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• Rape Hobbles Bush Administration Policies. Truthout, 26 May 2008. Sexual assaults and rapes by US military in Japan lead to a major international incident.
• Sex Abuse in the Name of Religion Isn't a Lifestyle -- It's Sex Abuse. Alternet, 23 May 2008. In the world of the FLDS, "spiritual marriage" between older men and underage girls -- what the law defines as rape -- is given the stamp of religious approval.
• Aspiring abortion doctors drawn to embattled field. Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2008. Young doctors-in-training have found their own motivation to enter a field that they know will put them at risk of isolation, harassment and hatred. For them, doing abortions is an act of defiance — a way of pushing back against mounting restrictions on a right they've taken for granted all their lives.
• Many Female Child Molesters Were Victims Of Sexual Abuse. Medical News Today, 14 May 2008. A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.
• At War With Ourselves: Battling Sexual Violence in the Military. AlterNet, 21 April 2008. U.S. servicewomen are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. It's time we dealt with this national disgrace.

• Understanding And Improving Law Enforcement Responses To Human Trafficking. Amy Farrell, Jack McDevitt, Stephanie Fahy, Scott Decker, Nancy Rodriguez, Vince Webb, Nikos Passas. Northeastern University's Institute on Race and Justice, 2008
• Justice Denied: How Family Courts in NYC Endanger Battered Women and Children Voices of Women Organizing Project, 2008
  
• Understanding and Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking. Amy Farrell, Jack McDevitt et al, Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, June 2008
• Report on Research on Rape and Violence by the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, April 2008
• USA Final Report on the Evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program (FOPP). Office of Research & Evaluation. US National Institute of Justice, Abt Associates, 2008
• Deconstructing the Demand for Prostitution: Preliminary Insights from Interviews with Chicago Men Who Purchase Sex. Rachel Durchslag, AM & Samir Goswami, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2008
• USA State-By-State Teen Dating Violence Report Card, Break the Cycle, 2008
• Adverse Health Conditions and Health Risk Behaviors Associated with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) - United States, 2005, MC Black, PhD, MJ Breiding, PhD, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Feb 8 2008
• Drug-facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape: A National Study, Dean Kilpatrick, Heidi Resnick, Kenneth Ruggiero, Lauren M. Conoscenti, & Jenna McCauley, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2007
• When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2005 Homicide Data, The Violence Policy Center, 2007
• Drug-facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape: A National Study, Dean Kilpatrick, Heidi Resnick, Kenneth Ruggiero, Lauren M. Conoscenti, & Jenna McCauley for the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, July 2007
• DEMAND. A Comparative Examination of Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Shared Hope International. 2007
• US women's choices of strategies to protect themselves from violence.  Runyan CW, Casteel C, Moracco KE, Coyne-Beasley T. Inj Prev 2007
• USA - Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking - Video, Report, Fact Sheet, Shared Hope International  2007
• Family violence and associated help-seeking behavior among older African American women.  Paranjape A, Tucker A, McKenzie-Mack L, Thompson N, Kaslow N. Patient Educ Couns 2007
• Maze of Injustice - The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA, Amnesty International, 2007
• Department of Defense Annual Report on Military Services Sexual Assault for Calendar Year, 2006, USA, March 2007
• Unwanted Sexual Contact, in Context, University of New Hampshire, 2006
• Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, Trafficking in Persons Report, US Secretary of State, 2006
• When Men Murder Women: an analysis of 2004 homicide data,  Violence Policy Center USA, 2006
• Extent, Nature and Consequences of Rape Victimisation: Findings from the national violence against women survey, Patricia Tjaden, Nancy Thoennes, NIJ, NCJ 210346, 2006
• Advancing the Nation's Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006
• Sexual Assault and Substance Abuse, Janet Anderson, The Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, 2005
• Implications of U.S. policy restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking worldwide, Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2005
• Costs of intimate partner violence against women in the United States. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2003

• Frequency and types of partner violence among Mexican American college women. Coker AL, Sanderson M, Cantu E, Huerta D, Fadden MK. J Am Coll Health; 56(6):665-74. 2008
• Chronic disease and health risk behaviors associated with intimate partner violence-18 U.S. states/territories, 2005. Breiding MJ, Black MC, Ryan GW. Ann Epidemiol 2008
  
• Nonfatal Maltreatment of Infants. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 4, 2008
• Adverse health conditions and health risk behaviors associated with intimate partner violence--United States, 2005. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep; 57(5): 113-7. 2008
• Child Maltreatment Among Immigrant Chinese Families: Characteristics and Patterns of Placement. Rhee S, Chang J, Weaver D, Wong D. Child Maltreat 2008
  
