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Evidence That Nine Autistic Women Out of Ten Have Been Victims of Sexual Violence

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
BackgroundResearch indicates that sexual violence affects about 30% of women in the general population and between two to three times as much for autistic women.Materials and MethodsWe investigated prevalence of sexual abuse, autistic traits and a range ...
Fabienne Cazalis, Elisabeth Reyes, Séverine Leduc, David Gourion   +3 more
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Dealing With Rape Cases in Ghana: The Law, the Victim and the Offender

Sexual Offending, 2023
Rape is a criminal offence in all countries of the world. However, what constitutes rape in the legal sense differs from country to country, with many common law countries sharing some similarities in their definition of rape.
Jacob Mensah Agboli
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REVITIMIZAÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES EM INQUIRIÇÕES JUDICIAIS E VIOLÊNCIA INSTITUCIONAL

Revista Eletrônica Direito e Política, 2021
RESUMO Analisou-se a revitimização de crianças e adolescentes violentadas sexualmente a partir da obrigatoriedade da inquirição em audiências judiciais, demonstrando-se o marco teórico da proteção integral de crianças e adolescentes, especificando-se ...
André Viana Custódio, Rafael Bueno da Rosa Moreira   +1 more
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Prevention of violent revictimization in depressed patients with an add-on internet-based emotion regulation training (iERT): study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry, 2018
Background Psychiatric patients are at high risk of becoming victim of a violent crime compared to the general population. Although most research has focused on patients with severe mental illness, depressed patients have been demonstrated to be prone to
Carolien Christ, Marleen M. de Waal, Digna J. F. van Schaik, Martijn J. Kikkert, Matthijs Blankers, Claudi L. H. Bockting, Aartjan T. F. Beekman, Jack J. M. Dekker   +7 more
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Multiple Victimization & Sexual Revictimization [PDF]

, 2016
Committing multiple victimization and sexual revictimization towards others can be labeled inhuman crimes that cause various forms of trauma to victims. In return, this results in higher mortality and tarnishes the connections between members of society.
Meade, Mary, Song, Jerry, Graham, Norman Isaiah, Wolf, David, Smith, Anne   +4 more
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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Factors Associated With Sexual Violence in Adulthood Among Brazilian MSM

American Journal of Men's Health, 2022
Most studies of sexual violence are with women, and although men who have sex with men (MSM) is the group of the men that has been most investigated for sexual violence, there are still several questions to be answered about sexual violence and sexual ...
Denis Gonçalves Ferreira, Maria Amelia Veras, Gustavo Santa Roza Saggese, Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães, Laio Magno, Ines Dourado, Raimunda Hermelinda Maia Macena, Andréa Fachel Leal, Carl Kendall, Edgar Mércham-Hamann, Ximena Pamela Díaz Bermúdez, Daniela Knauth, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr   +12 more
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Preventing Revictimization Through a Web-Based Intervention for Primary Caregivers of Youth in Care (EMPOWERYOU): Protocol for a Randomized Factorial Trial

JMIR Research Protocols, 2022
BackgroundChildren in foster care are at a higher risk for relationship problems than their counterparts raised by their biological family because of higher exposure to or prevalence of neglect or maltreatment early in life ...
Nina Heinrichs, Antonia Brühl
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The Relationship Between Risky Behaviors, Individual Characteristics, and Sexual Revictimization Among College Women

, 2010
Sexual revictimization of college women is a relatively new area of study within the field of victimology. Although the link between childhood sexual assault (CSA) and adult revictimization has been examined, many aspects of why college-aged females are ...
Mummert, Sadie J.
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Sexual Revictimization [PDF]

, 2008
Based on interviews with six women, this study describes each participant’s personal experience of childhood sexual victimization, and revictimization while serving in the military.
Vick, Janyce
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Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Anger, and Substance Use as Risk Factors for Trauma Revictimization [PDF]

, 2022
Maltreatment survivors are at an increased risk for adult revictimization. Yet, existing work has specifically focused on sexual revictimization, and it is unclear what factors increase one’s risk for revictimization more broadly.
Walker, Hannah E.
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