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Heimlich maneuver
Heimlich maneuver emergency procedure used to treat choking victims whose airway is obstructed by food or another substance. It forces air from the lungs through the windpipe, pushing the obstruction out. If the victim is standing, the rescuer wraps his (or her) arms around the victim's waist; maki... Read more
rape
rape in law, the crime of sexual intercourse without the consent of the victim, often through force or threat of violence. The victim is deemed legally incapable of consenting if she or he is known to be mentally incompetent, intoxicated, drugged, or below the age of consent at the time of the ra... Read more
Tamar
Tamar , in the Bible. 1 Mother of Judah's twin sons Pharez and Zerah. An alternate spelling is Thamar. 2 Daughter of David and Maachah. She was the victim of her half brother Amnon's passion. 3 Daughter of Absalom. ... Read more
William Falconer
William Falconer , 1732-69, Scottish poet. The victim of a shipwreck off Greece, he described his ordeal in a long, didactic poem, The Shipwreck (1762). He also wrote (1769) a source book on shipping and naval practices. ... Read more
Host
Host [Lat.,=sacrificial victim], in Roman Catholic practice, consecrated wafer of the Eucharist . The bread used is pure white and unleavened, baked in small disks. The Hosts not consumed at Mass are set aside especially for the viaticum, for the sick, and for adoration, as at benediction . ... Read more
artificial respiration
artificial respiration any measure that causes air to flow in and out of a person's lungs when natural breathing is inadequate or ceases, as in respiratory paralysis, drowning, electric shock, choking, gas or smoke inhalation, or poisoning. Respiration can be taken over by an artificial lung (espec... Read more
first aid
first aid immediate and temporary treatment of a victim of sudden illness or injury while awaiting the arrival of medical aid. Proper early measures may be instrumental in saving life and ensuring a better and more rapid recovery. The avoidance of unnecessary movement and over-excitation of the vic... Read more
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself ser... Read more
castration
castration removal of the sex glands of an animal, i.e., testes in the male, or ovaries and often the uterus in the female. Castration of the female animal is commonly referred to as spaying. Castration results in sterility, decreased sexual desire, and inhibition of secondary sex characteristics. ... Read more
self-help group
self-help group nonprofessional organization formed by people with a common problem or situation, for the purpose of pooling resources, gathering information, and offering mutual support, services, or care. Self-help groups began to spread in the United States following World War II and proliferate... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "blaming the victim"

Tally’s Corner
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...x2013; 2002) labeled a “ blaming-the-victim ” mentality or what the...ills is placed directly onto the victims themselves. A clear example of the use of a blaming-the-victim argument is in the 1965 Moynihan...
Reconciliation
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...forgiveness and reconciliation, and a blaming of victims who cannot bring themselves simply...alternative to the liberation of victims of oppression, imposing a sense...unfair disparities of power between victims and controllers of societ
Moynihan Report
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Ryan, an activist in the Congress of Racial Equality and a clinical psychologist at Boston College, published his Blaming the Victim (1971), which claimed that the Moynihan report was racist in suggesting that the problems of the ghetto were...
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...the dysfunctional black family, resulting in welfare dependency. Critics saw the report as a case of “ blaming the victim ” — the title of William Ryan ’ s 1971 book taking issue with white liberalism in...
Lewis, Oscar
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...especially in the popular press, and at times it is misapplied as an argument that supports the idea of “ blaming the victim. ” Not surprisingly, given the continuing salience of debates about the causes of poverty, Oscar Lewis...
Said, Edward
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Islam. Other books on Palestine include The Politics of Dispossession (1994), After the Last Sky (1986), Blaming the Victims (1988), and The End of the Peace Process (2000). Said ’ s wide-ranging and often controversial...
Terrorism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice ...sovereignty, environmental catastrophe, economic ruin) and blaming it on some population (e.g., Jews, Arabs, nonwhites...threatens violence to coerce a target group, beyond the immediate victims, into acceding to political demands. Theodore Kaczinski...
