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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Violent men"”.
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A content analysis of battering interventions: Development of a unified framework for treating relationally violent men
Men’s violence against women in the form of intimate partner violence (IPV) has been an ongoing concern worldwide. While awareness of IPV and interventions for survivors of IPV have grown over the last several decades, relatively little attention has been given to improving battering intervention …
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Testing A Social-Cognitive Model of Intimate Abusiveness Among Substance Dependent Males
… males from an inpatient substance abuse treatment program participated. Subjects completed questionnaires indicating their level of intimate abusiveness. In addition, they completed partner-related attribution measures as well as coping response measures indicating how they would interpret and …
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Discourses of masculinity and change : men's experiences of attending a domestic violence programme
… and interventions have aimed to empower abused women; however, there remains a gap in research on men’s accounts of their violence and of the programmes they attend. Because research shows mixed results concerning the effectiveness of domestic violence perpetrator programmes, this lack of clarity …
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Violence and the Domestic Sphere in Cinematic Representations of the Northern Irish Conflict
… and the political sphere was a crucial element of cinematic representations of the Northern Irish conflict from the 1940s to the early 1990s. Films of the era portrayed the personal sphere as the only redemption for men involved in violence. Peace and calm were represented by women who are …
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Engaging Men In Violence Prevention: Empirically Examining Theoretical Barriers and Catalysts
… country have increased their efforts to prevent men's perpetration of violence against women. To date, research examining the efficacy of these programs indicates that they are successful in reducing men's violence-accepting attitudes and may even reduce men's behavioral intentions to commit …
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Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town
… partner violence (IPV) that emerged amongst violent men, their social networks and within the media, and framed within social representations theory and feminist poststructuralism. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 11 men, recruited from two men's programmes at an NGO, and …
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Exploring masculinities in a microcosm : a qualitative study of men’s understanding of masculinities and gender-based violence (GBV) in a male prison population in South Africa (SA)
… to be a man play a significant role in shaping men’s attitudes and behaviours related to violence. While masculinities present differently in varying contexts, depending on societal norms, beliefs and cultures. Research in SA shows that some men who cannot attain financial dominance adopt …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… Malick opposes the ambition of Enlightenment discovery (m the turbulent heart of Smith) with the sure sense of humanity's relationship with nature (m the calm spirit of Pocahontas). Once again, the film's historical context is the bedrock for its examination of myth, though as the …