This article uses the occasion of the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to review the circumstances by which legal theory and social movement discourse have circumscribed the scope of VAWA and the dominant approach to domestic violence. This article seeks to explore the relationship between domestic violence advocacy and feminist theory, which has functioned as “the ...

Abstract Introduction: Workplace violence is one of the problems faced by health care workers. Pre-hospital emergency staff is exposed to workplace violence, according to their working conditions. Understanding the nature of workplace violence plays a fundamental role in its prevention and management. Objective: This study was conducted to determine the frequency of workplace physical violenc...

Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in aggression and violence in young viewers. Television news violence also contributes to increased violence, principally in the form of imitative suicides and...

This study aimed at identifying the most important factors of wife's violence against husband in Jordanian community as well whether there are statistically significant differences tendency towards behaving violently her according to variables (age, educational qualification, place residence, work place, income). In order achieve objectives, a questionnaire was developed collect data. The popul...

BACKGROUND The impact of a bullying and violence prevention program on education attainment was studied in five elementary schools (K-5), over a 5-year period. MATERIAL/METHODS A multiple baseline design was used and academic attainment test scores of 1,106 students were monitored before and after the introduction of the program across the school district. This sample was contrasted with an e...

AIMS Empirical tests of relationships between alcohol outlets and violence are generally conducted with statistical controls for correlates related to characteristics of people and the places in which they live. Crime potentials theory asserts that certain subpopulations are disposed to participate in criminal activities (population potentials) and certain neighborhoods are more likely to be pl...

BACKGROUND As violence escalates in US society, so does its presence as an issue in the lives of patients and as a cause of presenting problems. This study compared the training of medical and social work students in how to deal with violence and personal experience with workplace violence. METHODS One hundred medical students and 100 social work students in the same state university system w...

children and adolescents are vulnerable to violent situations in their social, family and school environment. the aim of the study was to characterize morbidity due to violence in brazilian children and adolescents.a cross-sectional study through the analysis of 1,356 corpus delicti medical reports and police reports of children and adolescents aged 0-19 years, victims of interpersonal violence...

work place violence is considered as one of the important factors leading to termination employment and job dissatisfaction in medical personnel has a large effect on quality services, patients’ satisfaction, efficacy efficiency performance.

INTRODUCTION This study was conducted to evaluate the occurrence of violent incidents in the workplace among the various professional groups working in the emergency department. We characterised the types of violence encountered by different occupation groups and the attitude of individuals working in different capacities. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 323 people representing va...