2011 Minnesota Femicide Report (pdf)
The Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women (MCBW) tracks all homicides in the State of Minnesota that result from domestic violence involving a current or former intimate partner. This is the 2011 reporting of those findings.
The Role of Information Communications Technologies in Violence Prevention (pdf)
This paper, part of a Dec 2011 Institute of Medicine workshop on violence prevention, provides a brief introduction to the current and potential role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in the prevention and reduction of violence.
Healthy sexuality: A guide for advocates, counselors and prevention educators (pdf)
This guide provides guidance and practical tools for discussing healthy sexuality within the context of sexual violence for advocates, counselors, prevention educators, and activists. It explores healthy sexuality across the life span and connects this information with a primary prevention tools for local sexual violence programs.
In Fall 2009 the National Sexual Violence Resource Center embarked on a three‐year process of assessing the primary prevention training and technical assistance needs of coalitions, Rape Prevention Education (RPE) coordinators and local rape crisis programs. The emphasis of this year 2 assessment was on how programs are thinking about primary prevention and the processes that allowed innovation to develop.
Case by case: news coverage of child sexual abuse
To understand how child sexual abuse is covered in the media, the researchers selected a representative sample of U.S. news over a span of three years, then coded the content in detail. Results on the content, language, how the act was characterized, who's voices are presented, etc. are all presented. The conclusion includes recommendations for advocates and reporters.
A Struggle for Justice: Incest Victims in Pakistan (pdf)
This report highlights the difficulties women and girls are faced with in accessing justice in cases of sexual violence, particularly incest. Included in this report are a survey of incest cases in Pakistan, a summary of published legal opinions in incest cases, identification of obstacles to justice and a compilation of good practice examples from other countries that have addressed similar obstacles. The authors hope this report will be used as a guide towards making the Pakistani judicial system more supportive of future victims which will have a deterrent effect on perpetrators.
Polyvictimization in Developmental Context (pdf)
This article provides an analysis of data on child victimization from a large national survey using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire. The purpose of the study was to assess the prevelence of polyvictimization (i.e., exposure to multiple forms of victimization) in youth from 4 different developmental cohorts.