This review focuses on the apparent connection between childhood sexual or physical
abuse (CSA, CPA) and later substance use problems (SUPs) among adolescents and …

Violence among youths is an important public health problem. Between 1985 and 1991,
homicide rates among youths 15–19 years of age increased 154% and remain, today, at …

The construct of Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) has been conceptualized as a
subcategory of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is composed of the following …

Based on a study of violence in lesbian relationships, this challenging book derives from a
common theme expressed by the subjects-the sense of having been betrayed, first by their …

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis
captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a …

Women's rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against
women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists …

Toward the end of their academic careers, most students are required to demonstrate their
ability to integrate theory and research methodology in their field of study by completing a …

" Johnston, Roseby, and Kuehnle take you behind the child's eyes, into their heads...[they]
flesh out the familial context, and bring it all back into the larger social world.... When you are …