Domestic Disturbance Research Articles

Investigating Discursive Gender Representation in Pakistani English Newspaper ‘The Express Tribune’s Headlines: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Researchers have spent a lot of time analysing how western media discursively represent gender roles in their audiences. The purpose of this research is to provide some insight on the current state of affairs regarding the portrayal of women in Pakistani entertainment print media. It seeks to explore the discursive methods for the formation of gender discourse, to analyse the language devices used for maintaining gender inequality, and to determine the socio-cultural consequences of gender discourse in the headlines of Pakistani English newspapers. These goals will be accomplished by looking at the headlines of Pakistani English newspapers. The approach taken in this investigation was qualitative. The information was gathered from the headlines of "The Express Tribune," a newspaper published in English in Pakistan. Applying Van Dijk's CDA model of media text to the analysis of the data that was obtained was done. After analysis, it was found that gendered discourse was constructed by employing discursive strategies like semantic macro structure, local meaning and coherence, global superstructure, social cognition and relation between discourse and society. The findings of analysis also revealed that words were manipulated to create negative image of women in society. The discourse also attempted to propagate feelings of insecurity and gender inequality. The socio-cultural implications of gender inequality may be resulted in economic insecurity, domestic disturbance and imbalance in society. This study may be very helpful for the newspaper readers to understand implications of gender discourse in national English newspapers. It may also motivate future researchers to employ the framework of CDA to explore gender representation in news discourses of distinct socio-cultural significance.

Domestic Disturbance Era in the Byzantium Empire from the Pen of Nikiforos Grigoras

1282-1328 yılları arasında Bizans İmparatorluğu tahtında bulunan II. Andronikos Paleologos dönemi pek çok önemli meselenin yaşandığı bir süreçtir. Uzun yıllar devam eden iç savaş, artan vergiler ve düşman saldırılarına maruz kalan halkın devletle olan bağı zayıflamıştır. Kiliselerin birliği konusunda atılan adımların hem ruhban sınıfında hem de halkta yarattığı hoşnutsuzluk ile ilgilenmek durumunda kalan imparator vaktinin çoğunu dini meselelere harcamasına rağmen tam bir sükunet sağlayamamıştır. Bu zaman zarfında özellikle Türklerin Bizans aleyhinde ilerleyişi ihmal edilmiş, ekonomik iyileşme için kara ordusunu küçültülmüş, donanma dağıtılmıştır. Deniz gücü için tamamen İtalyan devlete bağımlı hale gelen imparatorluk Türk tehdidine karşı Alan ve Katalan paralı askerlere güvenmiştir. Ancak Katalan birliğinin imparatorluk topraklarına gelişi yarardan çok zarar getirmiş, Bizanslı ahali zulme uğradığı gibi bu birliklere yapılan ödemeler iperpiron değer kaybetmesine neden olmuştur. 
 Bizans İmparatorluğu bu sıkıntılarla uğraşırken Anadolu’da çok sayıda Türkmen kendi beyleri etrafında örgütlenmiş ve bağımsız beylikler olarak harekete etmeye başlamıştır. Bunlardan biri olan Osmanlı Beyliği de Bizans topraklarına başarılı akınlar düzenlemiş ve 1302 tarihli Bafeus Savaşında Bizans birliklerini mağlup edecek kadar güçlenmiştir. 
 Bu çalışmada, dönemin özellikle iç siyasetinde belirleyici olan unsurlara, hanedan içindeki çekişmelere ve II. Andronikos ile III. Andronikos arasında yaşanan iç savaşa, önemli Bizans kaynaklarından Nikiforos Grigoras’ın Romaiki Istoria isimli eserinden faydalanılarak değinilmeye çalışılmıştır.

