Recently added articles from Violence and Victims:

The Significance of the Victim Advocate for Domestic Violence Victims in Municipal Court

May 01, 2008; Camacho, Christina M; Alarid, Leanne Fiftal ... Previous research has examined factors that influence felony case prosecution in domestic violence cases, but few have analyzed how victim participation, or lack thereof, may affect the defendant's case outcome in misdemeanors. This study used 384 municipal cases from a specialized domestic ...

A Review of Research on Women's Use of Violence With Male Intimate Partners

May 01, 2008; Swan, Suzanne C; Gambone, Laura J; Caldwell, Jennifer E; Sullivan, Tami P; Snow, David L ... This article provides a review of research literature on women who use violence with intimate partners. The central purpose is to inform service providers in the military and civilian communities who work with domestically violent women. The major points of this review are as follows: (a) ...

Correlates of Partner Abuse in Male Same-Sex Relationships

May 01, 2008; Bartholomew, Kim; Regan, Katherine V; Oram, Doug; White, Monica A ... We investigated correlates of partner abuse in male same-sex relationships in a randomly selected community sample (N = 186). We included factors associated with abuse in heterosexual relationships, as well as factors of relevance to gay relationships. We assessed perpetration and receipt of ...

Female Sex Offenders' Relationship Experiences

May 01, 2008; Lawson, Louanne ... Interventions for child sexual abusers should take into account their perspectives on the context of their offenses, but no descriptions of everyday life from the offender's point of view have been published. This study therefore explored female offenders' views of their strengths and ...

The Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Suicidality in Adult Bipolar Disorder

May 01, 2008; McIntyre, Roger S; Soczynska, Joanna K; Mancini, Deborah; Lam, Chris; Woldeyohannes, Hanna O; Moon, Seol; Konarski, Jakub Z; Kennedy, Sidney H ... This study evaluates the effect of childhood sexual and physical abuse on suicidality in adults with bipolar disorder. We conducted a retrospective chart review of adult outpatients (N = 381) with DSM-IV-TR -defined bipolar disorder seeking evaluation and treatment at an academic specialty ...

Understanding Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the Rural South

May 01, 2008; Shuman, Robert D Jr; McCauley, Jeanne; Waltermaurer, Eve; Roche, W Patrick III; Hollis, Helen; Gibbons, Anne Kilgannon; Dever, Alan; Jones, Solita; McNutt, Louise-Anne ... Most U.S. intimate partner violence (IPV) research to date has been limited to women residing in urban areas, with the small body of research focusing on rural populations being primarily qualitative. In this case-control study of Southern rural women, while many factors are consistent with ...

Rape Myths Among Appalachian College Students

May 01, 2008; Haywood, Holly; Swank, Eric ... Rape myths regularly admonish victims for supposedly provoking the violence done against them. While rape attitudes have been studied in national and urban samples, the support of rape myths in rural populations is seldom investigated. Furthermore, the few empirical studies on sexual coercion in ...

Women's Risk for Revictimization by a New Abusive Partner: For What Should We Be Looking?

May 01, 2008; Cole, Jennifer; Logan, T K; Shannon, Lisa ... The purpose of this article was to examine the prevalence of, as well as risk factors for, revictimization by a new partner. Data was collected via face-to-face interviews at Time 1 (about 5 weeks after obtaining a protective order against a violent partner [DVO partner]) and at Time 2 ...

Explaining Antigay Violence Using Target Congruence: An Application of Revised Routine Activities Theory

May 01, 2008; Waldner, Lisa K; Berg, Jillian ... This research examines predictors of antigay violence (physical assault, sexual assault, and property damage) using Finkelhor and Asdigian's (1996) revised routine activities theory, which predicts that target congruence increases victimization risk. Results indicate about half of the sample ...