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Violence and Victims
Violence and Victims is a magazine focusing on Social Sciences
Articles from Vol. 22, No. 5, 2007
Covictims of Capital Murder: Statements of Victims' Family Members and Friends Made at the Time of Execution
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The death penalty is often touted as a punishment providing the only way to truly serve justice and offer closure for covictims (defined as family members or friends of murder victims'). These rationales are rarely structured around the actual words...
Exposure to Child Abuse and Risk for Mental Health Problems in Women
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Risk for adult mental health problems associated with child sexual, physical, or emotional abuse and multiple types of child abuse was examined. Logistic regression analyses were used to test study hypotheses in a population-based sample of women (N...
Family Environment and Adult Attachment as Predictors of Psychopathology and Personality Dysfunction among Inpatient Abuse Survivors
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The current study explored the role of early family environment and adult attachment style in explaining long-term outcomes among child abuse survivors. Adult patients (N = 80) in a trauma treatment program were assessed for clinical diagnosis and administered...
Female Domestic Violence Offenders: Their Attachment Security, Trauma Symptoms, and Personality Organization
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Unlike male domestic violence offenders, female domestic violence offenders have traditionally been overlooked in research and theory, despite the fact that females also have high rates of domestic violence perpetration. Towards the aim of extending...
Perceptions of Motives in Intimate Partner Violence: Expressive versus Coercive Violence
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This study examined perceptions of motives in the perpetration of intimate partner violence. Respondents (N = 401) of diverse professions read three vignettes and indicated their perception of the aggressor's motive (from 1 = Exclusively Expressive;...
Preliminary Report on the Accountability Scale: A Change and Outcome Measure for Intimate Partner Violence Research
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The current study investigated the reliability of a new self-report questionnaire assessing accountability for the perpetration of intimate partner violence. The Accountability Scale (AS) is a brief, Likert-type measure designed to assess the degree...
Prevalence, Perpetrators, and Characteristics of Witnessing Parental Violence and Adult Dating Violence in Latina, East Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern Women
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The present study describes and compares the prevalence, perpetrators, and characteristics of witnessing parental violence during childhood and experiencing adult relationship violence in 251 college-educated South Asian/Middle Eastern (n = 93), East...
The Impact of Partner Stalking on Mental Health and Protective Order Outcomes over Time
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The goals of this article are to examine stalking victimization over time among a large sample (n = 662) of women who received a protective order against a violent partner and to examine the impact of stalking on mental health and protective order outcomes....
