Xavier University

Cop Watching as Social Control: Extending Donald Black’s Theory of Self-Help to Race and Police Videotaping

Using survey-experimental data, we examine how race affects Americans’ willingness to videotape police detaining a teenage suspect. Donald Black’s theory of social control, with its focus on self-help, provides a theoretical context for expecting Black Americans to be more likely...

Does experience of emotional invalidation in childhood lead to growth – a qualitative enquiry using Interpretative phenomenological analysis

Abstract Background Severe abuse is not the only variant of unpleasant experiences in childhood. Childhood maltreatment in the form of emotional invalidation is potent in shaping future behaviors, both adaptive and maladaptive. Traumatic experiences in childhood are such occurren...