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Moynihan, Mary M.; Banyard, Victoria L.; Arnold, Julie S.; Eckstein, Robert P.; Stapleton, Jane G. – Journal of American College Health, 2010
Objective: The object of this exploratory evaluation was to evaluate the "Bringing in the Bystander" sexual and intimate partner violence prevention program with a new sample of intercollegiate athletes. Participants and Methods: Fifty-three male and female athletes participated in the program (experimental group), and 86 were in the control…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intimacy, Violence
Banyard, Victoria L.; Eckstein, Robert P.; Moynihan, Mary M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Increasing numbers of empirical studies and theoretical frameworks for preventing sexual violence are appearing in the research- and practice-based literatures. The consensus of this work is that although important lessons have been learned, the field is still in the early stages of developing and fully researching effective models, particularly…
Descriptors: Program Design, Evaluation Research, Violence, Sexual Harassment
Brecklin, Leanne R.; Ullman, Sarah E. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The impact of victim and offender preassault substance use on the outcomes of sexual assault incidents was analyzed. Nine hundred and seventy female sexual assault victims were identified from the first wave of a longitudinal study based on a convenience sampling strategy. Multivariate models showed that victim injury was more likely in assaults…
Descriptors: Rape, Prevention, Injuries, Victims of Crime
Elklit, Ask; Christiansen, Dorte M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
In recent years, a number of studies have investigated the prediction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through the presence of acute stress disorder (ASD). The predictive power of ASD on PTSD was examined in a population of 148 female rape victims who visited a center for rape victims shortly after the rape or attempted rape. The PTSD…
Descriptors: Rape, Autism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Criteria
Hensley, Christopher; Tallichet, Suzanne E.; Dutkiewicz, Erik L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Although bestiality is an infrequent form of animal cruelty, the possibility of identifying a potential link between these acts and later interpersonal violence is an area of research that deserves further exploration. In a replication of the Hensley, Tallichet, and Singer study and based on survey data from male inmates at a medium- and…
Descriptors: Violence, Correctional Institutions, Children, Institutionalized Persons
Ask, Karl – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
A survey of police officers (n = 211) and prosecutors (n = 190) in Sweden was conducted to assess law personnel's beliefs about the behaviors and reactions of victims of violent crimes.There were considerable differences in the expected behavioral display of different types of crime victims, with rape and domestic assault victims seen as…
Descriptors: Rape, Crime, Police, Foreign Countries
Hesse-Biber, Sharlene – Qualitative Inquiry, 2010
This article discusses how methodological practices can shape and limit how mixed methods is practiced and makes visible the current methodological assumptions embedded in mixed methods practice that can shut down a range of social inquiry. The article argues that there is a "methodological orthodoxy" in how mixed methods is practiced…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Case Studies, Models, Methods
Barger, Erin; Wacker, Julia; Macy, Rebecca; Parish, Susan – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Although research has indicated that women with intellectual disabilities are significantly burdened with sexual violence, there is a dearth of sexual assault prevention research for them. To help address this serious knowledge gap, the authors summarize the findings of general sexual assault prevention research and discuss its implications for…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Females
James, Jennifer Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study attempted to accurately measure crimes that occur on a college campus and whether students' perceptions of police influenced their decisions to report their victimization. A specific emphasis was placed on sexual assaults. Previous research has examined the reporting of sexual assault (Bachman, 1998; Sampson, 2002), sexual…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Student Attitudes, Crime
Hillenbrand-Gunn, Theresa L.; Heppner, Mary J.; Mauch, Pamela A.; Park, Hyun-joo – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2010
This study investigated the effects of a Men as Allies--based intervention on high school students' rape-supportive attitudes and behaviors. As hypothesized at posttest, the male and female experimental groups demonstrated a significant decrease in rape-supportive attitudes, which was maintained at follow-up. Male participants viewed peers'…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Intervention, Violence, Sexual Harassment
Mitchell, Damon; Angelone, D. J.; Kohlberger, Brittany; Hirschman, Richard – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
The primary purpose of the present study was to examine whether knowledge of the motivation of an offender can influence participant perceptions of victim and perpetrator responsibility for a sexual assault. In addition, the synergistic influence of victim gender and participant gender with offender motivation was explored. Participants were 171…
Descriptors: Rape, Motivation, Victims of Crime, Criminals
Erjavec, Karmen; Volcic; Zala – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
Children born of war rape continue to be a taboo theme in many post-war societies, also in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). This study is based on in-depth interviews with eleven adolescents born of war rape in BH. The main goal is to present how these adolescents represent themselves and their life-situations. On the basis of the research we identify…
Descriptors: Violence, Rape, War, Mothers
Baugher, Shannon N.; Elhai, Jon D.; Monroe, James R.; Gray, Matt J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999) among a nonclinical sample of 258 male and female college students. Predictor variables included measures of attitudes toward women, gender role identity (GRI), sexual trauma…
Descriptors: Rape, College Students, Attitude Measures, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Betancourt, Theresa Stichick; Borisova, Ivelina Ivanova; Williams, Timothy Philip; Brennan, Robert T.; Whitfield, Theodore H.; de la Soudiere, Marie; Williamson, John; Gilman, Stephen E. – Child Development, 2010
This is the first prospective study to investigate psychosocial adjustment in male and female former child soldiers (ages 10-18; n = 156, 12% female). The study began in Sierra Leone in 2002 and was designed to examine both risk and protective factors in psychosocial adjustment. Over the 2-year period of follow-up, youth who had wounded or killed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies, Depression (Psychology)
Currier, Danielle M.; Carlson, Jessica H. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Research on violence against women has consistently revealed that rape-myth acceptance (RMA) is high correlated with rape rates and victim blaming. Other research has shown that education about violence against women is a useful strategy for lessening or stopping various types of violence, particularly rape. Using data gathered at a medium-sized…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Rape, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change