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BACKGROUND Extensive research documents that female sex workers (FSWs) in Russia are very vulnerable to abuses from police, including police sexual coercion. However, despite qualitative data suggesting abusive policing practices are more likely for FSWs contending with substance abuse issues and risky sex work contexts, there is a paucity of quantitative study evaluating these associations spe...

Researching the correlates of men's sexually aggressive behavior (i.e., verbal coercion and rape) is critical to both understanding and preventing sexual aggression. This study examined 120 men who completed an anonymous online questionnaire. The study aimed to determine the relative importance of two potential correlates of men's self-reported use of sexual aggression: (a) perceptions that mal...

Coercion in psychiatry and the fight against forced treatment are two of the main topics in the mental health service user/psychiatric survivor movement worldwide. At the same time, our own user-led or survivor-controlled research in this field is almost nonexistent. This chapter explores some of the structural obstacles to including service user/survivor perspectives in psychiatric research on...

Coercion resistance and receipt freeness are critical properties for any voting system. However, many different definitions of these properties have been proposed, some formal and some informal; and there has been little attempt to tie these definitions together or identify relations between them. We give here a general framework for specifying different coercion resistance and receipt freeness...

In '(Why) should we require consent to research?' Alan Wertheimer probes whether it is legitimate for the government to 'coerce' people into participating in biomedical research, including interventional biomedical research. In debating the rules that ought to govern participation in interventional biomedical research, we should distinguish two separate moral claims. First, interventional resea...