Bench, Lawrence L Allen, Terry Douglas, Emily
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Violence against women
Research on the effectiveness of protective orders indicates that they have only marginal protective value for the victim. This exploratory study investigated how the physical distance and temporal distance between the victim and offender corresponds to the percent of protective order violations. Results indicated that the percent of protective ord...
Giesbrecht, Crystal J
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Violence against women
An online survey was completed by victims/survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), living in both urban and rural areas, who owned pets and/or livestock. The majority of the sample had not received services from domestic violence shelters and services. Quantitative and qualitative data regarding barriers to accessing support and escaping IPV a...
Banyard, Victoria Jefferson, Gena C Segura, Anna Forman, Susan G Haviland, Mary McMahon, Sarah DeSilva, Abigail R Frye, Victoria Sarkar, Saswati
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Violence against women
Relationship and sexual violence (RSV) disproportionately affect youth in immigrant and other marginalized communities yet few prevention initiatives are truly grounded in their experiences. The current study represents a pilot implementation evaluation of youth-led workshops to engage significant adults (parents, grandparents, aunts, adult sibling...
Wilson, Mandy Spike, Erin Karystianis, George Butler, Tony
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Violence against women
Nonfatal strangulation (NFS) is a common form of domestic violence (DV) that frequently leaves no visible signs of injury and can be a portent for future fatality. A validated text mining approach was used to analyze a police dataset of 182,949 DV events for the presence of NFS. Results confirmed NFS within intimate partner relationships is a gende...
Kim, Eunyoung Yun, Minwoo von Denkowski, Cordula
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Violence against women
This study investigates the influence of traumatic events on the mental health of North Korean refugee women by examining the prevalence and severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety in comparison with their male counterparts (women = 496; men = 131). Our results suggest that women are at greater risk of developing m...
Gray, Matt J Kilwein, Tess M Amaya, Stephanie Binion, Kendal C
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Violence against women
Sexual assault, harassment, and stalking are commonplace among college students, with identified subgroups being particularly at risk (e.g., Greek-life organizations and intercollegiate athletics). Despite higher rates of sexual misconduct among active-duty military and service academy women, no research has examined the risk for Reserve Officers' ...
Krebs, Christopher Lindquist, Christine H Langton, Lynn Berzofsky, Marcus Planty, Michael Asefnia, Nakisa S Shook-Sa, Bonnie E Peterson, Kimberly Stroop, Jessica
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Violence against women
Self-reported survey data on the extent and nature of rape and sexual assault experienced by a population represent an important source of information because these crimes often go unreported, and are thus undercounted in law enforcement or other official statistics. This article compares Campus Climate Survey Validation Study (CCSVS) data to Clery...
Hoxmeier, Jill C Zapp, Daniel
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Violence against women
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine self-reported sexual assault perpetration history, as well as violence prevention-related prosocial tendencies, among fraternity men, unaffiliated men with membership intentions, and unaffiliated men without membership intentions with data from 262,634 college men in the United States. Result...
Caron, Sandra L Mitchell, Deborah
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Violence against women
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the decision made by some college women who are raped to tell no one. In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 college women between the ages of 19-24 who had never shared their sexual assault with anyone prior to speaking to the researchers. This study provides a systematic investigation ...
Ballantine, Carol
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Violence against women
Stigma presents specific ethical and epistemological problems for qualitative researchers of violence against women. Narrative research methods promise to enable ethical research on violence while still offering deep insight into stigmatized topics. This article describes narrative methods used in six focus group discussions and four in-depth inter...
