Violence Against WomenPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1177/10778012231174349
Maurice Eisenbruch
{"title":"\"The Mole on His Penis Lassos Her:\" Cultural Understandings of Coercive Control and Emotional Abuse of Women in Cambodia.","authors":"Maurice Eisenbruch","doi":"10.1177/10778012231174349","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231174349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Throughout world history, moles and birthmarks have occupied a special place as omens. Little is known of the cultural beliefs concerning the determinants of coercive control. In this ethnographic study of coercive control in Cambodia, the focus is on popular beliefs that moles are omens portending that men shall control women. Lachrymal moles (under the eye) signify women weeping as a result of misery. Penile moles portend men attracting, controlling, even abusing women. They have implications for reinterpreting an \"insider\" view of hegemonic masculinity and for culturally responsive interventions against gender-based violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3320-3349"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380367/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9617719","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/10778012231179209
Lucy Lewis, Cohen Augustson, Gabrielle De Vries, Alla Gantseva, Yifan Gao, Jaimee Hay, Claire Latumahina, Marlena Leslie, Katherine Murtagh, Navneet Prasad, Titus S Olorunnisola
{"title":"An Exploration of Australian Online Government Portals for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Lucy Lewis, Cohen Augustson, Gabrielle De Vries, Alla Gantseva, Yifan Gao, Jaimee Hay, Claire Latumahina, Marlena Leslie, Katherine Murtagh, Navneet Prasad, Titus S Olorunnisola","doi":"10.1177/10778012231179209","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231179209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Domestic violence against women increased during COVID-19 lockdowns. This inaugural study examined the content of Australian government online portals, for women seeking support and help for domestic violence, during the 2021 COVID-19 pandemic. This mixed methods study incorporated four phases: a search; measurement of portal quality standard using DISCERN; enumeration of portal items; and a qualitative exploration of portal text. Australian governments must continue to work alongside domestic violence services as we found some portals were better than others. Continued review, revision, and funding are needed to meet the demands associated with this evolving public health emergency.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3272-3296"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/35/9b/10.1177_10778012231179209.PMC10251060.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9735640","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/10778012231176206
Lisa Rudolfsson
{"title":"\"I Want to Be Heard\": Rape Victims' Encounters With Swedish Police.","authors":"Lisa Rudolfsson","doi":"10.1177/10778012231176206","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231176206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interactions with police are vitally important to victims' ability to process their trauma. This study focused on the experiences of victims who reported a rape to police in Sweden. Thirteen women participated in interviews; the material was analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Findings include lack of information and the role of luck in finding an understanding officer; some found comfort, and some felt violated once again. Long processing times bound participants to their trauma. Findings highlight the need for improved knowledge of trauma among police, victims' needs for information and rights to support, and structural barriers that need to be addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3163-3186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380363/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9590345","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1177/10778012231174353
Daye Gang, Maggie Kirkman, Bebe Loff
{"title":"\"Obviously It's for the Victim to Decide\": Restorative Justice for Sexual and Family Violence From the Perspective of Second-Wave Anti-Rape Activists.","authors":"Daye Gang, Maggie Kirkman, Bebe Loff","doi":"10.1177/10778012231174353","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231174353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the appropriateness of restorative justice for sexual and family violence continues to experience worldwide feminist debate, these programs already exist. We thematically analyzed the transcripts of former members of a second-wave feminist antirape organization in Australia to ascertain their perspectives on a victim-centered conferencing model. They provided informed and valuable insights drawn from their decades of advocacy. Participants supported restorative justice in principle, stressing respect for victims' agency and independence in all policies and program designs. Their reservations, consistent with concerns in the literature, related to meeting victims' needs within a constrained system rather than principled opposition to the concept.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3187-3210"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380357/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9439920","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1177/10778012231174348
Terrence D Hill, Ginny Garcia-Alexander, Katelyn Sileo, Chantal Fahmy, Alexander Testa, Rebecca Luttinen, Ryan Schroeder
{"title":"Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence.","authors":"Terrence D Hill, Ginny Garcia-Alexander, Katelyn Sileo, Chantal Fahmy, Alexander Testa, Rebecca Luttinen, Ryan Schroeder","doi":"10.1177/10778012231174348","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231174348","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We contribute to our understanding of the social epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV) by developing a mediation model that frames IPV as an outcome of male sexual dysfunction (performance anxiety and erectile dysfunction) and the mechanisms of masculine discrepancy stress (the perceived failure to conform to internalized normative expectations of masculinity) and anger. Our mediation analyses of recently collected data from the 2021 <i>Crime, Health, and Politics Survey</i> (CHAPS), a national probability sample of 792 men, confirmed that sexual dysfunction was indirectly associated with the perpetration of any IPV, physical IPV, and sexual IPV through the compound path of masculine discrepancy stress and anger.