An exploratory spatiotemporal analysis of domestic disturbance calls for service in 2020: The case of Tampa, Florida, USA

ABSTRACT As the world continues to struggle with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much speculation on the impact of the virus on crime rates, especially domestic violence. Researchers have largely adopted a routine activities explanation for increased levels of domestic violence, where disruptions in patterns of daily life caused by lockdowns increased the opportunity for such events to occur. The purpose of this manuscript was to utilise emerging hot spot analysis to explore spatiotemporal changes in the number of calls for service for domestic disturbance from 1 March 2020 – 31 December 2020 in the City of Tampa, FL USA based on critical time frames for restrictions and recovery. As predicted by opportunity theory, there was a statistically significant decline in the counts of calls over the 10-month period. Additionally, sporadic hot spots were found at some locations during times of heightened restrictions. Locations with sporadic hot spots coincided with census tracts reporting lower education levels; higher levels of poverty, unemployment, single parent households; and more minority residents.

GİRİT ADASI’NDA ZEYTİN VE TİCARETİ

Thanks to its location, Crete Island has been one of the most important trading bases of the Mediterranean. The island is in an extremely important region in terms of its strategic location, where the Mediterranean meets the Archipelago. Undoubtedly, olive is the most important product that is grown on the island. Olive is the fertile fruit of the Mediterranean climate. The oil and soap obtained from this product is the most important commercial commodity sent to Istanbul that meets the needs of the palace. Cultivation nature of olives that is undulant due to the climate hindered the trade of oil and soap obtained from it at intervals. Mukataa foundations were also established for olive oil production. Since the trade was disrupted by destruction of olive trees caused by the Greek Revolt and the destruction of some villages, the trade had suffered setbacks. Therefore, the public demanded that the taxes be postponed or split into installments for an indefinite period of time. The state's response to this request was positive. It is apparent from the archive documents that the quality of the soap produced in the region was high. Other important centers producing olive preferred to sell their soaps under the counterfeit Cretan stamp, affecting the soap business profoundly. The laws enacted imposed the producers to stamp their products with the original stamp of the place where the soap was produced. It is also apparent that olive oil was sold to different countries at more affordable prices by keeping the customs taxes low. After the first domestic disturbance which occured in 1770, the island became a place of constant internal conflicts. In addition, olive trees were devastated, particularly in 1897/98. This study aims to set out how agriculture and trade were affected by this situation and the difficulties experienced in the olive trade in this period, when political turmoils arose upon the Greek Revolt, in the light of the documents in the Presidential State Archive.

Digital Disinformation & Domestic Disturbance: Hostile Cyber-Enabled Information Operations to Exploit Domestic Issues on Twitter

Digital Disinformation & Domestic Disturbance: Hostile Cyber-Enabled Information Operations to Exploit Domestic Issues on Twitter

A cross-sectional survey of stigma towards people with a mental illness in the general public. The role of employment, domestic noise disturbance and age

IntroductionStigmatization impedes the social integration of persons recovering from mental illnesses. Little is known about characteristics of the stigmatized person that lessen or aggravate public stigma.PurposeThis study investigates which characteristics of persons with mental illnesses (i.e. with a depression or a psychotic disorder) might increase or decrease the likelihood of public stigma.MethodsOver 2,000 adults read one of sixteen vignettes describing a person with a depressive disorder or a psychotic disorder and answered a set of items measuring social distance.ResultsThe person who was employed (vs. unemployed), or whose neighbors did not experience domestic noise disturbance (vs. disturbance) elicited significantly less social distance. Also persons with a depressive disorder elicited less social distance, vs. persons with a psychotic disorder.ConclusionEmployment and good housing circumstances may destigmatize persons coping with mental illnesses. Mental health and social services should encourage paid employment, quality housing and other paths to community integration.

“The Coats That We Can Take Off and the Ones We Can’t”: The Role of Trauma-Informed Care on Race and Bias During Agitation in the Emergency Department

Imagine relaxing in the comfort of your home when suddenly law enforcement knocks at your door. You are told that a call was placed for a domestic disturbance and that you were “rumored to have drugs.” You are ordered to the ground, handcuffed, placed in a squad car, and told you are being taken to the emergency department (ED) for a medical evaluation. Once you arrive at the ED, you are forcefully placed in a stretcher and wheeled into a room. You are surrounded by half of a dozen intimidating strangers who appear to be medical personnel.

Resource Document on Risk-Based Gun Removal Laws.

(Reprinted with permission from APA Resource Document, June 2018).

