Hey!, Wanna See Some Sin?
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions and . . . their sins." Isa. 58:1
The Angry Sins--Hatred and Murder: Page 2
3. Child abuse and neglect:
"The findings of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) show a sharp increase in the scope of the problem, whether maltreatment is defined using the Harm Standard or the Endangerment Standard.
An estimated 1,553,800 children in the United States were abused or neglected under the Harm Standard in 1993. The NIS-3 total reflects a 67-percent increase since the NIS-2 estimate, which indicated that the total was 931,000 children in 1986, and it corresponds to a 149-percent increase since the NIS-1 estimate for 1980 of 625,100 children.""Estimated Incidence Using the Endangerment Standard. Between 1986 and 1993, the total estimated number of abused and neglected children in the United States who fit the Endangerment Standard nearly doubled: in 1986, there were an estimated 1,424,400 abused and neglected children in the United States. The NIS-3 estimate of 2,815,600 reflects a 98-percent increase over the NIS-2."
"The estimated number of physically abused children rose from 311,500 to 614,100 (a 97% increase);
The estimated number of sexually abused children increased from an estimated 133,600 children to 300,200 (a 125% increase);
The more recent estimate of the number of emotionally abused children was 183 percent higher than the previous estimate (188,100 in 1986 versus 532,200 in 1993);
The estimated number of physically neglected children increased from 507,700 to 1,335,100 (a 163% increase); and
The estimated number of emotionally neglected children nearly tripled in the interval between the studies, rising from 203,000 in 1986 to 585,100 in 1993 (a 188% increase)."
http://www.calib.com/nccanch/pubs/statinfo/nis3.cfm#national
4. Shaken Infant Syndrome:"Shaken Infant Syndrome, also known as "Shaken-Impact Syndrome," or "Whiplash-Shaken Infant Syndrome," is non-accidental trauma; it is trauma inflicted upon a child. The injuries to the brain are the result of rotational forces acting on the brain. These forces are most commonly produced by severe shaking which flops the infant's head forward and backward. These forces are exacerbated when the shaking motion is interrupted by the head impacting a surface. Even hitting a soft surface can increase the forces on the brain by 50 times. The injuries that result include retinal hemorrhages, intracranial vessel tears with hematoma formation, and diffuse axonal disruption.
This is a disease seen in children less than three years old, with the majority of cases in the first year of life.
The perpetrator of the abuse is most often (in descending order) the father, boyfriend of the mother, female babysitter, or the mother.
Each year, an estimated 50,000 infants become victims of this abuse. In the United States, approximately 10 to 12 percent of all the infant deaths that result from abuse or neglect are the result of rigorous shaking.
Generally, the prognosis for infants victimized by this abuse is poor. Most will be left with considerable disability - affecting their cognitive abilities, and with severe retinal hemorrhages affecting their vision.
As many as 50 percent of severely injured patients will die, usually due to uncontrollable increased intracranial pressure from cerebral edema -- bleeding within the brain or tears in the brain tissue. For those patients who survive, they might have diffuse neuronal and white matter injury and severe cognitive deficits, or cerebral atrophy with compensatory subdural fluid collections and a small non-growing head.
However, even the patients with injuries that appear to be mild may show developmental difficulties, as a result of the diffuse and deep white matter injury. It is likely that in some of these patients, secondary injury results from their decreased level of unconsciousness or induced seizures causing hypoventilation and hypoxia. The abused child may be relatively less injured from the actual abuse, but when subsequently neglected by the attacker, suffers from the more devastating global insult."
Health Resources: Neurosurgery://On Call
http://www.neurosurgery.org/health/patient/answers.asp?DisorderID=39
5. Stalking
"A recent study by the National Institute of Justice found that stalking was far more prevalent than anyone had imagined: 8% of American women and 2% of American men will be stalked in their lifetimes. That’s 1.4 million American stalking victims every year. The majority of stalkers have been in relationships with their victims, but a significant percentage either never met their victims, or were just acquaintances - neighbors, friends or co-workers."
