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Telling Stories, Saving Lives: The Battered Mothers\u27 Testimony Project, Women\u27s Narratives, and Court Reform [PDF]
, 2005 In November 2002, the Wellesley Centers for Women’s Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project released Battered Mothers Speak Out, a report detailing human rights abuses committed against forty battered mothers and their children who had litigated cases in the
Goodmark, Leigh S.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Partner violence against women in Spain: Quantification and characterization of the problem, victims, aggressors, and the social and professional context [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2013 After a literature review of recent studies on partner violence against women in Spain, this paper describes the central indicators of frequency, prevalence and course of domestic abuse.
Susana Menéndez Álvarez-Dardet +2 more
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Weapons in the Lives of Battered Women
American Journal of Public Health, 2004 Objectives. We assessed weapon use in intimate partner violence and perspectives on hypothetical firearm policies. Methods. We conducted structured in-person interviews with 417 women in 67 battered women’s shelters. Results. Words, hands/fists, and feet were the most common weapons used against and by battered women. About one third of the battered
Sorenson, Susan B, Wiebe, Douglas J
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The Unhappy Marriage of Theory and Practice: An Analysis of a Battered Women\u27s Shelter [PDF]
, 1988 Focuses on the role of battered women\u27s shelters in the U.S. as a response to the problem of violence against women in society. Examination of the battered women\u27s movement and the shelters the movement has spawned; Contradictions between feminist ...
Murray, Susan B
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Transforming Aggressive Prosecution Policies: Prioritizing Victims’ Long-Term Safety in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases [PDF]
, 2003 Until fairly recently, prosecutors\u27 offices around the country ignored domestic violence cases, failing to press charges in the vast majority of situations and dropping charges prior to conviction in many others.
Bell, Margret E. +2 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.This review redefines the carotid bulb (CB) as a variable geometric dilation shaped by hemodynamics and the carotid sinus (CS) as a conserved neurohistological baroreceptor field. Distinguishing these entities clarifies a century of anatomical confusion and links geometry, neurohistology, and clinical interpretation within a unified framework ...
Răzvan Costin Tudose +2 more
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Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2017 Domestic violence (DV) is defined as a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partners (Ganley, 1995 ...
Melis Sedef Kahraman, Kathryn Bell
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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2021 Objective. To explore women's experiences of violence and their opinion on routine screening for domestic violence by nursing professionals in mental health care settings. Methods.
Vijayalakshmi Poreddi +4 more
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Battered women presenting in general practice [PDF]
, 1983 The problems of battered women have recently been highlighted. They consult doctors, who can be an important source of help. We examined their initial presenting complaint to general practitioners.
Hopayian, Kevork
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