By: Michelle Lee, Romy Zack, Stephen Lai, Lawrence Lau and Amy Choi

York Mills Collegiate InsituteYork Mills Collegiate InsituteJanuary, 6 2010January, 6 2010

Michelle Lee

Paul BoxerResearch on serious youth violence and criminal behavior

“ Adolescents who were not exposed to violent media are not as prone to violence”

Interviewed 430 high school students and 390 juvenile delinquentsConcludes

- Young children imitate behaviors of their surroundings.Rutgers University (2008, November 20). Media violence Cited As ‘Critical Risk Factor’ For Aggression.ScienceDaily.Retrieved November 4,2009, from ,http:www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119122632.htm>

Connections to Unit/Topic Sociology Deviant Behaviour Environmental Influences Violence on T.V. Bullying Personal Interview

Michelle Lee

Michelle Lee

Aggressive Aggressive behavioursbehaviours

Co-investigator of Co-investigator of CDC GrantCDC Grant

Environmental Influences and Environmental Influences and Children DevelopmentChildren Development

Part of Federal Part of Federal funded Researchfunded Research

• living in distressed urban communities put them at greater risks for deviant behaviour

family and peers have the most influence on urban children

• urban parents face greater challenges, fewer resources than other societies

• bad influence may cause children to drug use, school failure, and delinquency

Henry, D.B. (2000). Peer groups, families, and school failure among urban children: elements of risks and successful interventions. Preventing School Failure. Retrieved from October 28, 2009, from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com Lawrence

Lau

Connections to Unit/Topic

Erickson’s Psychosocial Sociology Phenomenology/Live Story Historical Research Psychology

Lawrence Lau

Family breakdown was a real root cause for why some children grew up to become dangerous

72% of young offenders did not have fathers Schools where use of drugs were pervasive

contribute to violence 55% of homes had a firearm in an unlocked place 7th grade boys with low grades involved in

stealing/ breaking rules

Study offers profile of youth violence; Father’s absence one

‘root cause’

Wetzstein, Cheryl. “Study offers profile of youth violence; Father’s absence one ‘toot cause;. Washinton Times. 19 April 2000.2.ed.A2

Stephen Lai

Connections to Unit/Topic

Nature VS Nurture Media Social Groups Interviews Statistics

Stephen Lai

Violence, Alcohol and Aggression.Summary:

Scientist and non-scientists believe alcohol use enables violent and hostile behavior.

Alcohol can promote violence by disrupting normal brain function and weakening brain mechanisms that normally restrain impulsive behavior, impaired information

processing, and narrowing attention.

Researchers conducted experiment involving responses electric shocks while sober and intoxicated; subjects unaware that responses in both states being stimulated by

computer, demonstrated increased aggressiveness while intoxicated.

Thought that aggression and alcohol consumption also biological

Serotonin chemical messenger in the brain, function as behavioral inhibitor.

Decreased serotonin activity associated with increased impulsivity and aggressiveness

Connections to Unit/Topic:

Psychology: (p.15) “The scientific study of behavior and mental processes”- Article examines effects of alcohol on the mind and how increases likelihood of violence and

aggression

Experimental Method: (handout package) “the use of controlled observations and measurements to test hypotheses” Article gives evidence by conducting an

experiment using electricity while subjects both sober and intoxicated. Intoxicated responded more aggressively to shocks than sober subjects. Experiment shows clear

connection between alcohol and deviant behavior.

Milgram: (p. 268-269) “Unknown to the teachers, the learners were fake participants coached by Milgram and his team of experimenters” Article shows deception by not

informing subjects in experiment mentioned in article that responses were being stimulated and recorded on computer. However, experiment uses electric shocks,

Milgram’s experiment doesn’t. Romy ZackAlcohol Alert. Alcohol, violence and Aggression. Retrieved November 2, 2009, from , National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm

Newspaper article justification

This article should be added to the Images in society APS text book because it influences society on multiple levels. Alcohol affects families, communities, and relationships in an often negative way.

Alcohol also effects the workplace through absences, work accidents and lower performance

which can result in unemployment.

students should be made aware of the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption this through teachings aids and text books.

Romy Zack

Suicides Linked to Economy

Amy Choi

“Suicides linked to economy.” Brunswick News [Brunswick, GA] 2 Nov.2009.

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Suicides Linked to Economy

Summary David Faulkner, medical director of crisis at GBHS Provides aid and services to those contemplating

suicide Faulkner dealt with a 10 percent increase suicide

patients Helped homeless people since July 2009 Amy Choi

Connections to the Unit

Psychology evidence prove people cope with the drastic change by committing suicide

Social Institution

GBHS prevents people from suicide

Cognitive Process

patients at GBHS lack cognitive skills

Deviant Behavior

suicidal acts are deviant behavior

Personal Interview

interviewed and guided people who are experiencing a dramatic life style change.

Amy Choi

Amy Choi

•To be aware of the suicide rate so that there can be an institution to help

•When the basic needs of humans are in danger, many people seem to think they have no way out.

•To understand the cognitive process in seeking help

Important to be in the textbook

because…

Alcohol- related Aggression in Men and Women

Peter R. Giancola Objective: - An aggressive person will display violent behaviour while under the influence of alcohol.