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3234-3250"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380368/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9491595","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":"Technology-Facilitated Sexual Harassment Against Women and Psychological Dysfunction: A Test of Objectification Theory.","authors":"Casey Oliver, Shayna Cummings, Erika Puiras, Dwight Mazmanian","doi":"10.1177/10778012231177998","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231177998","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Objectification theory was tested to examine the potential mediating role of self-objectification in the relationship between technology-facilitated sexual harassment (TFSH) and psychological functioning in a sample of women (<i>N</i> = 481). The results indicated that TFSH was associated with eating pathology, alcohol use, and sexual functioning. Furthermore, partial support for the objectification theory was achieved, with self-objectification potentially explaining the relationships between TFSH and eating pathology, and TFSH and alcohol use. This research may shed light on the role of objectification processes in the context of TFSH in women, as well as inform mental health interventions for women victims of TFSH.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3399-3420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380371/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9627419","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1177/10778012231174352
Leslie M Tutty, Cindy Ogden, Kendra L Nixon
{"title":"\"Your Skin Crawled Every Time He Touched You\": A Secondary Qualitative Analysis Exploring Bagwell-Gray's Taxonomy of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence.","authors":"Leslie M Tutty, Cindy Ogden, Kendra L Nixon","doi":"10.1177/10778012231174352","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231174352","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bagwell-Gray et al. developed a taxonomy of intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) focusing on type of force (physical or nonphysical) and type of sexual activity (penetration or no penetration). The current secondary descriptive qualitative analysis of interviews with 89 Canadian women IPV victims assessed IPSV that fit Bagwell-Gray's taxonomy. About half (46 or 51.7%) described sexual violence, most commonly sexual abuse (26 or 29.2%), sexual assaults (17 or 19%), and sexual coercion (16 or 17.9%), with overlap across categories. Forced sexual activity was seldom mentioned (3 or 3.4%). Implications for service providers and researchers are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3211-3233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11391115/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9480650","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/10778012231176201
Di Turgoose, Ruth E McKie, Paris Connelly
{"title":"Insurance Discrimination, Companion Animal Harm, and Domestic Violence and Abuse - Double Jeopardy in the UK.","authors":"Di Turgoose, Ruth E McKie, Paris Connelly","doi":"10.1177/10778012231176201","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231176201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prompted by Signal et al.'s study, this research examines UK \"Pet Insurance\" policies to see if and how experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA) in interspecies households is excluded under insurance policies terms. Situating our findings within the existing literature on human and companion animal victims of DVA, we discuss the implications for improving cross-reporting and multi-agency action to protect and prevent harm to humans and companion animal victims of DVA. In turn we identify a series of recommendations to combat discrimination in insurance, set out in our conclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3350-3371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380364/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9521446","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/10778012231176205
Clare E B Cannon, Regardt Ferreira, Fred Buttell, Allyson O'Connor
{"title":"Intimate Partner Violence Survivorship, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Disaster: Implications for Future Disasters.","authors":"Clare E B Cannon, Regardt Ferreira, Fred Buttell, Allyson O'Connor","doi":"10.1177/10778012231176205","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231176205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence among a sample of intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors (<i>n</i> = 77) who filed for restraining orders in rural Louisiana during the COVID-19 pandemic. IPV survivors were individually interviewed to assess their self-reported levels of perceived stress, resilience, potential PTSD, COVID-19-related experiences, and sociodemographic characteristics. Data were analyzed to differentiate group membership between two groups; non-PTSD and probable PTSD. Results suggest the probable PTSD group had lower levels of resilience and higher levels of perceived stress compared to the non-PTSD group. Findings suggest the importance of providing services during disaster to reduce PTSD for IPV survivors.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3251-3271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380366/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9517717","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 : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/10778012231176197
Mary Lou Randour, Dylan González, Emily M Schurr, Serena Conforti
{"title":"Pet Protection Orders for Domestic Violence Survivors: Are They Being Used?","authors":"Mary Lou Randour, Dylan González, Emily M Schurr, Serena Conforti","doi":"10.1177/10778012231176197","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012231176197","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines if and how pet protection orders have been used by domestic violence survivors in the 36 states and the District of Columbia in which they have been enacted. A review of court websites determined if there was a specific item to include a pet in the temporary and/or final protection order. In addition, individual court administrators were contacted in various states to determine if statistics were available on the number of pet protection orders issued. Another mode of investigation included examining appropriate websites in each state to ascertain if the state issued a report on domestic violence statistics, and if so, if that report contained information on pet protection orders. Only one state, New York, keeps track of the number of protection orders that have been issued that include pets.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3439-3452"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9584776","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}