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Shen, April Chiung-Tao; Chiu, Marcus Yu-Lung; Gao, Jianxiu – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
In Chinese societies, violence among adolescent dating partners remains a largely ignored and invisible phenomenon. The goal of this study is to examine the relationships among gender-role beliefs, attitudes justifying dating violence, and the experiences of dating-violence perpetration and victimization among Chinese adolescents. This study has…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Probability
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Stevens, Bethany – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Sexual violence (SV) negatively impacts women with disabilities disproportionately, especially those with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). The 2 populations are included in this article as there are overlaps in diagnostic criteria as well as similar risk factors associated with the experience of SV. Despite lacking…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Females, Mental Retardation
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Makura, Alfred Henry; Zireva, Davison – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2013
Mentors and school heads play cardinal roles in teacher education programmes in most countries, including Zimbabwe. The side-effects of such symbiosis have not yet been investigated fully. This article used a qualitative methodological approach to investigate the perceptions of some Zimbabwean student teachers regarding their teaching practice…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Fromuth, Mary Ellen; Kelly, David B.; Wilson, Amy K.; Finch, Lanjericha V.; Scruggs, Lindsey – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
This study explored whether the attractiveness of a teacher affected perceptions of teacher sexual misconduct. Respondents (120 female and 108 male undergraduates) read scenarios depicting teacher sexual misconduct varied by gender dyad (male teacher-female student and female teacher-male student) and two levels of attractiveness (very attractive…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Sexual Abuse
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Binder, Perry; Mansfield, Nancy R. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2013
The explosion of social networks and the growing concern over privacy in the digital age--both in the United States and Europe--have provided an opportunity to introduce students to the legal risks of using social media in the workplace. This article builds on the authors' classroom experiences and provides social media scenarios and projects that…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Law Related Education, Social Networks, Web Sites
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Yeater, Elizabeth A.; McFall, Richard M.; Viken, Richard J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study evaluated the effects of a sexual victimization history and the contextual features of sexual activity and alcohol use on the effectiveness of women's responses to 44 written vignettes describing diverse dating and social situations. One hundred and one undergraduate women reported their history of sexual victimization and provided…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Females
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Morley, Louise – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Quantitative increases tell a partial story about the quality of women's participation in higher education. Women students' reporting of sexual harassment has been noteworthy in a recent study that I directed on widening participation in higher education in Ghana and Tanzania. The hierarchical and gendered power relations within universities have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sexual Harassment, Females, Foreign Countries
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Fowler, Shannon K.; Blackburn, Ashley G.; Marquart, James W.; Mullings, Janet L. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2010
Effective strategies aimed at prison sexual assault require inmates to possess the same definition of sexual assault as prison administrations. This article argues that prison culture is rape-supportive and inmates may not define sexual assault as such. After analyzing questionnaire responses given by male and female inmates in a large Southern…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Violence, Sexual Harassment, Rape
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Cook-Craig, Patricia G. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
This article examines the role that social network theory and social network analysis has played in assessing and developing effective primary prevention networks across a southeastern state. In 2004 the state began an effort to develop a strategic plan for the primary prevention of violence working with local communities across the state. The…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Social Theories, Violence
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Leaper, Campbell; Brown, Christia Spears; Ayres, Melanie M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
Peer sexual harassment is a stressor for many girls in middle and high school. Prior research indicates that approach strategies (seeking support or confronting) are generally more effective than avoidance strategies in alleviating stress. However, the deployment of effective coping behaviors depends partly on how individuals evaluate different…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Coping, Sexual Harassment
Cierniak, Katie; Heiman, Julia R.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2012
For roughly three decades, policymakers have sought to reduce sexual violence by reliance on a criminal justice approach in which sexually violent acts are dealt with after they occur. Recognizing that prevention efforts could be more valuable, as they work to stop the problem before it begins, researchers have begun to implement a primary…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Prevention, Public Health
Kutschera, P. C.; Pelayo, Jose Maria G., III – Online Submission, 2012
Multiple anecdotal accounts and a thin body of extant empirical research on an estimated 250,000 multiple generation, mixed-heritage military Amerasians in the Philippines, and Pan Amerasians residing in other East and Southeast Asian societies, indicates substantial past and present stigmatization and discrimination--particularly Amerasians of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Multiracial Persons, Filipino Americans, Anglo Americans
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Christopher, F. Scott; Kisler, Tiffani S. – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2012
College women's experiences with sexual and physical violence are so common that campus interventions are needed. To help guide these, we surveyed 339 college women and asked: (a) are college women's experiences with different types of relational violence interrelated; and (b) are there patterns of association between types of violence and mental…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Student Personnel Services, Student Surveys
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Pritchard, Duncan; Graham, Nicola; Ikin, Annette; Penney, Heather; Kovacs, Lisa; Mercer, Dawn; Edwards, Richard; Jones, Dylan; Mace, Floyd Charles – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
Children and young people with learning disabilities who present sexually harmful behaviour are marginalised and do not always participate in community activities. This case study describes a multi-component intervention that successfully reduced the sexually harmful behaviour of a 16-year-old boy with a mild learning disability. The intervention…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Special Schools, Residential Schools
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Gadin, Katja Gillander – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The aim of this study was to enhance the understanding of young girls' experiences of peer sexual harassment in elementary school and of normalizing processes of school-related sexualized violence. Six focus group interviews with girls in Grade 1 through 6 were carried out in an elementary school in the northern part of Sweden. A content analyses…
Descriptors: Females, Age, Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse
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