Method: (used 2 methods)-Questionnaire experiment

- conducted this experiment on 204 subjects aged 21 - 35- Controlled experiment

- used an advanced shock method “Taylor Aggression Paradigm”

- divided into 2 group (placebo and alcoholic control group)

Conclusion:-Alcoholic group majority show high level of aggression

- subjects with lower aggression did not display aggressive behavior with alcohol Michelle

Lee

Giancola, P R (Nov 2002). Alcohol-related aggression in men and women: the influence of dispositional aggressivity *.   Journal of Studies on Alcohol. , 63, 6. p.696 (13). Retrieved November 22, 2009, from Academic OneFile via Gale:<http://find.galegroup.com/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AONE&docId=A96738733&source=gale&userGroupName=ko_k12pr_d63&version=1.0

1. Main focus of study: - substance abuse

disorder and alcoholic-related aggression

2.Giancola published a few textbooks

3. “Best First Time” from ISRA

4. Membership to scientific societies

Michelle Lee

Objective MAOA gene causes people to have

delinquent behaviours

Hypothesis Low-MAOA activity alleles would increase

antisocial involvement

Method Case Study

Conclusion

Lawrence Lau

"Project Reach Out." M. M. Designs Ink. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2010. <http://www.mmdesignsink.net/reachout/peer.html>.

• Kevin M. Beaver published more than 50 articles, 15 book chapters and is the author of 7 books

• Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study

• Case Study• Nature VS Nurture• Sociology

Lawrence Lau

Objective Hypothesi

s Method Conclusion

Antisocial tendency among drug-addicted adults: potential long-term effects of parental absence, support and conflict

during childhood

Knight, D.K., Broome, K M, Cross, D R, & Simpsion, D.D. (August 1998). Antisocial tendenctamong drug-addicted adults: potential long-term effects of parental absence, support, and conflict during childhood. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol/ Abuse. , 24, n3. p.361(15). Retrieved November 09, 2009. from Academic OneFile via Gale

Stephen Lai

Connections to Unit/Topic

Nature VS Nurture

Erickson’s Stages of Development

Interviews

Stephen Lai

Voices of violence: a study of male adolescent aggression

Objective of article to understand problem of adolescent male aggression and add more research to topic

Method of article to interview 15 aggressive boys and outline prevention and intervention programs and analyze previous research by other professionals

All applicants were volunteers to the study and researchers confirmed that applicants were aggressive by two factors.

Conclusions of article that an individuals anger could be outcome of several different circumstances, but that all the causes of anger formed the same product, a need to free that anger in

aggressive ways.

Romy Zack

Margolin, Andrew, Jan Youga, and Mary Ballou. “Voices of Violence: a study of male adolescent aggression.” Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development. Retrieved November 17, 2009, from Gale expanded ASAP Academic Database

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Romy Zack

Academic journal article justification

Many adolescent boys experience anger due factors related to home, school and social life.

Often this anger is poorly assessed and can escalate if neglected.

Not only can it harm the individual but those around them.

Therefore, it is both useful and relevant to include this subject in APS text books or curriculum so it

can be understood and aided.

Lila, Marisol, Juan Herrero, and Enrique Gracia. "Multiple victimization of Spanish adolescents: a multilevel analysis. " Adolescence.  43.170 (Summer 2008): 333(18). Academic OneFile. Gale. Toronto District School Board. 15 Dec. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=AON

&docId=A181522493&source=gale&userGroupName=ko_k12pr_d63&version=1.0>.

Objective- explores the incidence of different types of victimization in three different contexts in the representative sample of Spanish adolescents.

Method-they experimented 1,908 age of 13 to 18 adolescents living in Spain using data form.

Conclusion- Gender, value of family interactions, and deviant behavior were related to numerous discrimination of adolescence.

Multiple victimization of Spanish adolescents: a

multilevel analysis.

Amy Choi

Amy Choi

Main focus of study:Since 1977 he studied on…

•child abuse problems of child victimization

•Child maltreatment and family violence

•abuse was published

•His research about sexual

Important to be in the textbook because…

Amy Choi

Our Inquiry In the province of Ontario, there are

many households that experience aggressive, violent, hostile and delinquent behaviour from environmental influences.

Hypothesis Deviant behaviour is caused by

family, education and social life.

Method Collect data on 57 individuals

through MSN and emails Most of the questions that the survey

used were all close ended questions Categorize the responses according

to the hypothesis

Assemble Data

Do you have a father figure in your life?

Yes

No

Assemble Data

What is most important in your life?

Family

Friends

Education

Assemble Data

Have you been bullied?

Yes

No

Conclusion• We found that in most cases deviant or delinquent behavior is

a result of a number of factors that involve either an individual’s family, education and social life.

• We concluded that most individual’s that completed our survey do not express or will not express deviant behavior based the three questions which we found most relevant to the three elements that we believe either cause or promote deviant behavior

• These questions included: Do you have a father figure in your life? What is most important in your life? Have you been bullied?

Questions How does the environment influence

children involvement? Give an example from the PowerPoint

of a deviant behaviour How does alcohol relate to aggression?

Name a specific experiment. How does urban children develop

deviant behaviour? Do you think deviant behaviour can be

inherited from generations? Why or why not?

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