International

Creative interventions toolkit : a practical guide to stop interpersonal violence
Oakland, CA: Creative Interventions, 2012
Guide (622 pages); PDF
Summary: This Toolkit promotes an approach called community-based interventions to violence or what some call community accountability or transformative justice as a way to break isolation and to create solutions to violence from those who are most affected by violence... Read more


Hidden in plain sight : a statistical analysis of violence against children
United Nations Children's Fund. New York, NY: Unicef, 2014
Report (206 pages); PDF
Summary: Interpersonal violence - in all its forms - has a grave effect on children: Violence undermines children's future potential; damages their physical, psychological and emotional well-being; and in many cases, ends their lives. The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence... Read more


Linking the roads : working with youth who experience homelessness and sexual violence
Harrisburg, PA: National Sexual Violence Resource Center, 2014
Guide (19 pages); PDF & TXT available
Summary: This guide focuses on adapting advocacy skills to help young people who experience homelessness and sexual violence build resiliency and lessen their traumas... Read more


New technology : same old problems : Report of a roundtable on social media and violence against women and girls
London, UK: End Violence Against Women, 2013
Report (12 pages); PDF
Summary: On 16th July 2013, the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) Coalition and The Guardian held a roundtable discussion looking at the relationship between social media and violence against women and girls (VAWG) and specifically, the way that VAWG is perpetrated via social media.. Read more


Stay safe from online sexual exploitation : a guide for young people
Biva Rajbhandari. Bangkok, Thailand: ECPAT International, 2014
Guide (28 pages); PDF
Summary: This guide was developed by ECPAT International to help young people understand more about the online sexual exploitation of children and ways they can fight to end it and protect themselves from this abuse... Read more


Violence and mental health
Louise M. Howard, Jennifer Shaw, Sian Oram, Hind Khalifeh and Sandra Flynn
In: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2013, public mental health priorities: investing in the evidence (Chapter 14, pp.227-238) edited by Nisha Mehta. London, UK: Department of Health 2014
Report (320 pages); PDF
Summary: This chapter focuses on the evidence that those experiencing mental illness are at risk of being victims of all types of violence. Perpetration of violence by those with mental illness is also discussed. Other chapters in this report also touch on the issue of violence... Read more


Why pets mean so much : the human-animal bond in the context of intimate partner violence. Technical assistance guidance
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Animal Welfare Institute. Harrisburg, PA: NRCDV, 2014
Guide (9 pages); PDF
Summary: A guide to the safety of companion animals on the context of intimate partner violence... Read more  

Journal articles

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Domestic and sexual violence against patients with severe mental illness
H. Khalifeh, P. Moran, R. Borschmann, K. Dean, C. Hart, J. Hogg, D. Osborn, S. Johnson and L. M. Howard
Cambridge University Press, 2014 -
Psychological Medicine, 2014, online first (12 pages)
Summary: Domestic and sexual violence are significant public health problems but little is known about the extent to which men and women with severe mental illness (SMI) are at risk compared with the general population. The authors aimed to compare the prevalence and impact of violence against SMI patients and the general population... Read more