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Violent crime

Sexual dysfunction after female genital mutilation/cutting: A retrospective cross-sectional study of associations with organ-specific genital anatomy, trauma history, and psychiatric comorbidity

Emily Lock, Veronica Ades

published 17 Sep 2026

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Modelling the dark side of prison dynamics: Quantifying the criminogenic effects of petty crime offenders’ incarceration

Farai Nyabadza

published 16 Sep 2026

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Party affiliation, political ideology, views on democracy and society, and support for political violence in the United States of America: findings from a nationally representative survey

Garen J. Wintemute, Andrew Crawford, Sonia L. Robinson, Daniel Tancredi, Elizabeth A. Tomsich, Julia P. Schleimer, Paul M. Reeping, Aaron B. Shev, Bradley Velasquez, Veronica A. Pear

published 16 Sep 2026

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Social work and preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE): A scoping review protocol

Andrew McKenzie, David Yuzva Clement

published 09 Sep 2026

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Prevalence and characteristics of sex trafficking among youth experiencing homelessness: A cross-sectional study

Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, Jennifer Jones, Utsav Arandhara, Nikhil Padhye, Adeline Nyamathi, Marguerita Lightfoot, Yasmeen Quadri, Mary Paul, Michael S. Businelle, Diane Santa Maria

published 26 Aug 2026

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Misappropriating vulnerability: Assessing the utility of the social vulnerability index as a predictor of firearm violence

Matt Vogel, Heeyoung Lee, Taylor Kaser, Yoobin Kim

published 21 Aug 2026

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Technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

Yonas Abebe Tarefa, Abdul-Fatawu Abdulai

published 19 Aug 2026

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Violence exposure among adolescent psychiatric patients in Nepal: Socio-demographic and familial risk factors

Rampukar Sah, Per Håkan Brøndbo, Bjørn Helge Handegård, Jasmine Ma, Ketil Lenert Hansen, Narmada Devkota, Anne Cecilie Javo

published 14 Aug 2026

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Sexual violence along migration routes: A qualitative systematic review and evidence synthesis

Alexandria Innes, Merili Pullerits

published 13 Aug 2026

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Comparison of ACEs reporting between clinic and telephone-based screening

Rebecca Dudovitz, Hayden Ngan, Caryssa Lim Chang, Lorena Porras-Javier, Sitaram Vangala, Lizbeth Correa Mendoza, Janette Ortiz, Kary M. Calderon, Lindsey R. Thompson, Daniel Molina, Irene Aceves, Paul J. Chung

published 11 Aug 2026

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Modeling conditional dependencies between recidivism and cognitive emotion regulation strategies among prisoners using a Bayesian network with interpretable summary indexes

Younyoung Choi, Gyeongcheol Cho

published 06 Aug 2026

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Endorsing narratives of white replacement: Elite discourse, public attention, and extremist mobilization

Jack Gabriel Risien Wippell, Laura Dugan

published 05 Aug 2026

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Prevalence and associated factors of intimate partner violence against reproductive-age women in Africa and Asia regions: Insights from 2022–2024 DHS datasets

Enyew Getaneh Mekonen

published 30 Jul 2026

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