Violence

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Our life is pointless … ': Exploring discrimination, violence and mental health challenges among sexual and gender minorities from Brazil. 
  • 12-month prevalence and concomitants of DSM-IV depression and anxiety disorders in two violence-prone cities in Brazil. 
  • A Qualitative Exploration of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Contexts of HIV-Positive Adolescents in Tanzania. 
  • A Review of Recent Literature on Trauma Among Individuals Living with HIV. 
  • A comparison of stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with schizophrenia in four stakeholder groups: perceived likelihood of violence and desire for social distance. 
  • A longitudinal analysis of the overlap between violence and victimization among adults with mental illnesses. 
  • A longitudinal examination of mothers' and fathers' social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries. 
  • A national study of violent behavior in persons with schizophrenia. 
  • A pooled analysis of gender and trauma-type effects on responsiveness to treatment of PTSD with venlafaxine extended release or placebo. 
  • A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies. 
  • A qualitative study of methamphetamine initiation in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • A randomized clinical trial to dismantle components of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in female victims of interpersonal violence. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of outpatient commitment in North Carolina. 
  • A retrospective analysis of facial fracture etiologies. 
  • A survey of workplace violence across 65 U.S. emergency departments. 
  • Acculturation, risk behaviors and physical dating violence victimization among Cuban-American adolescents. 
  • Accuracy in judgments of aggressiveness. 
  • Acute dystonic reaction with moderate-dose ziprasidone. 
  • Acute service delivery in a police-mental health program for children exposed to violence and trauma. 
  • Adolescents Who Self-Harm and Commit Violent Crime: Testing Early-Life Predictors of Dual Harm in a Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • Adverse behavioral and emotional outcomes from child abuse and witnessed violence. 
  • Alcohol problems and posttraumatic stress disorder in female crime victims. 
  • Alcohol use and consequences in matriculating US college students by prescription stimulant/opioid nonmedical misuse status. 
  • Alcohol-Related Physical Abuse of Children in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda. 
  • Alternative pathways to violence in persons with schizophrenia: the role of childhood antisocial behavior problems. 
  • An exploration of comorbid depression among female victims of intimate partner violence with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • An exploration of lifetime trauma exposure in pregnant low-income African American women 
  • Area-based socioeconomic characteristics of industries at high risk for violence in the workplace. 
  • Assaultive behavior in Alzheimer's disease: identifying immediate antecedents during bathing. 
  • Assessing risk of violent behavior among veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Association Between Substance Use and Gun-Related Behaviors. 
  • Association between trauma exposure and smoking in a population-based sample of young adults. 
  • Association of Adverse Experiences and Exposure to Violence in Childhood and Adolescence With Inflammatory Burden in Young People. 
  • Associations between functioning and PTSD symptom clusters in a dismantling trial of cognitive processing therapy in female interpersonal violence survivors. 
  • At Last, a Good Estimate of the Magnitude of the Private-Sale Loophole for Firearms. 
  • Atrocities exposure in Vietnam combat veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder: relationship to combat exposure, symptom severity, guilt, and interpersonal violence. 
  • Bad Nature, Bad Nurture, and Testimony Regarding MAOA and SLC6A4 Genotyping in Murder Trials 
  • Battering victimization among a probability-based sample of men who have sex with men. 
  • Beliefs in karma and reincarnation among survivors of violent trauma--a community survey. 
  • Biological correlates of abuse in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and healthy controls. 
  • Black Lives and the Police. 
  • Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990-2015. 
  • Bullying victimization uniquely contributes to adjustment problems in young children: a nationally representative cohort study. 
  • Can a costly intervention be cost-effective? An analysis of violence prevention 
  • Can mandated outpatient treatment prevent tragedies? 
  • Cannabis use disorder, anger, and violence in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. 
  • Capturing the ebb and flow of psychiatric symptoms with dynamical systems models. 
  • Caregiver burden and psychological distress in partners of veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Caregiving for persons with mental illness: the impact of outpatient commitment on caregiving strain. 
  • Changes in coping strategies, relationship to the perpetrator, and posttraumatic distress in female crime victims. 
  • Characterization of Severe and Extreme Behavioral Problems in Patients With Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood. 
