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Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S.Cities

Rosenfeld, Richard; Lopez, Ernesto (Council on Criminal Justice, 2020)

This study examined crime rates for 11 different offenses in 27 US cities during the COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest over police violence. Not all cities reported data for each offense. Residential burglaries,larcenies, ...

Parent/Child Concordance about Bullying Involvement and Family Characteristics Related to Bullying and Peer Victimization

Holt, Melissa; Kantor, Glenda Kaufman; Finkelhor, David (University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center, 2009)

This study examined parent perspectives on bullying, parent/child concordance about bullying involvement, and family characteristics associated with bullying perpetration and peer victimization. Participants were 205 ...

Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: A Research Review

Meier, Joan (National Resource Center on Domestic Violence VAWnet, 2013)

Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and parental alienation (PA) are often invoked in legal and legislative contexts addressing the rights of fathers and mothers in custody or visitation litigation. Indeed, alienation claims ...

Parenting in America: Outlook, Worries, Aspirations are Strongly Linked to Financial Situation

Parker, Kim; Horowitz, Juliana Menasce (Pew Research Center, 2015)

Report of Pew Research Center survey of 1,807 U.S. parents with children younger than 18 includes findings related to their concerns regarding violence such as being shot, attacked or beaten up, kidnapped, or bullied. ...

Parents as Pimps: Survivor Accounts of Trafficking of Children in the United States

Raphael, Jody (University of Rhode Island, 2020)

This article discusses four survivor accounts of survivors of being sold for sexual exploitation by their parents for monetary gain. These narratives, supplemented by other accounts from 100 newspaper stories between 2012 ...

Parents' Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Children's Behavioral Health Problems

Schickedanz, Adam; Halfon, Neal; Sastry, Narayan; Chung, Paul (Pediatrics, 2018)

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include stressful and potentially traumatic events associated with higher risk of long-term behavioral problems and chronic illnesses. Whether parents’ ACE ...

Parent–Child Interaction Therapy With Physically Abusive Parents: Efficacy for Reducing Future Abuse Reports

Chaffin, Mark; Silovsky, Jane; Funderburk, Beverly; Valle, Linda Anne; Brestan, Elizabeth; Balachova, Tatiana; Jackson, Shelli; Lensgraf, Jay; Bonner, Barbara (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004)

A randomized trial was conducted to test the efficacy and sufficiency of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) in preventing re-reports of physical abuse among abusive parents. Physically abusive parents (N 110) were ...

Partner Victimization Scale (PVS)

Hamby, Sherry (Life Paths Appalachian Research Program, 2013)

The issue of gender and intimate partner violence has been a topic of controversy for many years. A number of scales have been created to measure IPV, but results related to gender are inconsistent. The PVS is an alternative ...

Partner Violence Screen

Feldhaus, K.M.; Koziol-McLain, J.; Norton, I.M.; Lowenstein, S.R.; Abbott, J.T. (The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997)

Feldhaus, Koziol-McLain, Norton, Lowenstein, and Abbott developed the Partner Violence Screen (PVS) in 1997 as a simple but effective intimate partner violence screening tool, and PVS was validated in 2011. PVS is designed ...

A Partnership to Enhance Victim Services: Evaluating Somerset House

Plotkin, Alexa; Baker, Maureen; Shaler, George; Snell, Elisabeth (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

This project is a collaboration between Family Violence Project (FVP), the Maine Statistical Analysis Center (Maine SAC) at the University of Southern Maine, and the Victims of Crime Administering Agency (VOCA) at the Maine ...

Pathways from Childhood Abuse to Prospective Revictimization: Depression, Sex to Reduce Negative Affect, and Forecasted Sexual Behavior

Miron, Linsey; Orcutt, Holly (2014)

Research suggests that adverse events in childhood, such as childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, confer risk for later sexual assault. Psychological distress, coping strategies, and sexual behavior may help ...

Pathways to Poly-victimization

Finkelhor, David; Ormrod, Richard; Turner, Heather; Holt, Melissa (University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center, 2009)

Some children, whom we have labeled poly-victims, experience very high levels of victimizations of different types. This article finds support for a conceptual model suggesting that there may be four distinct pathways to ...

Pathways to Victimization Disclosure: Who LGBTQ+ Victims Tell and Why

Vasquez, Amanda; Houston-Kolnik, Jaclyn (Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), 2019)

National and state-level research points to higher rates of crime victimization, such as bullying, harassment, intimate partner violence, among individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ...

Patterns and prevalence of lethal mass violence

Duwe, Grant (Wiley, 2020)

Research Summary Mass shootings have been identified as a novel American crime problem. The term is merely a new name, however, for an older crime problem—mass murder. The social construction of the mass shooting and ...

Patterns of Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence, Emotion Dysregulation, and Mental Health Symptoms Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Emerging Adults: A Three-step Latent Class Approach [Author Manuscript]

Charak, Ruby; Villarreal, Lillianne; Schmitz, Rachel; Hirai, Michiyo; Ford, Julian (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2019)

Background: Childhood abuse and neglect (CAN) and intimate partner violence victimization (IPV) is prevalent among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals (LGB). Identification of distinct patterns of childhood and adult ...

Patterns of Childhood Sexual Victimization in Michigan: MICR 2013 Report

Drake, Gregory; McGarrell, Edmund (Michigan Justice Statistics Center, 2015)

In an effort to shed light on the problem of childhood sexual victimization in the state of Michigan, Michigan Incident Based Reporting Statistics were utilized to study patterns of childhood victimization, offender ...

Patterns of Help-seeking Among Emerging Adult Victims of Sexual Assault, Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking

Addington, Lynn (National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), 2017)

Who Do Emerging Adults Turn to for Help? If emerging adults seek help after experiencing violence, they most frequently turn to informal sources such as family, friends, or intimate partners. This is true for both non-college ...

Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization from Adolescence to Young Adulthood in a Nationally Representative Sample

Halpern, Carolyn Tucker; Spriggs, Aubrey; Martin, Sandra; Kupper, Lawrence (2009)

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization from adolescence to young adulthood, and document associations with selected sociodemographic and experiential factors. ...

Patterns of Victimization Among Male and Female Inmates: Evidence of an Enduring Legacy (Author Manuscript)

Wolff, Nancy; Shi, Jing; Siegel, Jane (National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2009)

People inside prison have above-average rates of childhood and adult victimization. Little is known, however, about the relationship between types of victimization inside prison and that experienced in childhood. This ...

Peer Victimization Trajectories From Kindergarten Through High School: Differential Pathways for Children’s School Engagement and Achievement

Ladd, Gary; Ettekal, Idean; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky (American Psychological Association (APA), 2017)

This investigation’s aims were to map prevalence, normative trends, and patterns of continuity or change in school-based peer victimization throughout formal schooling (i.e., Grades K–12), and determine whether specific ...

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