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Kury, Helmut; Chouaf, Silvia; Obergfell-Fuchs, Joachim; Woessner, Gunda – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004
This study examined the sexual victimization of 309 female students in Germany. The results indicate that the majority of the subjects have been victims of minor offenses and that a minority of subjects was severely victimized. As to the relation of victim and perpetrator, the milder offenses are more likely to be committed by strangers. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse
Wertz, Dorothy C. – 1982
A cross-cultural and historical survey of the relationship between slavery and the status of women focuses on Marxian theory, the position of free women, sexual division of labor, the threat of rape, and equivalents of slavery in the modern world. Throughout history, the majority of slaves have been women, many of whom held favored positions,…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Black History, Child Abuse, Cross Cultural Studies
Leach, Fiona; Machakanja, Pamela – 2000
This study found that the abuse of girls in the coeducational schools where the research took place was widespread and took the form of aggressive sexual behavior, intimidation and physical assault by older boys, sexual advances by male teachers, and corporal punishment and verbal abuse by both female and male teachers (on boys as well as girls).…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
White, Jacquelyn W.; Humphrey, John A. – 1993
While some researchers question whether women can be more vulnerable to sexual assault because of personal characteristics and/or behavioral styles, typical research designs into this question draw on retrospective comparisons of victims and non-victims, making it difficult to determine whether the observed differences are causes, correlates, or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Abuse, College Students, Family Violence