"Making room in Heaven for all sorts of souls": Temperance Rhetoric and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"

"Making room in Heaven for all sorts of souls":Temperance Rhetoric and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" Robin Jeremy Land (bio) In Stephen Crane'S Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, alcohol, violence, and the promise of violence is in every part of Maggie's home and neighborhood. Immediately after her older brother Jimmie fights with other wayward youth in the ominous Rum Alley, the boy's father finds him in the street, kicks him, and drags him home to his mother, who is an equally violent drunk. The following domestic disturbance in the Johnson home is filled with violent imagery as husband and wife fight with one another; Jimmie threatens his sister, and the mother severely beats Jimmie for his street fighting. Even the infant Tommie goes to sleep "with his fists doubled,"1 implying the stress he is under and foreshadowing the violence that awaits him when he is older. This is far from a happy home, and, throughout the entire scene, alcohol fuels the violence and dysfunction. Alcoholism and intemperance permeate every aspect of the titular Maggie's world. Alcohol is symbolically represented in the street names around her house; both her parents are constantly inebriated, her lover is a bartender, and even her final sexual partner is apparently drunk. Alcohol and its impact is an inescapable part of the characters' environment, and this environment and its influence on a person's life was one of Crane's more pressing concerns when he penned Maggie. In 1893 when Stephen Crane wrote to his friend and fellow author Hamlin Garland about Maggie,2 he enclosed the now famous description of his intent "to show that environment is a tremendous thing in the world and frequently shapes lives regardless,"3 and his hope was that Maggie would persuade his audience to make "room in heaven for all sorts of souls . . . who are not confidently expected to be there by many excellent people."4 Crane intended Maggie to convince his audience that the lives of the working poor in New York's Bowery district were greatly influenced by the world they inhabited, and that middle-class readers should reconsider some of the value judgments they impose on the working poor. For many readers the most obvious environmental factors contributing to Maggie's tragedy are the sexual double standards between men and women and the decay of middle-class morality in the slums. My study of Maggie does not disagree with those arguments that focus on [End Page 60] the novel's discussion of gender roles, the moral failings of New York's Bowery district, or those works that place the novel in the slum literature tradition. Instead my intent is to expand on the critical understanding of the novel's structure by examining a second narrative structure that lies beneath the already well-established slum narrative. While Maggie contorts the established slum narrative and the story of a fallen women, it also builds on the other well-known temperance narrative to reflect the lives of women living in New York's slums and ultimately challenge middle-class conceptions of the working poor by subverting a rhetorical strategy largely developed by middle-class temperance workers. These narratives, adopted by the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other temperance workers, were a combination of fictional and nonfictional accounts of alcoholism and its impact on families. Although ostensibly these were works of fiction, these narratives employed a common set of rhetorical practices designed to influence their audience's behavior, practices which Crane manipulated in order to challenge his middle-class audience's understanding of the working poor and in doing so, reworked the temperance narrative into naturalist novel. In effect, Maggie upturns middle-class expectations of the temperance narrative by repositioning alcohol and its abuse as an environmental factor contributing to Maggie's destruction, thus removing the sentimentalism so closely associated with traditional temperance narratives while still maintaining a strong sense of sympathy for Maggie that could encourage middle-class audiences to reconsider their opinion of women living in poverty. The temperance narrative was a well-known part of the American temperance movement by the end of the nineteenth...

Suspect Demeanor and Arrest: a Triggered Displacement of Aggression Explanation

The evidence that police arrest suspects who display a disrespectful demeanor is mixed. One explanation for these equivocal results may be triggered displaced aggression theory. This theory suggests persons who are provoked to anger internalize their aggression and unleash it later on someone or something that further agitates them. A sample of officers was primed for either a positive or negative affect, presented with a domestic disturbance vignette, and asked to rate their likelihood of making an arrest. In one vignette version the suspect displayed a hostile demeanor and in the other the suspect’s demeanor was neutral. Officers who were negatively primed and encountered the hostile demeanor suspect were most likely to arrest compared to officer in the other conditions.

