{"title":"\"I'll Try and Make Myself as Small as Possible\": Women and Gender-Diverse People's Safety Work on Public Transport.","authors":"Jessica Ison, Kirsty Forsdike, Nicola Henry, Leesa Hooker, Angela Taft","doi":"10.1177/10778012241270279","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241270279","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public transport is a known hotspot for sexual violence and harassment. Through 41 interviews with women and gender-diverse people who have experienced sexual violence and harassment on public transport, we found that women and gender-diverse people engage in extensive \"safety work,\" such as changing their behavior, strategizing, and planning. Safety work takes considerable time and effort, often leaving participants feeling stressed. However, participants advocated for changes to public transport to reduce the work they do to stay safe. We argue that significant changes, including primary prevention of gender-based violence, are needed to reduce their safety work.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2830-2852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12241679/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894492","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1177/10778012241270223
Nicole van Gelder, Jeyna Sow, Ditte van Haalen, Iris Schoorlemmer, Margreet Knol, Eva Bouwer, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione
{"title":"Navigating Online and in-Person Support: Views and Experiences From Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse.","authors":"Nicole van Gelder, Jeyna Sow, Ditte van Haalen, Iris Schoorlemmer, Margreet Knol, Eva Bouwer, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione","doi":"10.1177/10778012241270223","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241270223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Various types of in-person and online support are available to women intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) survivors. However, we know little about the interplay between them. We investigated the transitions and interactions between these types of help and how their use can be optimized, using a mixed-methods approach (survey <i>N</i> = 107; interviews <i>N</i> = 18). Significant but weak correlations were found for specific IPVA and support types. No significant correlations were found between online and in-person help types. Almost 60% of survey participants expressed interest in blended care. Integration and optimization of online and blended care options can increase outreach and provide an enhanced, tailored help-seeking and recovery journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2957-2975"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12241680/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903065","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241265364
Bethan Pell, G J Melendez-Torres, Kelly Buckley, Rhiannon Evans, Amanda Robinson
{"title":"A Realist Evaluation of a \"Whole Health\" Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse in the UK.","authors":"Bethan Pell, G J Melendez-Torres, Kelly Buckley, Rhiannon Evans, Amanda Robinson","doi":"10.1177/10778012241265364","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241265364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health Pathfinder is a multilevel system change intervention initiated to transform the health response to domestic violence and abuse in eight sites in England. The current study drew upon interviews with health professionals (<i>n</i> = 27) and victim-survivors (<i>n</i> = 20) to provide a realist account of how this intervention achieved its goals. Findings show that five change mechanisms explain why Health Pathfinder was effective as an ecological intervention: awareness, expertise, relationships, empowerment, and evidence. Positive progress in respect of each mechanism had meaningful impacts on victim-survivor experiences of enquiry, disclosure, and uptake of services and had the potential to meaningfully impact health inequities.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2912-2936"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12241672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752892","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241263105
Jin Lee, Myung Kyung Lee
{"title":"Development and Usability of a Mobile Support Application for Sexual Violence Victims Connecting With Formal Support Organizations.","authors":"Jin Lee, Myung Kyung Lee","doi":"10.1177/10778012241263105","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241263105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lack of awareness and accessibility about the support organizations for preventing sexual violence and assisting victims hampers the effectiveness of the social safety net. A mobile application based on a connection to support agencies was developed and evaluated for usability. A group of 15 experts and a group of 30 users evaluated usability. The developed mobile application focused on \"Emergency Report,\" \"Support Agencies and Services,\" and \"Counseling for Support.\" The strength of the application was acknowledged in providing easy-to-find, reliable, useful, and necessary information, highlighting the positive usability and applicability of the mobile support application for sexual violence victims.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3024-3048"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752893","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/10778012241263104
Anne Lippert, Dylan Baker, Gregory Hawk, Nissa Gongora, Jonathan Golding
{"title":"Whom Would You Help? The Impact of Perpetrator and Victim Gender on Bystander Behavior During a Sexual Assault.","authors":"Anne Lippert, Dylan Baker, Gregory Hawk, Nissa Gongora, Jonathan Golding","doi":"10.1177/10778012241263104","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241263104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the impact of perpetrator and victim gender on bystander helping choices and assault perceptions. Participants (32 females, 37 males) read about two simultaneously occurring sexual assaults, indicated which victim they would help, and gave their perceptions of the assaults. We used a within-participants design that fully manipulated the perpetrator and victim gender for both assaults. Results showed female victims of male perpetrators and male victims of female perpetrators were most and least likely to be chosen for help, respectively. Cognitive networks derived from open-ended responses provided insight into the rationale used by participants to make helping decisions in ways that differed by perpetrator and victim gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3000-3023"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752899","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/10778012241270226
