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Examining economic abuse and relevant psychosocial factors among unstably housed domestic violence survivors
Get PDFObjective: To assess if economic abuse, race, citizenship status, and criminal record are associated with severe housing instability among unstably housed domestic violence (DV) survivors. Data Source: Secondary data from the Domestic Violence Housing First (DVHF) Demonstration Evaluation, a longitudinal evaluation that assessed how mobile advocacy and flexible funding leads to desired outcomes for DV survivors and their children. Participants: Data from 392 unstably housed adult, female DV survivors. Methods: A cumulative ordinal logistic regression model series was conducted to determine if economic abuse, race, citizenship status, and criminal record were associated with severe housing instability. Results: DV survivors who had a criminal record were more likely to experience severe housing instability than were DV survivors without a criminal record. Contrary to my hypotheses, DV survivors who were U.S citizens were more likely to experience severe housing instability compared to non-citizens. Economic abuse was not associated with severe housing instability and racial differences were not evident. Conclusion: Overall, this study supported only one hypothesis - having a criminal record was associated with experiencing severe housing instability. Future research should focus on types of criminal records that contribute to severe housing instability. In addition, implications for policy suggest strengthening anti-discriminatory housing laws and conducting a holistic assessment of DV survivors with a criminal record who need housing. Furthermore, this study highlighted the need for a more sensitive measure of housing instability.Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Psychology, 2020Includes bibliographical reference
BLACK WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES HEALING FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT AND INSTITUTIONAL BETRAYAL BY THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM : A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Psychology - Doctor of Philosophy, 2024Sexual violence poses significant societal challenges, affecting millions of women in the United States and resulting in long-term negative health effects for survivors. Black women are assaulted at higher rates and receive less assistance post-assault, so they bear a disproportionate burden. When Black women seek help from formal support systems (i.e., medical, criminal legal system), they often encounter victim blaming attitudes and are treated poorly by system personnel. For instance, when survivors report their assaults to law enforcement and undergo medical forensic exams, police often do not investigate their assaults and do not submit their sexual assault evidence kits (SAKs) for DNA testing, which exacerbates victims\u2019 trauma. These failures have created a substantial \u201crape kit backlogs.\u201d These backlogs represented a significant betrayal by the criminal legal system that compounds survivors' distress and creates a complex process of healing that goes beyond the assault. For Black women, this betrayal is deeply rooted in a historical legacy of gendered racism, perpetuating the marginalization of Black women's needs for support and justice.Drawing on Black feminist and intersectional frameworks, this qualitative dissertation explored the healing journeys of Black women affected by Detroit's rape kit backlog and their interactions with the criminal legal system. This study examined two focal research questions: 1) How do Black women describe their healing journeys and their current state of healing after their backlogged sexual assault case had been prosecuted? and 2) How did Black women's experiences of institutional betrayal by the criminal legal system--in both their initial experiences with the legal system and in their re-engagement experiences--impact their healing journeys and their current state of healing? Data from 29 transcribed interviews from Black women who re-engaged with the criminal legal system were analyzed using Ideal-Type Analysis (ITA), a qualitative cluster analysis approach. Analysis revealed four healing groups, which varied based on the coping strategies used by survivors and whether they felt their healing journey was in progress or completed. In addition, those who experienced prolonged institutional betrayal from the criminal legal system were less likely to seek other help resources, which delayed their healing process. These findings offer crucial insights into the nuanced processes through which Black women navigate healing amid institutional betrayal. Furthermore, these results offer guidance for research and practice aimed at better supporting the healing journeys of Black women affected by sexual violence and institutional betrayal.Description based on online resource. Title from PDF t.p. (Michigan State University Fedora Repository, viewed ).Includes bibliographical references
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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