Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1177/10778012241259718
Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Kristie L Seelman, Alaina Joyner, Roseangela Hartford
{"title":"Trans and Gender-Diverse Latinx Individuals in the Southern United States: Experiences With Violence and Service Utilization.","authors":"Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Kristie L Seelman, Alaina Joyner, Roseangela Hartford","doi":"10.1177/10778012241259718","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241259718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using secondary data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, we explored transgender and gender-diverse Latinx individuals in the Southern U.S. experiences with transprejudice and antitrans violence at the individual, interpersonal, and structural levels. Findings include high rates of any form of antitrans violence in the past year and intimate partner violence in a lifetime. Most respondents accessed healthcare services in the past year. However, many reported transprejudice and antitrans violence accessing these services. Findings highlight the need for comprehensive changes at all levels to improve the well-being of transgender and gender-diverse Latinx Southerners experiencing gender-based violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2705-2729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1177/10778012241259727
Yimin Chen, Kaitlynn Mendes, Chandell Gosse, Jaigris Hodson, George Veletsianos
{"title":"Canadian Gender-Based Violence Prevention Programs: Gaps and Opportunities.","authors":"Yimin Chen, Kaitlynn Mendes, Chandell Gosse, Jaigris Hodson, George Veletsianos","doi":"10.1177/10778012241259727","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241259727","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention programs have long played an important part in both teaching the realities of GBV and training people in techniques to avert, mitigate, and respond to violence. This article examines the current state of GBV prevention training in Canada through an analysis of 81 GBV education programs provided by antiviolence organizations and universities. We identified notable gaps in topics relating to technology-facilitated violence and abuse in programs targeting men and in the provision of bystander intervention training. Each of these areas represents important, but as yet unrealized, opportunities in violence prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2682-2704"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171044/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141301740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of COVID-19 on Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision.","authors":"Aisha Giwa, Myra Kandemiri, Mia Tulli-Shah, Ghada Sayadi, Nat Hurley, Bukola Salami","doi":"10.1177/10778012241257251","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241257251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 policies like stay-at-home orders impacted intimate partner violence (IPV) service provision in Alberta. Using intersectionality and qualitative semi-structured interviews, this article situates IPV and access to services and supports within multiple overlapping factors such as race, gender, class, and ethnic minority status. Two main themes were identified. First, the challenges within IPV service provision reflect the sectors' traditional and binary understanding and response to violence. Second, the move to virtual services brought challenges related to access to telecommunication facilities and zoom fatigue. Thematic analysis also shows the impact of the pandemic in a sector with existing structural/institutional challenges. We conclude by recommending a multi-level intersectional approach to IPV service provision in Alberta.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2622-2641"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1177/10778012241254849
Josephine Clarke, Sarah Wendt, Wendy Mayer
{"title":"Exploring the Theological Context to Domestic and Family Violence.","authors":"Josephine Clarke, Sarah Wendt, Wendy Mayer","doi":"10.1177/10778012241254849","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241254849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the theological drivers of domestic and family violence (DFV)-specifically intimate partner violence-by engaging with ecclesiastical beliefs and practices of the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA). Key theological, policy, and public documents were analyzed to understand gender relations, gender roles, marriage, ordination, ethical behavior, and responses to DFV. Findings from the document analysis demonstrate church practice and policy reforms underway in addressing violence against women and supporting safety. Simultaneously, the documents show contested and troubled positions regarding gender relations, the theological context to gender roles and responsibilities and the church's journey of debating (re)configuration of its organizational structure and responsibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2482-2504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171023/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141087840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241265361
Gillian M Pinchevsky, Susan L Miller, Leigh Goodmark
{"title":"\"Stop Giving Us What You Think We Need. Come to Us and Ask Us What We Need\": Justice Perceptions Among Survivors of Domestic Abuse.","authors":"Gillian M Pinchevsky, Susan L Miller, Leigh Goodmark","doi":"10.1177/10778012241265361","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241265361","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Justice is typically thought of as a product of the criminal legal system. However, prior research has found that survivors of domestic and sexual abuse may also value other factors outside of the legal system. This study explores perceptions of justice held by 96 survivors of domestic abuse. Responses to an online survey indicate that perceptions of justice are complex and multifaceted. Survivors often spoke of justice as accountability, restoration, postabuse support, and validation. The findings highlight the many justice considerations, and solely emphasizing criminal legal system outcomes may be misguided. Implications for additional research and practice are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2661-2681"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1177/10778012241259719
