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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Spousal violence"”.
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Police Conflict Resolution Processes for Spousal Violence in Nepal: Perceptions of Victims and Perpetrators
The criminalisation of spousal violence in many jurisdictions around the world has conferred powers on police forces to use coercive methods including arrest and detention to address this crime. Yet the use of punitive criminal sanctions in spousal violence remains contentious with empirical …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… independent essays that address, respectively, spousal violence and female employment in Colombia, inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia, and welfare of rural Peruvian households. The evidence presented in the first essay, ”Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Employment: …
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Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?
… was to compare attributions of blame for spousal violence made by women who were in violent relationships with those of abused women who had sought shelter and those of women who had never been abused. Both clinicians and researchers (e.g., Frieze, 1979; Walker, 1979) have included victims …
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An investigation of the causes of gender based violence in Kwa-Nongoma area
… critically examining the causes of gender-based violence in Kwa- Nongoma. This study defines gender-based violence (GBV) as violence that is directed to a person on the basis of gender or sex. It includes acts that inflict physically, mentally, sexual harm or suffering; threats such as cohesion; …
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Factors associated with intimate partner homicide in a West Australian context
Domestic Violence (DV) is prevalent within Australian society with one in four women experiencing some form ofDV (ABS 2017) in their life. The Australian homicide rate is about 250 deaths per year, of which 52% are domestic related (Virueda & Payne 2010). Domestic homicides include Intimate Partner …