Residential Foreclosure Rates and Calls for Service for Domestic Disputes: An Exploratory Analysis

Over the past 10 years the U.S. has experienced a sharp increase in the number of foreclosures. The problem has been particularly severe in a number of states, including Florida. The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between foreclosure rates and calls for service for domestic disturbances reported to the City of Tampa, Florida Police Department in 2008. The results suggest that even when controlling for a number of socioeconomic variables, the foreclosure rate remained a significant predictor of domestic disturbance calls for service.

Antipodean America: Australasia and the constitution of U.S. literature

Preface 1. American Literature and the Antipodean Imaginary: Imperialism,Transnationalism, Surrealism 2. Parallax Zones: Founding Fathers and Austral Enlightenment Satiric Double-Binds: Benjamin Franklin's Biloquism Planetary Perspectives: Crevecoeur's New Holland Transposing the West: Jefferson and Ledyard 3. Early National Orbits: Geography, Astronomy, and the Cycles of the Earth Freneau, Alsop, and Neoclassical Style Joel Barlow: Columbiad Charles Brockden Brown: Systems of General Geography 4. Aurora Australis: Antebellum Seascapes and the Southern Cross Hidden Antipodes: Irving's Globular Narratives Southern Sea: Dana and Poe Ex Narratives: Wilkes and Cooper 5. Transcendental Burlesque: Reorienting Manifest Destiny The Other Side of the Sphere: Melville and Australasia Rotating the Axis: Gold Rush Circuit The Earth reversed her Hemispheres: Dickinson's Antipodality 6. Empire Upside Down: Victorian Globalization and Colonial Equations Civil War, Imperial Circumference: Lincoln and Trollope Family Romance, Domestic Disturbance: Kingsley and Southworth Spatio-Temporal Triangulation: Henry Adams Laughing Jackass: Twain's Latitudinal Parallels 7. Ancestral Modernisms: Indigeneity and the Articulation of Distance Irish Aesthetic Nativism: John Boyle O'Reilly Racialism and Socialism: Jack London Primitivist Paradox: Federation's weird country 8. Transpacific Transgression: Gender Remapping and World Revolutions Boundaries of Utopia: Howells, Gilman, Miles Franklin Lola Ridge and the Appulsive Avant-Garde The Twinness of Things: Stead's Surrealist Dialectic 9. Pacific Theaters: Poetry of Violence, from World War II to Vietnam Karl Shapiro's backward crab Louis Simpson: Racial Metissage and Southern Pastoral New York Poets: Inversion and Misrepresentation America rhymes with Australia: Yusef Komunyakaa 10. Antipodean American Postmodernism: Turning the Subject Inside Out Irish Intertexts: Chandler and Keneally Contrarian Tendencies: Hazzard, Rushdie, Carey Transposabilities: Posthumanist Spectrum J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Disorientation Conclusion: American Literature's Terra Incognita Notes Works Cited

An autopsy case of suicide with three knives: a forensic and anatomical discussion

An autopsy case of suicide with three knives: a forensic and anatomical discussion Aleksandar Apostolov,1 Stanislav Hristov,1 Dimo Krastev,2 Manol Kalniev,3 Nikolai Krastev3 1Medical University – Faculty of Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine and Deontology, 2Medical University – Sofia, Medical College J Filaretova, 3Medical University – Sofia, Department of Anatomy and Histology, Sofia, Bulgaria Abstract: We present a case of a 30-year-old man who committed suicide, using three knives, after a domestic disturbance in which he repeatedly stabbed his wife. During the inspection of the corpse of the man at the scene, two knives were found embedded in the neck and one in the abdomen. During the autopsy, we found two stab-incised injuries on the anterior surface of the neck in the lower section of the second segment bilaterally, one injury on the left side of the chest, and eleven injuries in the abdomen of the deceased with varying depth. Wound channels ranged from 1.5 cm to 20 cm. Despite our expectations that some of the major arterial and/or venous vessels in the neck would be cut, we found breaks in only small vessels, nervous structures, sublingual glands, and muscles in the course of the wound channels. In this case, we define such an autopsy finding as rare, or rather, as a rare accident. The inflicted stab-incised injuries as individual anatomical lesions would not lead to certain death. At the time of autopsy we revealed that the fatal injury was in the abdomen, wherein the abdominal aorta was cut. This led to the development of acute blood loss. In the genesis of death, a puncture-incised injury of the left lung was involved, leading to the development of hemopneumothorax. With regards to the possibility of murder, we did not find any cuts or puncture-incised injuries on the body of the deceased man which could be described as "defensive", or such that could have been received while trying to escape. During the police investigation, evidence for the presence of a third person at this domestic incident was not found. Keywords: injuries, types of injuries and digital photography, forensic autopsy, suicide

