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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 99, Issue 5)Even as it was still settling in, the 113th Congress moved quickly to break a logjam that had delayed reauthorization of two laws that have had strong backing from the ABA and an array of human rights organizations. On...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThis paper aims to dissect and analyze the trends of domestic violence against women in India. It will explore the factors contributing to the risk and prevalence of violence against women following the implementation of...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPoverty is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV); however, little is known about the economic state at which women are no longer at risk for IPV due to their economic status, which is economic solvency. A...
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From:Science (Vol. 308, Issue 5726) Peer-ReviewedA longitudinal study of Chicago adolescents has concluded that even a single exposure to firearm violence doubles the chance that a young person will later engage in violent behavior. The study may once again stoke up...
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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 100, Issue 12)Three events made 1994 a watershed year for raising public awareness about the widespread but largely unacknowledged problem of domestic violence. One of the events ignited a firestorm of media coverage. In June, OJ....
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From:Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Soon after Native American Diane Millich and her non-Indian husband got married, they moved into her home, located on the Southern Ute Indian reservation where she grew up. Millich s husband began...
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From:Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Vol. 20, Issue 2)This article uses the occasion of the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to review the circumstances by which legal theory and social movement discourse have circumscribed the scope of VAWA...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground All violence against women has serious consequences for their mental, physical wellbeing, reproductive and sexual health including HIV infection and no study was conducted in this regard in Ethiopia and...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 3)INTRODUCTION 'As I dropped Yeardley off in Charlottesville each year, my biggest concern was that she may be injured on the lacrosse field or, even worse, be hurt in a car accident. Relationship violence was never on...
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From:Journal of the Alabama Academy of SciencePeer-ReviewedNEITHER VICTIMS NOR VIOLATORS: UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN IRELAND. Molly J. Hurley, UAB Honors Program, Univ. of AL. at Birmingham, Birmigham, AL. 35205. Violent political conflict often attracts...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJournalists are often criticized for their reporting of violence against women ('YAW'). Media coverage has been described as lacking in context, thus presenting YAW as individual incidents rather than as a social...
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From:Education (Vol. 123, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHeightened concerns about school violence in recent years have amplified the need for implementation of effective prevention and intervention programs in our educational systems. This paper describes an intervention...
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From:Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis content analysis identifies the web of context that typically appears in the portrayal of television fictional violence. Highly graphic portrayals of violence are most likely in live action non-humorous programs...
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From:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedViolence sells. Americans have what sometimes seems to be an insatiable appetite for it. Depictions and descriptions of violence saturate our culture. Songs urge us to rape women, kill police officers, and commit...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 166, Issue 3)American Indian and Alaska Native women face the highest rates of sexual assault of any group in the United States, and most often such attacks are by non-Indian offenders. Since Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe,...
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From:Civil Rights Journal (Vol. 3, Issue 1)What's Working and What Isn't Four years after the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and well over two decades after the founding of the nation's first battered women's shelters, domestic violence...
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From:National Forum (Vol. 80, Issue 4)Michael Carneal, the fourteen-year-old killer in the Paducah, kentucky, school shootings, had never fired a real pistol in his life. He stole a .22 pistol fired a few practice shots, and took it to school. He fired...
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From:The Future of Children (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEach year, more than 20,000 children and youth under age 20 are killed or injured by firearms in the United States. (1) Thousands of young people are shot by peers, family members, or strangers, either intentionally or...
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From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 81, Issue 11)Florida's warm climate and beautiful beaches lure many people outside the state to adopt Florida as home. For noncitizens, the attraction is much deeper than aesthetics. It is the hope to find the American dream and to...
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From:The Future of Children (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSUMMARY Countless children and youth are exposed to gun violence each year--at home, at school, in their communities, or through the media. Gun violence can leave lasting emotional scars on these children. This...