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While many campuses focus on programming that reduces violence against women, a new study indicates prevention specialists may want to rethink that and focus in general on relationship violence.

"Changes in policy that acknowledge men are not the only perpetrators of partner violence are needed immediately," said Murray Straus, a University of New Hampshire researcher who helped conduct the study. "It is time to make the prevention and ...

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