• Breaking the cycle/mending the hoop: adverse childhood experiences among incarcerated American Indian/Alaska Native women in New Mexico. De Ravello L, Abeita J, Brown P. Health Care Women Int; 29(3): 300-15. 2008
• Child maltreatment and substance abuse among U.S. army soldiers. Gibbs DA, Martin SL, Johnson RE, Rentz ED, Clinton-Sherrod M, Hardison J. Child Maltreat 2008
• Intimate partner violence and psychological functioning in Latina women. Hazen AL, Connelly CD, Soriano FI, Landsverk JA. Health Care Women Int; 29(3): 282-99. 2008
• Beyond the campus: unacknowledged rape among low-income women. Littleton H, Radecki Breitkopf C, Berenson A. Violence Against Women; 14(3): 269-86. 2008
• The Violent and Sexual Victimization of College Women: Is Repeat Victimization a Problem? Daigle LE, Fisher BS, Cullen FT. J Interpers Violence 2008
• Measuring Sex Differences in Violence Victimization and Perpetration Within Date and Same-Sex Peer Relationships. Swahn MH, Simon TR, Arias I, Bossarte RM. J Interpers Violence 2008
• Methods for Estimating Medical Expenditures Attributable to Intimate Partner Violence. Brown DS, Finkelstein EA, Mercy JA. J Interpers Violence 2008
• Physical and sexual violence among North Carolina women associations with physical health, mental health, and functional impairment. Martin SL, Rentz ED, Chan RL, Givens J, Sanford CP, Kupper LL, Garrettson M, Macy RJ. Womens Health Issues; 18(2): 130-40, 2008
• Premilitary Adult Sexual Assault Victimization and Perpetration in a Navy Recruit Sample. Stander VA, Merrill LL, Thomsen CJ, Crouch JL, Milner JS. J Interpers Violence 2008
  
• Mandatory [child abuse] reporting legislation in the United States, Canada, and Australia: a cross-jurisdictional review of key features, differences, and issues. Mathews B, Kenny MC. Child Maltreat; 13(1): 50-63. 2008
• A longitudinal study of arrested batterers, 1995-2005: career criminals. Klein AR, Tobin T. Violence Against Women; 14(2): 136-57. 2008
• Sexual aggression among White, Black, and Hispanic couples in the U.S.: alcohol use, physical assault and psychological aggression as its correlates. Ramisetty-Mikler S, Caetano R, McGrath C. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse; 33(1): 31-43. 2007
• An estimate of the proportion of drug-facilitation of sexual assault in four U.S. localities. Juhascik MP, Negrusz A, Faugno D, Ledray L, Greene P, Lindner A, Haner B, Gaensslen RE. J Forensic Sci; 52(6): 1396-400. 2007: (Abstract; subscription needed for full text)
  
• An estimate of the proportion of drug-facilitation of sexual assault in four U.S. localities. J Forensic Sci; 52(6): 1396-400. 2007
  
• Lifetime and current sexual assault and harassment victimization rates of active-duty United States air force women.  Bostock DJ, Daley JG. Violence Against Women. Sep;13(9):927-44. 2007
• Emergency department care for victims of sexual offense. Straight JD, Heaton PC. Am J Health Syst Pharm. Sep 1;64(17):1845-50, 2007
• Risk and the preventive detention of sex offenders in Australia and the United States.  Mercado CC, Ogloff JR. Int J Law Psychiatry; 30(1): 49-59. 2007
• HIV/AIDS and intimate partner violence: intersecting women's health issues in the United States.  Gielen AC, Ghandour RM, Burke JG, Mahoney P, McDonnell KA, O'campo P. Trauma Violence Abuse; 8(2): 178-98, 2007
• Experiences with intimate partner violence among Latina women. - Hazen AL, Soriano FI. Violence Against Women; 13(6): 562-82. 2007
• An exploratory study of women arrested for intimate partner violence: violent women or violent resistance? - Muftic LR, Bouffard JA, Bouffard LA. J Interpers Violence; 22(6): 753-74, 2007
• Women’s experiences with violence: A national study, Moracco, Kathryn E; Runyan, Carol W.; Bowling, J. Michael; and Earp, Jo Anne L., Women's Health Issues, vol. 17, pgs. 3-12, 2007
• Violence against Native women in substance abuse treatment. Saylors K, Daliparthy N. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res; 13(1): 32-51. 2006
• Physical and sexual assault of women with disabilities, Martin, S. L.; Moracco, K. E.; Sotres-Alvarez, D.; Kupper, L. L.; Scandlin, D.; Ray, N.; Gizlice, Z.; and Dickens, P. A. Violence Against Women, 2006
• Separation and/or Divorce Sexual Assault in Rural Ohio: Preliminary Results of an Exploratory Study, DeKeseredy, W.S., & Joseph, C., Violence Against Women, 12, 301-311, 2006
• Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault: The Contribution of Male Peer Support, DeKeseredy, W.S., Schwartz, M.D., Fagen, D., & Hall, M., Feminist Criminology, 1, 228-250, 2006

• Men Ending Violence
• National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence (USA)
• National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth
• National Criminal Justice
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center
• Office on Violence Against Women, United States Department of Justice.
• The Business of Selling People, US Trafficking of Women, CBS TV, Sept. 12, 2007 release