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Making Social Change: Reflections on Individual and Institutional Advocacy With Women Arrested for Domestic Violence / Martha McMahon, Ellen Pence.
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Why the Overwhelming Evidence on Partner Physical Violence by Women Has Not Been Perceived and Is Often Denied / Murray Straus.
Women’s Use of Intimate Partner Violence against Men: Prevalence, Implications, and Consequences / Denise Hines, Emily Douglas.
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The Cultural Construction of Gender and Aggression / Fry, Douglas P.; Gabriel, Ayala H.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Aggression in Women and Girls: An Introduction / Burbank, Victoria K.
Sex Differences in Physical, Verbal, and Indirect Aggression: A Review of Recent Research / Bjorkqvist, Kaj.
Fighting by the Rules: Women Street-Fighting in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico / Cummings, Laura L.
Women, Men, and Aggression in an Egalitarian Society / Lepowsky, Maria.
Indirect Modes of Aggression Among Women of Buenos Aires, Argentina / Hines, Nicole J.; Fry, Douglas P.
Female Voices of Aggression in Tonga / Olson, Ernest.
Serious and Playful Aggression in Brazilian Girls and Boys / Frey, Claudia; Hoppe-Graff, Siegfried.
On Aggression, Human Rights, and Hegemonic Discourse: The Case of a Murder for Family Honor in Israel / Glazer, Ilsa M.; Ras, Wahipa Abu.
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Violence Against Women, November 2006; Vol. 12, No. 11.Guest Editors’ Introduction / Sarah L. Cook and Suzanne C. Swan: 995-996.
Origin and Goals of the “Gender Symmetry” Workshop / Leora N. Rosen: 997-1002.
Conflict and Control: Gender Symmetry and Asymmetry in Domestic Violence / Michael P. Johnson: 1003-1018.
Commentary on Johnson’s “Conflict and Control: Gender Symmetry and Asymmetry in Domestic Violence”/ Evan Stark: 1019-1025.
The Development of a Theory of Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships / Suzanne C. Swan and David L. Snow: 1026-1045.
Commentary on Swan and Snow’s “The Development of a Theory of Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships” / Claire M. Renzetti: 1046-1049.
Beyond Frequency and Severity: Development and Validation of the Brief Coercion and Conflict Scales / Sarah L. Cook and Lisa A. Goodman: 1050-1072.
Commentary on Cook and Goodman’s “Beyond Frequency and Severity: Development and Validation of the Brief Coercion and Conflict Scales” / Patricia Tjaden: 1073-1077.
Future Directions / Walter S. DeKeseredy: 1078-1085.
Future Research on Gender Symmetry in Physical Assaults on Partners / Murray A. Straus: 1086-1097.
Violence and Victims, Volume 20, Number 2 April 2005;
Men’s and Women’s Use of Intimate Partner Violence in Clinical Samples: Toward a Gender-Sensitive Analysis / L. Kevin Hamberger.
A Comparison of Male and Female Dually Arrested Domestic Violence Offenders / Lynette Feder and Kris Henning.
Exerting Power or Striking Back: A Gendered Comparison of Motivations for Domestic Violence Perpetration / Poco Kernsmith.
Domestic Violence Among Male and Female Patients Seeking Emergency Medical Services / Mary Beth Phelan, L. Kevin Hamberger, Clare E. Guse, Shauna Edwards, Suzanne Walczak, and Amy Zosel.
Gender Symmetry in Dating Intimate Partner Violence: Does Similar Behavior Imply Similar Constructs? / Jennifer J. Cercone, Steven R. H. Beach, and Ileana Arias.
Partner Aggressive Women: Characteristics and Treatment Attrition / Lynn S. Dowd, Penny A. Leisring, and Alan Rosenbaum.
Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Female and Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Gender Differences in Stages and Processes of Change / Julia C. Babcock, Brittany E. Canady, Ashley Senior, and Christopher I. Eckhardt.
Commentary: Female Perpetration of Physical Aggression Against an Intimate Partner: A Controversial New Topic of Study / Amy Holtzworth-Munroe.
