BACKGROUND Violence against Women -despite its perpetuation over centuries and its omnipresence at all social levels- entered into social consciousness and the general agenda of Social Sciences only recently, mainly thanks to feminist research, campaigns, and general social awareness. The present article analyzes in a secondary analysis of German prevalence data on Violence against Women, wheth...

background: workplace violence has become an issue of increasing concern. residents are often the first physician that patients will meet them. objectives: we conducted this study to evaluate workplace violence against medical residents in iran. materials and methods: in a cross sectional questionnaire based study we asked 1107 medical residents about violence exposure during past 12 months. re...

background: domestic violence is a serious threat to the physical and mental health of women. the aim of the present study was to find and compare the frequency of domestic violence between methamphetamine users, patients with psychiatric disorders, and healthy people. methods: in this analytical cross-sectional study, methamphetamine users (n=30) and patients with psychiatric disorders (n=30) ...

Some advocates worry that stronger child support enforcement may increase domestic violence. Theoretical predictions are ambiguous, however. Whereas stronger enforcement may increase mothers’ bargaining power which would reduce violence, it also may increase fathers’ motive for violence which would increase violence. This paper examines whether child support enforcement is associated with domes...

While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, some theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman’s risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis documents a positive correlation between work and domestic violence. This correlation is only present among w...