Sexual Assault - Science topic

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Although the majority of genital injuries caused by sexual assault do not necessitate major surgical intervention, there is a paucity of high-quality evidence regarding the optimal diagnostic and surgical approach to restore deep lesions of genital organs, as well as information on the factors that contribute to poor wound healing. Consequently, the development of clinical protocols that standardise both the examination and surgical management is encouraged.

To Whom It May Concern: Please contact me if I can be of assistance. I work as a psychology practitioner in rural Canada (with criminal offenders). You can reach me at: diane_chisholm@gov.nt.ca

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measure STS called the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale (STSS). The STSS is a 17-item, self-report instrument that assesses the secondary traumatic stress experienced by helping

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1.Accidents, Traffic - statistics and numerical data. 2.Accidents, Traffic - trends. 3.Wounds and injuries - epidemiology. 4.Safety - statistics and numerical data. 5.Data collection. I.World Health Organization. Dept. of Violence and Injury Prevention.

1 Social Impact Appraisal. 2 Accidents Impacts. 3 Physical Activity Impacts. 4 Security Impacts. 5 Severance Impacts. 6 Journey Quality Impacts and etc.

A Joint Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank

UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

Commission on Sustainable Development. Nineteenth Session. 2-13 May 2011

Evidence Collection and Analysis for Touch Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Groping

and Sexual Assault Cases.

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Factors that Influence the Psychological Impact of Sexual Violence: - A victim's socio-biological characteristics. - A victim's perception of their rights and their status. - A victim's belief about what constitutes sexual violence. - Prior history of trauma, be that sexual or other. - Prior mental health issues. - The relationship of the offender to the victim. - A victim's appraisal of the circumstances of the violence (e.g. threat to life, self-blame). - A victim's coping mechanisms. - Positive family and social support. - Cultural background. - Perceived and actual response of society, including any formal services approached, to disclosure of sexual violence. - For childhood sexual abuse the duration, frequency and severity of the abuse, in addition to the relationship of the offender to the victim. The biological, psychological and sociological impacts and treatments should not remain mutually exclusive. A better appreciation of the biopsychosocial repercussions of sexual assault will aid in developing a more holistic and individualized therapy to help alleviate the physical and emotional pain following the trauma of rape.

Thankyou Ali Raza Jahejo Ali Razza for your response. However, in my context, it is an important issue that requires focus. hence the need for interventions.

The general world crime is becoming alarming, even though that concerning the female gender is clearly more.

By public health point of view, it is becoming clear that violence against women is a global public health problem that affects approximately one third of women globally. Report shows that 38% of all murders of women are committed by intimate partners. Again, overall, about 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence (World Health Organization 2013). In my observation, majority of assaults against the women is committed by their partners, thus gives a pointer to where these problems could be tamed.

Hi everyone. I am sorry to interrupt this discussion but I was wondering if i could get some expert advice on how to analyse my data.

I am trying to run the statistical analysis for a cross cultural study comprising of two country samples. I have 5 variables, one mediator(perceived value) and 3 moderators (subjective wellbeing, healthy lifestyle, ethical identity), IV (conspicuous consumption), DV(customer loyalty) all measured on a 7 point likert scale. I was wondering if 3 moderators is too many and what would be the statistical tests I should perform for my study.

Thanks for your replies. I just started data collection using LexisNexis. Let's see how this goes!

Thank you!

Dear Keely,

Hope these resources will be useful to our study. James

Lovett wt al (2004). Home Office Research. Study 285 Sexual Assault Referral Centre s : developing good practice and maximising potentials. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jo_Lovett/publication/241242219_Sexual_Assault_Referral_Centre_s_developing_good_practice_and_maximising_potentials/links/0deec534e91e4b0b21000000.pdf

Ullman, S.E. & Townsend, S.M. (2007). Barriers to Working With Sexual Assault Survivors. Violence Against Women. 3(4), 412-443. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d26f/abc84033bad441e89727c4316240ed5e2a05.pdf

Cunningham, P.B. & Henggeler, S.W. (1999). Engaging Multiproblem Families in Treatment: Lessons Learned Throughout the Development of Multisystemic Therapy. Family Process. 38(3), 265-281. DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00265.x

Ullman, S.E. & Townsend, S.M. (2008).What is an empowerment approach to working with sexual assault survivors? Journal of Community Psychology. 36(3), 299-312. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20198

Mc Person et al (2012). Barriers to Successful Treatment Completion in Child Sexual Abuse Survivors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 27(1) 23–39. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philip_Scribano/publication/51588512_Barriers_to_Successful_Treatment_Completion_in_Child_Sexual_Abuse_Survivors/links/0c960529d26bc72094000000/Barriers-to-Successful-Treatment-Completion-in-Child-Sexual-Abuse-Survivors.pdf

Dehne, K.L. & Riedner, G. (2005). SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AMONG ADOLESCENTS THE NEED FOR ADEQUATE HEALTH SERVICES. World Health Organization and Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43221/1/9241562889.pdf

Chowdhury-Hawkins et al (2008). Preferred choice of gender of staff providing care to victims of sexual assault in Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs). Forensic and Legal Medicine. 15(6), 363-367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.01.005

Kurtz et al (2005). Barriers to Health and Social Services for Street-Based Sex Workers. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 16, 345–361. http://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/yda41iig.2kurtz.pdf

Robinson et al (2008). Multi-Agency Work on Sexual Violence: Challenges and Prospects Identified From the Implemenation of a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC). The Howard Journal. 47(4), 411-428. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2311.2008.00531.x ISSN 0265-5527

Ponce et al (2014). Homelessness, Behavioral Health Disorders and Intimate Partner Violence: Barriers to Services for Women. Community Ment Health J. DOI 10.1007/s10597-014-9712-0

Hi Patricia,

I agree that there are differences. In the above review, sexual violence is also included. You will find some interesting ideas also in:

1) Fitzgerald, L. F. (1993). Sexual harassment: Violence against women in the workplace. American Psychologist, 48(10), 1070.

