Violence and Victims back issues from January 2000:
Introduction to Stalking and Obsessive Behaviors in Everyday Life: Assessments of Victims and Perpetrators
Jan 01, 2000; ... Since the 1970s, social scientists have begun seriously to address a number of different types of violence in male-female relations. First, researchers became aware of and began to study physical violence in married couples (e.g., Pagelow, 1981; Straus, 1977; Walker, 1979). Soon it became clear ...
Comparing Stalking Victimization From Legal and Victim Perspectives
Jan 01, 2000; ... Because stalking has only recently been recognized as a serious social problem and criminal justice concern, it is not surprising that there is little consensus among lawmakers about what constitutes stalking. To further understanding of how legal definitions and victim definitions of stalking ...
Initial Courtship Behavior and Stalking: How Should We Draw the Line?
Jan 01, 2000; ... As noted by Schaum and Parrish (1995), stalking blurs the boundaries between normal courtship and obsessive behavior. Consequently, stalking proves an elusive phenomenon to define and to study. Where does courtship end and stalking begin? To address this question, 197 women and 44 men from the ...
Stalking by Former Intimates: Verbal Threats and Other Predictors of Physical Violence
Jan 01, 2000; ... Scant empirical research has been conducted on the relationship between threats and violence. The purpose of this analysis is to assess the link between verbal threats of violence and actual physical violence against former intimate victims of stalking. The researcher interviewed 187 female ...
Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking Behavior: Exploration of Patterns and Correlates in a Sample of Acutely Battered Women
Jan 01, 2000; ... The aims of this study were to provide descriptive data on stalking in a sample of acutely battered women and to assess the interrelationship between constructs of emotional abuse, physical violence, and stalking in battered women. We recruited a sample of 114 battered women from shelters, ...
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors Following the Dissolution of a Romantic Relationship
Jan 01, 2000; ... This study investigated the prevalence and predictors of unwanted pursuit behaviors among college students. Participants (n = 282) had experienced the termination of a meaningful romantic relationship. Two questionnaires were administered. One assessed unwanted pursuit behaviors that were ...
Stalking as a Variant of Intimate Violence: Implications From a Young Adult Sample
Jan 01, 2000; ... There is a limited but growing literature which suggests that stalking is a variant of intimate violence. The purpose of this study was to examine physical, psychological, and stalking victimization and perpetration among males and females. Alcohol use was also examined. The sample was 46 male ...
The Driving Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ): The Development of a Scale to Measure Deviant Drivers' Attitudes
Jan 01, 2000; ... The Driving Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ) was developed and administered to assess drivers' use of vengeance when faced with common driving situations. Subjects in the development of the scale were 266 male and female university students. The scale was then administered to 271 university ...
Measuring Interference With Employment and Education Reported by Women With Abusive Partners: Preliminary Data
Jan 01, 2000; ... This study examines the reliability and convergent validity of the Work/School Abuse Scale (W/SAS), a measure of the ways that abusive men interfere with women's participation in education and employment. Results indicate good reliability as measured by coefficient alpha and significant ...
Predictors of Dropout Among Men Who Batter: A Review of Studies With Implications for Research and Practice
Jan 01, 2000; ... Identifying the characteristics of men who drop out of batterers' programs is crucial for prevention, intervention, and research. This article reviews studies of program attrition to establish a description of men who fail to complete group-based batterers' interventions. Studies indicate that ...
Labeling Partner Violence: When Do Victims Differentiate Among Acts?
Jan 01, 2000; ... Domestic violence professionals have debated whether all physical assaults by partners should be labeled abuse. This study examined the use of labels such as "abuse," "victim," and "battered woman" in a sample of women (n = 78) who had sustained at least one physical assault in their current or ...
Interpreting and Defensively Responding to Threat: Examining Appraisals and Coping With Acquaintance Sexual Aggression
Jan 01, 2000; ... Resistance and prevention programming aimed at strengthening women's ability to protect themselves against acquaintance sexual aggression has lacked attention to the cognitive and emotional processes women engage in when encountering such threats. Building upon current theory related to ...
Supreme Court Examines Impact of Errors in Detecting Bias During Jury Selection
Jan 01, 2000; ... For many attorneys (and their trial consultants) jury selection1 is perceived as the pivotal trial within a trial that provides them an opportunity to participate in assembling a jury that will be receptive if not predisposed to their position. For prospective jurors, jury selection is also seen ...
Exploring the Connection Between Pornography and Sexual Violence
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article examines the relationship between sexual violence and pornography. Data about women's experiences of sexual violence and their abusers' use of pornography were collected at a rape crisis center from 100 survivors. Findings include that 28% of respondents reported that their abuser ...
Aggressive Behavior Among Women Sexually Abused as Children
Jan 01, 2000; ... Although research shows that sexually abused children appear to be at risk of subsequent aggressive behavior, few investigations address whether such behavior persists beyond childhood. This research describes the self-reported adolescent and adult fighting behavior of 136 women sexually abused ...
The Relative Frequency of Offensive and Defensive Gun Uses: Results From a National Survey
Jan 01, 2000; ... Some controversy exists about the relative frequency of criminal and self-defense gun use in the United States. Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey of over 1900 adults conducted in 1996, we find that criminal gun use is far more common than self-defense gun use. This ...
