Professors' experiences with student disclosures of sexual assault and intimate partner violence: How "helping" students can inform teaching practices

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-75

  Branch, Kathryn A ^a   Hayes Smith, Rebecca ^b   Richards, Tara N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

intimate partner violence; qualitative research; sexual assault; victimology (general)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952403550     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085110397040     Document Type: Article

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