Journal of Interpersonal Violence articles from April 1997

Journal of Interpersonal Violence archives from April 1997

Dissociative and sexual behaviors in children and adolescents with sexual abuse and psychiatric histories.
April 1, 1997... Dissociative and sexual behaviors were assessed in a sample of 350 children ages 7-18. Four groups were evaluated: a nonpsychiatric comparison sample, a psychiatric sample with no history of sexual abuse, a psychiatric sample with clear...

Posttraumatic child therapy (P-TCT): assessment and treatment factors in clinical work with inner-city children exposed to catastrophic community violence.
April 1, 1997... This article discusses the adverse health effects of political terror and community violence on the minds and bodies of children, postraumatic symptoms and responses to violence, a prescribed assessment process, and a model of intervention...

Hate crime victimization among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults: prevalence, psychological correlates, and methodological issues.
April 1, 1997... Although violence based on sexual orientation is now widely recognized as a serious problem in the United States, social science data concerning the prevalence and consequences of such crimes are limited. In the present study, questionnaire...

Predictors of serious violent recidivism: results from a cohort study.
April 1, 1997... Despite the growth in research on violent offenders, little is known about the existence of a career in violent crime. To fill the gap in the knowledge of violent offenders, the authors conducted a retrospective longitudinal study of all...

Expected consequences of male violence against their female dating partners.
April 1, 1997... We examined the expected consequences of male college students to their perpetration of physical violence against their female dating partners and the association of these expected consequences to the actual use of violence in the men's current...

Psychopathy-related traits predict self-reported sexual aggression among college men.
April 1, 1997... To examine whether personality traits related to psychopathy predict specific forms of sexual aggression in college men, a sample of 378 men complete the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES), the Socialization Scale, and the Narcissistic Personality...

Police officers' perceptions of rape: is there consistency between state law and individual beliefs?
April 1, 1997... This study examined how police officers (N = 91) define rape. In the past decade, most states have dramatically reformed their rape laws, shifting the emphasis from the behavior of the victim to that of the assailant. This study provides an...

Intimate violence and social desirability: a meta-analytic review.
April 1, 1997... Using meta-analytic procedures, the relationship between self-reporting of involvement in marital and courtship violence, and level of socially desirable responding was investigated. Eighteen effect-size estimates were located and, overall,...

Sexual coercion and well-being in young adulthood: comparisons by gender and college status.
April 1, 1997... This study examined the associations between sexual coercion and well-being (anger, coping, depressed mood, self-esteem, social anxiety, and social isolation) based on gender and college enrollment. Participants were 872 women and 527 men, ages...

What happens when corporal punishment is legal?
April 1, 1997... This article discusses abuses of the use of legalized corporal punishment in schools. The relationship between social factors and the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools was assessed. Newspaper articles dated from 1975 through 1992 and...