Ruth Lewis, Amanda McBride
{"title":"Fear, \"Discomfort,\" Anger, and Shame in the Night-Time Economy: Women's Responses to Unwanted Sexual Intrusions.","authors":"Ruth Lewis, Amanda McBride","doi":"10.1177/10778012241259719","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241259719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite a surge of attention to gender-based violence (GBV), research about the night-time economy (NTE) as a site of gendered violence is limited. Even less research examines women's emotional responses to \"unwanted sexual intrusions\" (USI) in the NTE. Analyzing women's emotional responses can generate deeper understanding of social phenomena, power and its operation, and is in keeping with feminist theorizing that uses a victim-survivor-centered approach. Analysis of qualitative data, from a survey we conducted in the United Kingdom, reveals women experience USI in the NTE as a frightening, shameful injustice. The article discusses these emotions in light of the changing \"emotional climate\" about GBV.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2415-2436"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171047/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241265363
Anne Laure Humbert, Sofia Strid
{"title":"Intersectionality and Gender-Based Violence: An Empirical Multi-Level Examination of Prevalence and Frequency in Universities and Research Organizations.","authors":"Anne Laure Humbert, Sofia Strid","doi":"10.1177/10778012241265363","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241265363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides a multilevel intersectional analysis of the prevalence and frequency of gender-based violence within universities and other research organizations in Europe. Results show not only the high prevalence of gender-based violence in this context, but also that in contrast to the prevailing discourse, that gender-based violence is not solely a \"women's problem\", but also a structural issue impacting diverse identities. Data on frequency show that physical and sexual violence usually occurs as isolated incidents, whereas psychological violence and harassment are often repeated.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2553-2573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1177/10778012241259725
Emma Richardson, Marc Alexander, Elizabeth Stokoe
{"title":"The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police.","authors":"Emma Richardson, Marc Alexander, Elizabeth Stokoe","doi":"10.1177/10778012241259725","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241259725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers' questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victims' and perpetrators' drinking and complicated the decisions to dispatch police assistance. The article helps specify the communicative practices that may constitute victims' negative experiences of disclosing DVA to the police.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2526-2552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171046/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/10778012241263103
Natasha Cortis, Ciara Smyth
{"title":"Specialist Financial Counseling for Women Affected by Domestic and Family Violence: Staff and Client Perspectives on an Australian Initiative.","authors":"Natasha Cortis, Ciara Smyth","doi":"10.1177/10778012241263103","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241263103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines staff and client perspectives on an initiative providing co-located specialist Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) financial counseling in women's legal services. An exploratory mixed-method study in five service locations captured perspectives via a client survey (<i>n</i> = 42), online interviews with staff (<i>n</i> = 15), and a review of services' progress reports. For staff and clients, integrating financial counseling into women's legal services contributed to a more comprehensive model of support which helped address the economic harms associated with violence. Findings highlight the benefits of service integration and co-location, which enabled staff to share knowledge and build capacity, and helped improve outcomes for women following violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2642-2660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171035/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141761242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-02DOI: 10.1177/10778012241257245
Lauren Wheatley, Simon Rosenbaum, Chiara Mastrogiovanni, Michelle Pebole, Ruth Wells, Susan Rees, Scott Teasdale, Grace McKeon
{"title":"Readiness of Exercise Physiologists, Physiotherapists and Other Allied Health Professionals to Respond to Gender-Based Violence: A Mixed-Methods Study.","authors":"Lauren Wheatley, Simon Rosenbaum, Chiara Mastrogiovanni, Michelle Pebole, Ruth Wells, Susan Rees, Scott Teasdale, Grace McKeon","doi":"10.1177/10778012241257245","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241257245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) is associated with health conditions that are common indications for referral to exercise physiologists, physiotherapists and other allied health professionals (AHPs). The readiness of AHPs to identify and respond to GBV is currently unknown. This study aimed to determine the readiness of AHPs to respond to a person who had experienced GBV. Participants completed the modified Physician Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence Survey (PREMIS) and/or an interview. The AHPs felt underprepared, had low perceived knowledge and lacked confidence to respond to and support people who have experienced GBV, despite recognition of the importance and agreement of the relevance to AHPs' practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2730-2754"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171058/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141200526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}