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What Were You Wearing is an American touring art exhibit created by Jen Brockman and Dr. Mary Wyandt-Hiebert. It depicts outfits worn when anonymous people were victim to sexual assault . The exhibit, which debuted at the University of Arkansas on March 31, 2014, [ 1 ] was inspired by a poem by Dr. Mary Simmerling, titled "What I Was Wearing ...
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The country's first shelter for male abuse victims, Men's Aid NI, opened in early 2013. Chairman Peter Morris has remarked, "Domestic violence against men can take many forms, including emotional, sexual and physical abuse and threats of abuse.
Alexander Gerald Skeel (born 17 August 1995) [2] is a domestic violence survivor whose near-fatal injuries, at the hands of his girlfriend, Jordan Worth (born 1994), attracted widespread media coverage owing to the extreme nature of the abuse. Worth “controlled, beat, stabbed, starved and tortured Skeel, leaving him with severed tendons ...
Statistically, women are more likely to be abused by men in a relationship. But men can also be victims of domestic violence. It might be rare, but it happens, sometimes with deadly consequences.
It is nearly impossible to calculate the frequency of domestic crimes committed by police—not least because victims are often reluctant to seek help from their abuser’s colleagues. Another complication is the 1996 Lautenberg Amendment, a federal law that prohibits anyone convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse from owning a gun.
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
Today, seven states have laws requiring officers to wear body cameras. But for all the hope and money invested in body cameras as a violence prevention tool, police killings of civilians have ...