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Gender-Related Violence: What Can a Concept Do?
Social Sciences, 2023 This paper explains the logic for using the concept of gender-related violence (GRV) as a broad category that problematises homophobia, transphobia and the policing of gender norms and the gender binary, as well as gender-based violence—understood as ...
Pam Alldred
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Riconoscere la violenza: dai modelli culturali e sociali ai limiti della presa in carico / Reconnaître la violence : modèles culturels et sociaux et limites de la prise en charge / Recognising violence : from cultural and social models to the limits of care and support [PDF]
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, 2013 Gli autori descrivono un’esperienza clinica, nella prospettiva psicoanalitica, relativa alla violenza sulle donne. In particolare, gli autori ipotizzano che la percentuale massiccia di mancata denuncia da parte delle donne delle violenze subite, sia ...
Stanziano Giuseppe +1 more
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Female homicides and femicides in Ecuador: a nationwide ecological analysis from 2001 to 2017
BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background Gender–based violence is a major public health concern arising from the structural discrimination of women and girls. In 2014, Ecuador criminalized acts of femicide in response to a growing crisis across the region.
Esteban Ortiz-Prado +9 more
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New lens on gender-based violence
The Lancet Global Health, 2013 Your October, 2013, articles bring a welcome scientifi c lens to genderbased violence in the Asia-Pacific region. Indeed, gender-based violence is so widespread it merits closer examination through the lens of development economics as well. Women in poverty often confront multiple difficulties in avoiding or escaping gender-based violence.
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Mainstreaming Domestic and Gender-Based Violence into Sociology and the Criminology of Violence [PDF]
The Sociological Review, 2014 Sociological and criminological views of domestic and gender-based violence generally either dismiss it as not worthy of consideration, or focus on specific groups of offenders and victims (male youth gangs, partner violence victims). In this paper, we take a holistic approach to violence, extending the definition from that commonly in use to ...
Walby, Sylvia +2 more
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Understanding and addressing gender-based violence in Eswatini
International Review of Social Sciences ResearchThe high prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in the kingdom of Eswatini is quiet saddening. Women and girl children become victims of GBV to the extent of losing their lives.
Phumuzani Mpofu, Siphiwe Hlobsile Tfwala
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The Urgency of Regulation in the Case of Online Gender-Based Violence in Indonesia
Sawwa: Jurnal Studi Gender, 2021 The National Commission for Women 2020 Annual Notes reminded a new type of violence against gender, namely cyber-based or online gender violence, which continued to increase over the past six years, with an increase of 300% in Online Gender-Based ...
Muhammad Iqbal, Genie Cyprien
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Video Games and Gender-based Violence
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractGender-based violence is violence perpetrated against women, which is primarily or exclusively motivated by their sex, and includes both intimate partner abuse and physical or sexual assault by strangers. The aim of the present research was to investigate whether gender-based violence is depicted in the world of video games and whether video ...
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Stochastic Agent-Based Models of Intimate Partner Violence [PDF]
Intimate Partner Violence: A Stochastic Model. Theoretical Biology
Forum 110, 124 (2017), 2016 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem and social issue that involves couples from all socioeconomic and cultural contexts. IPV may affect women and men, but these latter are the most common perpetrators of IPV. We developed stochastic Agent-Based models of IPV focused on the couple dynamics, determined by the parallel ...
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BMC Public HealthBackground Promising evidence supports the effectiveness of edutainment interventions in shifting norms to prevent violence against women and girls and other harmful practices, yet further research into mechanisms and pathways of impact is needed to ...
Lottie Howard-Merrill +9 more
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