But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
Yet the obvious conclusion from Dr Petrosino's analysis is that such programmes are not only harmful to participants, but also place everybody in society at increased risk of crime.
As in the war on terrorism, so in the war on crime: the sharp question is how much risk a society is willing to absorb in order to preserve liberty.
So the sort of values that we would prefer to have in Egyptian society were really at risk in this transition.
Furthermore, lest anyone simplistically respond that Africans just emerging from conflicts need peacebuilding, not the accoutrements of armed security, it is worth recalling that acclaimed development economist Paul Collier and his colleague Anke Hoeffler found in their study on Military Expenditure in Post-Conflict Society that in the first five years after a peace agreement a given country's estimated risk of renewed conflict is about 44 percent.
Apart from the obvious risk to society from criminals, the transport of cash in security vans leads to greater air pollution in our communities.
So demonizing what may be the only source of vegetables and fruit for those with the fewest resources in society on the basis of a non-existent health risk is just sickening, metaphorically and literally.
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Professor Henry described it as a "relatively small problem", but with cocaine use accelerating in some sections of society, warned that younger people were running a high risk of heart disease.
Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.
Results in lowering the risk of breast cancer were presented at a press briefing at the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
That assessment concluded that Venables would face the highest possible risk of being attacked if his name was either published in the media or known elsewhere in society.
Cognizant of the need for water managers, government leaders, civil society and businesses to work together to sustainably manage water under uncertainty and risk in an integrated and coordinated manner, UNESCO is hosting the Future Forum on "Global Water Futures 2050" at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 12 April 2012.
The risk, however, is that this deal ushers in ten years of austerity that will break Greek society.
That assessment concluded that Venables would face the highest possible risk of being attacked if his new name was either published in the media or known elsewhere in society.
Writing in Thorax, the journal of the British Thoracic Society (BTS), the researchers said doctors in London should be particularly aware of the risk that patients with either TB or HIV may also have the other condition.
Liaise and collaborate with UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral development partners at regional and international levels, civil society organizations, the private sector and other stakeholders in order to promote coherence in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Education within the framework of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and the Hyogo Framework for Action.
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