"Intimate partner stalkers are typically known as the guy who "just can’t let go." These are most often men who refuse to believe that a relationship has really ended. Often, other people - even the victims - feel sorry for them. But they shouldn’t. Studies show that the vast majority of these stalkers are not sympathetic, lonely people who are still hopelessly in love, but were in fact emotionally abusive and controlling during the relationship. Many have criminal histories unrelated to stalking. Well over half of stalkers fall into this "former intimate partner" category.
Delusional stalkers frequently have had little, if any, contact with their victims. They may have major mental illnesses like schizophrenia, manic-depression or erotomania. What they all have in common is some false belief that keeps them tied to their victims. In erotomania, the stalker’s delusional belief is that the victim loves him. This type of stalker actually believes that he is having a relationship with his victim, even though they might never have met. The woman stalking David Letterman, the stalker who killed actress Rebecca Schaeffer and the man who stalked Madonna are all examples of erotomanic stalkers.Another type of delusional stalker might believe that he is destined to be with someone, and that if he only pursues her hard enough and long enough, she will come to love him as he loves her. These stalkers know they are not having a relationship with their victims, but firmly believe that they will some day. John Hinckley Jr.’s obsession with Jodi Foster is an example of this type of stalker.
The final category of stalker is not lovelorn. He is the vengeful stalker. These stalkers become angry with their victims over some slight, real or imagined. Politicians, for example, get many of these types of stalkers who become angry over some piece of legislation or program the official sponsors. But, disgruntled ex-employees can also stalk, whether targeting their former bosses, co-workers or the entire company. Some of these angry stalkers are psychopaths, i.e. people without conscience or remorse. Some are delusional, (most often paranoid), and believe that they, in fact, are the victims. They all stalk to "get even."Former intimate partner stalkers and delusional stalkers can become vengeful for a variety of reasons. For example, when their victims get restraining orders, or marry. Why a stalker’s anger is a very bad sign is described under what to do.
In general, for any type of stalker, the less of a relationship that actually existed prior to the stalking, the more mentally disturbed the stalker."'
http://www.antistalking.com/aboutstalkers.htm
"While the prominent cases may attract more media attention, the majority of stalking victims are not public figures, but ordinary people like you and me.
Most statutes define stalking as the willful, malicious and repeated following and harassing of another person. In addition to a pattern of conduct, many state laws mandate that an imminent, credible threat of violence be made against the victim for the activity to be considered stalking. But thirty-two states also consider the stalker's intent to instill fear as illegal, with all but six states defining criminal stalking as any activity that would instill fear in a reasonable person.
Thankfully, with the publication of the Model Anti-Stalking Code in 1994, law enforcement agencies are finally starting to realize that a threat doesn't doesn't require words. A hand that's pointed at you in the shape of a gun conveys a message that's loud and clear, especially if it follows ominous correspondence or telephone calls. A bouquet of black roses delivered to your door, a dead animal received in the mail, or a photograph with your image crossed out can also commuicate the same sentiment. Yet in a number of states, these very obvious threats would be inadmissable in a court of law.
While many stalkers don't attack, the threat of violence is usually inferred. Which means that even those victims who aren't physically harmed suffer tremendously in terms of fear, anxiety and the disruption of their daily lives.
The natural reactions of most stalking victims, however, aggravate the problem and increase the likelihood of violence. Case after case reveals the same patterns:
1) Victims deny the problem, which instantly puts them at a disadvantage.
2) Then they try to bargain with their stalkers, thereby establishing a dangerous precedent of allowing him to control their actions.
3) Anxiety sets in. Never knowing when or where he's going to turn up or what he's going to do next, they can think of little else. They start to short-circuit mentally and emotionally.
4) Exhaustion follows, along with profound depression. Then self-esteem starts to disintegrate.
5) Victims start to blame themselves.
6) Eventually, they get angry, so angry that they're ready to do almost anything to get the stalker out of their life.
7) Finally, they accept what life has become. Only then can they start to deal with the situation objectively.
