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Victims as Victimizers [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Internal Medicine, 1999
Substance abuse has been called the dominant characteristic of families involved in child abuse cases, but the frequency with which childhood victims become adult victimizers remains uncertain.To examine whether a history of childhood sexual or physical abuse is associated with becoming a victimizer (ie, abusing or assaulting others) as an adult ...
J, Clarke   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

E le Saua le Alofa (Love shouldn’t hurt): exploring the acceptability, feasibility and potential impact of a co-developed intervention to prevent violence against women in Samoa

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Women in Samoa experience a high rate of intimate partner violence (IPV) shaped in part by a history of colonisation and its influence on gender roles and lived experiences.
Jenevieve Mannell   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The importance of proportionality in penalties in the Ecuadorian Penal Code for violence against women and family members

open access: yesRevista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 2021
Violence against women or members of the family is an act that affects society in every corner of the world, because it destroys the family in many ways, such as morally, physically, psychologically, and even intellectually,
Miulyn Karlice Naranjo Gómez
doaj   +1 more source

Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Office of the Victim Advocate

open access: yes, 2011
Updated irregularly; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Nov. 7, 2011).; At head of title: State of Connecticut.; Harvested from the web on 11/8/11Official website of the Connecticut Office of the Victim Advocate.

core   +1 more source

LEGAL AND CRIMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RAPE WITH DATE RAPE DRUG [PDF]

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2015
Rape is a very serious offense, and the study of its victims indicates that they experience serious consequences of trauma. Nowadays more and more rape victims are intoxicated by special substances described as a ëdate rape drugí.
Aleksandra Nowak
doaj   +1 more source

Perception towards rape among the youth in India

open access: yesTelangana Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Background: Indian women and girls have suffered increased sexual violence despite progressive legislation. Aim: The research objective was to assess perceptions toward rape myth acceptance (RMA) among college students.
Mysore Narasimha Vranda, Remy Lobo
doaj   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian 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

Office of the Victim Advocate

open access: yes, 2016
Updated irregularly; Title from home page (publisher's Web site, viewed Nov. 7, 2011).; At head of title: State of Connecticut.; Harvested from the web on 9/26/16Official website of the Connecticut Office of the Victim Advocate.

core   +1 more source

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