Wife Killing: Risk to Women as a Function of Age
Jan 01, 2000; ... Younger women, relative to older women, incur elevated risk of uxoricide-being murdered by their husbands. Some evolutionary theorists attribute this pattern to men's evolved sexual proprietariness, which inclines them to use violence to control women, especially those high in reproductive ...
Coping With Chronic Community Violence: The Variety and Implications of Women's Efforts
Jan 01, 2000; ... To date, most researchers concerned with chronic community violence have studied children, and focused on the types, extent, and effects of their violence experiences. In contrast, using a series of in-depth repeated interviews, the current study explored African American women's methods for ...
Women's Fear of Crime: The Role of Fear for the Well-Being of Significant Others
Jan 01, 2000; ... A number of explanations have been suggested in the literature for the finding that women consistently report higher levels of fear of crime than males. The "shadow" hypothesis argues that fear of crime among females reflects fear of sexual assault. The "intimate" hypothesis argues that women's ...
Abuse During and Before Pregnancy: Prevalence and Cultural Correlates
Jan 01, 2000; ... This study examined the prevalence of abuse during pregnancy and the influence of cultural norms and acculturation on abuse in 1,004 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Central American, African American and Anglo American women. Women were recruited from consecutive delivery logs in ...
Anger, Irrational Beliefs, and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Violent Dating Relationships
Jan 01, 2000; ... The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate whether perpetrators of dating violence could be differentiated from their nonviolent counterparts on measures of anger and cognitive distortion, specifically Ellis's (1994) irrational beliefs and Beck's (1976) dysfunctional attitudes. Of ...
Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons From Duluth and Beyond
Jan 01, 2000; ... Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons From Duluth and Beyond Melanie F. Shepard, & Ellen L. Pence, (1999) (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Hardcover: $54; Softcover: $24.95; 296 pages. Throughout the United States and in several other countries, communities ...
Introduction to Stalking and Obsessive Behaviors in Everyday Life: Assessments of Victims and Perpetrators-Part II
Jan 01, 2000; ... This issue continues the empirical investigation of stalking first published in Volume 15, Number 1, of Violence and Victims. As was clear in that earlier volume, and continues to be demonstrated here, stalking can take many forms. Davis and Frieze summarize some of the measures used by ...
Obsessive Relational Intrusion: Incidence, Perceived Severity, and Coping
Jan 01, 2000; ... Two studies investigated the phenomenon of obsessive relational intrusion (ORI), defined as repeated and unwanted pursuit and invasion of one's sense of physical or symbolic privacy by another person, either stranger or acquaintance, who desires and/or presumes an intimate relationship. In Study ...
An Integrative Contextual Developmental Model of Male Stalking
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article evaluates current research and theory on stalking as a form of male violence against women. The integrative contextual developmental model (White & Kowalski, 19*8) suggests that stalking, as legally defined, is best understood as a multiply determined form of violence, with ...
An Empirical Study of Stalking Victimization
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article empirically studies the phenomenon of stalking and its victims by utilizing a random sample of college students at a large public University. The study found that 25% of the women and 11% of the men had been stalked at some point in their lives and that six percent were currently ...
Stalking Perpetrators and Psychological Maltreatment of Partners: Anger-Jealousy, Attachment Insecurity, Need for Control, and Break-Up Context
Jan 01, 2000; ... Two studies of the correlates of self-reported courtship persistence, stalking-like behaviors following a relationship break-up, and psychological maltreatment of partners were conducted in samples of male (N = 46 and 93) and female (N = 123 and 110) college students. Approximately 40% (38.5% ...
The Role of Stalking in Domestic Violence Crime Reports Generated by the Colorado Springs Police Department
Jan 01, 2000; ... A review of 1,785 domestic violence crime reports generated by the Colorado Springs Police Department found that 1 in 6 (16.5 percent) contained evidence the suspect stalked the victim. Female victims were significantly more likely than male victims to allege stalking by their partners (18.3 vs ....
The Impact of Severe Stalking Experienced by Acutely Battered Women: An Examination of Violence, Psychological Symptoms and Strategic Responding
Jan 01, 2000; ... Stalking has been relatively understudied compared to other dimensions of intimate partner violence. The purpose of this article was to examine concurrent and subsequent intimate partner abuse, strategic responses and symptomatic consequences of severe stalking experienced by battered women ....
Negative Family-of-Origin Experiences: Are They Associated With Perpetrating Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors?
Jan 01, 2000; ... Parental divorce, history of parental relationship separation, perceptions of interparental conflict, and witnessing parental violence were retrospectively assessed in a sample of 213 college students from several regions in the United States, all of whom had suffered an unwanted break-up of an ...
Research on Stalking: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go?
Jan 01, 2000; ... Findings of the article in this two-volume series on stalking are reviewed. Building on the findings of the National Violence Against Women Survey (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998), this series of studies adds to the literature in defining and measuring stalking behaviors. Repeated stalking ...
Safety Planning With Battered Women
Jan 01, 2000; ... Safety Planning With Battered Women. Jill Davies, Eleanor Lyon, and Diane Monti-Catania. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998. Softcover: $24.95; 202 pages. If I had two words to describe the book Safety Planning With Battered Women, it would be "must read." For practitioners, ...