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Societies, Volume 5, Issue 1

2015 March - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
15,074 Views
25 Pages

23 March 2015

While there exists considerable protest against the use of animals in experimentation, less protest is voiced against the use of knowledge gained from animal experimentation. Pulling from arguments against the use of Nazi data, I suggest that using k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,567 Views
33 Pages

19 March 2015

Whereas cross-sectional research has shown that transformational leadership, task interdependence, and self-efficacy are positively related to teachers’ engagement in reflective learning activities, the causal direction of these relations needs furth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,549 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2015

Using a subsample of the 2009 National Crime Victimization Survey, School Crime Supplement (NCVS-SCS), the present study explores the nature of the relationship between cyberbullying and traditional bullying victimization among students aged 12–18. O...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
15,026 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2015

The transition to adulthood is a developmental period marked by increased stress, especially among African Americans. In addition to stress related to emerging adulthood, neighborhood fear may contribute to depressive symptoms for African Americans....

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
22,270 Views
15 Pages

6 March 2015

The International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) has been actively conducting research about the work of successful principals since 2001. Findings from four project books and eight models derived from this project are synthesised in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,428 Views
27 Pages

16 February 2015

This study (1) reports frequency rates of mutually exclusive traditional, cyber and combined (both traditional and cyber) bullying roles; and (2) investigates whether adolescents belonging to particular bullying roles show higher levels of involvemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
17,317 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Parental Divorce on the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime

  • Steve G.A. Van de Weijer,
  • Terence P. Thornberry,
  • Catrien C.J.H. Bijleveld and
  • Arjan A.J. Blokland

10 February 2015

This study first examines the effects of parental divorce and paternal crime on offspring offending. Then, it tests whether parental divorce moderates the intergenerational transmission of crime. Diversity within the offending population is taken int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,590 Views
24 Pages

22 January 2015

This paper derives from research I conducted in the archives of the Vegetarian Society, in Manchester, in October 2011 on the figure of Beatrice Lindsay, a graduate from Girton College, Cambridge, who, in 1885, became the first female editor of the S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
16,117 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2015

Because of the negative effects of cyberbullying; and because of its unique characteristics; interventions to stop cyberbullying are needed. For this purpose, more insightful information is needed about cyberbullying victims’ (i.e., the target group)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
21,555 Views
29 Pages

12 January 2015

The purpose of this study is to better understand how the complex problem of human trafficking is addressed in international debates. How the discussion about human trafficking develops and how it is debated ultimately influences how the decision-mak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
148 Citations
27,437 Views
11 Pages

24 December 2014

In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial e...

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