Homicides of law enforcement officers responding to domestic disturbance calls

ObjectiveTo describe the law enforcement officer (LEO), encounter, perpetrator and victim characteristics of domestic disturbance-related LEO homicides in the USA from 1996 to 2010.MethodsNarrative text analysis was conducted on the...

<em>Hoodwinked!</em> and <em>Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade</em>: Animated “Little Red Riding Hood” Films and the Rashômon Effect

Riding (ATU 333), a deceptively simple narrative about a young girl and her grandmother who are beset by a wolf and sometimes rescued by a woodsman, has been adapted by a plethora of creators. The results include novels, short stories, children's literature, comic books, television productions, cartoons, video games, and advertisements as well as films - shorts and feature length, animated and live-action, humorous and serious, creative and formulaic, and sometimes even erotic or outright pornographic.1 With the possible exception of Hansel and Gretel (ATU 327A), no other international traditional fairy tale has offered filmmakers such extensive opportunities for examining crime, criminals, criminality, and criminal justice.2 In previous studies in this area, we addressed feature-length, live-action, present-day-setting Riding crime films. We have also considered movies that seek an adult audience and use the story to explore such issues as corruption, pedophilia, and serial murder (see Greenhill and Kohm, Riding Hood and the and 'Little Riding Hood' Films; Kohm and Greenhill, Pedophile Films and Crime Films). Unlike the recent teensploitation/ werewolfsploitation Riding Hood (2011, dir. Catherine Hardwicke) or the many Red movies for children, the films we have examined offer complex reflections on current issues of crime and justice.We turn now to two otherwise quite dissimilar films: Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade and Hoodwinked! Jin-Roh (1999, written by Mamoru Oshii and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura) is a Japanese anime reflection on an apocalyptic past/present; the film is intended for adults. In the film Germany has won World War 11, and corrupt militaristic elites in the Special Unit of the Capital Police and the Public Security government branch seek power for its own sake. The antigovernment resistance uses young girls, called Riding Hoods, as couriers to run weapons and explosives. Capital Police member Kazuki Fuse observes the suicide of one such Riding Hood. Amid rumors of a secret police group called the Wolf Brigade, the suicide's sister gives Fuse her copy of Rotkappchen. Their voiceover narration of the tale punctuates the primary narrative. Their unlikely relationship leads to a tragic denouement, with no woodsman in sight, more reminiscent of Perrault's version than of the Grimms' version of ATU 333. 3In contrast, Hoodwinked! (2005, written and directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech) is a child-friendly film featuring Little Riding Hood and her grandmother as cookie capitalists:Furry and feathered cops from the animal world investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage, involving a girl, a wolf, and an axe. The charges are many: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license. Not to mention, this case might be tied to the elusive Goody Bandit who has been stealing the recipes of goody shops everywhere. (Edwards)These two films have in common thematic connections to ATU 333 and crime as well as their animated format. A perhaps less obvious commonality, though, is that both also narrate different characters' stories about criminal acts, invoking the perspective of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) and the cinema of interpretation (Boyd).4 The relevance to fairy-tale scholarship of considering these three films together goes beyond simply drawing links between the tale type, the two ATU 333 adaptations, and the Japanese classic. It fosters exploration of modes of storytelling connecting fairy-tale, filmic, and legal discourses. Moreover, these films offer popular explications of the so-called Rashomon effect - a term used by legal scholars and others to underscore the often elusive nature of truth itself (e.g., Kamir). But we also examine how analysis of legal- and justice-related fairy-tale and film discourses can influence fairy-tale studies. …

