W S Dekeseredy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 52197 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W S Dekeseredy |
| NOMBRES | W S |
| APELLIDO | Dekeseredy |
| FIRMA | DEKESEREDY W S |
| AFILIACIONES | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3692-5078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 91 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 360 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Turning It Around
The ascendancy of right-wing populism and neo-liberalism has sapped many, if not most, progressives’ optimism. Since President Donald Trump got re-elected, it appears that things are getting worse every day. The movement toward a harsher, more unequal and less secure society, however, is not confined to the United States—though its expression there may be the most extreme and glaring. What is to be done? In 2019, in response to Trump's first elec…
Woman Abuse in Hockey-Related Contexts
A new international cadre of social scientists is revisiting male-to-female violence in sport-related contexts (SRC), a social problem that received much scholarly attention in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the bulk of the current empirical and theoretical work on woman abuse in SRC today focuses on the gendered harms caused by U.S. football and basketball players. Recently, though, due in large part to the significant international media attenti…
“Suffering in Deafening Silence”
Complex trauma history is one of the incarcerated girls’ most salient characteristics, and two of the most injurious outcomes are suicide ideation and attempted suicide. However, to the best of our knowledge, not one published study has thus far focused on the suicide experiences of rural girls in detention facilities. Guided by theoretical perspectives on females’ pathways into crime and using data derived from in-depth semistructured interviews…
The Dominance of Individualism and Positivism
Race/ethnicity, negative peer support, and polyvictimization among college women
Advances in social scientific understandings of female racial/ethnic minority college students’ experiences of woman abuse have not kept pace with the amount of theoretical and empirical work on the plight of their White counterparts. What is especially needed is a study that examines racial/ethnic variations in negative peer support for various types of victimization in institutions of higher learning. Using the Campus Quality of Life Survey, re…
Sociological Understandings of Sexual Assault
Diana Scully intellectually, politically, and personally touched the lives of many people. Though she has left this world, her ground-breaking sexual assault research continues to influence many feminist scholars who examine various types of violence against women. This article points to some of her most noteworthy contributions to the field
On Thin Ice
There was a burst of creative social scientific investigation into hypermasculine male athletes’ violence against women in the 1980s and 1990s, but this interest has seemed to have dried up. Furthermore, the extant literature on this problem is for the most part atheoretical and devoid of sociological ways of knowing. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to highlight the value of applying a modified male peer support theory of male-to-female viol…
Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism
A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women
Racial/ethnic variations in the polyvictimization of college women
Social scientific knowledge of the extent, distribution, causes, and consequences of various types of gendered interpersonal violence against North American college women has markedly advanced since the early 1980s. Nevertheless, major research gaps still exist, including a conspicuous absence of quantitative and qualitative data on racial/ethnic variations in female students’ polyvictimization experiences. Using results of the Campus Quality of …
Single, Repeat, and Poly Intimate Partner Violence Victimization among Women at a College Campus
This study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization (i.e., technology-facilitated and in-person psychological, physical, and sexual) and polyvictimization, along with the role of social support and other factors in influencing these experiences. Using a sample of college women in intimate relationships in the past year ( n = 265), findings revealed that social support was important in predicting IPV victimizations, with less prosoci…
Bringing Feminist Sociological Analyses of Patriarchy Back to the Forefront of the Study of Woman Abuse
Regardless of their contributions to some of the most important scientific advances in the field, feminist sociological analyses of various types of male-to-female violence that prioritize the concept of patriarchy have leveled off or declined in the last 12 years, especially in North America. This article describes how mainstream work came to dominate the field and suggests a few strategies for challenging the hegemony of orthodox perspectives o…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Improving the Quality of Survey Data on College Campus Woman Abuse
Obtaining accurate survey data on the prevalence of woman abuse in institutions of higher education continues to be a major methodological challenge. Underreporting is difficult to overcome; yet, there may be effective ways of minimizing this problem. One is adding a supplementary open-ended question to a primarily quantitative questionnaire. Using data derived from the Campus Quality of Life Survey (CQLS), this article examines whether asking re…
Hate Crimes and Bias Incidents in the Ivory Tower
Over the past few years, college campuses across the United States have conducted climate surveys primarily aimed at gleaning quantitative data on the extent and distribution of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking. Conspicuously absent from these surveys are measures of two other serious problems that plague many students in this current era: hate crimes and bias incidents. Using data from the 2016 Campus Quality of Life Surve…
Technology-Facilitated Stalking and Unwanted Sexual Messages/Images in a College Campus Community
