Sexual Violence Content Topic Results

These one-page handouts provide concise, practical guidance on common brain-based responses to sexual assault, including reflexive survival behaviors, habit behaviors, and dissociation. They are designed to help investigators, attorneys, judges, advocates, and other professionals quickly apply trauma-informed knowledge in their work with survivors.

The report contains recommendations from symposium experts who charted a course for advancing responses to elder abuse that are informed by the manifestations and consequences of trauma and promising strategies for healing.

This white paper explains how and why LGBTQ children and youth experience disproportionate rates of violence and trauma, and how those experiences tend to lead to even more violence and trauma down the road. Most importantly, it explains how this trajectory can be disrupted, even by neighbors and other bystanders. 

The Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence released a set of shareable infographics outlining recommendations from survivors of human trafficking and the advocates who work with them for practicing trauma-informed advocacy at various points of contact.

This paper seeks to illustrate the impact of human trafficking on Native women and girls in our times, with particular attention to the historical context in the United States and the interconnection between trafficking and housing instability.

Gendered Islamophobia consists of the ways the state utilizes gendered forms of violence to oppress, monitor, punish, maim and control Muslim bodies. This report shares collective learnings from a convening of the Partnership to End Gendered Islamophobia on the 19th anniversary of 9/11.

This training focuses on the unique experiences of male sexual assault survivors, particularly the barriers created by the invisibility of male survivors, masculinity stereotypes, and anti-gay prejudice. It emphasizes the importance of inclusive, trauma-informed services that recognize and address these barriers.

This report is the 46th in a series that began in 1973. It provides official estimates of criminal victimizations reported and not reported to police from the National Crime Victimization Survey. It describes the characteristics of crimes, victims, and offenders.

The webinar presents findings from the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, examining factors that contribute to teen dating violence and the circumstances that may help young people stop these harmful patterns.

This webinar explores how the neurobiology of trauma affects sexual assault survivors and explains how this knowledge can help improve responses from law enforcement officers, prosecutors, nurses, and victim advocates.

The primary purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) as a supplement to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). The findings in this report offer additional information about specific IPV-related impacts, describing the wide range of experiences associated with IPV victimization.

This primer provides an overview of key terms, trends, approaches, and evidence used to frame violence against women (VAW) prevention programming. It is designed to strengthen programming, advocacy, and research for evidence-based violence against women prevention in Africa.