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Victims often report low self esteem. likely because of repeated exposure to victimization. Research has not supported the popular stereotype that victims have unusual physical traits.
Internet citation: Bullying.org
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Bullying | Safe Schools | Self Mutilitation
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Sponsor classroom management seminars. Use actual case studies, such as student misbehavior problems from local schools, as part of the training. This helps teachers identify more readily with such situations and mitigates an attitude of "that doesn't happen here."
Establish a school district orientation plan for newly elected government representatives. By initiating these relationships, you enhance opportunities for future access. Offer to compile data needed by government officials to support education proposals and provide lawmakers with the implications of particular legislation from a practitioner's point of view.
Internet citation: National School Safety Center
It is estimated that one in every 100 individuals in the United States, or more than 2.5 million people, are self-mutilators. Girls are four times more likely to engage in self-harm than boys, with girls between the ages of 16 and 25 at highest risk, although many girls begin cutting in middle school (ages 12 or 13). At risk individuals also include those who have underlying psychiatric disorders. Up to half of individuals who are self-mutilators were sexually abused as children.
Internet citation: Cutter Demographics
Biological Explanations:
Stereotypical self-mutilation has been seen in the Lesch-Nyhan, deLange, and Tourette's syndrome which has spurred interest in a biological model.
Biological Model 1:
Recent evidence suggests the role of the neurotransmitter dopamine in self-mutilation.
Biological Model 2:
In addition to dopamine, endogenous opioids have also been linked to self-mutilation. The biological reinforcement theory suggests that the pain from self-mutilation may cause the production of endorphins (endogenous opioids) that reduce dysphoria. A cycle is formed in which the habitual self-mutilator will hurt themselves in order to feel better.
Biological Model 3:
A third biological explanation suggests that individuals may mutilate themselves in order to supply sensory stimulation.
Internet citation: Types of Motivation
The content of this article may be very triggering if you engage in self mutilation; please consider this carefully before reading on.
Self mutilation is very difficult to understand from the prospective of people who have never experienced the behavior themselves. For family members or friends of someone who self mutilates, it is terrifying, confusing, and frustrating.
Internet citation: What is Self Mutilation and Why Does It Happen?
In 2000, the juvenile male arrest rate for Violent Crime Index Offenses was 4.2 times the rate for females.
Internet citation: OJJDP
Human Trafficking
Over 1 million kids involved in the sex industry in the US.
Human Trafficking is defined as: The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Sex Trafficking is defined as: The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act is under 18 years of age.
All minors involved in commercial striping, pornography or being prostituted are victims of human trafficking according to federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act [18 U.S.C. Sections 1589-1594] and are not to be arrested or criminalized for their participation, rather to be offered victim services and protection from pimps, purchasers and traffickers.
Victims of human trafficking are people forced or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. Labor trafficking here in the US involves foreign nationals caught up in a variety of situations that encompass individuals in domestic service and farming, to larger scale operations such as sweatshops, construction, landscaping, restaurants and hotels, as well as major multinational corporations. Sex trafficking is the most profitable regarding the illegal trade in people, and involves all forms of sexual exploitation including prostitution, pornography, striping, escort, bride trafficking and the commercial sexual abuse of children.
Internet citation: Oklahomans Against Human Trafficking
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Oklahoma Fact!
Cimarron County, Oklahoma is bordered by more states than any other county in the USA. The Counties are - Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.
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