Researchers have accumulated much social scientific knowledge about the scope, distribution, causes, and outcomes of the physical and sexual abuse of female students in North American institutions of higher learning. However, surveys of technology-facilitated stalking and the dissemination of unwanted sexual messages/images in college campus communities are in short supply. The few that have been conducted do not identify key sociological risk fa…
Intimate Partner Violence in Small Towns, Dispersed Rural Areas, and Other Locations
Current understanding of victimization of those in rural settlements compared to other types of settlements is limited by inadequate classifications of settlement types. The typical approach-one based on the incorrect use of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's classification of metropolitan areas-may mask important variations in the incidence of violent victimization, and in part explain mixed results related to this issue. To investigate …
Valeria Vegh Weis. Marxism and Criminology
Abusive Endings
This book provides scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers with a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date social scientific literature on lethal and nonlethal forms of male-to-female violence during and after separation and divorce. Special attention is devoted to reviewing theoretical perspectives on the topic and the ways in which various technologies are used by men to hurt the women who want to leave them, have begun to emoti…
Urban Crime and Violence
Defining crime and violence is the subject of much debate and the literature reveals a myriad of definitions. This entry reviews the most up‐to‐date empirical and theoretical sociological literature on urban crime and violence. Some gaps in the extant literature are identified and a few means of filling them are suggested
A campus LGBTQ community’s sexual violence and stalking experiences
Previous studies of peer support for various types of violence against college students are heteronormative, being primarily concerned with the abuse of heterosexual women by heterosexual males. Using recent data from the Campus Quality of Life Survey conducted at a large residential college in the South Atlantic part of the US, the main objective of this paper is to help fill a major research gap by presenting data on two ways in which negative …
College Campus Sexual Assault
Since the mid-1980s, researchers across the United States have uncovered high rates of sexual assault among female college students. However, to advance a better understanding of this gendered type of victimization, and to both prevent and control this problem, the research community needs to identify its major correlates. One that is consistently uncovered in North American campus survey work is negative peer support, especially that provided by…
Days of Whine and Poses
Wright and DeLisi could have produced a guide to conservative criminology which would have been a useful addition to available teaching materials. Most of us cover conservative criminology extensively in our classes, from rational choice theories, to low self-control, to routine activities, broken windows, perceptual deterrence, criminal mind and human nature theories and much more. Unfortunately, this book is improperly titled. It is not a caref…
Irwin, Katherine and Umemoto, Karen
Owen, Barbara, Wells, James and Pollock, Joycelyn
Male Peer Support and Woman Abuse
This paper reviews the current empirical literature on the relationship between male peer support and woman abuse in intimate, heterosexual relationships. Suggestions for future quantitative and qualitative studies are provided. Furthermore, this review concludes with a call for more rigorous attempts at theory construction and testing
Woman abuse in dating relationships
New directions in feminist understandings of rural crime
Male peer support and woman abuse
Although all‐male friendship networks may have an important effect in motivating some men to physically, sexually, and psychologically harm female intimates, particularly in dating relationships, the study of the dynamics of these groups is still limited. DeKeseredy's early model has some of the best explanatory value, but it fails to address a number of factors, including macrolevel forces, the role of alcohol abuse, membership in formal social …
Rethinking Estrangement, Interventions, and Intimate Femicide
North American research shows that interventions and their type, appropriateness, timing, and patterning may help explain variations in the relationship between estrangement and intimate femicide on one hand and reintegration or conciliation on the other. The main objective of this article is to build on Wilson and Daly's male proprietariness thesis by integrating it with a theory of interventions
The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships
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Women's Fear of Crime in Canadian Public Housing
That women have a greater fear of crime than men has often been termed irrational or paradoxical, but this article joins those who argue that the gendered nature of fear is well grounded. The authors investigate the extent to which various factors—including prior victimization, perceptions of neighborhood disorder, routine activities, and neighborhood satisfaction—predict women's perceptions of personal safety. Survey and semistructured interview…
Intimate Relationship Status Variations in Violence Against Women
Woman abuse varies across intimate relationship categories (e.g., marriage, divorce, separation). However, it is unclear whether relationship status variations in violence against women differ across urban, suburban, and rural areas. We test the hypothesis that rural females, regardless of their intimate partner relationship status, are at higher risk of intimate violence than their urban and suburban counterparts. Results indicate that marital s…
Separation and/or Divorce Sexual Assault in Rural Ohio
A rapidly growing social scientific literature shows that many women are at great risk of being killed, beaten, or psychologically abused when they exit or try to leave their marital and/or cohabiting partners. However, less than a handful of studies have examined male-to-female sexual assaults during and after separation or divorce. Furthermore, the bulk of the limited empirical work on this problem was done in urban areas. Thus, the main object…
