Professional Journals on Intimate Partner Violence

Broadly defined, intimate partner violence encompasses physical, sexual, and psychological maltreatment of partners as well as sexual assault and sexual harassment of intimates. Many professional journals in psychology, sociology, gender studies, interpersonal violence, criminology, medicine, and related fields include articles on various aspects of intimate partner violence. Only two are focused primarily on violence against women: Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal and Women Against Violence: An Australian Feminist Journal.

Published by Sage Publications, Violence Against Women is a peer-reviewed journal and international in both coverage and distribution. It has been published since 1994 and is now published monthly. Featuring empirically based articles utilizing quantitative or qualitative methods, the journal also includes theoretical papers, research notes, book reviews, and papers by clinicians or practitioners addressing treatment and related issues. Violence Against Women is widely read, cited, abstracted, and indexed.

Women Against Violence: An Australian Feminist Journal is a national journal examining issues relevant to the work to stop violence against women. It is published by CASA House, a government-funded organization in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, committed to ensuring that the silence that surrounds sexual assault continues to be broken and that victims and/or survivors are provided necessary support. The journal is refereed by an Editorial Committee and a National Editorial Advisory Committee. Since a primary objective is to facilitate information sharing between women working in all Australian states and territories, Women Against Violence: An Australian Feminist Journal is not widely read or cited outside Australia.

There are several peer-reviewed, professional journals that are more broadly focused on interpersonal violence but that publish many articles on intimate partner violence: Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Violence and Victims; Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal; Journal of Family Violence; Trauma, Violence, & Abuse: A Review Journal; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma; and Journal of Traumatic Stress. Published since 1985, Journal of Interpersonal Violence is published monthly by Sage. Devoted to the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence, it provides a forum for discussion of concerns and activities of practitioners and researchers working in domestic violence, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, physical child abuse, and violent crime. Violence and Victims is published bimonthly by Springer Publishing. Published since 1987, the journal serves as a forum for the latest developments in theory, research, policy, clinical practice, and social services in the area of interpersonal violence and victimization, including media reports and book reviews.

Elsevier publishes Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal bimonthly. A multidisci-plinary journal, it publishes substantive and integrative reviews, as well as summary reports of innovative ongoing clinical research programs on a wide range of topics germane to the field of aggression and violent behavior. The journal has been published since 1996 and encompasses articles on family violence, homicide, sexual deviance and assault, child and youth violence, genetic predispositions, and the physiological basis for aggression. Journal of Family Violence, published quarterly by Springer US, is an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of information on clinical and investigative efforts concerning all forms of family violence and its precursors, including spouse battering, child abuse, incest, marital rape, elder abuse, domestic homicide, and general family conflict.

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