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  2. Epidemiology of domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Domestic violence in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The largest reduction in spending on domestic violence refuges was from Southampton City Council, which cut spending by 65% since 2013/4. [79] Women charities in the UK have complained of domestic violence victims being subjected to racism, by being refused places for refuge on the basis of the language they speak.

  4. Conflict tactics scale - Wikipedia

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    The conflict tactics scale (CTS), created by Murray A. Straus in 1979, [1] is used in the research of family violence." [2] There are two versions of the CTS; the CTS2 (an expanded and modified version of the original CTS) [3] and the CTSPC (CTS Parent-Child).

  5. Outline of domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Anne Cools, Canada, senator, ran one of the first domestic violence shelters in Canada; Donna Ferrato, USA, photojournalist documenting domestic violence; Ellen Pence, USA, co-founded the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project; Erin Pizzey, England, founded the world's first domestic violence shelter

  6. How domestic violence victims are being supported

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    Northumbria Police, which said it received about 115 calls about domestic violence a day, started the project in 2022. It involves 999 callers being able to speak to domestic violence experts, as ...

  7. Domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    Some modern research into predictors of injury from domestic violence suggests that the strongest predictor of injury by domestic violence is participation in reciprocal domestic violence. [204] When all things are considered, academics conclude that it is an "extreme, negative, and polarized model".

  8. Estimates of sexual violence - Wikipedia

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    Estimates of sexual violence are surveys of victims of sexual violence crime that have been undertaken to estimate the prevalence of sexual violence. The prevalence of sexual violence differs from the reported sexual violence statistics according to the law enforcement agencies due to the dark figure of crime and under-reporting of crime. [1]

  9. Factors associated with being a victim of sexual violence

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    For instance, a case control study in Australia on the long-term impact of abuse reported significant associations between child sexual abuse and experiencing rape, sexual and mental health problems, domestic violence and other problems in intimate relationships even after accounting for various family background characteristics. [13]