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Violence and Victims

Violence and Victims is a magazine focusing on Social Sciences

Articles from Vol. 15, No. 2, 2000

Interpreting and Defensively Responding to Threat: Examining Appraisals and Coping with Acquaintance Sexual Aggression
Resistance and prevention programming aimed at strengthening women's ability to protect themselves against acquaintance sexual aggression has lacked attention to the cognitive and emotional processes women engage in when encountering such threats. Building...
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Labeling Partner Violence: When Do Victims Differentiate among Acts?
Domestic violence professionals have debated whether all physical assaults by partners should be labeled abuse. This study examined the use of labels such as "abuse," "victim," and "battered woman" in a sample of women (n = 78) who had sustained at least...
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Measuring Interference with Employment and Education Reported by Women with Abusive Partners: Preliminary Data
This study examines the reliability and convergent validity of the Work/School Abuse Scale (W/SAS), a measure of the ways that abusive men interfere with women's participation in education and employment. Results indicate good reliability as measured...
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Predictors of Dropout among Men Who Batter: A Review of Studies with Implications for Research and Practice
Identifying the characteristics of men who drop out of batterers' programs is crucial for prevention, intervention, and research. This article reviews studies of program attrition to establish a description of men who fail to complete group-based batterers'...
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Supreme Court Examines Impact of Errors in Detecting Bias during Jury Selection
For many attorneys (and their trial consultants) jury selection1 is perceived as the pivotal trial within a trial that provides them an opportunity to participate in assembling a jury that will be receptive if not predisposed to their position. For prospective...
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The Driving Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ): The Development of a Scale to Measure Deviant Drivers' Attitudes
The Driving Vengeance Questionnaire (DVQ) was developed and administered to assess drivers' use of vengeance when faced with common driving situations. Subjects in the development of the scale were 266 male and female university students. The scale was...
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