This article discusses the General Aggression Model (GAM), which provides a comprehensive and integrative social–cognitive framework for understanding aggression and violence. After providing a brief description of the basic components of GAM, we discuss how it can be used to better understand 4 topics related to phenomena that occur primarily outside the laboratory and apply to a broad range o...

Perspectives The sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are defined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 offer an opportunity to achieve the commitments on the prevention of violence against women made by governments in many previous declarations, resolutions and international agreements. One of the goals related to violence is SDG 5, which addresses gender equality and the em...

PURPOSE Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health and human rights issue with individual and social determinants. Youth are considered high risk; national influences include norms, policies and practices. By age, nation, and region, we contrast key GBV indicators, specifically intimate partner violence (IPV) and forced sexual debut among adolescent and young adult women using Demographic a...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is a global health problem as well as a violation against human rights. The aim of this study was to explore prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and 1 to 1.5 years postpartum as well as to explore the history of violence among new mothers in the southwestern region of Sweden. In addition, the aim was to explore the association between dome...

background: domestic violence is a serious threat to the physical and mental health of women. the aim of the present study was to find and compare the frequency of domestic violence between methamphetamine users, patients with psychiatric disorders, and healthy people. methods: in this analytical cross-sectional study, methamphetamine users (n=30) and patients with psychiatric disorders (n=30) ...

BACKGROUND Injury is a truly global health issue that has enormous societal and economic consequences in all countries. Interpersonal violence is now widely recognized as important global public health issues that can be addressed through evidence-based interventions. In South Africa, as in many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), a lack of ongoing, systematic injury surveillance has limit...

[1] on 10 December 2014. The report reviews how governments around the world, including in South Africa (SA), are attempting to curb interpersonal violence. There is some good news in the report. In common with many other countries, SA's homicide rate has declined over the past decade: Across the five types of interpersonal violence assessed in the report – child maltreatment, youth violence, i...

Background: Domestic violence is a global health problem as well as a violation against human rights. The aim of this study was to explore prevalence and incidence of domestic violence during pregnancy and 1 to 1.5 years postpartum as well as to explore the history of violence among new mothers in the southwestern region of Sweden. In addition, the aim was to explore the association between dom...

Sexual abuse is a serious global public health issue with wide-ranging consequences for the physical, emotional and socioeconomic wellbeing of the survivor [1]. Worldwide, up to 35% of women are estimated to have suffered some form of physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, with 20% reporting childhood abuse [2]. In 2012, the United Nations called for a global concerted effort to imp...