  • Childhood exposure to violence and lifelong health: Clinical intervention science and stress biology research join forces. 
  • Childhood maltreatment and impulsivity as predictors of interpersonal violence, self-injury and suicide attempts: A national study. 
  • Childhood origins of violent behaviour in adults with schizophreniform disorder. 
  • Childhood trauma is associated with depressive symptoms in Mexico City women. 
  • Childrearing discipline and violence in developing countries. 
  • Chronic Pain, TBI, and PTSD in Military Veterans: A Link to Suicidal Ideation and Violent Impulses? 
  • Clinical decision-making about inpatient violence risk at admission to a public-sector acute psychiatric hospital. 
  • Clinical epidemiology of urban violence: responding to children exposed to violence in ten communities. 
  • Clinical needs assessment of middle and high school students following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Co-occurring psychosocial problems and HIV risk among women attending drinking venues in a South African township: a syndemic approach. 
  • Community violence perpetration and victimization among adults with mental illnesses. 
  • Community-Based multiple family groups to prevent and reduce violent and aggressive behavior: the GREAT Families Program. 
  • Comparison of antipsychotic medication effects on reducing violence in people with schizophrenia. 
  • Complex PTSD in victims exposed to sexual and physical abuse: results from the DSM-IV Field Trial for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. 
  • Continuing Medical Education and Firearm Violence Counseling. 
  • Correlates of Future Violence in People Being Treated for Schizophrenia. 
  • Criminal justice involvement, trauma, and negative affect in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans. 
  • Criminal victimization of persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Deaths from violence in North Carolina, 2004: how deaths differ in females and males. 
  • Defying the odds on gun regulation: The passage of bipartisan mental health laws across the states. 
  • Developing a school functioning index for middle schools. 
  • Development of a criteria set and a structured interview for disorders of extreme stress (SIDES). 
  • Development of the Sri Lankan early teenagers' violence inventory: an instrument to measure peer violence in schools. 
  • Disentangling the link between posttraumatic stress disorder and violent behavior: Findings from a nationally representative sample. 
  • Documentation of violence risk information in psychiatric hospital patient charts: an empirical examination. 
  • Domain specificity in relationship history, social-information processing, and violent behavior in early adulthood. 
  • Early physical abuse and later violent delinquency: a prospective longitudinal study. 
  • Effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications in reducing violent behavior among persons with schizophrenia in community-based treatment. 
  • Effects of Alcohol on Human Aggression: An Integrative Research Review 
  • Effects of involuntary outpatient commitment on subjective quality of life in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Effects of social support and resilient coping on violent behavior in military veterans. 
  • Emergency department visits with facial fractures among children and adolescents: an analysis of profile and predictors of causes of injuries. 
  • Epidemiologic Evidence to Guide the Understanding and Prevention of Gun Violence. 
  • Epidemiological personology: the unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors. 
  • Epidemiology of facial fracture injuries. 
  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors. 
  • Evaluating the impact of interventions in the Multisite Violence Prevention Study: Samples, procedures, and measures 
  • Evaluation of a classroom-based psychosocial intervention in conflict-affected Nepal: a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. 
  • Examination of a conceptual model of child neglect. 
  • Expanding the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention. 
  • Experiences of sexual coercion among adolescent women: qualitative findings from Rakai district, Uganda. 
  • Explaining rare acts of violence: the limits of evidence from population research. 
  • Exposure to intimate partner violence, peer relations, and risk for internalizing behaviors: a prospective longitudinal study. 
  • Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study. 
  • Factors related to posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescence. 
  • Family and school socioeconomic disadvantage: interactive influences on adolescent dating violence victimization. 
  • Family representative payeeship and violence risk in severe mental illness. 
  • Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980-2019: a network meta-regression. 
  • Female and male antisocial trajectories: from childhood origins to adult outcomes. 
  • Framing public policy and prevention of chronic violence in American youths. 
  • Gender Differences in Suicide and Self-Directed Violence Risk Among Veterans With Post-traumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders. 
  • Gender and Sex Trading Among Active Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Gender and anxiety in Nepal: the role of social support, stressful life events, and structural violence. 