The stalking victim - rather than the stalker - is the person whose behavior has to change (since the stalker certainly won't). It's not fair, and most people don't like hearing this. But if you want to protect yourself and your loved ones, it is reality."
http://www.stalkingvictims.com/stalk.htm
Underreporting of crimes:
Due to fear of authorities, contempt for the judicial system, and fear of publicity many crimes are never reported. Due to budget limitations, the reporting is sometimes incomplete. Due to political motives, the numbers may be "massaged" to reflect favorably on the current administrations. The reality may be a little worse or a lot worse than official statistics indicate.
"The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have figured prominently in discussions of crime since at least the Nixon era, but their reliability has long been suspect. A major reason is substantial underreporting. For a variety of reasons, including distrust of law-enforcement officials, many crimes are not reported to local police departments, the source of the FBI data. Furthermore, the number of crimes that police departments report can vary from year to year depending on budgets. The FBI cannot legally enforce the cooperation of local police departments and state agencies, and so it is not surprising that for several years in the 1990s, six states (the largest in terms of population was Illinois) supplied no data, forcing the FBI to estimate the number of crimes in those states.
Local police sometimes cook the books, either underreporting to make crime in their area appear to be under control or overreporting to support requests for more funding. Fabrication of this kind has presumably declined as police departments have become more publicly accountable in the past few decades, but it still persists, as recent reports of data manipulation in New York City, Philadelphia and Boca Raton, Fla., testify."Scientific American: By the Numbers: Measuring Bad Behavior:
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0901issue/0901numbers.html
"Of all victims of violent crimes, 48% reported the crime to the police. Of property crime victims, 36% filed a report."
Rennison, Callie. (2001). Criminal Victimization 2000 Changes 1999-2000 with Trends 1993-2000. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
Virtual murders and real life:
"The typical child growing up in the United States sees [on TV and in movies] 32,000 murders, 40,000 attempted murders and 250,000 other assorted acts of violence by age 18."
"In 1972, the surgeon general issued a critical report titled "Television and Growing Up, the Impact of Televised Violence," which suggested a link between violent TV fare and the real thing, and by 1976, the American Medical Association declared that "TV violence threatens the health and welfare of young Americans, and commits itself to remedial actions with interested parties, and encourages opposition to TV programs containing violence.""
"Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, for example, found that children who watched more than three hours of television a day are significantly more at risk of psychological trauma and violent behavior.
Researchers surveyed 2,245 children from in third to eighth grades and found that the number of hours spent in front of the TV set is associated with anxiety, depression, angers, aggression and violence. Girls watching five or six hours a day had the highest levels of psychological trauma, while boys who viewed the same amount demonstrated the highest levels of anger, anxiety and disassociation.
Members of both groups who favored programs involving fighting and action demonstrated higher levels of violent behavior, such as slapping or punching their peers.
The national average for TV watching among this group, incidentally, is four hours."
"The United States and Canada were the first major populations to adopt television, beginning in the late 1940's and reaching saturation by roughly 1960. By that time, virtually everyone in the two countries was watching television on a regular basis. It was at that point in both countries that the homicide rate began to climb, and within 15 years, it had doubled in both countries.
So, Dr. Centerwell reasoned, if television-watching had contributed to the rise in homicides in the U.S. and Canada, countries that adopted television at a later time should show a parallel increase in homicides within the same time frame. Based on that hypothesis, he made a bold prediction. In South Africa, the repressive regime had banned television until 1975. Interestingly, during the time that the homicide rate in the United States and Canada had doubled, South Africa's rate among the white population had remained constant.
Centerwell thus predicted that the homicide rate among whites in South Africa would show the same pattern that had occurred in the U.S. and Canada, that is, that the homicide rate among whites would double in the period from 1985 to 1990, which would be the period 10 to 15 years after the introduction of television.It did, right on schedule. Dr. Centerwell also found that the homicide rate among blacks in South Africa, who TV sets later than whites, experienced an increase in homicide rates by the same margin of delay."
"And the U.S. Department of Education found that 6,000 children were expelled from school in 1996-97 for bringing guns, or bombs, to school, and that one out of every ten of the nation's public school reported one or more incidents of murder, rape, suicide or robbery during that year."