The Role of Profeminist Men in Dealing With Woman Abuse on the Canadian College Campus
Stopping woman abuse on the North American college campus has not been very successful thus far. There is a major backlash, where students, faculty, and administrators too often either feel that the problem is not very significant or support the patriarchal rights of men. Programs begun by many campuses have not worked very well, partially because they depend on women to police the actions of men and partially because so few men come under formal…
Bringing Feminist Sociological Analyses of Patriarchy Back to the Forefront of the Study of Woman Abuse
Regardless of their contributions to some of the most important scientific advances in the field, feminist sociological analyses of various types of male-to-female violence that prioritize the concept of patriarchy have leveled off or declined in the last 12 years, especially in North America. This article describes how mainstream work came to dominate the field and suggests a few strategies for challenging the hegemony of orthodox perspectives o…
Thinking Critically About Rural Gender Relations
Friedman economic policies, social exclusion, and crime
Current Controversies on Defining Nonlethal Violence Against Women in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships
There is considerable disagreement about what harmful behaviors should be included in a definition of nonlethal violence against women in intimate heterosexual relationships. For example, many researchers restrict their focus to physical and/or sexual assaults, whereas others offer formulations that include a much broader range of injurious acts. The main objectives of this article are to describe and evaluate narrow and broad definitions and pro…
Sexual assault and stranger aggression on a candian university campus
Adult Pornography and Violence Against Women in the Heartland
Many rural parts of the United States are now "pornified." There is growing quantitative evidence revealing that rural women are at higher risk of being victimized by intimate violence than their urban and suburban counterparts. In-depth interviews with 55 rural southeast Ohio women who wanted to leave, were trying to leave, or were in the process of leaving, or who have left their male marital/cohabiting partners reveal that pornography is a maj…
Enhancing the Quality of Survey Data on Woman Abuse
The primary objective of DeKeseredy and Kelly's national Canadian survey on woman abuse in university/college courtship was to elicit reliable data on the extent, patterns, and sources of male-to-female psychological, sexual, and physical victimization in postsecondary school dating. In this article, I describe these researchers' attempts to avoid or minimize the methodological shortcomings of previous North American surveys on this sensitive top…
Toward a Gendered Social Bond/Male Peer Support Theory of University Woman Abuse
Tactics of the Antifeminist Backlash Against Canadian National Woman Abuse Surveys
Canada is experiencing a major antifeminist backlash against the results of two Canadian national surveys on woman abuse. The main objectives of this article are to provide examples of the key tactics used in this backlash, such as misleading interpretations of Conflict Tactics Scales data, and to briefly suggest several ways of challenging and resisting them
Intimate Partner Violence in Small Towns, Dispersed Rural Areas, and Other Locations
Current understanding of victimization of those in rural settlements compared to other types of settlements is limited by inadequate classifications of settlement types. The typical approach-one based on the incorrect use of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's classification of metropolitan areas-may mask important variations in the incidence of violent victimization, and in part explain mixed results related to this issue. To investigate …
Confronting Progressive Retreatism and Minimalism
Urban, Suburban, and Rural Variations in Separation/Divorce Rape/Sexual Assault
To date, no large study has looked at whether separation/divorce sexual assault varies across urban, suburban, and rural areas. The authors use 1992-2009 NCVS (National Crime Victimization Survey) data to estimate the percentage of separation/divorce sexual assault against women in urban, suburban, and rural communities. In addition, the authors identify and compare the relative risk of sexual assault victimization for women across areas. Finding…
Claims About Women’s Use of Non-fatal Force in Intimate Relationships
Claims that violence is gender-neutral are increasingly becoming "common sense" in Canada. Antifeminist groups assert that the high rates of woman abuse uncovered by major Canadian national surveys conducted in the early 1990s are greatly exaggerated and that women are as violent as men. The production of degendered rhetoric about "intimate partner violence" contributes to claims that women's and men's violence is symmetrical and mutual. This art…
Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault
Although several studies find that the most dangerous part of an intimate relationship for women is when it breaks up, relatively few studies look at women who want to break up a relationship, are in the process of leaving, or who have left a relationship. This qualitative exploratory study looks at incidents of sexual assault committed by former husbands or cohabitants in the lives of rural women in Ohio. Male peer support, which has previously …
Woman abuse in university and college dating relationships
Woman abuse in dating relationships
Male Peer Support and Woman Abuse
This paper reviews the current empirical literature on the relationship between male peer support and woman abuse in intimate, heterosexual relationships. Suggestions for future quantitative and qualitative studies are provided. Furthermore, this review concludes with a call for more rigorous attempts at theory construction and testing
Reconstituting social order and social control
Woman A buse in Dating Relationships
