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{"title":"Sexual Violence in Entertainment Media: A Content Analysis of 33 Streaming Feature Films Between 2000 and 2020.","authors":"Melissa M Foster, Mackenzie Hall, Jia Shi","doi":"10.1177/08862605261490517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261490517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual violence in entertainment media can have negative effects on viewers, including impacts on personal behaviors and beliefs. Thus, understanding what the public is being exposed to, via systematic review of the portrayal of sexual violence in featured films, is vital. Thirty-three feature films (the largest number to yet be explored in a quantitative, full movie, human coder content analysis for sexual violence in English-language, nonpornographic entertainment movies) released between 2000 and 2020 that contained the keywords \"sexual violence\" or \"rape\" on the IMDb movie search engine and were available for rent or purchase on Amazon Prime were analyzed by three trained coders. The findings quantify key narrative elements including movie genre (the most common genre with sexual assault portrayals was horror), revenge themes (over 30% of the movies), victim deaths (33% of the victims died), and victim and perpetrator demographics (e.g., age, race, and gender). The overwhelming majority of victims were white females. Per existent research, these narrative elements could either perpetuate harmful stereotypes or contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of sexual violence, underscoring the need for responsible storytelling that considers the broader societal impact of such portrayals.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261490517"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149167923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public Science and Interpersonal Violence.","authors":"Claire M Renzetti","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the occasion of Jon Conte's retirement as editor of the <i>Journal of Interpersonal Violence</i>, this article reflects on the future direction of the field of interpersonal violence. The author argues that in the current reactionary political climate, interpersonal violence researchers should adopt a public science framework that is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and inclusive in order for the field to continue to grow and develop effective prevention and intervention strategies to address all forms of interpersonal violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261493563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149167509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Status Quo Bias and the Field of Interpersonal Violence: Research to Overcome Resistance to Change","authors":"Emiko A. Tajima","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493558","url":null,"abstract":"This essay asserts that meeting the goal of preventing interpersonal violence (IPV) will require new approaches, a focus on root causes, and a commitment to fundamental structural changes; however there are forces which make the field of IPV resistant to change. The societal response to IPV is caught in a kind of inertia, seemingly unable to break away from the status quo of a dominantly legalistic approach. Drawing attention to forces perpetuating the status quo in IPV, this essay calls for IPV research to bring to light those external factors and power dynamics to identify and address them, toward new ways of responding to and ultimately, preventing IPV. The field would also benefit from research on the reasons for inertia in different IPV focus areas and different institutions, to help break through status quo bias and offer alternative models of responding, including preventive, community-based, and restorative models.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crossing the Line: Measuring Sexual Exploitation Across Advocacy and Sex Research Traditions","authors":"Mary P. Koss,Zoë D. Peterson","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493555","url":null,"abstract":"Where is the line between permissible sexual seduction and sexual exploitation? This commentary argues that the answer cannot be settled by global labels such as unwanted sex, nonconsensual sex, rape, or abuse. Drawing on a collaboration between researchers working in violence-against-women and sex-research traditions, we examine three measurement problems that arise when sexual exploitation is defined behaviorally. First, consent must be distinguished from desire, because the terms unwanted, nonconsensual, and without permission may not measure the same thing. Second, measures must identify which sexual acts occurred and whose body was involved without making heterosexual female victimization the only template for harm. Third, coercion must be defined broadly enough to capture pressure, manipulation, vulnerability, authority, and constrained choice, but not so broadly that sexual agency disappears. We conclude that sexual exploitation is best measured by separating act, tactic, and context, allowing researchers to document contested boundaries transparently rather than hiding them behind imprecise labels.