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Community based prevention in action

July 23, 2010

posted in: Prevention

I was very excited when I read this in the article recently published in Family Community Health titled A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of an Interpersonal Violence Prevention Program With a Mexican American Community. If a community’s challenges are viewed without consideration of the historical context of the impact of oppression, discrimination, and intergenerational trauma,

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The use and misuse of data on rape

July 8, 2010

posted in: Prevention

PreventConnect.org (23 min) PreventConnect’s David Lee interviews Jody Raphael of the DePaul University College of Law, and Dr. TK Logan of the University of Kentucky. Raphael and Logan wrote the whitepaper “The Use and Misuse of Data on Rape: Restoring Sexual Violence to the National Agenda” for presentation at the CounterQuo Conference in October 2008.

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Using an ecological systems approach for prevention

June 30, 2010

posted in: Prevention

I think everyone who researches domestic violence and sexual violence can learn something from the approach used in a recently epublished study on bullying in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.  What is interesting to me is the researchers focus on the different levels that contribute to bullying.  Instead of focusing primarily on individual factors, this

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Dating violence among 6th grade students

June 3, 2010

posted in: Prevention

Being a parent of a middle school student has given me a lot ot worry about: drugs, sex and violence.  As a parent, I realize that we must start early if we are to prevent dating violence. Yet, many dating violence prevention efforts address high school students, but the pattern of violence often starts before

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“You owe me”: rape perceptions after buying dinner

June 2, 2010

posted in: Prevention

If he buys her dinner, does he expect that they will have sex?  If he rapes her after dinner,  who is blamed for the rape?  In an article recently ePublished in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Basow and Minieri examine questions like this. I remember many surveys of high school and college students over the

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Do peers influence young men to perpetrate intimate partner violence?

June 1, 2010

posted in: Prevention

I find the social ecological model to be a helpful framework to highlight that prevention work needs to look beyond the individual.  So I am pleased to see research that examines risk and protective factors that go beyond individual attitudes, beliefs and experiences. In the recent article appearing in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence,

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