List of Places to Go For Help

Sites for resources on partner violence and other sexual assault support:

http://www.thehotline.org/

https://rainn.org/get-help/sexual-assault-and-rape-international-resources

http://www.safehorizon.org

http://www.thepixelproject.net/vaw-facts/about-domestic-violence/

Suicide Hotlines:

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

http://www.hopeline.com

http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html

Elder Maltreatment:

https://ncea.acl.gov/

Bullying and School Violence:

http://www.bullying.co.uk

http://www.cybertipline.com
http://www.thetrevorproject.org

http://crisiscallcenter.org/crisisservices.html

Child Maltreatment:

http://www.childhelp.org/pages/hotline-home

Readings and Resources

Required

WHO report on violence (Modules 1-2):

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en/

WHO injury surveillance guidelines:

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/surveillance/surveillance_guidelines
/en/

CDC WISQARS: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html

Emory Center for Injury Control video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Dvg_Yr4kYQY&list=PLDSBylqXf9oGtOujMTloVR1IsNPW-uCGu

United Nations, Declaration for the Elimination of Violence Against Women:

http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/48/a48r104.htm

Farmer et al. "Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine." PLoS Med. Oct 2006; 3(10): e449.
Published online Oct 24, 2006: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi
%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030449#pmed-0030449-g001

Suggested

Violence and health: The US in a global perspective:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447726/

Implementation of WHO/CDC surveillance guidelines in Tanzania:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3796206/

Ecological study of violence in 169 countries: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581081

Front. Psychiatry, 24 June 2011, doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00036. The emergence of spanking

among a representative sample of children under 2 years of age in North Carolina:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00036/full

Read the activity below. How many family violence cases did you come up with? And, why did
you include or not include certain ones? Post your responses to the discussion board.
FAMILY VIOLENCE EXERCISE

You work at the police department in a research unit. Your supervisor has told you that you will
be calculating rates of family violence, and she wants you to conduct a pilot study to see how
high the rate is likely to be.

Your first assignment is to read a sample of police incident reports, and count the number of
family violence cases. Listed below are summaries of some of the samples incidents. Review
what is here and come up with a total number of family violence cases.

1. Husband hits wife. Wife needs hospital attention for cuts on face.
2. Mother’s live-in-boyfriend shakes 3-week-old infant hard. No charges pressed. No one
else notified.
3. Same people as in #2, but a different day. Mother’s live-in-boyfriend shakes 3-week-old
infant hard. Police notify protective service workers. Child may be removed from the
home.
4. Two adolescent cousins are fighting; one is injured and goes to the ER.
5. Wife screams at husband and threatens to hit him.
6. Husband threatens wife with a handgun, but does not fire it.
7. Husband and wife are both hitting each other. Wife needs hospital attention for cuts on
face.
8. Woman’s ex-husband beats her and causes severe injury.
9. Cohabiting couple involved in physical violence. Wife receives bruises but does not
receive medical attention.
10. Husband hits his wife and their 8-year-old child. Neither wife nor child receives medical
attention.
11. Dating couple is necking. Boy forces girl to intercourse when she refuses his sexual
advances.

TOTAL NUMBER OF FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES? __________________

Readings and Resources

Required
 President Carter: An interview in person with Voice of
America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHzppGR5G2c
 Co-Occuring Physical Fighting and Suicide Attempts among U.S. High School
Students: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qn77073
Suggested
 Psychopathic Predators? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316742
 Implications for Psychopathy and Criminal
Offending: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23123385
 Juvenile Delinquency: Causes and Control, by Robert Agnew and Timothy Brezina.
Oxford University Press, 2015.
 Pediatrics. Age of alcohol use initiation, suicidal behavior, and peer and dating violence
victimization and perpetration among high-risk, seventh-grade
adolescents: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/pmidlookup?
view=long&pmid=18245421
 Bureau of Justice Statistics. Alcohol and Crime: Data from 2002 to
2008: http://www.bjs.gov/content/acf/ac10.pdf
 Interpersonal violence and illicit
drugs: http://www.who.int/violenceprevention/interpersonal_violence_and_illicit_drug_use.
pdf
 Thee Smith Supplemental Material Handout
 Colloquium on Violence & Religion: http://www.uibk.ac.at/theol/cover/
 Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im: http://aannaim.law.emory.edu/publications.html

Readings and Resources

Required
 WHO report on violence (Weeks 1-
2): http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en/
 Elder abuse: A systematic review of risk factors in community-dwelling
elders: http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/3/292.long
 CDC. Suicide - United States, 2005-
2009: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6203a31.htm

Suggested
 Violence Against Women: WHO Global and regional estimates of violence against
women.(ipv and non partner sexual
violence): http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85241/1/WHO_RHR_HRP_13.06_eng.p
df?ua=1
 Global prevalence of intimate partner
homicide: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791474
 Does screening help or hurt victims of partner
violence? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2276575/
 Not alone- white house report on campus sexual
assault: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/report_0.pdf
 Child abuse and neglect: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199505253322107
 The Importance of Reporting Mistreatment of the
Elderly: http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0301/p628.html
 Child Welfare Information Gateway: https://www.childwelfare.gov
 Topalli, V., Wright, R., & Fornango, R. (2002). Drug dealers, robbery and retaliation.
Vulnerability, deterrence and the contagion of violence. British Journal of Criminology,
42(2), 337-351.
 CDC. Youth Violence: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/youthviolence/index.html
 Stopbullying.gov: http://www.stopbullying.gov
 CDC. Preventing Youth Violence—Opportunities for
Action: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/youthviolence/opportunities-for-action.html
 CDC. Veto Violence: http://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/
 WHO. Preventing Suicide: http://www.who.int/mental_health/suicide-
prevention/world_report_2014/en/

Video Resources
 Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women—That's a Men's
Issue: http://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_is
sue
 JD Schramm: Break the Silence for Suicide Attempt
Survivors: http://www.ted.com/talks/jd_schramm
 Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't
Leave: https://www.ted.com/talks/leslie_morgan_steiner_why_domestic_violence_victims
_don_t_leave
 Project Unspoken: I am tired of the silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=eCCaKuWQLp8