The relationship between male peer support and premarital woman abuse is evaluated by integrating three bodies of knowledge, namely, woman abuse, social support, and reference others. Using data from a convenience sample of male undergraduate students, this study tests four hypotheses derived from a male peer support model. The findings support the model relating male peer group dynamics and woman abuse in university dating relationships
Taking Woman Abuse Seriously
While women experience male violence and intimidation in both public and private settings, the most serious and common threats to their physical and psychological well-being are abusive acts committed by known men. However, the Solicitor General of Canada's recent crime advice to women does not address this problem. The principal objective of this paper is to show how this discourse obscures the reality of woman abuse in Canada
Corporate violence against canadian women
Critical criminological pedagogy in Canada
University and college criminology courses attract a very large number of Canadian students many of whom are exposed to critical perspectives. In this article we explain the major influences on Canadian radical criminological pedagogy. We also point out the strengths and limitations of this approach, and propose several suggestions for improvement
Sexual assault and stranger aggression on a candian university campus
Woman abuse in university and college dating relationships
The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships
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Male peer support and woman abuse
Although all‐male friendship networks may have an important effect in motivating some men to physically, sexually, and psychologically harm female intimates, particularly in dating relationships, the study of the dynamics of these groups is still limited. DeKeseredy's early model has some of the best explanatory value, but it fails to address a number of factors, including macrolevel forces, the role of alcohol abuse, membership in formal social …
Addressing the Complexities of Woman Abuse in Dating
Walter S. DeKeseredy, Addressing the Complexities of Woman Abuse in Dating: A Response to Gartner and Fox, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 75-80
Locating a History of Some Canadian Woman Abuse in Elementary and High School Dating Relationships
Enhancing the Quality of Survey Data on Woman Abuse
The primary objective of DeKeseredy and Kelly's national Canadian survey on woman abuse in university/college courtship was to elicit reliable data on the extent, patterns, and sources of male-to-female psychological, sexual, and physical victimization in postsecondary school dating. In this article, I describe these researchers' attempts to avoid or minimize the methodological shortcomings of previous North American surveys on this sensitive top…
Sexual Assault on the College Campus
The authors reveal university campuses in the United States and Canada as rape supportive cultures, where male peer support is used to validate and sustain masculine dominance over women, and argue that pro-feminist men need to openly confront this issue
Sibling Violence
Guest Editor's Introduction
Rethinking Estrangement, Interventions, and Intimate Femicide
North American research shows that interventions and their type, appropriateness, timing, and patterning may help explain variations in the relationship between estrangement and intimate femicide on one hand and reintegration or conciliation on the other. The main objective of this article is to build on Wilson and Daly's male proprietariness thesis by integrating it with a theory of interventions
The meanings and motives for women's use of violence in Canadian college dating relationships
Data from a Canadian nationwide representative sample of 1,835 female college students were used to test a variety of propositions about women's use of violence in dating relationships. It has become progressively common in both Canada and the United States to argue that women are as violent as men. Although in a crude counting of violent acts these data confirm the contention that women commit a large number of such acts, a further investigation…
Pornography and the Abuse of Canadian Women in Dating Relationships
Cet article se penche sur l'influence que peut exercer la pornographie sur les comportements d'abus sexuels perpetres a l'encontre des femmes Canadiennes dans le cadre de relations intimes a l'Universite. Il apparait que si on ne peut etablir une causalite directe entre consommation de pornographie et violence sexuelle, la pornographie fournit un arsenal supplementaire a ceux qui poussent leur partenaire a des actes sexuels non desires par la for…
Woman Abuse on Campus
The Historical, Social and Political Context of the Canadian National Survey on Woman Abuse in Dating The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian Courtship 'But Women Do It Too' The Meanings of and Motives for Women's Use of Violence Risk Factors and Dating Abuse Progressive Policy Proposals
Tactics of the Antifeminist Backlash Against Canadian National Woman Abuse Surveys
Canada is experiencing a major antifeminist backlash against the results of two Canadian national surveys on woman abuse. The main objectives of this article are to provide examples of the key tactics used in this backlash, such as misleading interpretations of Conflict Tactics Scales data, and to briefly suggest several ways of challenging and resisting them
Family Violence
“Taking a Position and Staying Grounded”
This article is a biography of Karlene Faith, one of Canada's leading feminist scholars/activists. It describes: her childhood; high school life; college years; early intellectual influences; how she came to criminology; her entrance into the academy; her important contributions to feminism, criminology, and criminal justice; her future plans; and her love of music. Thanks to Karlene Faith and other feminist academic activists, gender is now a ma…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Criminology (64 obras) · Sociology (59 obras) · Psychology (54 obras) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (50 obras) · Medicine (49 obras) · Poison control (43 obras) · Political science (43 obras) · Suicide prevention (39 obras) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (37 obras) · Law (31 obras)