... from the state’s first female Police Com- missioner, who made strengthening police IPV procedures a ...priority. In consultation with local DV services, she and her staff: increased police training ...
... Intimatepartnerviolence (IPV), also known as domestic violence, is defined by the World Health Organization 1 as ‘‘any behavior within an intimate relationship that causes ...
... ABSTRACT: The objective is to identify the reasons behind violenceagainstwomenand describe the acts perpetrated by an intimate ...at the Special Police ...
... that women report episodes of multiple recurrences of any violenceand sexual assault sufered more than men acknowledge to have perpetrated, suggest a clear distinction of ...regarding the ...
... nim in ci den ti ma, me di ji odr ža- va ju pred sta vu o na si lju kao izo lo va noj pa to lo gi ji“ (Car li, 2003: ...nom in ci- den tu, tra že ći raz lo ge zlo či ...nog in ci den ...
... income and schooling levels and two of individuals with higher ...levels. The aim was to study gender representations inthe more popular layers andthe more highly ...
... ■ Intimatepartnerviolence (IPV), early marriage and survival sex were identiied by adult womenand adolescent girls as other forms of violence experienced since arriving ...
... Sexual violenceagainstwomen is the most common type of violence practiced by an intimate ...behavior in which one controls and subordinates a woman’s sexuality ...
... that women experience a high prevalence of IPV. The high levels of mental health consequences among women are validated by previous studies (35) and gendered power relations create a ...
... tion and endorsement of wife abuse were in some cases con- ...tradictory. Inthe case of newspaper reading, the finding is inthe expected direction, that is, women ...
... Violenceagainstwomen (VAW) is a public health problem and a human rights ...prevalent in Latin America andthe Caribbean; the Multi-country Study on ...
... psychological violence among women users of primary care services, followed by physical and sexual ...Psychological and physical violence were associated, even after adjustment, with ...
... Battered women are more likely to interact with the health sector, because of their increased risk for physical and mental illness, as well as for adverse reproductive health ...domestic ...
... on intimatepartnerviolence (IPV) has been predominantly studied in opposite sex ...presents the results of a systematic literature review in which the aim was to ...
... of the loss of the cohort, our study had some ...minimize the efect of the losses andthe underestimation of theviolence, we adopted measures such as the ...
... policies, the pioneer example of the city of Diadema, Southeastern Brazil, should be extended to the state and federal ...With the implementation of a new municipal law in 2002, ...
... understand the experiences of intimatepartnerviolence among women from Portuguese-speaking countries living inthe Greater Toronto ...speaking women who had ...
... of violence between younger individuals, who bring the conlicts of inti- macy to the school context and share them with colleagues and friends, on one hand reveals another speciicity of ...
... sexual, and emo- tional abuse, neglect (Ministry of Health, 2008), and psychoactive substance abuse on the part of parents (Fergusson, Boden, & Horwood, ...sexual and emotional abuse into ...