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Experiences of Interpersonal Violence and Criminal Legal Control

SAGE Open, 2011
Incarcerated women are substantially more likely to have experienced interpersonal violence than are women in the general population. Some scholars argue that increased likelihoods of committing crime among survivors of violence explain this association.
Traci Schlesinger, Jodie Michelle Lawston   +1 more
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Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes: "Domestic Violence" in Finland and Scotland [PDF]

, 2010
This article identifies and critiques presumptions about gender and violence that continue to frame and inform the processes of policy formation and implementation on domestic violence.
McKie, Linda, McKie, Linda,, Hearn, Jeff,, Jeff Hearn, Hearn, J., Hearn, Jeff, McKie, L., Linda McKie   +7 more
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Shared and distinct features between interpersonal and self-directed violent behaviors: a simulated intervention network study

BMC Public Health
Background Interpersonal and self-directed violence share many common risk factors, yet most studies examined the two forms of violence separately. To date, no research has investigated the mutually interactions between these shared and distinct features
Wenjie Luo, Yahong Shi, Tianxiao Li, Junmei Hu, Xiacan Chen   +4 more
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Harmonising outcome measurement for child focused domestic abuse interventions. Reflections on the development and implementation of a core outcome set

Frontiers in Psychiatry
There is appetite in the UK to better measure the impact of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) interventions on children. The spread of outcomes-based commissioning means outcome measurement is no longer just the territory of academic researchers but is ...
Emma Howarth, Gene Feder, Christine Barter, Claire Powell   +3 more
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A National Survey of Informal Supporters' Experiences and Views of Behaviour Support Practitioners in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines informal supporters' experiences and views of NDIS behaviour support practitioners, including engagement, information needed to support selection, and perceptions of practitioners' knowledge, skill, and practice. It reports data from a cross‐sectional online survey of 123 informal support providers of participants receiving
Alinka Fisher, David P. Nicoll, Irene Belperio, Maverick Clissold, Aiden Osborne, Russ Fox, Erin Leif, Keith McVilly   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived neighborhood crime and gun carrying behavior: examining the role of a history of traumatic brain injury

Injury Epidemiology
Background Individuals living in high crime neighborhoods are more likely to carry a firearm. Members of these communities are also more likely to experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in their lifetime, which is a common correlate of hypervigilance ...
Eric J. Connolly, Anne C. Wingert, Dennis E. Reidy, Jarrad D. Hodge, Jeff R. Temple   +4 more
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Shadow Infrastructures of Labour: A Case Study of Generative AI Use in Victorian Child Protection Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly entering workplaces, yet their use in frontline human services remains largely undocumented and weakly regulated. Drawing on an investigation into a child protection worker's informal use of ChatGPT, this article provides insight into how GenAI is already shaping ...
Joel Robert McGregor, Linus Tan, Caleb Lloyd, Abigail Sheed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Community Music Enhance Place‐Based Efforts to Create Greater Social Equity? Insights From an Australian Cultural Mapping Exercise

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet, Emma Heard, Matt Hsu, Mathew Klotz, Chi Lui Flora Wong, Joel Alexander Spence, Pearly Black   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The likelihood of Latino women to seek help in response to interpersonalvictimization: An examination of individual, interpersonal and socioculturalinfluences [PDF]

Psychosocial Intervention, 2014
Help-seeking is a process that is influenced by individual, interpersonal, and sociocultural factors. Thecurrent study examined these influences on the likelihood of seeking help (police, pressing charges,medical services, social services, and informal ...
Chiara Sabina, Carlos A. Cuevas, Erin Lannen   +2 more
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