Sexual Violence Content Topic Results
The results displayed below have been grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections - containing our most highly valued resources - then by individual related materials. Refine your search by category, types, author and/or publisher using the options provided. Sort by date published, date added, or alphabetically. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Results displayed are grouped first by VAWnet Special Collections then by individual related materials. For assistance in locating a resource, use our online contact form.
Materials
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Whose Kids? Our Kids! Teens, Sex, and Sexual Victimization
Publisher(s):This document highlights the importance of parental monitoring to protect their children from become victims of sexual abuse. It provides guidance to parents to effectively monitor their children's activities, whereabouts, and companions without being overly intrusive.
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence
Publisher(s):This fact sheet offers statistics from several research studies investigating the connection between animal cruelty and human violence, domestic violence, and child abuse.
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Community Development & Sexual Violence Prevention: Creating Partnerships for Social Change
Publisher(s):Created to assist community-based sexual assault programs with community development initiatives. Its theoretical basis is the work of Loftquist in 'The Technology of Prevention Workbook: A Leadership Development Program.'
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Sexual Assault Prevention Resource Manual
Publisher(s):This manual provides community sexual assault programs with a rationale for implementing a social change/community development model for prevention programming. Contains practical examples of tools and instruments used by leaders in the prevention field.
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Coordinated Community Response to Stop Violence Against Native Women
Publisher(s):This publication describes effective collaborations between battered women's shelters and several community entities.
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Sex Offender Registration: Policy Overview and Comprehensive Practices
Publisher(s):This brief is intended to inform citizens, state and local leaders, and criminal justice professionals about the policy issues related to sex offender registration, and to describe current sex offender registration practices around the country.
Materials
- General Material
January 1999
Think, Rethink: Woman-to-Woman Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This article provides basic information on domestic violence in same-sex relationships and outlines some of the differences between lesbian, trans, and bisexual survivors and the experiences of other survivors.
Materials
- General Material
- Training Tools
January 1999
A Place to Start: A Resource Kit for Preventing Sexual Violence
Publisher(s):The Minnesota Center for Crime Victim Services and the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, along with a workgroup of various MN sexual violence prevention organizations, agencies and individuals created this kit to support community sexual violence prevention efforts.
Materials
- General Material
October 1998
OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin: In the Wake of Childhood Maltreatment
Publisher(s):This bulletin is part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Development Series, which presents findings from the Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency. This bulletin discusses findings that indicate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and subsequent delinquency, including sexual violence.
Materials
- General Material
January 1998
Sexual Harassment and Assault as Predictors of PTSD Symptomatology Among U.S. Female Persian Gulf War Military Personnel
Publisher(s):The authors of this article conducted research with women from a wartime military sample to assess exposure to sexual assault and harassment and how these experiences related to the experience of post traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Materials
- General Material
January 1998
Review of Sex Offender Treatment Programmes
Publisher(s):A review of the literature on sex offender treatments was carried out for the High Security Psychiatric Commissioning Board (HSPSCB). The available research is varied in focus, methodology and quality, nevertheless there appears to be grounds for cautious optimism regarding the efficacy of treatment programs aimed at sex offenders. One conclusion of the review is that greater emphasis will need to be given to the idiographic and dynamic features presented by individual offenders in the provision and evaluation of treatment.
Materials
- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 1998
Incidence Rates of Violence Against Women: A Comparison of the Redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey and the 1985 National Family Violence Survey
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document highlights the differences between two of the largest U.S. surveys that attempt to measure violence against women, and explores the factors that attribute to the differences in incidence rates of violence in each study.