2) Fisher, B. S., & Gunnison, E. (2001). Violence in the workplace: Gender similarities and differences. Journal of Criminal Justice, 29(2), 145-155.

Antonio

One possibility is prefacing these questions with a brief explanation that the questions refer to consenting partners, since reaching age of majority, and excluding any sex work.

Your data will be noisier if you leave it up to the respondent to include or not. If you want to focus on consenting sexual behavior outside of sex work, then I would recommend specifying.

Hello, I found an article that I think might interest you. 

This study I just published can help some; it is about rape myth acceptance not MST specifically, but it may help you.  

The citation is: Carroll, M.H., Rosenstein, J.E., Foubert, J.D., Clark, M.D., & Korenman, L.M. (2016). Rape Myth Acceptance: A Comparison of Military Service Academy and Civilian Fraternity and Sorority Students. Military Psychology, 28 (5) 306-317.

You can find it at this link, it is article 41 on the list: http://www.johnfoubert.com/peer-reviewed-articles

This is from my attached paper:

While deployed MH modules in complex emergencies clearly showed qualitative and anecdotal benefits, enthusiastic research was soon confronted by the boring but unavoidable questions about standards of care, empirical research, measurable outcomes and quality control.

An example of the current state of affairs is the array of competing views on the outcome indicators. The opinions range from advocating for the use of formalized but highly controversial GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning), as suggested by Van Ommeren, & Wietse (2011), and, on the other extreme, to statements that standardized evidenced-based practices are inapplicable in complex emergencies by definition. These apologists argue that every situation is unique, and that there is no general tool to measure individual suffering, and any assistance makes victims feel supported and thus has humanitarian value just by virtue of doing something. Other widely used efficacy criteria based on self-reported satisfaction, symptom reduction, or simply the number of sessions provided and persons served. The limited progress and lack of consistency in demonstrating the programs’ effectiveness to the professional communities, organizations, and donors continued to force the question of the overall impact and value of this work.

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As Cindy has said more is better but at the same time here, one should be cautious while including new people in the move, lest they prove to be regressive because as somebody has said, all the religions of the world are based on womens exploitation. So discrimination is very likely to be set in their minds.

Please check Lenore Walker. She is a top specialist. Her mail is:DrLEWalker@aol.com. I hope you will be successful, Carl

Jennifer Steel's dissertation actually compares those figures.  Contact her a jsteel@email.fielding.edu

Hi Alexis

I  like very much this article. 

Arch Sex Behav

DOI 10.1007/s10508-011-9863-9

The Costs of Rape

Carin Perilloux • Joshua D. Duntley • David M. Buss

Isabelle Nisida

Seems like you would do a keyword search of the major state newspaper to answer this.

Also, try contacting the state domestic violence coalition, which also addresses sexual assault.  There may be someone there who remembers. 

Maybe Acker's work might be interesting to you. She has studied gender in organisations including structures including implicit and explicit use of power, e.g.: Acker, J. (2006). Inequality regimes. Gender, class, and race in organizations. Gender & Society, 20(4), 441-464.

J. Ptacek (ed) Feminism, Restorative Justice, and Violence Against Women New York: Oxford University Press.

Strang H & Braithwaite J (eds) Restorative justice and family violence Cambridge University Press, Melbourne

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Changing Tack edited by Hayden, A., Gelsthorpe, L., Kingi, V. and Morris, A. Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Surrey, UK

and on sexual assault see many works by Mary Koss.

Dear Cathy

To my knowledge there seems to be no reliable data on AA membership, and I am not aware of any on 13-th stepping (other than your own).

If I may offer some ideas:

Reports on sexual predatory behaviour in 12-step fellowships tend to focus on males as predators. Anecdotes by long-time abstinent male members tell of frequent advances by female newcomers. It would be interesting to know more about this as well.

It would be interesting to know how 13th-stepping in AA compares to similar behaviour in other organisations, societies and the workplace. Ideally, any findings would be evaluated in the context of the attitudes in the general population and differences between cultures.

On gender and AA, this study might be of interest: "Does Alcoholics Anonymous work differently for men and women? A moderated multiple-mediation analysis in a large clinical sample." (Kelly & Hoeppner, 2012)

kind regards

Oliver

Dear Bryan,

Early career sexual harassment – a workplace stressor which leads to long term depressive effects, anger, mixed feelings, and self-doubt for both men and women

Dan DeFoe On November 11, 2012

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I would recommend the Sexual Experiences Survey -- Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) which is probably the best and most widely used scale for gathering data about sexual violence. It was revised by Koss and her colleagues (the full citation is below) in 2007. I am currently managing a multi-site clinical trail examining the efficacy of a sexual assault resistance education intervention and this is the measure we use to assess our primary outcome.

Koss, M.P., Abbey, A., Campbell, R., Cook, S., Norris, J., Testa, M., Ullman, S., West, C., & White, J. (2007). Revising the SES: A collaborative process to improve assessment of sexual aggression and victimization. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31, 357-370.

The SES-SFV provides participants with seven items consisting of a stem describing a sexually coercive or assaultive act (or attempted act) followed by five descriptions of perpetrator tactics or strategies. The best thing about the SES is that the questions provide behavioural descriptions of what is legally considered to be sexual assault (in Canada) and rape (in United States) without the corresponding labels (women are often reluctant to label their own experiences a sexual assault or rape).

Hope that helps. Good luck with your research.

Best,

Karen Hobden