Stalking, Intimate Partner Abuse, and the Police

Stalking and intimate partner abuse (IPA) are two criminal problems that often come to the attention of the po- lice. While there are many similarities between intimate partner stalking and IPA and many refer to intimate partner stalk- ing as a variant of IPA (Logan, Leukefeld, and Walker, 2000), there may be differences in these cases, particularly at the point that they come to the attention of the police. These differences may have important implications for how the police respond and/or are able to respond. Using a sample of 1440 domestic disturbance reports from a large police department in the western United States, this study explores the differences and similarities between these two populations including a discussion of how these problems impact arrest with an end goal of aiding police in the appropriate response to these two criminal problems and adding to the literature on stalking in the context of intimate partner abuse and intimate partner abuse. Ultimately, both differences and similarities were found. Implications are discussed.

Advanced air source heat pumps for UK and European domestic buildings

Abstract To date, the role of heat pumps in UK and European housing has been largely restricted to newbuild, utilising ground source units coupled to under floor heating systems. Therefore the challenge is to develop air source heat pumps whose role is to displace the traditional domestic fossil fuel boiler with the minimum of domestic disturbance by utilising a system capable of heating radiators to sufficient temperatures to maintain comfort and safety. The technical challenges to be overcome at this stage are maintaining high coefficient of performance in spite of the high temperature lift encountered when utilising cold air as a heat source and delivering to a heating circuit originally designed for water at temperatures of 60 °C or more. Options to deliver this include an economised vapour injection compressor and displacing the traditional expansion valve with an expansion turbine and experimental results from both of these approaches will be presented here.

Application of a Firearm Seizure Law Aimed at Dangerous Persons: Outcomes From the First Two Years

Application of a Firearm Seizure Law Aimed at Dangerous Persons: Outcomes From the First Two Years

Application of a Firearm Seizure Law Aimed at Dangerous Persons: Outcomes From the First Two Years

In 2005, in response to the shooting death of a police officer by a paranoid man, Indiana passed a law authorizing police to seize firearms without a warrant if they believe the person owning the firearm is dangerous because the person has a mental illness and is noncompliant with psychiatric medication or if the person has a propensity for violent or unstable conduct. This study sought to determine the use of this law in Indianapolis. All Indianapolis firearm seizure cases that had a final hearing in 2006 and 2007 were identified; demographic information, seizure circumstances, and hearing outcome were recorded. A total of 55 cases were heard in 2006, and 78 were heard in 2007. The defendants were predominantly white (83%) and male (81%). Risk of suicide was the leading reason for confiscation (56% in 2006 and 71% in 2007), followed by substance abuse (29% and 27%, respectively), risk of violence (22% and 13%, respectively), and domestic disturbance (24% and 8%, respectively). Psychosis was a factor in only 11% and 9% of cases, respectively. A large majority of cases resulted in immediate detention (69% and 78%, respectively). In 2006, 95% of cases resulted in involuntary or voluntary surrender of the seized weapons to the court, but in 2007, only 22% of cases resulted in involuntary or voluntary surrender. However, in 2007 68% of cases resulted in court-ordered retention because of failure to appear (26%) or inability to be served (42%). Firearm seizure by police was rarely a result of psychosis; instead, risk of suicide was the leading reason. The application of the law by both police and the court changed over the first two years of its use.

Intimate Partner Abuse: Cases Involving Protective Order Violations versus Those That Do Not

This study explores police response to protective order violations and cases that do not involve protective violations within the context of intimate partner abuse. Major objectives of the study are to: 1) understand in what way protective order violations differ from other domestic violence cases that come to the attention of the police and; 2) to understand what factors lead to arrest in cases involving protective order violations and those that do not. Data from a large metropolitan area in the United States is analyzed to understand how the police are responding to these cases. Domestic disturbance calls from 2003 are examined for comparison between all domestic disturbance calls (n=1187) and protective order violation calls (n=252). Findings include differences between these two types of calls (with protective order cases less likely to be between parties currently in a relationship, for the offender less likely to be present when police arrive, and more likely to end up in arrest) and differences and similarities in the predictors of arrest in these two types of calls. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.