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This study demonstrates the replication and validation of a prior model of women's pathways to prison that was initially developed in California Women's prisons and subsequently implemented in the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MADOC) women's prison in 2013. The following four main pathways were identified: (1) Quasi-normal, least disturbed, drug and situational offending; (2) lifelong abused and depressed drug abusing women; (3) socialized subcultural women, with chronic crimes and drug abuse; and (4) abused and aggressive, early onset and multi-need women with severe drugs, crime, and mental health issues. Since 2013, this model has routinely functioned in MADOC women's prison as an internal classification (IC) for women detainees. Using a newly extracted sample of approximately 1,800 cases from MADOC, several forms of replication and validation were conducted; these demonstrated cross-sample stability, cross-method stability, and stability across time and region. Implications for theory, treatment planning, and implementation are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The criminal justice system plays a pivotal role in addressing the safety of victims of intimate partner abuse (IPA). Over the past 40 years, most changes in the criminal justice response to IPA have been made with the intention of improving support to abused women and their children. However, a growing body of research shows there are many men who are victims of IPA. This qualitative study explored the help-seeking experiences of 38 abused men within the criminal justice system in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Twelve online focus groups (three in each country) were conducted and themes were identified inductively at a semantic level. Thematic analysis identified that most of their experiences were negative and reflected the gender paradigm embedded in the criminal justice response. This study offers insights into the relevance of a gender-inclusive criminal justice response in addressing IPA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US combat operations involving women and revelations of sexual abuse in the US military have periodically sparked intense political debates about women’s military roles. In the midst of these debates, US policy makers have repeatedly created independent advisory commissions on issues concerning women in the military. This article uses qualitative case studies of three such commissions to evaluate whether commissions can foster meaningful civil–military dialogue on contentious matters involving the military and society. This article finds that commission deliberations have sometimes led military professionals to change their views of sensitive issues, but that commissioners have been less open to deliberation if they have been affiliated with an organization possessing a distinct political agenda on women in the military. More broadly, the findings suggest that independent advisory bodies can provide valuable mechanisms for civil–military dialogue, so long as policy makers appoint to them individuals who are relatively open minded and unconstrained by political commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on the dark side of organizations has usually focused on atrocities committed by organizations or specific persons within them. Less attention has been paid to how organizations can utilize atrocities they had no part in creating. In this article, the manner in which atrocities can be utilized, managed and narrated in corporate image-work is discussed through two empirical illustrations: The Body Shop’s campaign against trafficking, and a campaign by a social movement organization to curb violence towards women in Congo. The article argues that analyzing differences in how organizations choose and position external atrocities in their branding can benefit our understanding of both organizational image-work and the dark side of organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human rights entered the language and practice of humanitarian aid in the mid-1990s, and since then they have worked in parallel, complemented or competed with traditional frameworks ordering humanitarianism, including humanitarian principles, refugee law, and inter-agency standards. This article positions the study of rights within a sociology of praxis. It starts from a premise that interpretation and realisation of international norms depends on actors’ social negotiation. We seek to contribute to the sociology of rights with insights from legal pluralism and to analyse human rights as a semi-autonomous field in a multiplicity of normative frameworks. Based on cumulative research into humanitarian aid in disaster response, refugee care and protracted crises, the article explores how humanitarian agencies evoke different normative frameworks to legitimate their presence and programmes. How aid is shaped through the ‘rights speak’ of aid workers and recipients alike is illuminated by cases of programmes promoting women’s rights against sexual abuse from Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of doing research on violence against women.

Presents core tenets of the Revolutionary Black Feminism perspective as an alternative framework for the experiences of Black women. Social and historical realities of Black women within the political economy in the United States; Analysis of sexual violence against Black women; Impact of cultural structures and ideology in sexual violence; Changes in the context and response to sexual violence.