Distinctive Characteristics of Marital Violence …theories of violence against women, or general theories of violence or aggression, are more useful. We examined these issues using a large national victimization survey. In one of our studies…
Beijing-Seoul Families and Neighborhoods Study What do neighbors, friends, and extended family members do in response to domestic violence and child abuse, and does it make a difference? Are there cultural differences in this informal…
Desistance from Sexual Offending Across the Life Course Desistance refers to the slowing down or stopping of offending. Although the term is relatively new to those who study sexual aggression, the phenomenon has been a staple of criminological…
2000 Report of The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression, and Dominance…
Programs …contribution to the study of violence. Candidates are drawn from the disciplines of human, political, and social sciences, international relations, and aligned fields. The fellow is resident at, and admitted…
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Candidates are drawn from the disciplines of human, political, and social sciences, international relations, and related…
Under Many Fires: Factors Influencing the Adoption of Female Circumcision by Southern Sudanese War-Displaced Women in Khartoum …Islamization and Arabization adopted since 1983, has led to massive human rights abuses, death, border crossings, and internal displacement. This project examines the impact of displacement on the social world…
Intimate Violence in Community Context …the 1990 Decennial Census together with the 1994–95 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community Survey, the 1994–95 Chicago Homicide Data, and the 1995–97 Chicago Health and Social Life…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century …the rule of law, human rights, and economic development in many parts of the world, especially in states in transition. The problem is chronic in, for example, Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey,…
The Kayapo Conjuncture: An Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance with International Civil Society Against Violence and Rights Abuse by the State and National Security …attract the support of national and international civil society (in the form of nongovernmental organizations devoted to environmental conservation, human rights, and indigenous support), and important sectors of the Brazilian…
