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Intimate Partner Violence and Psychiatric Morbidity among Ever Married Women in Urban Area

open access: yesNational Journal of Community Medicine, 2020
Background: Women facing violence is an important public health issue worldwide. A married women may experience violence within the family multiple times/ have overlapping of different types of violence namely physical, sexual, emotional/ psychological,
Sphurti Uday Chate   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Segurança pública e seqüestros no Rio de Janeiro 1995-1996 Public security and kidnappings in Rio de Janeiro (1995-1996)

open access: yesTempo Social, 1997
O crime de extorsão mediante seqüestro, em regra praticado por quadrilhas, tornou-se um problema e desafio para a política de segurança pública e a ação policial.
Cesar Caldeira
doaj   +1 more source

Using Participatory Visual Methods in the Study of Violence Perceptions and Urban Space in Mexico

open access: yesInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2019
The contribution investigates the experience of using visual participatory methods of data collection, auto-photography and community mapping, in the context of urban planning, violence and insecurity problems in Mexico.
Natalia Garcia Cervantes
doaj   +1 more source

Critique of Urban Violence: Bismarckian Transformations in Managua, Nicaragua

open access: yes, 2016
Urban contexts are widely conceived as inherently violent due to their putatively disorderly nature. Such a conception of violence effectively conceives it as singular and fundamentally destructive, neither of which necessarily hold universally true ...
D. Rodgers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

En el territorio del enemigo: las Unidades de Policía de Pacificación (UPP) en una favela de Río de Janeiro

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2017
This article analyzes how 38 Units of the Pacification Police (UPP) were mounted in some favelas in Río de Janeiro, especially the Santa Marta favela.
Giuseppe Ricotta
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions and Realities of Violence in Medellín, Colombia

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world, and this is particularly evident in its many cities. While urban violence scholars and policymakers generally rely on homicide rates to measure levels of violence in urban environments, these
Caroline Doyle
doaj   +1 more source

Transgender Identity and Experiences of Violence Victimization, Substance Use, Suicide Risk, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among High School Students — 19 States and Large Urban School Districts, 2017

open access: yesMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2019
Transgender youths (those whose gender identity* does not align with their sex†) experience disparities in violence victimization, substance use, suicide risk, and sexual risk compared with their cisgender peers (those whose gender identity does align ...
M. Johns   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

La violence dans l’agglomération de Pointe à Pitre : entre fabrique urbaine et médiatique, quelles constructions ?

open access: yesEchoGéo
For several months, the overseas territories have been marked by incidents of urban violence, whether in Martinique, New Caledonia, or Guadeloupe. Focusing on the case of the Pointe-à-Pitre metropolitan area in Guadeloupe, this paper aims to shed light ...
Aness Garrush
doaj   +1 more source

Uma caracterização dos homicídios em Uberlândia:um enfoque geográfico [PDF]

open access: yesSociedade & Natureza, 2004
The city Uberlândia has significant incidence of urban violence. This city is one of the most viloent of the state of Minas Gerais. This article aims to characterize this homicides in the city emphasing dimension.
Márcia Andréia Ferreira Santos   +1 more
doaj  

Media (in)visibility of violence in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2020–2024): a statistical modeling approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
IntroductionThis study investigates how the visibility of different types of violent events in Manguinhos (Rio de Janeiro) evolved in online media between 2020 and 2024, and compares these patterns with community-reported data from Fogo Cruzado ...
Gabriela Brogim   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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