turn. At his high school principal's
insistence, he and his parents sought psychotherapy from Stuart W. Twemlow of
the Menninger Clinic in Houston. In individual and family sessions, psychiatrist
Twemlow zeroed in on the boy's fury at his parents and his tendency at school to
view himself as a passive victim who needed to strike back at evil tormenters. |
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Henry's feelings of rage abated as he grasped that his father struggled with
his own deep-seated problems. Henry began taking martial arts training, as
suggested by Twemlow, and attending a new school that had a healthier social
environment. His grades improved. He started dating. |
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Victims of violence urged to talk: |
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From: http://news.bbc.co.uk
(May 8, 2006):
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Free phones are being installed in eight hospitals in Strathclyde in an
attempt to encourage victims of violence to contact police. |
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The pilot scheme funded by the Violence Reduction Unit will see phones
located in A&E wards in the coming weeks. |
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Karyn McCluskey, of the VRU, said the trauma of violence and the ban on
mobile phones in hospitals made it difficult to report violent crime. |
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Oxford don runs young offenders experiment: |
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From: http://www.oxfordstudent.com
(May 4, 2006):
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An Oxford don has been
given approval to experiment on young offenders in a £2million experiment into
the effects of nutrition on behaviour.
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Dr Bernard Gesch, from Oxford
University’s department of physiology, anatomy and genetics, will be using
inmates from a young offenders institute in Scotland as guinea pigs
in order to investigate the effects of healthy eating on antisocial behaviour.
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Similar studies undertaken in the past have
shown a clear improvement in the behaviour of inmates who were fed greater
amounts of vitamins, fatty acids and trace minerals. |
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Client Violence Focus of Workshop for Social Workers: |
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From: http://www.buffalo.edu
(May 1, 2006):
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The risk of violence is a reality for most social workers in practice today,
says Christina E. Newhill, a nationally regarded social work educator, and it is
vitally important that those in the caring professions learn to minimize those
job-related dangers.
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Newhill, associate professor of social work at the
University of Pittsburgh is the author of the book "Client Violence in Social
Work Practice". |
According to a survey Newhill conducted of 1,600 social
workers, 58 percent reported one or more incidents of violence during their
career, whether it is property damage, threat of violence, attempted assault or
actual physical assault.
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Stalker's victim still lives in fear: |
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From: http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk
(April 28, 2006):
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Sam Marshall used to think of her immaculate home on a council estate in
Bridlington as a safe haven that provided a loving environment for her three
children. Today it feels like a prison.
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Ms Marshall, 32, has become the victim of a stalker whose campaign of
terror has left her afraid to step outside. Even within the confines of the property she loves, she is constantly
reminded of an attack that almost killed her.
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She was almost throttled on her back doorstep by a man who has been repeatedly
sighted staring into the house over the back garden, and who hung a dead frog
from her security light within days of the near fatal attack.
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Shanghai workers hire surrogates to vent anger: |
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From: http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=74022
(April 28, 2006):
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Can't stand your boss, but can't afford to quit ? Hire a stand-in to yell at
instead. |
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A pair of Shanghainese entrepreneurs are offering themselves as targets for
verbal and -- within limits -- physical abuse, letting frustrated office workers
vent without killing their careers.
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Zhang Li and Chen Jun, the founders of Wantong Ltd., said their own workplace
frustrations inspired them to quit their nine-to-fives and form the company in
March. |
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Read the rest
here
(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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From: banburytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=687&articleid=1467474
(April 27, 2006):
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A child could be killed by "arrogant and
ignorant" motorists bringing a new form of dangerous driving to the area's roads
– lollipop rage.
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The phenomenon has seen everything from
motorists driving through school crossing patrols to hurling abuse and even
stones and bottles at lollipop people. |
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Now a campaign has been set up to
tackle the increasing problem of lollipop people being terrorised by motorists,
which is plaguing Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. |
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Ellen
Kershaw has been helping children cross the road outside Hook Norton Primary
School for five years, but said lollipop rage had almost caused her to quit her
job. |
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Read the rest
here
(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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Study reveals high rate of teen dating violence: |
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From: http://www.theksbwchannel.com
(April 25, 2006):
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Parents often don't realize it, but their teenagers are being punched,
threatened, isolated and devalued by their teenage boyfriends and girlfriends. |
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In fact, teen girls face relationship violence three times more than
adult women. |
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A new survey finds it's happening at an alarming rate all over the
country. |
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Teen Research Unlimited questioned more than a thousand teens about
dating abuse. |
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Read the rest
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(pdf document). Open in new
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Anchorage man arrested in wife's stabbing
death: |
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From: http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_3750896
(April 25, 2006):
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A man is arraigned in court today for murder after a deadly case of domestic
violence bringing attention once again to a critical problem here in Alaska. |
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This is the 6th homicide this year in Anchorage, the first domestic homicide.
The worst, most upsetting part of this story is that it involves some very young
children. |
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A study just released reveals that, in 2003, 9 females were killed by males
in Alaska, ranking our state at number 1 for the highest homicide rate among
females murdered by males. |
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And here's a frightening statistic, over 86 percent of female victims were
murdered by someone they knew. |
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Read the rest
here
(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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Study reveals domestic abuse is widespread in Syria: |
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From: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0425/p04s01-wome.html
(April 20, 2006):
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This country's only shelter for abused women is largely a
secret. Victims learn about it through local churches, aid agencies, or lawyers.
It has just 10 beds for the 22 people who were recently staying there. |
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But a new study released earlier this month that says as many as 1 in 4
Syrian women may be victims of physical violence is beginning to reveal just how
widespread a problem domestic abuse is throughout the country. |
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The study, funded by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
and conducted by the state-run General Union of Women, is the first of its kind
to try to quantify and explain the types of violence Syrian women face.
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"Violence is in every home in the Arab world," says a woman who works at the
shelter and asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of their work. |
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Read the rest
here
(pdf document). Open in new
window here.
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Drop of hand that triggered
attacker's lifelong urge to kill: |
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From: http://society.guardian.co.uk
(April 20, 2006):
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On a Wednesday afternoon last summer Naomi Bryant was walking along the street
near her home hand in hand with a man she had bumped into in the local pub. A
trusting, 40-year-old woman, she had invited the man back to her home but felt
embarrassed when she caught sight of friends and dropped his hand. It was a
deadly error.
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When he was arrested two days after the attack in London,
Rice told police he had picked on Ms Bryant because he judged she was
"vulnerable". |
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Thirteen days after being released from prison, Rice was
staying in a hostel for recently released prisoners in north London. After
spending a night in a pub he stopped a 33-year-old woman in the street and asked
her for directions. He attacked her, pushed her into a front garden and over the
following hour he sexually assaulted her and threatened her with a
knife. |
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Rice was easily found and told police: "People say rape is about
sex, but this is only part of it. Rape is about power and I had power over her -
sex is just an extension of it." |
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