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The National Center on Elder Abuse defines sexual abuse as nonconsenting sexual contact of any kind. It includes unwanted touching; sexual assault or battery, such as rape, sodomy, and coerced nudity; sexually explicit photographing; and sexual contact with any person incapable of giving consent. It is the least …
A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) is a highly skilled, specially trained nurse, usually available on call to hospital emergency departments, medical facilities, and other specialized clinics to provide complete care to victims of sexual assault who come to the facility within a specified time period, usually 72 …
Although the literature is replete with studies and discussions of sexual coercion, there is little consistency when it comes to defining, measuring, and differentiating sexual coercion from other forms of sexually aggressive behaviors such as rape, attempted rape, or unwanted sexual contact. Generally, sexual coercion refers to persistent …
Sexual ethics provides a framework for choice and decision making regarding one’s sexual conduct. It presupposes that humans are moral agents, that is, that we have the capacity and responsibility to evaluate and make moral choices that inform our actions and that affect others. Mature sexual ethics provides …
The Sexual Experiences Survey (SES) measures unwanted sexual experiences that include rape. It pioneered a self-report, multi-item, behaviorally specific approach to measuring sexual victimization and perpetration. A typical SES item is as follows: “Someone put his penis, or fingers, or objects (such as a bottle or a candle) …
Sexual harassment is unwanted offensive sexual attention; it is overwhelmingly committed by men against women. About 34% to 60% of women and girls experience sexual harassment. Comparatively, 7% to 19% of sexual harassment victims are male, and 85% to 90% of sexual harassers (of both females and males) …
Sexual harassment is understood as negative behavior and interpersonal violence, in some cases occurring across gender, where males are privileged over females. When sexual harassment occurs between people who are the same sex, this understanding is less clear. Same-sex sexual harassment has been identified as an instrument similar …
Sexual harassment in schools is the unwanted and unwelcomed behavior of a sexual nature that interferes with one’s right to receive an equal educational opportunity. It is no longer a contested phenomenon. Its existence has been acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court, by scientific surveys, and by countless …
In 1981, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission added sexual harassment to its list of work-related discriminations prohibited by Title VII. Since then, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, South Africa, Australia, and Japan have adopted similar prohibitions. The conceptualization of the harm caused and the severity …
Over the past 4 to 5 decades, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to adults and adolescents who are sexually attracted to or who sexually abuse children. It has only been in the last 10 to 15 years that more than lip service has been given …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 15 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease (STD; now commonly called sexually transmitted infection, STI) are acquired annually. The most common STIs are chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, hepatitis, genital warts, and trichomonas. STIs may have long-term …
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a type of abusive head trauma that results from a baby or small child being vigorously shaken with or without impact. The rapid acceleration and deceleration of shaking produces the characteristic injuries that include bleeding around the brain, retinal damage, and cervical spine …
Domestic violence victims who decide to leave abusive partners may be concerned about the welfare of their pets when pets may not accompany them to new living arrangements. Some victims may be able to leave their pets with relatives, friends, or neighbors, or if they can afford it, …
Battered women’s shelters are temporary, violence-free environments for women experiencing domestic violence and their children. They provide the most basic needs such as shelter, food, and clothing to the women residing in the shelter. However, many also provide support services such as crisis lines, legal services, health care …
The concept of sibling abuse emerged as a form of family violence in the early 1980s. Sibling abuse involves emotional, physical, and sexual abuse perpetrated by one sibling against another. Using broad definitions of sibling abuse, prevalence estimates range from 60% to over 95% of individuals reporting experience …
The Silent Witness National Initiative is a not-for-profit grassroots organization that began in 1990 in Minnesota by a group of artists and writers who were distressed by a rash of domestic violence homicides in Minneapolis that year. Silent Witness began as a project to draw attention to the …
Researchers and clinicians have long been in agreement that men engaging in intimate partner violence (IPV) constitute a heterogeneous group. Some have attempted to address this issue by categorizing violent men or violent couples into subtypes. This essay discusses one such subtype: situational couple violence. In theory, the …
Social cognitive programs for violence prevention and treatment emphasize changing the way individuals think about social interactions and interpersonal violence in order to change their behavior. A basic premise of the social cognitive perspective is that interpersonal violence is learned over time and across situations and that part …
Socialization is the process by which a society’s culture—its values and norms—is taught and learned and human personalities are developed. Personality is a set of behavioral and emotional characteristics that describe one’s reactions to various situations or events. Although some aspects of the personality are present at birth, …
Aggression and violence have been key concepts in the study of human behavior. Although the definition of aggression varies among authorities, definitions are generally divided into three different schools of thought. These schools form a continuum along which at one end violence is seen as innate psychic energy …
