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Violence Against Women is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of women's studies. The journal's editor-in-chief is Claire M. Renzetti (University of Kentucky). It was established in 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. The journal covers topics such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and incest.
In 2004, the WHO published its "Multi-country study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women", a study of women's health and domestic violence by surveying over 24,000 women in 10 countries from all regions of the world, which assessed the prevalence and extent of violence against women, particularly violence by intimate partners ...
Victims of Domestic Violence marker, Courthouse Square, Quincy, Florida Domestic violence is a form of violence that occurs within a domestic relationship. Although domestic violence often occurs between partners in the context of an intimate relationship, it may also describe other household violence, such as violence against a child, by a child against a parent or violence between siblings ...
Five of nine homicides in Wilmington in 2023 have been domestic violence-related cases, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 6.325, ranking it 1st out of 44 journals in the category "Social Work", [1] 1st out of 47 journals in the category "Family Studies", [2] and 2nd out of 69 journals in the category "Criminology & Penology".
The CDC reports that domestic violence costs our nation’s economy more than $8 billion in annual losses to employers, which include costs for medical and mental care and lost productivity.
These acts of violence include sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex trafficking. [36] The US Department of Justice found that 84% of Native American and Alaskan Native women have suffered some form of violence. [37] [38] This means Native women are 1.2 times more likely to experience violence than Non-Hispanic white women.
Domestic violence against women has been occurring for centuries. Domestic violence is deemed as any and all physical, sexual, and verbal assaults towards an individual's body, sense of self, or sense of trust. It was not considered a world-wide issue or considered an issue in most countries until the 1980s.