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Spruce Run News (Fall 2003), Spruce Run Staff Sep 2003

Spruce Run News (Fall 2003), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Spruce Run News (Spring 2003), Spruce Run Staff Mar 2003

Spruce Run News (Spring 2003), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Battering, Forgiveness And Redemption, Brenda V. Smith Jan 2003

Battering, Forgiveness And Redemption, Brenda V. Smith

Project on Addressing Prison Rape - Articles

While there has been some acknowledgement that battered women kill, there has been less acceptance that battered women may have been arrested for some other offense. Can those fallible women be “forgiven” for their offenses and allowed to receive the community affirmation, validation, social services, and protection that other battered women receive? This Article focuses on a topic that, though discussed, has frequently been dismissed in the domestic violence discourse; battered women’s forgiveness of their batterers and battered women’s process of forgiving themselves for participating in the relationship.


The Domestic Violence Myth Acceptance Scale: Development And Psychometric Testing Of A New Instrument, John Peters Jan 2003

The Domestic Violence Myth Acceptance Scale: Development And Psychometric Testing Of A New Instrument, John Peters

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since 1980, researchers and practitioners have had access to valid and reliable measures of myths about rape (Burt, 1980) and child sexual abuse (Collings, 1997). Despite the utility of such measures in research and program evaluation, no such measure of domestic violence myths currently exists. The present study was undertaken to fill this gap. In this study, domestic violence myths were defined as stereotypical attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but are widely and persistently held, and which serve to minimize, deny, or justify physical aggression against intimate partners. Based on defensive attribution and radical feminist theories, these myths …


Breaking The Silence: Understanding Domestic Violence, Anita L. Aricchi Jan 2003

Breaking The Silence: Understanding Domestic Violence, Anita L. Aricchi

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

No abstract provided.


Partner Violence And Major Depression In Women: A Community Study Of Chinese Americans., M Hicks, Z Lee Dec 2002

Partner Violence And Major Depression In Women: A Community Study Of Chinese Americans., M Hicks, Z Lee

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

This cross-sectional, retrospective study used epidemiological and anthropological methods toward two aims: 1) to examine associations between partner violence and major depression in a community probability sample of women and 2) to provide new data on partner violence in Chinese Americans. In this study, 181 Chinese American women were interviewed, with 178 completing structured sections on CIDI 2.1 major depression and on partner violence history. Results indicate that a history of partner violence is associated with significantly higher rates of lifetime, 12-month, and current major depression in this community population. This effect is specific and independent of other factors. Partner …


Perceived Causes Of Suicide Attempts By Uk South Asian Women., M Hicks, D Bhugra Dec 2002

Perceived Causes Of Suicide Attempts By Uk South Asian Women., M Hicks, D Bhugra

Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks

Perceived causes of suicide attempts were examined in 180 ethnic South Asian women living in the London area. The 3 factors endorsed most frequently and strongly as causes of suicide attempts in South Asian women were violence by the husband, being trapped in an unhappy family situation, and depression.