Kate Chisholm, Mary P Koss
{"title":"Innovative Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence: Mapping New Pathways Forward.","authors":"Kate Chisholm, Mary P Koss","doi":"10.1177/10778012241270226","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241270226","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ensuring that support and services are meeting the needs of survivor-victims (SV) of sexual assault requires that policymakers, service providers, and advocates seek their insight directly. This article reports qualitative results on self-perceived needs from SV focus groups conducted in the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States (Phoenix, Arizona). Interviews with key informants (KIs) drawn from the service and justice sector were also obtained for system-level perspectives of SV priority needs. The major themes of the SV conversations demonstrated that they use a holistic wellness perspective. Their narratives mapped across the social-ecological model and demonstrated a wide range of wants and needs beyond justice. KI narratives identified options typically listed on a grant menu. SVs spoke of what they needed in their daily lives. Typically, KIs focused on increased funds to offer more of the same interventions currently available. The findings open opportunities to better align services with what SVs seek, and further underscore the need to engage them in planning and implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"3074-3100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971950","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}
{"title":"The Continuum of Violence and Interstices in the Journeys and Bodies of Women on the Move From West Africa.","authors":"Inmaculada Antolínez Domínguez, Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano","doi":"10.1177/10778012241263107","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241263107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On the migration route from Western and Central Africa to Europe, aggression toward women's bodies has played a prominent role. In this study, we analyze this route as a continuum of violence and also study the interstices to confront it. Using a biographical narrative methodology, we analyze the narratives of 52 migrant women, through life stories or creative narrative workshops carried out in Mali, Morocco, and Spain. The results allow us to systematize the continuum of violence that the women report, understood as a pedagogy of cruelty but also the possible spaces to build a safe landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2776-2802"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141752898","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1177/10778012241257249
Christian Loret de Mola, Carolina Coll, Denise Lima Meireles, Douglas Camuno, Yasmin Castro, Thais Martins-Silva, Marina Xavier Carpena, Cauane Blumenberg, Rafaela Costa Martins, Francine Costa, Alejandra Goicochea, Rodrigo Meucci, Juraci Cesar, Joseph Murray
{"title":"Gender Division of Housework and Intimate Partner Violence Among Mothers of Toddlers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the 2019 Rio Grande (Brazil) Birth Cohort.","authors":"Christian Loret de Mola, Carolina Coll, Denise Lima Meireles, Douglas Camuno, Yasmin Castro, Thais Martins-Silva, Marina Xavier Carpena, Cauane Blumenberg, Rafaela Costa Martins, Francine Costa, Alejandra Goicochea, Rodrigo Meucci, Juraci Cesar, Joseph Murray","doi":"10.1177/10778012241257249","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10778012241257249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, we evaluated the association between gender division of housework and intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in a population-based cohort of mothers. We collected data on psychological, physical, and sexual IPV using an adapted version of the World Health Organization Violence Against Women instrument and division of housework using a validated questionnaire. We used logistic regression to calculate adjusted odds ratios. We found that in mothers who reported an unequal gender division of housework (higher load), the odds of suffering psychological, physical, or sexual IPV were higher during the first and second years of the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"2759-2775"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284788","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}
Lynette M Renner, Molly C Driessen, Glenda Rittenour
{"title":"Men's Perspectives on Participating in a County-Based Domestic Violence Court.","authors":"Lynette M Renner, Molly C Driessen, Glenda Rittenour","doi":"10.1177/10778012251362223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251362223","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives of individuals who graduated (<i>N</i> = 14) from a domestic violence court (DVC) operating in a rural county in a Midwestern state. The graduates spent an average of 16.6 months in the DVC, with an average of 55.93 hearings, 84.57 surveillance checks, and 12.29 violations. Graduates shared positive accounts of their interactions with DVC personnel and described several positive changes during the time they were in the DVC. Evaluation efforts of DVCs are critical as advocates, law enforcement, and court administration, and intervention service providers work together to coordinate comprehensive responses to violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012251362223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144970994","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}
{"title":"Mapping Violence: Police Use of Force and Gender-Based Violence in New York City.","authors":"Gianna Campa, Tasseli McKay","doi":"10.1177/10778012251369024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251369024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spatially concentrated policing practices play a key role in the public face of mass incarceration, prompting inquiry into potential negative impact on rates of gender-based violence (GBV) in targeted communities. Using administrative data on police encounters (stops, use of force, and violence) and GBV incidents in New York City, linear regression shows that spatially clustered police encounters predict higher GBV rates, with stronger effects as police use of force intensifies. Community racial composition moderates this relationship such that the association between police use of force and GBV is stronger in communities with an above-average proportion of Black residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012251369024"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144970950","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}