Claire M Renzetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 81113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire M Renzetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire M |
| FAMILY NAME | Renzetti |
| SIGNATURE | RENZETTI C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Joseph's University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9846-4464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Student Perceptions of Reproductive Health Consequences Resulting from Rape
Persistently high rates of campus rape combined with changing legal landscapes surrounding reproductive health make student perceptions of the reproductive health consequences resulting from rape an important topic of research. In this study, we analyze student perceptions of a hypothetical campus rape in which a victim experiences no medical consequences, becomes pregnant, or contracts a sexually transmitted infection (STI) as a result of rape. …
Perceptions of male-perpetrated sexual assault: The impact of victim gender and perceived sexual orientation
In Memory of Evan Stark, PhD 1942–2024
In Memoriam: Claire V. Crooks
Students’ Perceptions of Guilt, Responsibility, and Just Punishment When Accounts of Campus Sexual Assault Conflict
Students’ Perceptions of Justice: Application of Sanctions, Guilt, and Responsibility in Campus Sexual Assault Cases
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women
NEW TO THIS EDITION: • New chapters on the history of anti-violence against women movements, gender-based violence in schools, violence against elderly women, and human trafficking deepen student understanding of important issues. • A new Part III: Programs that Work explores innovative prevention and intervention programs that evaluation studies have shown to have positive outcomes for both victims and perpetrators. • New In the Field autobiogra…
By the Grace of God: Religiosity, Religious Self-Regulation, and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
Although some researchers have argued that religiosity has a deterrent effect on criminal offending in general, and serves as a protective factor against men's intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, others have obtained inconsistent or contradictory findings indicating that religiosity per se may be less important than other factors and may be protective only for some groups of men. The present study extends previous research by using meas…
Announcing the 2014 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships provides a comprehensive analysis of same-sex domestic violence, addressing the major theoretical and treatment issues for both its victims and perpetrators. Its contents raise awareness among social service providers, of the problem of same-sex domestic violence and emphasize the need for special services for both victims and perpetrators. The publication of Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic P…
Feminist Criminology
Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s, in response to the male dominance of mainstream criminology – which meant that not only were women largely excluded from carrying out criminological research, they were also barely considered as subjects of that research. In this volume, Claire Renzetti traces the development of feminist criminology from the 1970s to the present, examining the diversity of feminisms which have de…
The voodoo doll task: Introducing and validating a novel method for studying aggressive inclinations
Aggression pervades modern life. To understand the root causes of aggression, researchers have developed several methods to assess aggressive inclinations. The current article introduces a new behavioral method-the voodoo doll task (VDT)-that offers a reliable and valid trait and state measure of aggressive inclinations across settings and relationship contexts. Drawing on theory and research on the law of similarity and magical beliefs (Rozin, M…
Announcing the 2011 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
Announcing the 2010 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence
Studies show that intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the physical and mental health of victims and the children who witness it. Because IPV is widespread and the consequences, acute and chronic, are serious, health care organizations have encouraged providers to identify patients experiencing IPV and refer them to local resources. To date a number of screening tools have been validated, but research is limited on how provider identification …
Dedication
All Things to All People or Nothing for Some: Justice, Diversity, and Democracy in Sociological Societies
This presidential address first explores the increasingly popular position known as racial realism, which argues that the problem of racism has largely been solved, and places blame for any tenacious remnants of racism on a small group of intransigent white extremists and on people of color themselves. The racial realist perspective is not difficult for sociologists to dispute, using the extant research on institutional racism and its effects on …
Commentary on Swan and Snow’s “The Development of a Theory of Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships”
One Strike and You're Out”: Implications of a Federal Crime Control Policy for Battered Women
In March 1996, the “One strike and you're out” initiative, a federal policy to fight crime in public housing, became official when President Clinton signed the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996. Touted by the federal government as a tough anticrime measure to make public housing safe for law-abiding residents, the primary targets of One Strike are supposed to be gangs, drug dealers, and violent criminals. However, this article exa…
