Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey (pdf)

"This Bulletin discusses the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence that measured the past-year and lifetime exposure to violence for children age 17 and younger across several major categories: conventional crime, child maltreatment, victimization by peers and siblings, sexual victimization, witnessing and indirect victimization (including exposure to community violence and family violence), school violence and threats, and Internet victimization."

Creating Social Change in Cyberspace: 10 Years Strong

Article published by the University of Minnesota Gateway to Reseach & Innovations regarding the success of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse in providing knowledge to prevent violence.

Factors Associated With Women’s Risk of Rape in the Military Environment (pdf)

"This study assessed military environmental factors associated with rape occurring during military service, while controlling for pre-military trauma experiences. The goal of this exploratory study was to describe characteristics of rape victims and perpetrators and to attempt to identify workplace environmental factors associated with rape occurring during military service."

Feminization of Labor Migration as Violence Against Women: International, Regional, and Local Nongovernmental Organization Responses in Asia

"International labor migration has emerged as an increasingly regionalized phenomenon, with flows within East and Southeast Asia having gained great momentum. This article examines the debates and issues concerning intersections between women migrant workers' experiences of specifically gender-based violence and violations of their more generalized workers', human, and citizenship rights."

HIV Vulnerabilities of Migrant Women: from Asia to the Arab States: Shifting from Silence, Stigma and Shame to Safe Mobility with Dignity, Equity and Justice (pdf)

This report focuses on female migrant workers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka, who worked in the host countries of Bahrain, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Researchers' key findings concluded that female migrant workers are vulnerable to HIV during all stages of employment abroad. They face sexual assault, sexual exploitation and being trafficked into the commercial sex industry while applying for or being recruited into employment, or during transit between home countries and host countries. Home countries' policies can also contribute to the problem as banning women from working abroad serves to push worker migration underground.

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse

"The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is to support research, education, and access to violence related resources."

Secondary Traumatic Stress Among Domestic Violence Advocates: Workplace Risk and Protective Factors

"This study identified workplace factors associated with secondary traumatic stress (STS) in a sample of 148 domestic violence advocates working in diverse settings. Findings indicate that coworker support and quality clinical supervision are critical to emotional well-being and that an environment in which there is shared power—that is, respect for diversity, mutuality, and consensual decision making—provides better protection for advocates than more traditional, hierarchical organizational models. The discussion includes implications for practice and policy as well as directions for future research."

The Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal Violence (pdf)

This document examines the economic effects of interpersonal violence, including sexual violence, as well as the economic effects of interventions seeking to reduce violence and the ways in which economic factors such as poverty and income inequality contribute to violence.

Violence Against General Practitioners in Turkey

"A descriptive cross-sectional study based on a self-administered questionnaire answered by a convenience study population consisting of 522 health care practitioners. Of the participating respondents, 82.8% reported that they experienced violence, including sexual violence. Perpetrators were patients and/or their relatives in 91.1% of the events. The authors conclude that workplace violence against health care practitioners warrants more attention and as part of prevention efforts, more attention should be paid to continuous professional, administrative, and legal support from the government along with systematic, coordinated implementations independent from daily political concerns."

Violence Against Women: Classic Papers

The purpose of this project was to assemble some of the classic works in the field of violence against women so that new generations of students, practitioners, and researchers would have a collective understanding of the work that has shaped the field. Included are also commentaries from the original authors, when available, reflecting on why they authored the work when they did and the influence of their work on the field.

Violence and Theft in the Workplace (pdf)

Statistics on violence in the workplace provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse.

Women Stalking Women at Work: A Preliminary Study on Nurses' Experiences

"This paper will explore nurses' experiences of workplace stalking. The data were analysed and compared with a secondary analysis of data from an earlier study into violence among nurses."

Work-Related Homicides (pdf)

Provides information on work-related homicides, including information about the perpetrators, demographics of the decedents, and other relevant facts about these events, such as the time of the incident, the location, and the type of establishment in which the homicide occurred.