RCGV members Echo Rivera, Sheryl Kubiak and Deb Bybee have examined the multiple experiences of incarcerated women’s violence perpetration and victimization: Rivera, E. A., Kubiak, S. P., Bybee, D. (2014). Patterns of women’s aggression against partners and others: Broadening...

This fall a great many MSU faculty, students, staff,  alumni and community members were horrified to hear that George Will was one of the commencement speakers. After his factually inaccurate and offensive comments about sexual assault on campus —...

RCGV was honored to host the One Love Foundation to discuss ways we can work together with our other MSU partners to prevent relationship violence. One part of that effort involves pilot testing a new educational video geared specifically...

RCGV member Cris Sullivan was honored to receive the Purple Ribbon Award on October 15th from MSU Safe Place for her “tireless work on behalf of survivors and with gratitude for your extraordinary support as an advocate and champion...

A 1-year post-doctoral fellowship is available as a Research Associate on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded study led by MSU College of Social Science faculty members Sheryl Kubiak, Rebecca Campbell and Deborah Bybee, as well as Law College...

As noted in this USA Today article http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/17/prosecutors-form-new-coalition-to-combat-gun-violence/15771767/: As concerns mount over shootings and mass killings, prosecutors from 23 jurisdictions have formed a coalition to combat gun violence by sharing information on programs that work and copying effective state...

RCGV member Amy Bonomi eloquently reminds us that we must remember the effect of domestic violence on the children witnessing it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-e-bonomi/lets-not-forget-the-other-victim_b_5822500.html

RCGV member Amy Bonomi outlines the promise and limitations of the NFL’s new DV policies:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-e-bonomi/nfl-on-track-with-domestic-violence-but-must-follow-through_b_5641660.html. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-e-bonomi/why-did-she-stay-a-better-question-why-did-the-nfl-stay_b_5791562.html    

Congratulations to Emily Nichols, graduate student in Human Development and Family Studies, who has been accepted into Futures Without Violence’s National Campus Leadership Program. Emily was chosen to be one of twelve campus leaders from around the country, organizing...

RCGV Professors Sheryl Kubiak (Social Work), Deb Bybee (Psychology), Rebecca Campbell (Psychology) and Hannah Brenner (College of Law) recently received a 2-year grant from the National Science Foundation to use an ecological framework to examine reporting of sexual abuse...

To address the underreporting and underprosecution of adult sexual assaults, communities throughout the United States have implemented multidisciplinary interventions to improve postassault care for victims and the criminal justice system response. One such model is the Sexual Assault Nurse...

Beyond Violence (BV) is a new trauma-informed prevention program for women with assaultive offenses. This study tested the efficacy of BV using a randomized control trial. Eligible women were randomly assigned to treatment as usual (TAU) or the experimental...

Much of the research on parenting in the context of IPV has focused on whether and how IPV victimization may negatively shape maternal parenting, and how parenting may in turn negatively influence child behavior, resulting in a deficit model...

Women convicted of  violent offenses represent a small but important subpopulation of adults involved in the criminal justice system. The limited treatment and rehabilitation programs that are available for these women are usually developed for male offenders and do...

Although men comprise the largest segment of the jail population, women are entering jails at increasingly higher rates than men. Previous research has found that incarceration is associated with multiple factors, including homelessness, substance use disorders, and mental illness;...

As empirical evidence has demonstrated the pervasiveness of sexual assault and intimate partner violence in the lives of women, and the links to poor mental health outcomes, attention has turned to examining how women seek and access formal help....

Racial microaggressions are often unintentional and subtle forms of racism that manifest in interpersonal communications, behaviors, and environments. Nkiru Nnawulezi’s master’s thesis explored the presence of racial microaggressions within domestic violence shelters to understand how they were experienced and...