Chapter Two. The Challenge to Feminism Posed by Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships
Introduction to Special Issue
Connecting the Dots: Women, Public Policy, and Social Control
Understanding Violence against Women
Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best un…
The Poverty of Services for Battered Lesbians
This paper addresses the poverty of services available to lesbian victims of partner abuse, despite the need for such services. Drawing on data from a survey of 1,505 help providers (to which 566 responded), the paper focuses on the services that the help providers themselves claim to offer. The data reveal a serious disparity in help providers' rhetoric and offical policies and the reality of the services available. The paper concludes with sugg…
Teaching about and Responding to Hate Crimes on Campus: A Resource Guide
The Problems of Researching Sensitive Topics: An Overview and Introduction
New wave or second stage? Attitudes of college women toward feminism
The voodoo doll task: Introducing and validating a novel method for studying aggressive inclinations
Aggression pervades modern life. To understand the root causes of aggression, researchers have developed several methods to assess aggressive inclinations. The current article introduces a new behavioral method-the voodoo doll task (VDT)-that offers a reliable and valid trait and state measure of aggressive inclinations across settings and relationship contexts. Drawing on theory and research on the law of similarity and magical beliefs (Rozin, M…
The Poverty of Services for Battered Lesbians
This paper addresses the poverty of services available to lesbian victims of partner abuse, despite the need for such services. Drawing on data from a survey of 1,505 help providers (to which 566 responded), the paper focuses on the services that the help providers themselves claim to offer. The data reveal a serious disparity in help providers' rhetoric and offical policies and the reality of the services available. The paper concludes with sugg…
One Strike and You're Out”: Implications of a Federal Crime Control Policy for Battered Women
In March 1996, the “One strike and you're out” initiative, a federal policy to fight crime in public housing, became official when President Clinton signed the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996. Touted by the federal government as a tough anticrime measure to make public housing safe for law-abiding residents, the primary targets of One Strike are supposed to be gangs, drug dealers, and violent criminals. However, this article exa…
All Things to All People or Nothing for Some: Justice, Diversity, and Democracy in Sociological Societies
This presidential address first explores the increasingly popular position known as racial realism, which argues that the problem of racism has largely been solved, and places blame for any tenacious remnants of racism on a small group of intransigent white extremists and on people of color themselves. The racial realist perspective is not difficult for sociologists to dispute, using the extant research on institutional racism and its effects on …
By the Grace of God: Religiosity, Religious Self-Regulation, and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
Although some researchers have argued that religiosity has a deterrent effect on criminal offending in general, and serves as a protective factor against men's intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, others have obtained inconsistent or contradictory findings indicating that religiosity per se may be less important than other factors and may be protective only for some groups of men. The present study extends previous research by using meas…
Studying Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Research on sensitive topics with a stigmatized and largely closeted population such as lesbians can be a daunting enterprise. Nevertheless, such research is valuable for revealing the serious social problems that lesbians experience, for documentating the extent of these problematic experiences, for uncovering the causes of the problems, and for suggesting solutions. In this article, the author argues that the methodological difficulties inheren…
Students’ Perceptions of Justice: Application of Sanctions, Guilt, and Responsibility in Campus Sexual Assault Cases
New wave or second stage? Attitudes of college women toward feminism
The Problems of Researching Sensitive Topics: An Overview and Introduction
Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Based on a nationwide study of violence in lesbian relationships, this comprehensive, accessible volume derives from a common theme expressed by the subjects: the sense of having been betrayed, first by their lovers, and subsequently by a lesbian community which tends to deny the problem when victims seek help. Claire M. Renzetti skillfully addresses several central issues: consequences for victims, batterers and the community as a whole, and wha…
On the margins of the malestream (or, they still don't get it, do they?): Feminist analyses in criminal justice education
This paper is a critical review of the Fall 1992 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education (JCJE), which focused on women in criminal justice education. The review concentrates on three educational areas: curriculum, pedagogy, and the campus climate for students and faculty. Feminism has had a clear effect in each of these areas, but it has not been enough to transform criminology/criminal justice education so that gender is a central or…
Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Studying Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships
Research on sensitive topics with a stigmatized and largely closeted population such as lesbians can be a daunting enterprise. Nevertheless, such research is valuable for revealing the serious social problems that lesbians experience, for documentating the extent of these problematic experiences, for uncovering the causes of the problems, and for suggesting solutions. In this article, the author argues that the methodological difficulties inheren…
The Poverty of Services for Battered Lesbians
This paper addresses the poverty of services available to lesbian victims of partner abuse, despite the need for such services. Drawing on data from a survey of 1,505 help providers (to which 566 responded), the paper focuses on the services that the help providers themselves claim to offer. The data reveal a serious disparity in help providers' rhetoric and offical policies and the reality of the services available. The paper concludes with sugg…
Teaching about and Responding to Hate Crimes on Campus: A Resource Guide
Understanding Violence against Women
Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best un…
Connecting the Dots: Women, Public Policy, and Social Control
Chapter Two. The Challenge to Feminism Posed by Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships
Introduction to Special Issue
One Strike and You're Out”: Implications of a Federal Crime Control Policy for Battered Women
In March 1996, the “One strike and you're out” initiative, a federal policy to fight crime in public housing, became official when President Clinton signed the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996. Touted by the federal government as a tough anticrime measure to make public housing safe for law-abiding residents, the primary targets of One Strike are supposed to be gangs, drug dealers, and violent criminals. However, this article exa…
Commentary on Swan and Snow’s “The Development of a Theory of Women’s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships”
All Things to All People or Nothing for Some: Justice, Diversity, and Democracy in Sociological Societies
This presidential address first explores the increasingly popular position known as racial realism, which argues that the problem of racism has largely been solved, and places blame for any tenacious remnants of racism on a small group of intransigent white extremists and on people of color themselves. The racial realist perspective is not difficult for sociologists to dispute, using the extant research on institutional racism and its effects on …
Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence
Studies show that intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the physical and mental health of victims and the children who witness it. Because IPV is widespread and the consequences, acute and chronic, are serious, health care organizations have encouraged providers to identify patients experiencing IPV and refer them to local resources. To date a number of screening tools have been validated, but research is limited on how provider identification …
Dedication
Announcing the 2010 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
Announcing the 2011 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
Feminist Criminology
Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s, in response to the male dominance of mainstream criminology – which meant that not only were women largely excluded from carrying out criminological research, they were also barely considered as subjects of that research. In this volume, Claire Renzetti traces the development of feminist criminology from the 1970s to the present, examining the diversity of feminisms which have de…
The voodoo doll task: Introducing and validating a novel method for studying aggressive inclinations
Aggression pervades modern life. To understand the root causes of aggression, researchers have developed several methods to assess aggressive inclinations. The current article introduces a new behavioral method-the voodoo doll task (VDT)-that offers a reliable and valid trait and state measure of aggressive inclinations across settings and relationship contexts. Drawing on theory and research on the law of similarity and magical beliefs (Rozin, M…
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships
Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships provides a comprehensive analysis of same-sex domestic violence, addressing the major theoretical and treatment issues for both its victims and perpetrators. Its contents raise awareness among social service providers, of the problem of same-sex domestic violence and emphasize the need for special services for both victims and perpetrators. The publication of Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic P…
Announcing the 2014 Violence Against Women Best Article Award Winner
By the Grace of God: Religiosity, Religious Self-Regulation, and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
Although some researchers have argued that religiosity has a deterrent effect on criminal offending in general, and serves as a protective factor against men's intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, others have obtained inconsistent or contradictory findings indicating that religiosity per se may be less important than other factors and may be protective only for some groups of men. The present study extends previous research by using meas…
Psychology (20 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Poison control (12 works) · Medical emergency (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works)