Violence Exchange

International Inspiration and Exchange in Feminist Action against Sexual Violence

Cross-national traffic of feminist ideas have contributed to a growth of the international women’s movement and has shaped national movements. These processes have only recently become the subject of study and theoretical discussion. The theoretical models that have been developed so far fail to take into account the complex nature of intercultural communication. No attention is paid to problem...

Women's Education, Marital Violence, and Divorce: A Social Exchange Perspective.

Drawing on social exchange theories, the authors hypothesized that educated women are more likely than uneducated women to leave violent marriages and suggested that this pattern offsets the negative education - divorce association commonly found in the United States. They tested these hypotheses using 2 waves of young adult data on 914 married women from the National Longitudinal Study of Adol...

Needle exchange programs and experience of violence in an inner city neighborhood.

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between proximity to a needle exchange program (NEP) and experience of violence in an inner city neighborhood. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of residents of Harlem, New York City provided data for this study. We used geocoding to obtain the distance between respondents and the nearest NEP. Respondents reported violence they were aware of or had personall...

Violence in Iranian Families

(Re)Gendering Violence: Men, Masculinities and Violence

This paper focuses on constructions of violence, in particular the ways in which violence is constructed as a social problem in and through policy discourses. Inspired by an earlier study into the ways in which practitioners, engaged in work with men who are violent towards their female partners, construct and understand violence, this paper highlights the extent to which societal/cultural beli...