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Violence against female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India: impact on health, and reductions in violence following an intervention program. [PDF]

, 2010
: BACKGROUND: Violence against female sex workers (FSWs) can impede HIV prevention efforts and contravenes their human rights. We developed a multi-layered violence intervention targeting policy makers, secondary stakeholders (police, lawyers, media ...
Isac Shajy, Moses Stephen, John Anthony, Wheeler, T, Blanchard, James F, Tisha Wheeler, Bhattacharjee, Parinita, Gurnani Vandana, Ramakrishnan Aparajita, Beattie, Tara SH, Janet Bradley, Gurnani, V, Ramesh BM, HL Mohan, James F Blanchard, Ramesh, BM, Anthony, J, Vandana Gurnani, Bhattacharjee, P, Stephen Moses, Bhattacharjee Parinita, Blanchard James F, Isac, S, Isac, Shajy, Mohan, HL, Bradley, Janet, Ramakrishnan, Aparajita, Gurnani, Vandana, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, BM Ramesh, Bradley Janet, Mohan, H, Tara SH Beattie, Moses, S, Ramesh, B, Wheeler, Tisha, Wheeler Tisha, Beattie, TSh, Shajy Isac, Ramakrishnan, A, Anthony, John, Beattie Tara SH, Bradley, J, Anthony John, Parinita Bhattacharjee, Blanchard, JF, Moses, Stephen, Mohan HL   +47 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Help‐Seeking and Substance Use Among Police Staff After the 2018 Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The use of mental health services by police staff is usually low. After the 2018 attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, police officers exposed to psychotraumatic risks were found to have a higher PTSD risk. This study aims to describe the help‐seeking and substance use by police staff after the attack.
Nathalie Nourry, Ludivine Nohales, Laurence Lalanne, Emmanuel Fort, Maria Gonzalez, Pierre Vidailhet, Amaury C. Mengin, Barbara Charbotel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscapes of violence: women surviving family violence in regional and rural Victoria [PDF]

, 2014
In this research, family violence survivors have identified issues and barriers they have encountered, and have provided suggestions in regards to how both the criminal justice system and the broader Victorian community might assist survivors and help ...
Bridget Harris, Harris, Bridget, Amanda George, George, Amanda   +3 more
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Association between Old Firm football matches and reported domestic (violence) incidents in Strathclyde, Scotland

, 2013
Media reports have suggested that the number of reports of domestic violence may increase when Scotland's two largest, Glasgow-based football (soccer) clubs, Rangers and Celtic (traditionally referred to as the “Old Firm”) play one another.
Williams, Damien John, Neville, Fergus Gilmour, Peter D. Donnelly, Donnelly, Peter Duncan, Fergus G. Neville, Damien J. Williams, House, Kirsty, Kirsty House   +7 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Police Violence

, 2020
Law enforcement agencies across the country have failed to provide us with even basic information about the lives they have taken. And while the recently signed Death in Custody Reporting Act mandates this data be reported, its unclear whether police ...

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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2017
This article examines the effectiveness of mano dura (heavy-handed) policies in reducing homicides by studying the case of Venezuela in the period 2012-2015 and gives particular attention to policies involving police violence. Although firm hand policies
Andrés Antillano , Keymer Ávila
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Policing Domestic and Family Violence

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
How police respond to domestic and family violence (DFV) has important ramifications for the safety of women and their children. Despite recognition of the key role police play in responding to DFV and the importance of the perspectives of survivors in informing appropriate responses, there has been no recent exploration of survivors’ experiences of ...
openaire   +6 more sources