"The National Center for Health Statistics found in 1995 that 3,280 children and teens were intentionally murdered with guns and 440 others were killed unintentionally. A dozen a day."
The Year of Ethics and Honor, Wake Forest University
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:tu02u680xzwC:www.wfu.edu/ethics/pdf/essay-two.pdf+attempted+mur
ders%22,+%22attempted+homicides%22&hl=en
"I was hired as a consultant for the Paducah, Kentucky shootings, with access to all statements and psych evals on both sides. In this case Michael Carneal, the 14-year-old shooter in this case, had never fired a pistol in his life. He stole a .22 pistol from a neighbor, fired a few practice rounds, and took it to school. FBI data shows that trained law enforcement officers average less than 20% hits in real world situations. Michael Carneal fired 8 shots at a high school prayer group as they were breaking up. Firing at a milling, screaming, running group of kids, Michael hit 8 different kids with 8 shots, five of them head shots and the other 3 upper torso. I trained the Texas Rangers, Texas and California state troopers, and a battalion of Green Berets, and when I told them of this achievement they were stunned. No where in the annals of military or law enforcement history can I find an equivalent "achievement." Where does a 14-year-old boy who never fired a gun before get this "skill"? Video games. His dad was a respected attorney, and he gave Michael everything, include arcade quality point-and-shoot video games in his home. A hundred things can convince someone to WANT to take a gun and go kill, but only one thing makes them ABLE to kill: practice, practice, practice. Not practice shooting bullseyes, or deer, but practice shooting people. All witness statements state that Michael stood, never moving his feet, holding the gun in two hands, never firing far to the left or right, never far up or down, with a blank look on his face. He was playing a video game: simply shooting everything that popped up on his "screen." Just like he had done countless THOUSANDS of times before. As an aside, it is interesting to note that it is
not natural to fire at each target only once (the norm is to fire until the target drops) but that is what most video games teach you is to only shoot once, since the target will always drop after being hit. And, by the way, many of the games give bonus effects for...head shots."
Trained to Kill, Dave Grossman
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:EL7XbZimHZEC:www.senate.gov/~brownback/FinishedDocs/Media
Viloence/990504gro.pdf+attempted+murders%22,+%22attempted+homicides%22&hl=en
"Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." (Rom. 1:32).
The Immediate and Long-term Costs:
The costs of crime:"In 2000, the total amount paid by Victim Compensation programs was $295,447,580. Of that, $141,310,762 was for medical expenses, $48,738,160 for mental health expenses; $46,083,821 for economic support (lost wages, loss of support); $39,345,851 for funeral expenses; $3,467,410 for crime scene cleanup; $4,759,393 for forensic exams; and $11,742,183 for other purposes."
National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards. Dan Eddy (personal communication, August 29, 2001).
Crime and Victimization in America, Statistical Overview
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/2002/ncvrw2002_rg_3.html#go14
The costs of domestic violence:
"Domestic violence affects productivity, and increases absenteeism.
In a 1997 national survey, 24% of women between the ages of 18 and 65 had experienced domestic violence. Moreover 37% of women who experienced domestic violence report this abuse had an impact on their work performance in the form of lateness, missed work, keeping a job or career promotions.(5)
A study of survivors of domestic violence found that abusive husbands and partners harassed 74% of employed battered women at work. Domestic violence caused 56% of them to be late for work at least five times a month, 28% to leave early at least five days a month, and 54% to miss at least three full days of work a month. They said that abuse also affected their ability to keep a job.
Batterers also may be less productive or miss work because of violence, incarceration, or legal proceedings resulting from the violence.
Forty-seven percent of senior executives polled said that domestic violence has a harmful effect on the company's productivity.(6)
Health care costsMany employers offer health care benefits to their employees. Not surprisingly, this is another arena where domestic violence has an impact on a company's bottom line.