Wallace, D., Hirschinger-Blank, N., & Grisso, J. A. (2008). Female-Female Non-Partner Assault: A Political-Economic Theory of Street Codes and Female-Gendered Culture in the Contemporary African-American Inner City. Critical Sociology, 34(2), 271-290.
Ward, R.E., and J.P. Muldoon. (2007). Female tactics and strategies of intimate partner violence: A study of incident reports. Sociological Spectrum, 27: 337-364.
Watson, S.W. (2007). Boys, masculinity and school violence: reaping what we sow. Gender and Education, 19(6): 729 - 737.
Wesely, J. K. (2006). Considering the Context of Women’s Violence: Gender, Lived Experiences, and Cumulative Victimization. Feminist Criminology, 1(4): 303-328.
Williams, J. R., Ghandour, R. M., & Kub, J. E. (2008). Female perpetration of violence in heterosexual intimate relationships: adolescence through adulthood. Trauma Violence & Abuse, 9(4), 227-249.
Wolbers, H., & Ackerman, J. (2020). The Degree of Specialization among Female Partner Violence Offenders and the Role of Self-Defense in Its Explanation. Victims & Offenders, 15(2), 197-217.
Xiying, W. and S. Y. H. Petula. (2007). My Sassy Girl: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Aggression in Dating Relationships in Beijing. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22(5): 623-638.
Zahn, M. (ed.) (2009). The Delinquent Girl. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Further works – Women’s sexual violence
Anderson, Peter B., and Cindy Struckman-Johnson. (eds.). (1998). Sexually Aggressive Women: Current perspectives and controversies. New York & London: Guilford Press.
Bailey, Alice. (1998). A Question of Violence: Women Raping Men. Arena magazine, 35, June-July (first Printed in DVIRC Newsleter).
Behounek, E. K. (2019). Female Sex Offenders. The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, 1-2.
Bernard, Claudia. (2000). Shifting the margins: Black feminist perspectives on discourses of mothers in child sexual abuse. In Women, Violence and Strategies for Action: Feminist Research, Policy and Practice. Edited by Jill Radford, Melissa Friedberg, and Lynne Harne, Buckingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Bickart, W., McLearen, A. M., Grady, M. D., & Stoler, K. (2019). A descriptive study of psychosocial characteristics and offense patterns in females with online child pornography offenses. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26(2), 295-311.
Blake, E., & Gannon, T. A. (2018). Females who sexually offend. The Routledge International Handbook of Human Aggression: Current Issues and Perspectives. London: Routledge.
Budd, K. M. (2017). Female Sexual Offenders. In Handbook of Behavioral Criminology (pp. 297-311): Springer.
Budd, K. M., & Bierie, D. M. (2017). Injury matters: On female-perpetrated sex crimes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260517711178.
Christensen, L. S. (2018a). The new portrayal of female child sexual offenders in the print media: A qualitative content analysis. Sexuality & Culture, 22(1), 176-189.
Christensen, L. S. (2018b). Professionals’ perceptions of female child sexual offenders. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260518785377.
Christensen, L. S., & Darling, A. J. (2020). Sexual abuse by educators: a comparison between male and female teachers who sexually abuse students. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 26(1), 23-35. doi:10.1080/13552600.2019.1616119
Cortoni, F., Babchishin, K. M., & Rat, C. (2017). The Proportion of Sexual Offenders Who Are Female Is Higher Than Thought:A Meta-Analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 44(2), 145-162. doi:10.1177/0093854816658923
Crinall, Karen. (1999). Offending Mothers: Theorising in a feminist minefield. Chapter 6 in Pease, Bob, and Jan Fook. (eds.). (1999). Transforming Social Work Practice: Postmodern critical perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 97-112.
Curti, S. M., Lupariello, F., Coppo, E., Praznik, E. J., Racalbuto, S. S., & Di Vella, G. (2019). Child sexual abuse perpetrated by women: Case series and review of the literature. Journal of forensic sciences, 64(5), 1427-1437.
Darling, A. J., & Hackett, S. (2020). Situational factors in female-perpetrated child sexual abuse in organisations: implications for prevention. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 26(1), 5-22.