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hidden in Plain Sight: Visibility, Institutional Systems, and the Study of Repeat Sexual Offending","authors":"Rebecca Campbell","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493551","url":null,"abstract":"Research on repeat offending has developed through largely separate methodological traditions, including self-report surveys, criminal legal system studies, and forensic DNA linkage research. These approaches often identify different rates and patterns of offending because they rely on different populations, data sources, and mechanisms of detection. I argue that situational contexts shape opportunities for repeat offending, while institutional systems shape whether those patterns become visible, recognized, and interrupted. Building on these observations, I propose a more integrated research agenda that examines how hiddenness, visibility, and institutional processes shape what is known about repeat sexual offending and where future perpetration research should look next.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Golden Oldies and New Top 10: Important Findings and Future Directions for Intimate Partner Violence Research","authors":"N. Zoe Hilton,Elke Ham,Elnaz Moghimi,Soyeon Kim","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493553","url":null,"abstract":"In this brief article, which pays tribute to Langhinrichsen-Rohling’s “Top 10 Greatest Hits” review of the intimate partner violence (IPV) literature, the authors comment on progress in 10 key areas and identify directions for future research and practice. These areas include (a) the role of substance use in IPV and the development of integrated IPV-substance use treatment; (b) animal abuse and its implications for shelter policy for women leaving abusive relationships; (c) the finding that coercive control is prevalent and the urgency to define, assess, and understand the impact of nonphysical forms of abuse; (d) the impact of IPV on children and evolving contexts and emerging trends; (e) measurement of psychopathy and its importance to understanding IPV risk; (f) IPV typologies and how they can inform different treatment responses; (g) the mental health effects of experiencing IPV and the need for mental health practitioners’ readiness to respond to IPV; (h) IPV in 2SLGBTQQIA+ relationships and its challenges for policing; (i) the finding that justice-involved individuals often do not specialize in IPV and the related prospects for IPV-specific and general violence theory development; (j) measures of IPV recidivism risk and directions for risk communication and violence prevention. The authors describe the contributions of Canadian researchers and international contributions to the IPV literature. They describe the Risk, Need, Responsivity model based on psychological theory that has influenced emerging IPV research, and the co-created RESPECT Framework that guides ethical, equitable, and intersectional collaboration with IPV survivors in future research.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"29 24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a Field That Prevents Harm Before It Begins: A Reflection and Research Agenda for Interpersonal Violence Prevention","authors":"Viola Vaughan-Eden","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493568","url":null,"abstract":"Interpersonal violence research has established the profound developmental, relational, and societal consequences of violence; the next challenge is preventing harm before it occurs. This commentary honors Jon Conte’s contributions to the field by advancing a 5-year research and practice agenda that positions corporal punishment and No Hit Zones within a broader, integrated framework for interpersonal violence prevention. Drawing on ecological, public health, social norms, and implementation science perspectives, it identifies priorities for investigating mechanisms of norm change, bystander intervention, institutional trust and equity, implementation at scale, longitudinal behavioral outcomes, and cross-violence pathways across the lifespan. The proposed agenda emphasizes creating universal nonviolence environments while pairing clear behavioral norms with practical family supports, community-engaged communication, and supportive policy. Progress requires connecting child maltreatment prevention with efforts addressing intimate partner violence, sexual violence, bullying, and community violence to build environments in which nonviolence is expected, supported, equitable, and sustainable.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emphasizing Interactions to Advance Violence Research","authors":"Neil M. Malamuth","doi":"10.1177/08862605261493565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261493565","url":null,"abstract":"Research on interpersonal violence has identified numerous biological, developmental, psychological, social, and situational risk factors, yet further progress requires greater attention to how these influences interact. This article argues that violence research should move beyond the study of isolated predictors toward multilevel, developmental models that explain how combinations of risk factors produce heterogeneous pathways to aggression. Two forms of interaction are emphasized: cross-domain interactions among influences operating at different levels and within-domain interactions among multiple risk factors that may yield similar behavioral outcomes through different causal pathways. Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior and the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression illustrate the value of this approach. Research on depression further demonstrates how multilevel models can facilitate the identification of meaningful subgroups and support more mechanism-focused interventions. An important next step for violence research is to integrate developmental risk models with intervention science by identifying individuals’ dominant risk mechanisms and matching prevention strategies to those mechanisms. Such an approach may improve the field’s ability to identify who is at greatest risk, understand the processes driving that risk, and determine which interventions are most likely to reduce perpetration.","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who Steps Up? Gender, Ethnic Background, Belonging, and Responsibility Attribution as Predictors of Cyberbullying Bystander Helping Intentions.","authors":"Chiao Ling Huang, Yilihamu Alimu, Shu Ching Yang","doi":"10.1177/08862605261487166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261487166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined associations among gender, ethnic background, sense of belonging, responsibility attribution, and university students' self-reported helping intentions across three cyberbullying scenarios: denigration, exclusion, and harassment. A cross-sectional, scenario-based online survey was completed by 434 university students in mainland China. Independent-samples <i>t</i> tests and scenario-specific hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted. Women reported higher helping intentions than men across all scenarios, although the effects were small, and higher perpetrator-focused and environmental or contextual attribution in harassment. Han Chinese students reported higher helping intentions than students in the aggregated ethnic-minority group in denigration and harassment, higher perpetrator-focused attribution in these scenarios, higher environmental or contextual attribution in denigration and exclusion, and higher exclusion scores. By contrast, students in the aggregated ethnic-minority group reported higher victim-focused attribution in harassment. The final models yielded adjusted <i>R</i>² values ranging from .260 to .328. In denigration, gender, environmental or contextual attribution, inclusion, and exclusion positively predicted helping intentions, whereas victim-focused attribution was a negative predictor; the inclusion-helping association was moderated by gender and ethnic background. In exclusion, gender and environmental or contextual attribution positively predicted helping intentions, with no moderation. In harassment, perpetrator-focused attribution and exclusion positively predicted helping intentions; perpetrator-focused attribution was the strongest predictor, and its association with helping intentions was moderated by ethnic background. These findings support a scenario-contingent dual-domain framework in which responsibility appraisal and relational safety contribute differently across cyberbullying forms. The findings suggest that interventions may combine attributional reframing, anti-victim-blaming education, inclusive peer norms, and accessible reporting channels.</p>","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":" ","pages":"8862605261487166"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149136562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gradient Identification and Institutional Responses to the Risk of Sexual Abuse of Left-Behind Minors: An Empirical Analysis Based on 187 Judicial Cases in Eastern Sichuan","authors":"Wu Xiaomin, He Xi","doi":"10.1177/08862605261487999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605261487999","url":null,"abstract":"Based on 187 judicial cases involving sexual abuse of left-behind minors in eastern Sichuan (2021–2025), this study employs binary logistic regression, interrupted time series (ITS) analysis, and event history analysis to examine the effects of absent guardianship, acquaintance networks, and the mandatory reporting system on the risk of abuse. The study found that for every one-level increase in the degree of guardianship absence, the risk of repeated abuse increased by 67.3% (odds ratio [OR] = 1.673, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p</jats:italic> = .001); the recurrence rate of abuse by acquaintances who are not immediate family members was significantly higher than that by strangers (OR = 2.76, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p</jats:italic> = .003), while no significant difference was observed for immediate family members; the time lag in reporting abuse within the family was significantly longer than that for abuse outside the family (8.7 months vs. 4.2 months, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">t</jats:italic> = 11.67, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p</jats:italic> &lt; .001); following policy implementation, the proportion of cases reported by obligated parties rose from 25% to 81.5%, but a low baseline confounded the ITS estimate due to the pandemic (β <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> = 12.6), and the stock of risk did not decrease significantly. This study preliminarily reveals a conditional association between the risk effects of familiar-person networks and the completeness of guardianship, offering directional insights for extending the social ecosystem theory to a “family–community cross-level risk transmission mechanism.”","PeriodicalId":16289,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interpersonal Violence","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}