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Yamawaki, Niwako; Ochoa-Shipp, Monica; Pulsipher, Craig; Harlos, Andrew; Swindler, Scott – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Researchers in this study examined the attitudes toward domestic violence, the victim, and her perpetrator. A total of 194 participants were randomly assigned to one of 4 hypothetical scenarios to evaluate how observers' perceptions were influenced by their own sex and myths about domestic violence, by the victim's decision to return to the…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Victims of Crime, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
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Sahl, Daniel; Keene, Jennifer Reid – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Using a sample of 2,838 students from a Southwestern university in the United States, the authors examine the effect of respondent's gender, the adult's gender, the age gap between the adult and teen, and the adult's authority, on students' perceptions of vignettes describing adult-teen sexual relationships. Specifically, the authors investigate…
Descriptors: Rape, Student Attitudes, Vignettes, Age Differences
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Angelone, David J.; Mitchell, Damon; Lucente, Lauren – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The purpose of the current study is to examine the influence of multiple offender motivations (including no indication of a motivation), relationship length, and gender role beliefs on perceptions of a male-on-female date rape. A sample of 348 U.S. college students read a brief vignette depicting a date rape and completed a questionnaire regarding…
Descriptors: Motivation, Rape, Anxiety, Victims of Crime
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Rogers, Paul; Davies, Michelle; Anderson, Irina; Potton, Anita – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The present study examines the effects of victim age, victim physical maturity, and respondent gender on attributions toward victims, perpetrator, and the nonoffending members of the victim's family in a hypothetical child sexual abuse (CSA) case. Participants read a brief CSA vignette in which the male perpetrator (a school caretaker) sexually…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Statistical Data
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Stein, Michelle L.; Miller, Audrey K. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Intimate partner violence (IPV) constitutes the majority of assaults against women in the United States, and greater than one third of female homicide victims are murdered by an intimate partner. In a small percentage of cases, battered women kill their abusers, and evidence of battering and its effects may be used to support a plea of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Females, Family Violence, Psychological Patterns
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McMullan, Elizabeth C.; Carlan, Philip E.; Nored, Lisa S. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study compares perceptions of domestic violence for college students planning to work in law enforcement with students aspiring to careers in social work and non-law-enforcement criminal justice (N = 491). The study involves students attending four public universities across one Southern state who completed a survey (spring of 2006) measuring…
Descriptors: African American Students, Graduate Students, Family Violence, Gender Differences