Darling, A. J., Hackett, S., & Jamie, K. (2018). Female sex offenders who abuse children whilst working in organisational contexts: offending, conviction and sentencing. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 24(2), 196-214.
Darlinga, A. J., & Christensenb, L. S. (2020). Female child sexual offenders. Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management, 119.
de Motte, C., & Mutale, G. (2019). How the construction of women in discourse explains society’s challenge in accepting that females commit sexual offences against children. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
Denow, Myriam S. (2003). The Myth of Innocence: Sexual scripts and the recognition of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators, Journal of Sex Research, 40(3), Winter.
Elliott, Michele. (ed). (1994). Female Sexual Abuse of Children: The Forbidden Taboo. New York: Guilford Press.
Fitzroy, Lee. (1999). Mother/Daughter Incest: Making sense of the unthinkable. Feminism & Psychology, 9(4).
Grayston, A.D., and R.V. De Luca. (1999). Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse: A review of the clinical and empirical literature. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 4(1): 93-106.
Johansson-Love, J., and W. Fremouw. (2006). A critique of the female sexual perpetrator research. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 11(1): 12-26.
Koonin, Renee. (1995). Breaking the Last Taboo: Child sexual abuse by female perpetrators. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 30(2), May.
McLeod, D. A. (2015). Female Offenders in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A National Picture. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 24(1), 97-114. doi:10.1080/10538712.2015.978925
Miller, H. A., & Marshall, E. A. (2019). Comparing solo-and co-offending female sex offenders on variables of pathology, offense characteristics, and recidivism. Sexual Abuse, 31(8), 972-990.
Nelson, Andrea, and Pamela Oliver. (1998). Gender and the Construction of Consent in Child-Adult Sexual Contact: Beyond gender neutrality and male monopoly. Gender & Society, 12(5), October.
Patterson, T., Hobbs, L., McKillop, N., & Burton, K. (2019). Disparities in police proceedings and court sentencing for females versus males who commit sexual offences in New Zealand. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 25(2), 161-176.
Peled, E. (2011). Abused women who abuse their children: A critical review of the literature. Aggression and Violent Behavior 16(4): 325-330.
Peter, T. (2008). Speaking About the Unspeakable: Exploring the Impact of Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse. Violence Against Women, 14(9): 1033-1053.
Saris, R.N. (1999). Studying the sexual aggression of women: Problem and promises. Journal of Sex Research, 36(3): 312.
Shields, R. T., & Cochran, J. C. (2020). The gender gap in sex offender punishment. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 36(1), 95-118.
Steely, M., & Ten Bensel, T. (2019). Child Sexual Abuse within Educational Settings: A Qualitative Study on Female Teachers Who Sexually Abuse Their Students. Deviant Behavior, 1-14. doi:10.1080/01639625.2019.1624288
Stemple, L., Flores, A., & Meyer, I. H. (2017). Sexual victimization perpetrated by women: Federal data reveal surprising prevalence. Aggression and violent behavior, 34, 302-311. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2016.09.007ten Bensel, T., Gibbs, B. R., & Raptopoulos, K. (2019). The role of childhood victimization on the severity of adult offending among female sex offenders. Victims & Offenders, 14(6), 758-775.
Tozdan, S., Briken, P., & Dekker, A. (2019). Uncovering Female Child Sexual Offenders—Needs and Challenges for Practice and Research. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(3), 401.
Vandiver, Donna M., and Jeffery T. Walker. (2002). Female Sex Offenders: An Overview and Analysis of 40 Cases. Criminal Justice Review, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 284-300, September.
Weinsheimer, C. C., Woiwod, D. M., Coburn, P. I., Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2017). The unusual suspects: Female versus male accused in child sexual abuse cases. Child Abuse & Neglect, 72, 446-455.
Wijkman, M. (2019). Female Incest Offenders. The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime, 1-3.
Wijkman, M., & Bijleveld, C. (2015). Criminal career features of female sexual offenders. Sex Offenders: A criminal career approach, 199.
Wijkman, M., C. Bijleveld, and J. Hendriks. (2010). Women don’t do such things! Characteristics of female sex offenders and offender types. Sex Abuse, Vol. 22 pp 135-156.