  • Gender differences in the clinical presentation of PTSD and its concomitants in survivors of interpersonal assault. 
  • Gender-based violence and HIV sexual risk behavior: alcohol use and mental health problems as mediators among women in drinking venues, Cape Town. 
  • Gun Violence, Mental Illness, And Laws That Prohibit Gun Possession: Evidence From Two Florida Counties. 
  • Guns, Impulsive Angry Behavior, and Mental Disorders: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). 
  • Guns, Mental Illness, and the Law: Introduction to This Issue. 
  • Homicide and suicide rates associated with implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. 
  • Hopelessness as a risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among interpersonal violence survivors. 
  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context. 
  • How safe are college campuses? 
  • Impact of outpatient commitment on victimization of people with severe mental illness. 
  • Improving risk assessment of violence among military veterans: an evidence-based approach for clinical decision-making. 
  • Informing Federal Policy on Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries: Risk Indicators in the Post-Deployment Mental Health Study. 
  • Injuries and assaults in a long-term psychiatric care facility: an epidemiologic study. 
  • Interpersonal violence and head injury: The effects on treatment for PTSD. 
  • Interpersonal violence and its correlates in Vietnam veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Intimate partner violence and new-onset depression: a longitudinal study of women's childhood and adult histories of abuse. 
  • Intimate partner violence and stalking behavior: exploration of patterns and correlates in a sample of acutely battered women. 
  • Intimate partner violence exposure predicts PTSD treatment engagement and outcome in cognitive processing therapy. 
  • Introduction: Violence and Mental Illness. 
  • Involuntary Outpatient Commitment and the Elusive Pursuit of Violence Prevention. 
  • Involuntary out-patient commitment and reduction of violent behaviour in persons with severe mental illness. 
  • It was pretty scary: The theme of fear in young adult women's descriptions of a history of adolescent dating abuse 
  • It's not just who you're with, it's who you are: personality and relationship experiences across multiple relationships. 
  • K-12, college/university, and mass shootings: similarities and differences. 
  • La mancha negra: substance abuse, violence, and sexual risks among Hispanic males. 
  • Leading indicators of community-based violent events among adults with mental illness. 
  • Lessons learned in the Multisite Violence Prevention Project collaboration: Big questions require large efforts 
  • Long-term follow-up of unsuccessful violent suicide attempts: risk factors for subsequent attempts. 
  • MAOA, maltreatment, and gene-environment interaction predicting children's mental health: new evidence and a meta-analysis. 
  • Male adolescent bullying and the school shooter. 
  • Male-female differences in the setting and construction of violence among people with severe mental illness. 
  • Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: follow-up at age 26 years. 
  • Maltreatment history and weapon carrying among early adolescents. 
  • Mechanism of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Southwestern Uganda: A Prospective Cohort of 100 Patients. 
  • Mechanisms in the cycle of violence. 
  • Mediators of interpersonal violence and drug addiction severity among methamphetamine users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Medical costs and productivity losses due to interpersonal and self-directed violence in the United States. 
  • Mental disorder and violent victimization in a total birth cohort. 
  • Mental disorders and violence in a total birth cohort: results from the Dunedin Study. 
  • Mental illness and firearm violence. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Methamphetamine use is associated with childhood sexual abuse and HIV sexual risk behaviors among patrons of alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Moral transgression during the Vietnam War: a path analysis of the psychological impact of veterans' involvement in wartime atrocities. 
  • Network analysis of exposure to trauma and childhood adversities in a clinical sample of youth. 
  • Neural mechanisms of genetic risk for impulsivity and violence in humans. 
  • Nonsuicidal self-injury and interpersonal violence in U.S. veterans seeking help for posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • On the meaning of meaning when being mean: commentary on Berkowitz's "on the consideration of automatic as well as controlled psychological processes in aggression". 
  • PTSD diagnoses, subsyndromal symptoms, and comorbidities contribute to impairments for breast cancer survivors. 
  • PTSD symptoms and family versus stranger violence in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. 
  • Pacifists and Revenge-Seekers in Response to Unambiguous Peer Provocation. 
  • Parental mental disorder and offspring criminal behavior: an adoption study. 
  • Participation in trauma research: is there evidence of harm? 
