A recent survey of men and women in specific territories of Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo found sexual violence and human rights violations were prevalent and were associated with physical and mental health outcomes, according to an article in the August 4 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.
Powerful new software is allowing law officers in 58 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces nationwide to collect evidence against people who own and share illegal images and produce child pornography. A paper on it was given at the Digital Forensics Research Conference in Portland this week.
Three Southern Illinois University Carbondale scholars surveyed more than 5,000 students on six Illinois college and university campuses during the 2009-2010 academic year to discover their attitudes toward on-campus crime, including their perceptions of risk and personal safety, personal experiences, and understanding of campus safety measures.
Even in better neighborhoods, parents should be wary about letting teens gather with nothing to do and with no adult supervision, a new study suggests.
A UD professor says policies created as a reaction to school shootings are excessive and counterproductive. His new book suggests schools rethink the polices, including removing police from all but the most violent schools and involving students in the rule-making process.
University of Vermont political scientist and expert on Kyrgyzstan is available for interview about the ethnic violence there and new reports that the Kyrgyz army may be involved.
A Texas photojournalism professor has introduced an interactive Web site that aims to raise awareness about the impact of war on young people and to provide resources for young people affected by war.
Trauma staff, chaplains, social workers and caseworker collaborate to mediate conflicts between at-risk youths.
A Baylor University study of the effectiveness of Violence-Free Zones, this time at a Richmond, Va., high school, shows improved safety and attendance and a reduced need for police intervention. In economic cost-benefit terms, the findings increased in school teaching days and reduced police “transaction” costs.
Karen Laughon, an expert in intimate partner violence and risk factors for intimate partner homicide and safety planning, Laughon has focused her practice and research on issues of intimate partner violence and its impact on women and children.
Children exposed to violence at home or school have greater levels of anxiety and depression than children who experience brutality only in their neighborhood, say researchers in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Psychology.
Questions for Susan Swearer, PhD, an associate professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) in the Department of Educational Psychology.
A professor at Westfield State College has conducted bullying workshops for area schools and has advice for victims and school administrators, alike. Bullying is in the national news following a tragic case in South Hadley, Mass. where a high school student committed suicide and nine students are being prosecuted.
Sandra Stith, an expert in intimate partner violence, says research supports treatment that considers women can be violent themselves and that some couples choose to stay together regardless of violence in the relationship.
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is by two or three times, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days.
A Pakistani scholar plans to implement a social and emotional skill-building program she is studying in Alabama in 10 Pakistani elementary schools in an effort to reduce aggression and, perhaps one day, reduce the violence that plagues her country.
Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the workplace aggression and warning signs of employees who might engage in workplace violence. Harvey says early reports of past incidents involving Prof. Amy Bishop suggest that she fits a “hostile attribution style” and underscores the importance of identifying employees who exhibit the tendencies observed in his research.
"In the research on college students in particular, we're finding both men and women can be perpetrators," Sandra Stith said. "In our growing-up years, we teach boys not hit their sister, but we don't teach girls not to hit their brother."
Having a gun at home not only increases the risk of harm to one's self and family, but also carries high costs to society, concludes an article in the February Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association.
Three new regional research centres that will study violence and ways to prevent it will receive almost $6 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, made the announcement today at a national roundtable that brought together leading Canadian researchers on violence, gender and health research.
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