Objective: (1) To estimate the extent to which male and female university students use verbal sexual coercion and physically forced sex on a dating partner. (2) To test a theoretical model which specifies that corporal punishment, minor forms of neglect by parents, and sexually abuse regardless of the perpetrator, increase the probability of sexually coercing and sexually assaulting a partner, ...

Coercion-resistance is one of the key requirements of voting systems as it prevents an outsider from trying to persuade the voter to vote in a certain way. Although it usually implies receipt-freeness [15], it is usually formalised as a stronger property [23]. In this paper we analyse two voting schemes for coercion-resistance, namely Prêt à Voter [12] and FOO [17], and find that many of the re...

The idea of coercion { taking objects of one type and transforming them into objects of another { is not a new one, and has been an important feature of language design since the advent of Fortran. This paper considers a generalization of coercion that permits structured transformations between program and data structures. The nature of these coercions goes signiicantly beyond what is found in ...

BACKGROUND Early sexual debut, voluntary or coerced, increases risks to sexual and reproductive health. Sexual coercion is increasingly receiving attention as an important public health issue owing to its association with adverse health and social outcomes. OBJECTIVE To describe voluntary and coerced experience at sexual debut. METHODS A longitudinal perspective among 2,216 adolescents (1,1...

Previous research has demonstrated the utility of men’s perceptions of their partner’s infidelity as a predictor of male sexual coercion in the context of an intimate relationship (Goetz & Shackelford, 2006; Starratt, Goetz, Shackelford, McKibbin, & Stewart-Williams, in press). Not all men who suspect partner infidelity are sexually coercive, however. Using reports secured from 280 men in a com...

BACKGROUND This study examined the efficacy of a family-planning-clinic-based intervention to address intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive coercion. STUDY DESIGN Four free-standing urban family planning clinics in Northern California were randomized to intervention (trained family planning counselors) or standard of care. English-speaking and Spanish-speaking females ages 16-29 ye...

Coercion is an element of some treatments in psychiatry and it is contemplated in legislation, which often dictates parameters for involuntary admissions and use of restrictive treatments. A trend in the past years has been to widen the parameters required for commitment, thus extending coercive elements of psychiatric treatments to less immediate situations and into the community as in asserti...

In animal and human societies, social services such as protection from predators are often exchanged between group members. The tactics that individuals display to obtain a service depend on its value and on differences between individuals in their capacity to aggressively obtain it. Here we analysed the exchange of valuable social services (i.e. grooming and relationship repair) in the afterma...

The author congratulates Dr Brian Hurwitz, who recently reported the successful "intimidation" of an elderly competent widow into accepting badly needed therapy for a huge ulcerated carcinoma. He reports approvingly of the Israeli Patients' Rights Law, enacted in 1996, which demands detailed informed consent from competent patients before permitting treatment. But the law also provides an escap...