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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objectives: Although numerous studies have documented linkages between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and later sexual revictimization, mechanisms underlying revictimization, particularly assaults occurring in the context ...

In the national debate over gun laws, we frequently hear calls for universal background checks, which would close loopholes that exist in some states by extending background check requirements to private sales of firearms. ...

Violence researchers have called for the use of person-oriented methods to understand differences that have been found in biopsychosocial consequences among those who experience intimate partner violence (IPV). To address ...

This study examined the impact of civil protective orders (CPOs) against perpetrators of domestic violence on the safety of their victims in five Kentucky jurisdictions. The study findings overall suggest that CPOs are ...

Planning and designing a program’s evaluation during the program’s initial design phase and prior to its implementation are essential for ensuring that the evaluation is scientific, meaning that the program’s objectives ...