Psychological Distress of Children and Mothers in Domestic Violence Emergency Shelters

Abused mothers and their school-aged children who recently entered domestic violence emergency shelters were assessed by individual interview and psychometric measures. Children had positiveviews of the shelter residence. Mothers and children reported high-quality relationships with eachother. Children came from highly violent homes, and the majority had attempted to intervene in theinteradult violence. Hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted on child PTSD symptoms, child behavior problems, and maternal depression, anxiety, and anger. Child PTSD symptoms were associated with amount of physical violence. Child behavioral problems were related to mother anxiety andanger. The predictors of maternal emotional distress varied. Depression was associated with sexualabuse, child physical intervention, and quality of mother–child relationship; anxiety was related to witnessing child abuse, child age, and child internalizing behaviors; anger was associated with abuse-related injuries, violence frequency, and child internalizing behaviors. Augmentationof shelter-based interventions for children's trauma, maternal emotional distress, and parenting are discussed.     

Comparing Wife Abuse Perceptions Between Chinese Police Officers and Social Workers

Seventy-one Chinese social workers and 74 Chinese police officers residing in Hong Kong were surveyed on their gender-role attitudes, endorsement of wife abuse myths, and definitions of wife abuse. Results showed that compared to social workers, police officers held more conservative gender-role attitudes, endorsed more myths about wife abuse, and adopted more restrictive definitions of physical and psychological wife abuse. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that definitions of wife abuse were related to different predictors for these two groups of professionals. Among social workers, egalitarian gender-role attitudes were a significant predictor of broad definitions of physical wife abuse, but no significant predictor was found for psychological wife abuse. Among police officers, significant predictors of definitions of physical wife abuse included marital status, educational attainment, and endorsement of wife abuse myths; gender-role attitudes were the only significant predictor of definitions of psychological wife abuse.     

关于公安机关处置家庭暴力的构想

针对目前公安机关在处置家庭暴力的不足及法律困境,公安机关处置家庭暴力可以借鉴国外相关制度及理念,实行“鼓励报案”、“无条件立案”和“支持起诉”政策,进一步明确公安机关现场处置的措施,并相应引入“恢复性司法程序”和“保护令”制度,针对家庭暴力的易反复性特点,建立公安机关对家庭暴力的“分级监督模式”,为受害者提供法律支持。     

我国劳动法律制度水平与核心劳工标准的比较

文章以八个核心劳工公约为基轴，运用比较兼有实证的研究方法，从劳工结社权、平等就业权、强迫劳动及禁止童工四个方面较为详细地分析了我国劳动法律制度水平与国际核心劳工标准的差异，指出我国劳动法律制度水平与国际核心劳工标准不论是从总体上，还是从单个标准上，抑或是从相关标准的实践层面上，都有相当大的差距．正确认识这些差距是完善我国劳动法律制度、加强劳工保护的重要起点。     

家政服务员性骚扰问题的职业特点

文章基于打工妹之家的维权经历和调研结果,分析了家政服务员性骚扰问题的职业特点。其特点表现为:与其他行业从业人员相比,家政服务员更容易遭受性骚扰,且受害者都是女性;此类性骚扰容易导致犯罪而且取证更难。因此,改变家庭服务员遭受性骚扰的状况,需要加强法律保障和行业管理,建立多部门多系统的联合预防和救济机制。     

对法不容情的批判性解读——以容隐制度与亲属拒证权为视角

通过对中国的容隐制度和西方的亲属拒证权进行考察发现,亲属容隐制度与西方大多数国家所规定的亲属拒证权有着共同的价值基础。虽然这项制度在建国后被当作封建消极的东西予以摒弃,但是在当代中国仍有其存在的合理性,而且具有回归的现实基础,应当在立法中重新设立这一制度。对“法不容情”应作批判性的解读。     

Victim Protection Orders and the Stake in Conformity Thesis

Victim Protection Orders have gained wide use by local courts as one method to protect victims of domestic violence. This study of protection orders involves interviews with individuals who obtained such orders in Arizona. The research questions specifically addressed those variables known as the stake in conformity variables in the six attempted replications of the Sherman–Berk Minneapolis Police Study, to examine their potential relevance for the effectiveness of victim protection orders. The findings of this study are analyzed in terms of other research about the effectiveness of victim protection orders.     

MCMI Results for Batterers: A Response to Gondolf

Gondolph [Gondolf, E. W. (1999). J. Fam. Violence 14: 1–17] recently published MCMI-III results on men in batterer treatment groups that appeared to indicate much lower levels of psychopathology than previous studies. Gondolph concluded from these results that the existence of an abusive personality was debatable. Gondolph is mistaken in drawing conclusions about the abusive personality based solely on MCMI results. The assessment of the abusive personality is not based on this instrument. Also, respondents in Gondolph's study had extremely high Desirability scores on the MCMI-III, so even his estimates of the incidence of personality disorder are questionable. Current assessment of personality disorder has begun to steer away from self-report instruments such as the MCMI-III; this practice should be utilized in assessing batterers.     

重视法理学学习,提高法律综合素养

法理学是以整个法律现象的共同性问题及其规律为研究对象的学科。法律专业学生在学好部门法的同时,要强化其法理学方面的知识、理念,使之成为合格的与法治国家相适应的法律工作者。     

Injuries and Health Care Use in Women with Partners in Batterer Intervention Programs

Objective:To characterize injury frequency, injury patterns, and health care seeking behavior in women with intimate partners enrolled in batterer intervention programs. Methods: A standardized telephone interview was conducted on a sample of women with male partners enrolled in batterer intervention programs in four U.S. cities. Information on prior injuries and the utilization of health care services was sought. Results: Four hundred and eighty eight of the 648 women (75.3%) reported a history of prior injury as a result of abuse. Contusions were the most common injury. Of the women reporting contusions, 233 (51.4%) reported contusions as their only injuries. Another 220 women (48.6%) reported other injuries in addition to contusions. In the majority of cases (63.2%) the contusions were to multiple body parts. When the contusion involved only one anatomical region, it was mostly to the face. A total of 192 of the 488 injured women (39.3%) reported ever seeking medical care for injuries caused by their intimate partner. Twenty-three women (4.7% of the injured cohort or 3.5% of the total cohort) reported having ever been hospitalized for injuries sustained from abuse.