Book Note. Allison Hargreaves. 2017. Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Preventing Violence against Indigenous Women through Programs Which Target Men

The extent of interpersonal crime in Indigenous communities, and of violence in particular, is relatively well documented. National data on homicide rates shows that Indigenous people are 8.1 times more likely than non-Indigenous people to be victims of homicide.* 1 Violence as a cause of hospitalisation for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 is 2.7 times higher for Indigenous males tha...

Investigation of Relation between Social Capital and Violence against Women in Families in Ilam during 2017

Introduction: Violence against women is more observed in families with some unique structures and conditions. This study aimed at exploring the impact of social capital and its components on violence against women with reference to the nature of family relationships.   Materials & Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was conducted on all married females with the age range of 15-50 years...

Social Themes of Domestic Violence Against Women

Introduction: Domestic violence against women is an ancient and common problem in any society. Knowing the leading social themes may help us to prevent and control domestic violence against women. The current study aims to investigate the role of access or lack of access to the resources in domestic violence against women. Methods: The thematic analysis applied as the research method. Thirty-on...

Violence against Women

Violence Against Women

This study is among the first attempts to address a frequently articulated, yet unsubstantiated claim that sample inclusion criteria based on women’s physical aggression or victimization will yield different distributions of severity and type of partner violence and injury. Independent samples of African American women participated in separate studies based on either inclusion criterion of wome...