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Psychological Predictors of Sexual Intimate Partner Violence against Black and Hispanic Women

Uploaded by Sundos El-Naser on December 27, 2017

Although various types of intimate partner violence (IPV) tend to co-occur, risk factors of each type of IPV may differ. At the same time, most of the existing literature on risk factors of IPV among minorities has used a cross-sectional design and has focused on physical rather than sexual IPV. We conducted the current study … Continued

Summary Report: Latino Intimate Partner Homicide

Uploaded by Shashika Peeligamas on May 1, 2015

Within the past three decades, 16.3% of all homicides have been committed by intimate partners (Cooper & Smith, 2011). While Latinos are now the largest minority group, very little is known about intimate partner homicide (IPH) among this group. Thus, the purpose of this project was to determine the rates, characteristics, and trends of Latino … Continued

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