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Intimate partner violence and third-party legal mobilization: considering the role of sexuality, gender, and violence severity
ObjectivesThis study examines how sexuality, gender, and severity affect the willingness of third parties to mobilize facets of the criminal justice...
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Assessing the effects of the Group Violence Intervention on firearm violence in Philadelphia
ObjectivesThis study assesses the effects of a Group Violence Intervention (GVI) implementation in Philadelphia on group member-involved (GMI)...
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Modeling behavioral patterns of family violence aggressors
Background settingThe presumption that family violence will repeat and escalate is embedded in practices including risk assessment and case...
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Narco violence in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico: media versus official data
The Juárez, Chihuahua-El Paso, Texas metroplex is a potent illegal drug smuggling corridor into the U.S. This has had dramatic effects on the types...
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Border Violence in Africa
This chapter focuses on border violence targeting refugees and migrants on routes from Africa to Europe. First, we situate this violence in context,...
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Co-offending and the Persistence of Violence: A Dynamic Analysis
ObjectivesPrevious research underscores the influence of prior violent co-offending on subsequent violent behavior, linking it to a social contagion...
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Prison Violence in Latin America: Criminal Governance and an Absent State
Using a survey applied to incarcerated populations in Latin American countries, this study aims to examine the factors that determine the existence...
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“Deliberate Indifference”: Challenging State-Sanctioned Violence Against Transgender People in Carceral Spaces
Prison sexual violence in the USA was first addressed in 2003 with the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). The act was intended to...
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Chronic Exposure to Community Violence and Criminal Behavior: A Marginal Structural Modeling Approach
ObjectivesAssess the hypothesis that the effects of community violence on delinquency accumulate as exposures increase in chronicity over time. Few...
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Predicting Gun Violence in Stockholm, Sweden, Using Sociodemographics, Crime and Drug Market Locations
The well-being of neighbourhoods in terms of socioeconomic conditions constitutes an important element in analyses focused on the explanation of...
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Effects of campus intimate partner violence prevention programs on psychological and physical violence outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
ObjectivesThe US Campus SaVE Act mandates that higher education institutions receiving federal funds offer sexual assault (SA) and intimate partner...
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Technologies of Violence in Africa
This chapter examines how military violence has occurred in Africa since the turn of the twenty-first century. In particular, it discusses the...
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Gender Violence: A Portrait of Women for Change’s Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Zambia
Using the works of a women-led organization active in the area of gender violence in Zambia, this chapter explores how women-led initiatives are...
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Bidirectional Intimate Partner Violence During COVID-19 in Portugal: Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates
Several studies demonstrated that intimate bidirectional violence (BV) is more common than unidirectional IPV. However, little is known about the...
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Violence in Africa: Reflecting on a Broad Concept
The editors in this introductory chapter clarify the concept of violence. It is never a simple concept and should never be presented as such. In the...
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Beyond the drug war: violence, forced displacement, and shale gas in northeastern Mexico (2000–2020)
This article presents the results of an investigation about forced displacement in Mexico’s northeastern region—bordering the United States—where...
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Violence in Africa: A General Introduction
A Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa has been desirable for some time, and hence easily justifiable. The idea of a handbook is most appropriate...
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The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil
This article explores the necropolitical foundations of police violence in Brazil via a genealogical approach of analysis of criminal codes, creation...
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Testifying in Court: Virtual Reality as a Preparation Strategy for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Iceland
For survivors of sexual violence, testifying in court can be a stressful experience. For many survivors, preparation has shown to be of importance to...
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The Intersectionality Between Violence and Poverty in Africa: Sketching the Prevalence of Various Forms of Violence in South Africa
Violence in South Africa dates back to the apartheid era when oppression, human rights violations, and violent killings were the order of the day....
