…have on her risk of intimate partner violence. Similarly, my statistical analysis examines how household characteristics such as crowding and the presence of extended family members affects violence against women….

…indicating that alcohol consumption is strongly linked to verbal aggression, aggressive threats, family violence, marital aggression, violence-related emergency-room visits, child abuse, firearm use, sexual aggression, homicide, and suicide. A well-designed…

…violence is really ethnic; for, ethnic violence is more than violence between individuals of different ethnicities. The main obstacle in answering this question is methodological: comparing ethnic and nonethnic wars…

Clionadh Raleigh Clionadh Raleigh, a professor of political violence and geography at the University of Sussex, has been studying violence for more than twenty years and has come to a…

What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do armed groups use violence in some places but not in neighboring places with similar characteristics? Why do they kill more…

…violence. While sexual violence was used as punishment or as extortion, it mainly functioned as a display of colonial power. I, therefore, argue sexual violence is not a direct result…

…I was a single parent at the time, and I needed to find something that provided a bit of stability and medical insurance. I come from a family of uniformed…

…I think the expression that we have a “problem” with violence is really an understatement. I think we are now getting close to a crisis of violence. It is obviously…

…support for violence in a survey.  The problem with political violence isn’t that there’s a significant percentage of the public who think violence is acceptable … The problem is really…

Domestic violence in developing countries has been an area of growing concern among researchers and activists in the women’s health and rights movements. An entrenched patriarchal system and a scarcity…