The total health care costs of family violence are estimated in the hundreds of millions each year, much of which is paid for by the employer.(7)
Employers are aware of this economic burden: 44 percent of executives surveyed say that that domestic violence increases their health care costs.(8)
Workplace safety concernsEmployers are more concerned today about violence in the workplace than they were 20 years ago, as news stories of workplace shootings, often related to domestic violence, become increasingly common. They are right to be concerned: victims of domestic violence may be especially vulnerable while they are at work. The lethality of domestic violence often increases at times when the batterer believes that the victim has left the relationship. Once a woman attempts to leave an abusive partner, the workplace can become the only place the assailant can locate and harm her.
Ninety-four percent of corporate security directors surveyed rank domestic violence as a high security problem at their company. (9)
A large majority of EAP providers surveyed have dealt with specific partner abuse scenarios in the past year, including an employee with a restraining order (83%) or an employee being stalked at work by a current of former partner (71%)."4 As cited in Personnel Journal, April, 1995 page 65.
5 EDK Associates, "The Many Faces of Domestic Violence and its Impact on the Workplace," New York: Author, 1997: 2-4.
6 Roper Starch Worldwide study for Liz Claiborne, Inc., 1994
7 Pennsylvania Blue Shield Institute, Social Problems and Rising Health Care Costs in Pennsylvania, pp. 3-5, 1992.
8 Roper Starch Worldwide study for Liz Claiborne, Inc., 1994
9 National Safe Workplace Institute survey, as cited in "Talking Frankly About Domestic Violence," Personnel Journal, April, 1995, page 64.
Workplace Impact: Fact Sheet
http://endabuse.org/programs/display.php3?DocID=70
"While women and men were equally likely to lose pay as a result of suffering injuries due to workplace violence, women lost less money ($358 compared to $1,032 lost by men). However, women lost more money ($2,716) than men ($1,278) when it came to lost time from work for reasons other than bodily injury.[13]"
13. Fisher, Bonnie, Gunnison, Elaine. (2001). "Violence in the Workplace Gender Similarities and Differences." Journal of Criminal Justice 29: 145-155.
Statistical Overview Series: Resource Guide, Author: Office for Victims of Crime, Published: March 2002
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/2002/pdftxt/statisticaloverview.txt
The cost of child abuse and neglect:
The estimated annual direct cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States amounts to $24,384,347,302; indirect cost to $69,692,535,227; for a total of $94,076,882,529.[10]
The costs of workplace bullying:
"How Employers Pay for Bullying
Tangible Costs:- Turnover costs: downtime (lost efficiency); recruitment; hiring bonuses; time to proficiency of replacement (reduced efficiency)
- Litigation costs: attorney fees; settlement costs; jury awards; appeal costs
- Stress-related payments for Workers' Comp awards and Disability Benefits
- Accidents increase as staff are more fatigued (from sleep loss from bullyying-induced stress and anxiety)
- Talent Flight of best and brightest as they seek non-hostile workplaces -- dummies and political operatives are all that remain -- lost capacity to innovate
Intangible Costs:
- On-the-street smeared reputation as a place that promotes cutthroat cruelty
- Reputation as a factory that grinds up its people for short-run productivity
- Bad public relations from high-profile litigation, naming employer as supporting offensive harassers
- Sabotage by fearful employees who know no alternatives when management fails to purge or punish the tyrant
- Staff resistance to initiatives launched by management that can't be trusted to look after employees' interests"
http://www.workdoctor.com/home/twd/employers/costs.html
"As described in a Feb. '98 USA Today article, employers are turning to 'employment practices liability' insurance to protect against bullying-type claims (harassment, wrongful termination, etc.) for which companies pay $5,000 to $100,000 annual premiums with deductibles of $10,000 to $25,000. The median compensatory award in wrongful termination cases topped $200,000 in 1995, up 45% from the year before.
Toxic practices completely out of control lead to violence at work, the leading killer of working women. They cost employers about $4.2 billion annually. In 1992, 750 lives were lost.
Relationships among employees and between management & staff are strained more than ever because of time and productivity pressures. Pressure, to some, justifies the mistreatment of others. When mistreatment goes unchallenged, even passive individuals are capable of explosive rage that can result in headline episodes of workplace violence.
