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Gender and physical violence

Social Science & Medicine, 2004
This study examines incidents of physical violence in relation to the sex of both assault victim and attacker. A survey of all assault victims attending an urban accident and emergency department (AED) in Norway during a 2-year period was carried out.
Steinar Hunskaar, Knut Steen
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Gender Considerations in Violence

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2016
The role of gender in violence is poorly understood. Research has shown that gender has an important and, at times, distinct role in the prediction of violence. However, this gender disparity diminishes in the setting of mental illness. The risk assessment of violence in women is largely based on research in violent men.
Susan Hatters Friedman   +2 more
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Gender and Violence

Science, 2012
Researchers are probing links between the status of women in a society and its propensity toward war.
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Gender-based violence

The Lancet, 2005
On Nov 14 2004 the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) announced grant awards to 17 groups in developing countries for projects to address gender-based violence in conflict and postconflict situations. Totalling US $900000 the grants will fund projects that include: a training programme for community leaders in the Democratic Republic of
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Gender Violence

Journal of Homosexuality, 2002
There is a pervasive pattern of discrimination and prejudice against transgendered people within society. Both economic discrimination and experiencing violence could be the result of a larger social climate that severely sanctions people for not conforming to society's norms concerning gender; as such, both would be strongly associated with each other.
Dana Priesing   +3 more
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Mental Disorder, Violence, and Gender.

Law and Human Behavior, 2003
Recent studies have reported comparable rates of violence among men and women with mental disorder, raising important issues for clinical risk assessment. This study examines the relationship between gender and violence using data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.
Pamela Clark Robbins   +2 more
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Gendered violence and the self

2018
This chapter is devoted to questions about why intimate partner violence is understood in terms of its psychological impact on individual women. It suggests alternative ways that the serious psychological and emotional impact of intimate partner violence might be understood and addressed so that policy and practice may be more beneficial. The notion of
Suzanne Franzway   +4 more
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