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maltreatment

[mal-treet-muhnt] / mælˈtrit mənt /
NOUN
punishment
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Such is the topic of a new paper in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma by a team of researchers led by Concordia's Walter Marcantoni.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

The office will receive and address individual complaints of violations of the University Code of Conduct to Prevent and Address Maltreatment in Sport.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

The findings were released in the 2020 Child Maltreatment Report, issued Friday by the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Another study from the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma found that the bulk of a victim’s emotional response often spikes in the days after a traumatic event, rather than in real time.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2016

Maltreatment of these missionaries led to a war with Annam in 1858, and in 1862 the extreme south of the Annamese Empire—the province of Cochin-China—was ceded to France.

From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Muir, Ramsay




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