Glazer, Nathan
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Justice in American Thought and Policy , 1995) have argued that Glazer ’ s policy prescriptions amount to blaming the victim. Glazer has also been influential in the movement against liberal policies in multicultural school curricula...
Irene Harand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...which solemnly proclaimed that Austria had been the "first victim" of Nazi aggression. This policy was as much based on a strong...Albrecht V of Austria ordered that Jews be expelled from Vienna, blaming them for supplying arms to the forces of the Bohemian heretic...
Zoot Suit Riots
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...and entered bars, theaters, and restaurants in search of victims wearing distinctive zoot suits (very baggy pants and oversized...wave. The LAPD also contributed to ethnic tensions by both blaming Mexican Americans for the apparent outbreak of crime and mistreating...

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Fed: Govt blaming victims - welfare group
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 5/20/2002; 252 words ; 00-00-0000 Fed: Govt blaming victims - welfare group A leading social...says the federal government is blaming the victim in its push to crack down on supposed...t find work. Dr PRESTON says blaming the victim syndrome has an undesirable...
CAVAZOS, IN FAULTING HISPANICS, IS BLAMING VICTIMS, LEADERS SAY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/6/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...anecdotal data" rather than on available research. "Cavazos is blaming the victim," said Marta Rosa of Chelsea, the first Hispanic elected...failed, and a lot of parents of children now in school are victims of past educational neglect," said Denise de la Rosa, an...
Stop blaming victims
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/13/2006; 317 words ; ...Tobacco companies benefit financially from the death and misery created by their products. It's time we stopped blaming the victims of this epidemic, such as Janice Pou, and started holding the tobacco industry accountable for its actions. BELINDA...
COLUMN: Blaming victims fails to solve problems
News Wire article from: University Wire; 1/30/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...lives, from poverty to depression, is somehow a product of personal failure or laziness. This attitude is called blaming the victim. The problem with this route of examining social problems is that not everything is the fault of the individual...
'Arrogance' of church in blaming victims
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/8/2002; ; 340 words ; 'Arrogance' of church in blaming victims The fiasco that has resulted from the terrible abuses by Catholic clergy, as explained by Cardinal Law, reached total absurdity...
Fed: Government is blaming jobless victims, says welfare group
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 5/20/2002; 319 words ; ...0000 Fed: Government is blaming jobless victims, says welfare group BRISBANE...The federal government was blaming the victim in its push to crackdown on...people who could not find work. Blaming the victim syndrome has a very...
COLUMN: Blaming the victims underscores inequality
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/7/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...So, according to Brown, it is the victims' fault that the poor and the black are...blacks] now? No." Unfortunately, blaming the victim is as American as, well, football. Not unlike blaming deer for deer-hunting season. First...
BLAMING VICTIM FOR THE CRIME
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 3/1/1993; 357 words ; ...Bergen County, NJ) 03-01-1993 BLAMING VICTIM FOR THE CRIME Date: 03-01-1993...discharge. How much longer will the victim be punished? Women who risk public...Fort Lee Keywords: SEX. ASSAULT. VICTIM Copyright 1993 Bergen Record Corp...
National Council of La Raza says Cavazos is blaming the victims. (Lauro Cavazos)
PR Newswire; 4/11/1990; 690 words ; NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA SAYS CAVAZOS IS BLAMING THE VICTIMS WASHINGTON, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Raul Yzaguirre...educational crisis, Secretary Cavazos is reduced to blaming the victims -- Hispanic parents and their children. The educational...
Blaming the victims of predatory lenders
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Afro-American; 8/23/2002; 557 words ; ...the familiar canard about African Americans and the poor as victims primarily of their own ignorance. People in poor, minority...tendency - even on the part of those who mean well - to keep blaming the victim. Article copyright the AFRO-AMERICAN Company. V.111