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This article details how some abusers coerce their female partners into pregnancy as a tactic to exert control over their lives. Abusive acts related to this phenomenon include rape, using threatening or manipulative language, and interfering with birth control.

This document is an analysis of data from a study of 309 Canadian women separated from an abusive partner to examine their use of services. Services studied included general health services, mental health services, social services, violence-specific services, and legal services.

This article describes a study conducted in a city in the Midwest United States of data on law enforcement response to Intimate Partner Violence situations since the city began a Coordinated Community Response (CCR) program.

This article details a survey of nurses, medical students, and administrators from a hospital system in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania to determine their attitudes regarding screening patients for Intimate Partner Violence.

This article details a study of medical students and surgical residents at a university in Ontario, Canada to determine their knowledge and attitudes surrounding Intimate Partner Violence. Results indicated a need for more training on Intimate Partner Violence.

This article reviews the methodologies of seventeen empirical studies of Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence in adults that were published between 1995 and 2006. Recommendations for how to construct improved methodologies for future studies on this topic are discussed.

This article describes a Finnish study of health care professionals and their experience with working with people who have either experienced or been perpetrators of domestic violence.

This law review article argues that we must consider economic forces as being influential to the problem of violence against women.

This document summarizes concerns regarding how police respond to domestic violence and sexual assault, police bias and discrimination against survivors with marginalized identities, and outlines recommendations for improving law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault.

This bulletin includes violent victimization (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property victimization (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft). It describes the annual change from 2013 and analyzes 10-year trends from 2005 through 2014.