NCJ Number
184850
Editor(s)
Michele A. Paludi
Date Published
1999
Length
267 pages
Annotation
This book contains papers on topics associated with sexual victimization by family members, sexual victimization in dating and marital relationships, and sexual victimization by strangers, as well as sexual victimization in educational and work settings; legal and legislative responses to sexual victimization are discussed, along with resources for teaching, research, and advocacy.
Abstract
The paper on sexual victimization by family members discusses the recognition and treatment of the adult survivor of incest. Two papers on sexual victimization in dating and marital relationships address physical violence in dating relationships and observers' blaming of battered wives. One paper discusses stranger rape, and another presents a psychologist's view of sexual harassment in education and in the workplace. Two papers on legal and legislative responses to sexual victimization consider the application of law to sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as the responses of the U.S. Congress to sexual victimization. Three papers on resources for teaching, research, and advocacy describe the appropriate intervention for parental kidnapping and child abuse, teaching about sexual harassment in the undergraduate psychology curriculum, and the development of the project called Survivors of Educator Sexual Abuse and Misconduct Emerge. The latter project focuses on increasing awareness, prevention, and effective intervention for educators' sexual abuse of students. Chapter references, a 63-item bibliography, and a subject index