This article encourages the widespread adoption of an integrated, ecological framework for understanding the origins of gender-based violence. An ecological approach to abuse conceptualizes violence as a multifaceted phenomenon grounded in an interplay among personal, situational, and sociocultural factors. Although drawing on the conceptual advances of earlier theorists, this article goes beyond their work in…
Violence Against Women Template
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Violence Against Women is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies, Sex work and related issues. Over its lifetime it has published 3,570 papers, which have received 115,340 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Violence Against Women, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Intimate Partner and Family Violence Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies Sex work and related issues Child Abuse and Trauma Gender, Security, and Conflict |
| ISSN | 1077-8012 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.43 |
| h-index | 145 |
| i10-index | 1,824 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Michigan |
| Journal website | vaw.sagepub.com |
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Most-cited papers in Violence Against Women
Four types of individual partner violence are identified based on the dyadic control context of the violence. In intimate terrorism, the individual is violent and controlling, the partner is not. In violent resistance, the individual is violent but not controlling; the partner is the violent and controlling one. In situational couple violence, although the individual…
Using data from a telephone survey of 8,000 U.S. men and 8,000 U.S. women, this study compares the prevalence and consequences of violence perpetrated against men and women by marital and opposite-sex cohabiting partners. The study found that married/cohabiting women reported significantly more intimate perpetrated rape, physical assault, and stalking than did married/cohabiting men, whether…
This article provides a comprehensive review of the emerging domestic violence literature using a race, class, gender, sexual orientation intersectional analysis and structural framework fostered by women of color and their allies to understand the experiences and contexts of domestic violence for marginalized women in U.S. society. The first half of the article lays out…
Intimate partner violence against immigrant women is at epidemic proportions, but research has only recently begun to address the concern. A review of the legal, medical, and social science research literature reveals little data, but that which exist demonstrate that immigrant women's cultures, contexts, and legal status (a) increase vulnerability for abuse, (b) are used…