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Dating Aggression, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
Chapter 7
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Case History
- Ivana and Bruce-Teaching Her a Lesson
- Differences between dating violence and marital violence
- Beginning of study
- Factors in prevalence estimates of dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
- Age
- Measurement and gender difference issues
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Dating Violence (DV)
- Defining dating violence
- Operational definition of DV
- Legal definitions?
- Mutual/reciprocal dating violence
- Measurement and gender difference issues
- Prevalence estimates of dating violence
- Consequences of dating violence
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Dating Violence, cont.
- Explaining dating violence
- Women’s rationales for dating violence
- Not self-defense
- Preferences for abusive partners or partners to abuse
- Study 1
- Study 2
- Attachment Issues
- Jealousy
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Dating Violence, cont.
- Historical and learning factors in dating violence
- Traits of individual involved in dating violence
- Anger-men
- Hyper masculinity and power
- Interpersonal control
- Attitudes toward dating violence
- Treatment of dating violence
- Changing attitudes
- Victim measurement
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Dating Violence, cont.
- Prevention
- Violence screening by physical and mental health providers
- School/university prevention programs
- Internship and mentoring program
- Discouraging alcohol misuse
- Policy-Dating Violence
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape
- Defining sexual assault
- Subjective definition of sexual assault
- Legal definitions of sexual assault
- Consent
- Rape laws redefined
- FBI-no male rape
- Prevalence estimates of sexual assault
- Nondisclosure of sexual assault
- Underreporting of sexual assault
- NCVS Self-Report Estimates
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape, cont.
- Women’s Response to sexual victimization
- Criminal justice system responses
- Law enforcement-sex crimes unit
- Prosecutorial discretion
- Mishandling of DNA evidence
- Attitudes toward sexual assault
- Adversarial sexual beliefs
- Lack of empathy
- Rape myths/rape acceptance (RMA)
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape, cont.
- Blame for sexual assault
- Gender differences in attitudes toward rape
- Traits of individuals involved in unwanted sexual behaviors
- Consequences of sexual assault
- Injuries and negative health outcomes
- Psychological outcomes
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape, cont.
- Medical responses to sexual assault
- Sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) protocol
- Explaining sexual assault
- Is women’s resistance sincere?
- Role of alcohol and sexual assault
- Fraternity men/athletes and sexual assault
- Male misperception
- Gender socialization
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape, cont.
- Treatment of sexual assault
- Policy-sexual aggression
- Male athletes
- Targeting a wider audience
- Public awareness
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Sexual Assault, Sexual Coercion, And Rape, cont.
- Prevention of sexual assault
- College courses
- Perpetrator-focused prevention
- Rape attitude scale
- A review of rape prevention programs
- Changing athletes and fraternity men’s attitudes
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Stalking
- Defining stalking
- Subjective definitions
- Cyberstalking
- Legal definition
- Prevalence estimates of stalking
- Miscellaneous findings
- Consequences of stalking
- Traits of individuals involved in stalking
- Different degrees of stalking
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Stalking, cont.
- Attachment/dependency/jealousy
- Personality disorders/mental illness
- Common criminals
- Typology of stalkers
- Victims’ responses to stalking
- Explaining stalking
- Courtship persistence
- Childhood factors-stalking and control
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Practice, Policy, and Prevention of Stalking
- Treatment of stalking
- Stalking victims and offenders
- Policy-stalking
- College campuses
- Criminal justice system approaches
- Safe at Home
- Prevention-Stalking
- Anti-stalking legislation
- Precautions at work
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Same-Sex Dating, Violence, Sexual Assault, And Stalking
- Disclosure of same-sex sexual assault
- Types of disclosure and their effects
- Student’s attitudes about dating violence among same-sex pairs
- Prevention of same-sex sexual assault
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Cross-Cultural Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, And Stalking
- Arabs/Jews – rape
- Australians – dating violence
- Chinese – dating violence
- Ethiopians – dating violence risk factors
- Koreans – date rape
- Japanese – rape
- Turks – rape
- Multi-nation dating violence
- Male victims’ stress reaction
- Cultural effects of jealousy
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Ethnic Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking
- NCVS racial/minority prevalence rates of nonlethal assaults
- Ethnic comparisons-dating violence/intimate partner violence
- Stalking
- Counseling services
- Alcohol/Drug consumption associated with dating violence and sexual assault
- Resistance strategies
- Alcohol-related treatment
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Alcohol/Drug Consumption Associated with Dating Violence and Sexual Assault
- Research show a significant correlation with both perpetration and victimization of dating violence and/or sexual assault
- Resistance strategies research show that women previously assaulted would have more difficulty resisting a rape than non-assaulted women
- Research show that problem ways of coping might reduce alcohol consumption and levels of depression