Word: ociologist
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...bruising can show up in feelings of worthlessness. Rage, sadly, often crops up in the form of destructive behavior-wife beating, child abuse, neglect of friends, drunkenness-that increases predictably among the jobless. (In a study of the social effects of unemployment over a 34-year period, S ociologist M. Harvey Brenner of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that a 1% increase in the national unemployment rate was associated with a 4.1% increase in the suicide rate and increases of 3.4% in admissions to state mental hospitals, 4% in state prison admissions and 5.7% in the homicide rate...
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