Workplace bullying includes all types of interpersonal harassment and discrimination. Some are blatantly illegal, most are not. It crosses all levels of organizations, from the top down and from the bottom up. Unchallenged bullying poisons the workplace, undermines productivity and contributes to a skyrocketing exposure to risk.
The anguish of bullied employees forces them to pay with their health--both psychological and physical--that affects them, their co-workers and their families. It undermines a loyal employee's commitment to the organization, while eroding personal well-being.
Bullying is America's Silent Epidemic sapping productivity.Employers and Insurers pay an estimated $250 billion yearly for:
- Direct employee health care costs
- Turnover from employee flight & Re-training costs
- Accidents related to stress-induced fatigue
- Litigation: counsel/settlements/jury awards, and
- Resistance to top-down change initiatives"
http://www.workdoctor.com/home/twd/employers/econ.html (emphasis ours)
"Many cases also are becoming more financially draining. The Insurance Information Institute reports that the median compensatory award in wrongful termination cases topped $200,000 in 1995, up 45% from the year before.
And employment cases involving civil rights filed in federal court rose from 10,771 in 1992 to 23,152 in 1996. Some blame waning corporate loyalty for the boom in liability insurance."
http://www.workdoctor.com/home/twd/employers/liability.html
The Many Faces of Work Trauma
The Effects on the Bullied, the Target Person
". . .excerpted from The Bully At Work, © 2000 by Gary and Ruth Namie. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use prohibited without authors' permission."http://www.workdoctor.com/home/twd/employers/effects1.html
In the UK
"According to a study published by the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology nearly half of Britain's employees claim to have witnessed bullying at work and one in 10 have reported being bullied in the past six months. The report, based on a survey of 5,300 employees from 70 organisations, suggests that 18 million working days a year are lost because of bullying, with victims taking an average seven extra days off every year compared to those who are not bullied."
http://www.bullyatwork.fsnet.co.uk/polls%20&%20surveys.htm
The cost of suicides:
Related effects
"Suicide survivors" refers to family members, loved ones and friends of those who die by suicide. Based on 31,000 suicides, the number of survivors grows by 186,000 each year. Based on the 732,000 suicides from 1974-1998, there are 4,400,000 "survivors" or one of every 62 Americans in 1998.
Source:http://www.iusb.edu/~jmcintos/USA98Summary.htm
Survivors of suicides are estimated to be from 1.5 to 5 times more at risk of committing suicide themselves, particularly among teenagers.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~LifeGard/links.html
"The person who commits suicide dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand . . . WHY?"
http://www.1000deaths.com/
"Other studies have estimated that a single suicide affects at least six to eight other people dramatically; there are also economic consequences for survivors. Metha et al., cite estimates by Weinstein and Saturno (1989) "that by the year 2000 the cost of youth suicide will be 346,000 years of life lost at a cost of from $2.26 billion to $2.65 billion.
Another analysis of the projected cost of suicide by Palmer, Revicki, Halpern and Hatziandreu, 1995, Table 1, illustrates the estimated cost of completed and attempted suicide. If these figures are accurate, the estimated 32,000 completed suicides would mean a total loss of earnings of almost 13 billion dollars. And, the total cost for the estimated 109,500 suicide attempts is over 3.5 billion dollars.Table 1
The Cost of Suicide and Suicide Attempts (1994)
Estimated number of completed suicides 32,000
Estimated loss of earning from completed suicides $397,000 per suicide
Estimated number of hospitalizations for suicide attempts 109,500
Average cost for suicide attempt (hospitalizations, Permanent disability loss of earnings) $33,000 per attempt"http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:vOS6YeDngIgC:www.fmhi.usf.edu/institute/pubs/pdf/cfs/youth
suicide/02-background.pdf+the+%22cost+of+suicide%22&hl=en
If You Need Help In Your Life:
Teens:
Teens 411 National Help Resources
http://www.child.net/teenhelp.htm
Considering Abortion:
"We have brought together quality information on the abortion debate from many different sources and made it available to the world in one abortion megasite."
