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Preventing domestic violence [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2002
Papers pp 271, 274 Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, or psychological. Physical and sexual violence by an intimate partner are common problems, affecting 20-50% of women at some stage in life in most populations surveyed globally.1 Between 3% and 50% of women have experienced it in the past year.1 Domestic violence has a profound impact on ...
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Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities: Challenges, Promising Practices and Recommendations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Reviews research on intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities and examines victims' needs, challenges for agencies, and promising practices for prevention.
Michael Runner   +2 more
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Preventing Mass Violence [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2012
Our Species has a long history of distrusting strangers, despising outgroups, and fighting each other in many ways and many places, using the most damaging technology available at the time. This special issue of Science on Human Conflict illustrates the role of the scientific community in achieving deep insights ...
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Implementation of an emerging hospital-based violence intervention program: a multimethod study

open access: yesTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2023
Background Individuals who experience assaultive firearm injury are at elevated risk for violent reinjury and multiple negative physical and psychological health outcomes. Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) may improve patient outcomes
Marcie Gawel   +6 more
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Preventing Gun Violence in Pediatrics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Learn about the Violence Prevention Initiative at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which has become a national and global model for hospital-based and communitydelivered violence prevention through educational programming in schools and the community,
Myers, PhD, Rachel
core   +1 more source

Single-year change in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA: findings from a 2023 nationally representative survey

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Background A 2022 survey in the USA found concerningly high prevalences of support for and personal willingness to engage in political violence, of beliefs associated with such violence, and of belief that civil war was likely in the near future.
Garen J. Wintemute   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Katie Edwards, Assistant Professor of Psychology, COLA travels to South Africa and Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Prof. Edwards travelled to Africa to learn more about the innovative sexual violence prevention work happening across the African continent and to discuss similarities and differences in violence prevention in South Africa and the U ...
Edwards, Katie M, Ph.D.
core   +1 more source

Sexual violence: Raising the conversations, a literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This literature review is intended to contribute to efforts to raise awareness and conversations around sexual violence. It is focused on men’s sexual violence against adolescent and adult women.
Oulton, Heather, Robertson, Neville
core   +1 more source

Trends in views of democracy and society and support for political violence in the USA, 2022–2024: findings from a nationally representative survey

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Background In 2022, a nationally representative longitudinal survey in the USA found concerningly high prevalences of support for and personal willingness to engage in political violence, but those prevalences decreased in 2023.
Garen J. Wintemute   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Free2B Multi-Media Bullying Prevention Experience: An Exemplar of Scientific Edutainment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
ObjectiveThe objective of the current article is to highlight an example of a new paradigm, Scientific Edutainment. The manuscript describes how educational researchers and technologists worked together to develop a multi-media bullying prevention ...
Stephen S. Leff   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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