  • Pathways to violence in the children of mothers who were depressed postpartum. 
  • Penetrating trauma in children on the United States-Mexico border: Hispanic ethnicity is not a risk factor. 
  • Perinatal risk factors in the development of aggression and violence. 
  • Personality differences predict health-risk behaviors in young adulthood: evidence from a longitudinal study. 
  • Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care. 
  • Physical assault in New Zealand: the experience of 21 year old men and women in a community sample. 
  • Political violence and mental health in Nepal: prospective study. 
  • Political violence and mental health: a multi-disciplinary review of the literature on Nepal. 
  • Positive Association Between Nightmares and Heart Rate Response to Loud Tones: Relationship to Parasympathetic Dysfunction in PTSD Nightmares. 
  • Posttraumatic growth in treatment-seeking female assault victims. 
  • Posttraumatic stress among young children after the death of a friend or acquaintance in a terrorist bombing. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms mediate the relationship between traumatic experiences and drinking behavior among women attending alcohol-serving venues in a South African township. 
  • Posttraumatic stress responses in bereaved children after the Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Predictive validity of callous-unemotional traits measured in early adolescence with respect to multiple antisocial outcomes 
  • Prevalence and correlates of cannabis use and dependence in young New Zealanders. 
  • Preventing the unpredicted: managing violence risk in mental health care. 
  • Primum non nocere (first do no harm): symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD. 
  • Problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Professionalizing the practice of public policy in the prevention of violence. 
  • Protective factors and risk modification of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans. 
  • Protective mechanisms and prevention of violence and aggression in veterans. 
  • Proximal Risk Factors for Short-Term Community Violence Among Adults With Mental Illnesses. 
  • Psychiatric impairment, social contact, and violent behavior: evidence from a study of outpatient-committed persons with severe mental disorder. 
  • Psychosocial adjustment and mental health in former child soldiers--systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research. 
  • Psychosocial and cultural correlates of depression among Hispanic men with HIV infection: a pilot study. 
  • Psychosocial protective factors and suicidal ideation: Results from a national longitudinal study of veterans. 
  • Public Health Research on Gun Violence: Long Overdue. 
  • Racial disparities in involuntary outpatient commitment: are they real? 
  • Reactive and proactive aggression in school children and psychiatrically impaired chronically assaultive youth. 
  • Reconstructive Surgery in Times of Conflict. 
  • Reducing violence risk in persons with schizophrenia: olanzapine versus risperidone. 
  • Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: the dark side of high self-esteem. 
  • Relationships and betrayal among young women: Theoretical perspectives on adolescent dating abuse 
  • Reliability of reports of violent victimization and posttraumatic stress disorder among men and women with serious mental illness. 
  • Risk factors among handgun retailers for frequent and disproportionate sales of guns used in violent and firearm related crimes. 
  • Risk factors for concurrent suicidal ideation and violent impulses in military veterans. 
  • Risk reconsidered: targets of violence in the social networks of people with serious psychiatric disorders. 
  • Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children. 
  • Saving lives by regulating guns: Evidence for policy 
  • Screening for violence risk in military veterans: predictive validity of a brief clinical tool. 
  • Seclusion on an adolescent unit. 
  • Seclusion. 
  • Self-report and longitudinal predictors of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan war era veterans. 
  • Social-cognitive processes of severely violent, moderately aggressive, and nonaggressive boys. 
  • Sociocultural discourse in science: Flawed assumptions and bias in the CLASH model. 
  • Sources of guns to dangerous people: what we learn by asking them. 
  • Spirituality, resilience, and anger in survivors of violent trauma: a community survey. 
  • Strategic thinking about gun markets and violence. 
  • Subcomponents of psychopathy have opposing correlations with punishment judgments. 
  • Subjective distress and violence during rape: their effects on long-term fear. 
  • Substance abuse, violence, HIV, and depression: an underlying syndemic factor among Latinas. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Suicide attempt in young people: a signal for long-term health care and social needs. 
  • Taking the wrong drugs: the role of substance abuse and medication noncompliance in violence among severely mentally ill individuals. 
  • Testing an idealized dynamic cascade model of the development of serious violence in adolescence. 
