Unearthing Sexual Violence in the Congo Free State and its Contemporary Significance …Democratic Republic of Congo? Main Findings Pawning, hostage taking, kidnapping, rape, sexual slavery, and sexual torture were the most common forms of gender-based violence committed by both sentries and colonial…
“True Equity Means Everyone’s Life Has Equal Value”: A Conversation with Shani Buggs …devoted to gun violence. And so I shifted my focus to gun-violence prevention. This was 2012, and the conversation about gun violence as a public health issue was still very…
“This Isn’t Just a Normal Political Fight”: A Conversation with Lilliana Mason …political violence can have a corrosive effect. According to political scientist Lilliana Mason, political violence amounts to a rejection of democracy. “If a person has used violence to achieve a…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …account for increased violence, just as they study periods of falling levels of violence to help to understand when and why societies reject the use of violence and effectively discourage…
Can the State Interrupt the Vicious Cycle of Gendered Violence that it Helped to Create? Evidence from Guatemala …rural areas; racial, class, and gender-based discrimination among state authorities; corruption and bribery in state offices; and long delays in legal processes that put women at risk of retaliatory violence….
Violence Against Women and Social Changes in Postcommunist Societies …their everyday life and women’s vulnerability to violence. Structural violence contributes to gendered interpersonal violence both by causing it and by preventing society and victims from confronting it effectively. My…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …data, to understand how patterns of relationships affect what we do. A lot of my work has applied this idea to understanding patterns of crime and violence, specifically gun violence….
“Why Do People of Color Have to Go to Extremes to Save their Kids?” A Conversation with Joseph Richardson …Capital Region Violence Intervention Program, a hospital-based program that provides trauma-informed care and psychological services to survivors of violent injury in an effort to prevent further violence and victimization. In…
“You Can Reduce Violence But Harm People”: A Conversation with Caterina Roman …in February, not long after she had published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for deeper investments in evidence-based gun violence prevention programs. Much of our conversation was devoted…
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India 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…
