Victim Responses to Violence

Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence

ERIN A. MARSH Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence (Under the direction of DR. LISA MUFTIC) Victim offender overlap is a relatively new area of research with most studies having focused on applying this concept to the study of assault and homicide. Research in intimate partner violence has found that there exists a group of victim offenders or individuals who are involved in ini...

Violence against Women: Victim Survey Report

Victim-Oriented Multidisciplinary Responses to Statutory Rape Training

Physiological Responses to Viewing Scripted Versus Real Media Violence Violence

While it is generally accepted that violent themes in media entertainment can affect behavior (aggression), few studies have been conducted on viewing real-life violent acts in media form. While many studies have investigated violent behavioral tendencies in relation to violent media and video game exposure, our experiment focuses on the physiological response to violent media. Specifically, we...

Blaming the victim : domestic violence and the codependency model

The early literature on women with alcoholic husbands outlined a predominantly negative view of these women. Such women were seen as neurotic, poor copers who were obsessed with controlling their husbands’ drinking. They were seen to have partnered alcoholic men in order to satisfy their own pathological needs (Kalashian 1959; Whalen 1953). It was further asserted that some women would sabotage...