  • The American Psychological Association Task Force assessment of violent video games: Science in the service of public interest. 
  • The Gun Violence Epidemic: Time for Perioperative Physicians to Act. 
  • The Multisite Violence Prevention Project: Background and overview 
  • The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians. 
  • The Rise and Fall of the ‘’Warrior Gene’’ Defense 
  • The Texas Medication Algorithm Project antipsychotic algorithm for schizophrenia: 2006 update. 
  • The costs of gun violence against children. 
  • The ecological effects of universal and selective violence prevention programs for middle school students: A randomized trial 
  • The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the United States. 
  • The epidemiology of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder in a representative cohort of young people in England and Wales. 
  • The factor structure of psychiatric comorbidity among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans and its relationship to violence, incarceration, suicide attempts, and suicidality. 
  • The intricate link between violence and mental disorder: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. 
  • The medical costs of gunshot injuries in the United States. 
  • The multisite violence prevention project: Impact of a universal school-based violence prevention program on social-cognitive outcomes 
  • The prediction of adolescent homicide: episodic dyscontrol and dehumanization. 
  • The relationship between violence in Northern Mexico and potentially avoidable hospitalizations in the USA-Mexico border region. 
  • The role of exposure in posttraumatic stress in youths following the 1995 bombing. 
  • The science of youth violence prevention. Progressing from developmental epidemiology to efficacy to effectiveness to public policy. 
  • The social distribution of risk at work: acute injuries and physical assaults among healthcare workers working in a long-term care facility. 
  • The social-environmental context of violent behavior in persons treated for severe mental illness. 
  • The targets of violence committed by young offenders with alcohol dependence, marijuana dependence and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: findings from a birth cohort. 
  • The virtuous tax: lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase. 
  • Toward an animal model for antisocial behavior: parallels between mice and humans. 
  • Translating models of antisocial behavioral development into efficacious intervention policy to prevent adolescent violence. 
  • Trauma exposure and sleep disturbance in a sample of youth from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set. 
  • Trauma reactivity, avoidant coping, and PTSD symptoms: a moderating relationship? 
  • Treatment engagement and violence risk in mental disorders. 
  • Use of mental health services by community-resident adults with DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders in a violence-prone area: São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Using Photovoice to Understand Survivors' Healthcare Experiences and Strategies. 
  • Using research evidence to reframe the policy debate around mental illness and guns: process and recommendations. 
  • Validation of the Impact of Event Scale on a sample of American Vietnam veterans. 
  • Validity of teacher ratings in selecting influential aggressive adolescents for a targeted preventive intervention 
  • Validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory Aggression scales and Violence Potential index in veterans with PTSD. 
  • Victimization: a link between mental illness and violence? 
  • Violence against substance-abusing South African sex workers: intersection with culture and HIV risk. 
  • Violence and ECA data. 
  • Violence and hostility among families of Vietnam veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Violence and leveraged community treatment for persons with mental disorders. 
  • Violence and psychiatric disorder in the community: evidence from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area surveys. 
  • Violence and severe mental disorder in clinical and community populations: the effects of psychotic symptoms, comorbidity, and lack of treatment. 
  • Violence and severe mental illness: the effects of substance abuse and nonadherence to medication. 
  • Violence, homelessness, and HIV risk among crack-using African-American women. 
  • Violent behavior in mental illness: the role of substance abuse. 
  • Violent behavior preceding hospitalization among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Violent behaviour and post-traumatic stress disorder in US Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. 
  • Violent children: bridging development, intervention, and public policy. 
  • Violent crime exposure classification and adverse birth outcomes: a geographically-defined cohort study. 
  • Wall/Object Punching: An Important but Under-Recognized Form of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. 
  • Weapons and minority youth violence. 
  • When more is not better: the role of cumulative risk in child behavior outcomes. 
  • Whole blood serotonin relates to violence in an epidemiological study. 
  • Young Woman With Unilateral Vision Loss. 
  • Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: a latent class analysis. 
  • Youth violence across multiple dimensions: a study of violence, absenteeism, and suspensions among middle school children. 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability. 
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  • Bentley-Edwards, Keisha Leanne, Associate Professor in Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society