This note addresses a form of rape that is neglected in the scholarly literature. offending occurs when male uses his penis to vaginally, orally or anally penetrate female who sleeping at time penetration. The data on which this based gathered from total sample 441 police investigation case files, 39 these sleep cases are identified. examines some characteristics cases, investigative trajectori...

OBJECTIVES The purposes of this study are to a) determine the extent to which individual and neighbourhood-level socio-economic indicators broadly reflect the social conditions associated with assault injuries within an urban Canadian city, b) examine the significance of this relationship and c) determine if this relationship is best explained at the individual or neighbourhood scale. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Sexual assault is a threat to public health in refugee and conflict affected settings, placing survivors at risk for unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, STIs, HIV, psychological trauma, and social stigma. In response, the International Rescue Committee developed a multimedia training tool to encourage competent, compassionate, and confidential clinical care for sexual assault surv...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine if communities in Nunavut that prohibit the importation of alcoholic beverages have less violence relative to communities that allow alcohol importation. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cross-sectional study based on community-level records of violent crimes known to the police. METHODS Violence was measured using community-level records of...

Child Sexual Assault (CSA) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is a complex issue that cannot be understood in isolation from the ongoing impacts of colonial invasion, genocide, assimilation, institutionalised racism and severe socio-economic deprivation. Service responses to CSA are often experienced as racist, culturally, financially and/or geographically inaccessible. A two-...