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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"intimate violence"”.
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Intimate violence against women : a report on the incidence and correlates of intimate violence against women - an Mdantsane, Eastern Cape sample
… into the public domain. In this context intimate violence by men of their women partners, so long shrouded in silence, is now being hailed as one of our most serious and prevalent social problems. But despite this awareness the circumstances which underpin this sort of violence remain …
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Getting Out: A Feminist Psychoanalytical Analysis of Intimate Violence
… various forms of physical and psychological violence within the text Getting Out by Marsha Norman. Getting Out is filled with disturbing visual images of intimate violence. Utilizing various feminist psychoanalytical theorists and critics, I explored the realm of intimate violence. This …
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Intimate Violence: The Effects of Family, Threatened Egotism, and Reciprocity.
… egotism, and reciprocity on a person’s use of intimate violence. Threatened egotism proposes that aggression is the result of high but unstable self-esteem, which is conceptualized as high self-esteem coupled with high narcissism. Self-report questionnaires were administered to randomly …
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Discrepancies in intimate violence reporting for men and women's violence: A meta-analysis
The report of intimate violence is often taken on face value in research. With no gold standard existing, one partner's report is often an accepted measure of violence in the relationship. This discrepancy in reporting between intimate partners has been thoroughly examined, yet researchers still …
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Empathy and Threatened Egotism in Men’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships
… self-esteem, narcissism, and empathy with intimate partner violence perpetration among men in 2 samples: college students and inmates. The sample was analyzed both as an aggregate and separately. A negative relationship was hypothesized between intimate violence perpetration and both …
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Assessing violent encounters: police use of lethality reporting
… in the criminological literature on domestic violence (DV), the Maryland Lethality Assessment Protocol (LAP) has been adopted in numerous jurisdictions. More specifically, this risk assessment targets episodes of intimate partner violence (IPV). These situations tend to precipitate greater …
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Narratives of Suffering of South Asian Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence
… the mental health consequences of domestic violence against South Asian immigrant women. Using a combination of standard psychological assessments and narrative interviews, it examines women's own narratives of suffering to examine cultural representations of their abuse experiences and …
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Domestic Violence Advocacy
… is a critical type of intervention to help intimate partner or domestic violence survivors. Little is known the best practices for social workers and other helping professionals to assist survivors of domestic violence who present for services at shelters, non-residential outreach, and legal …
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Las Tejanas in nineteenth-century Texas: (En)gendering race, empire, and nation in the borderlands, 1750-1850
… displacements while simultaneously perpetuating intimate violence against Black and Indigenous peoples to legitimize their claims of belonging — a running thread in the histories of the borderlands. In the process of claiming a place in San Antonio through their interactions with institutions and …
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Governing Domestic Violence: The Power, Practice, and Efficacy of Presumptive Arrest and Prosecution Against the Violent Subjectivities of Intimate Abusers
… and prosecution policies to handle domestic violence cases. Presumptive arrest requires police officers to make an arrest whenever 'probable cause' exists that intimate partner violence has occurred, while presumptive prosecution commits state's attorney's offices to pursue charges against …
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Engagement/involvement of staff from public medical Institutions with pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence - a systematic review of African & South African literature
… at public health care institutions respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by pregnant women living in South Africa and Africa. This study aimed to investigate what protocols/pathways staff at public health care institutions (PHCI) use to identify, screen, report, record and …
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Women's Experiences of Rage towards their Intimate Partners: Diverse Voices within the Criminal Justice System
… women’s experiences of rage towards their intimate partners was conducted. The sample was drawn from a Philadelphia prison's recovery unit for women. Phenomenological and feminist critical theory perspectives guided the study; these combined approaches captured the essence of rage, while …
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Impact of Self-Esteem, Adult Attachment, and Family on Conflict Resolution in Intimate Relationships.
… study examined the use of physical aggression in intimate relationships and the effects of self-esteem, adult attachment, and witnessing violence in the family of origin on such. Participants were 189 males and 379 females enrolled in classes during the fall semester 2006 at East Tennessee State …
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Searching for Healing Amidst the Genocidal Logic: Fragmentary Exiled Bosnian (Im)Possibilities
… Bosnia and Herzegovina during the genocidal violence in the early 1990s. Examining how the enduring and morphing impacts of this mass violence manifest as suturing knots of health disruptions, I foreground how there is an undergirding genocidal logic extending far beyond singular …