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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...