http://www.abortionfacts.com/
Pregnancy Information and Choices
http://www.birthchoice.net/index.html
Post Abortion:
Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS) is the unofficial name for a condition that can affect women after an abortion. This site is neither [pro-choice nor pro-life], it is "Politically Neutral", and is devoted to healing and recovery for women who've had abortions.
http://www.afterabortion.com/
I need someone to talk to right now!
http://www.afterabortion.com/talk_now.html
Information on the aftereffects of abortion and post-abortion healing.
http://www.afterabortion.org/
Suicide helplines:
Note: Crisis hotlines can be found in the front of your local phone book or call 911.
Befrienders International
"Gateway to 1,700 suicide and emotional helplines worldwide and on the net."
http://www.befrienders.org/info/statistics.htm
American Society of Suicidology
Things you should know about suicide, if you or someone you know is suicidal. A resource for people in crisis, survivors of suicide, researchers, therapists and prevention specialists.
http://www.suicidology.org
Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network
SPANUSA
What you can do locally and nationally.
http://www.spanusa.org/
Suicide and Suicide Loss Links
Very helpful links for those with suicidal thoughts. Warning signs. The suicidal paradigm guide.
Many links for "survivors" regarding information, prevention, intervention, postvention, pain and pain management, guns, meds, drug therapy, high risk groups, education, and statistics.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~LifeGard/links.html
For further reading:The Vocabulary of Loss: A Glossary of Suicide-related Terminology
http://members.tripod.com/~LifeGard/index-2.html
Victims of Bullying:Anti-Bullying Network
The Anti-Bullying Network is part of the Positive School Ethos Programme which is based at the Faculty of Education of the University of Edinburgh.
http://www.antibullying.net/
Welcome to Bully OnLine, the world's largest Internet resource on bullying
"I only realised I was being bullied when I visited Bully OnLine"
http://www.successunlimited.co.uk/
Child Bullying, School Bullying, Bullycide
The School Bully OnLine links page lists organisations, helplines and web resources for tackling bullying between children as well as school bullying at school. The books page lists books, reports and publications on child bullying and school bullying. Covers UK, USA, Canada and other countries.
http://www.successunlimited.co.uk/bullycide/links.htm
Columbine Made Simple
http://www.teasingvictims.com/home.html
Books On Workplace Bullying
http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/netscape/booksindex.html
Domestic Violence:
What to do if you are abused by your spouse.
http://www.medem.com/search/article_display.cfm?path=n:&mstr=/ZZZYVF3MA7C.html&soc=ACOG&srch_typ=NAV_SERCH
Spouse/Partner Abuse Information
http://www.nccafv.org/spouse.htm
Family violence hotlines
http://www.famvi.com/numbers.htm
Crisis Support Network
1.800.435.7276
http://crisis-support.org/
Domestic and family violence Resources and hyperlinks
http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/domestic.htm
Family violence and sexual abuse
The basics, information, prevention and recovery, sources.
http://www.noah-health.org/english/illness/mentalhealth/domestic.html
Victims of Stalking:
The Stalking Victim's Sanctuary
Support Group, information, resources, links
http://www.stalkingvictims.com/
The Antistalking Web Site
"Why stalkers do what they do, the different types of stalkers and their impacts on victims.
Learn what to do if you become a victim of stalking."
http://www.antistalking.com/aboutstalkers.htm
Survivors Of Stalking, Inc.
Research sources, statistics, personal safety, home security, federal laws.
http://www.soshelp.org/
Victims of Crime:
Office for Victims of Crime
[Office of Justice Programs, Dept. of Justice]
Compensation Program Directory
Federal Statutes and Legislation | National Victim Serving Organizations
Victim Assistance & Compensation Programs | What Can You Do?
Help for victims.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/welcome.html
National Center for Victims of Crime
Victim's services, information, resources. "The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation’s leading resource and advocacy organization dedicated to supporting crime victims and those who serve them." [charges for membership]
http://www.ncvc.org/