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Costs of Domestic Violence: A Life Satisfaction Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper discusses and estimates the costs of domestic violence using a life satisfaction approach. It draws on a British cross-sectional data set that includes individual self-reported life satisfaction, household income and experienced domestic ...
Santos, Cristina
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN A SEMI-URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
There are no published studies on impact of neighbourhood on domestic violence in Sango-Ota. This is the first study to examine formal and informal control method and the influence of family structure and socio-economic status on the occurrence of ...
Abimbola, Oluremi H.   +2 more
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It\u27s Not OK: New Zealand\u27s Efforts to Eliminate Violence Against Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This Report presents the findings of this research effort. It consists of three parts: Part I sets out the normative framework on domestic violence, both at the international and national level, and explains the relevant norms that govern the ...
Contesse, Jorge, Fenrich, Jeanmarie
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Beyond ‘witnessing’: children’s experiences of coercive control in domestic violence and abuse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Children’s experiences and voices are underrepresented in academic literature and professional practice around domestic violence and abuse. The project ‘Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies’ addresses this absence, through direct engagement ...
Bourget D.   +19 more
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Victim or whore: The similarities and differences between victim’s experiences of domestic violence and sex trafficking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This research review addresses the similarities and differences between domestic violence and sex trafficking victimization. While there is evidence that domestic violence and sex trafficking often cooccur, there is a large disparity in the ...
Dahlstedt, Jaime   +3 more
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Law, Social Movements, and the Political Economy of Domestic Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article uses the occasion of the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to review the circumstances by which legal theory and social movement discourse have circumscribed the scope of VAWA and the dominant approach to domestic
Weissman, Deborah M.
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Mainstreaming domestic and gender-based violence into sociology and the criminology of violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Sociological and criminological views of domestic and gender-based violencegenerally either dismiss it as not worthy of consideration, or focus on specificgroups of offenders and victims (male youth gangs, partner violence victims). Inthis paper, we take
Agnew Robert   +70 more
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A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A growing number of criminal courts nationwide handle domestic violence cases on separate calendars, termed domestic violence courts. There are now 208 confirmed domestic violence courts across the U.S. (Center for Court Innovation 2009).
Chris S. O'Sullivan   +4 more
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Discursive manoeuvres and hegemonic recuperations in New Zealand documentary representations of domestic violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper examines three television documentaries--entitled Not Just a Domestic (1994), Not Just a Domestic: The Update (1994), and Picking Up the Pieces (1996)--that together formed part of the New Zealand police ‘Family Violence’ media campaign ...
Michelle, Carolyn, Weaver, C. Kay
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Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Effects of Domestic Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Domestic violence is an issue affecting people of all ages, races, genders, and sexual orientations. Violence against men and same-sex domestic violence are often considered less of a threat to society and to the people involved, but it is important to ...
Alejo, Kavita
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