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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"victim-offender relationship"”.
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Community attitudes and the role of the victim offender relationship in child sexual abuse cases
… legislation particularly when considering the victim-offender relationship and perceived seriousness of child sexual abuse. This study examined the effects of 4 different victimoffender relationships and the degree of trust within these relationships on perceptions of offence seriousness and …
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The effect of the victim-offender relationship and pre-assault intoxication on PTSD symptom severity
… and/or alcohol during an assault is linked to victims experiencing less severe PTSD symptoms; however, little is known about how the victim-offender relationship relates to PTSD symptom severity. The current study sampled 125 university women on measures that assessed degree of sexual …
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Weapons in the City: Weapon Use in Chicago Homicide Cases
… 1965-1995 dataset (N=9,340) to examine the relationship between the use of certain types of weapons in criminal homicides by gender, race, age, victim-offender relationship, motive, location, and changes over time. Differential association and sex-role theory were utilized to argue why …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
… a number of constructs. namely: fertility value; victim-offender relationship; socio-economic status; rape proclivity; actual sexual aggression; and sociosexual orientation. There were two types of studies: studies 1-3 involved archival data, e.g. the use of criminal statistics. and studies 4-7 …
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Identification and exploration of core features of a real rape paradigm using three data sources relevant to state grant funded rape prevention and education (RPE) program
… relational contexts in which rape occurs (e.g., victim/offender relationship), 3) conceptualizing rape as something that happens by men against women, 4) attention is primarily given to adolescents and adults at the expense of children. This entire dissertation project is theoretically guided by …