The Significant Frequency and Impact of Stealth (Nonviolent) Gender-Based Abuse Among College Women

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 181-190

  Belknap, Joanne ^a   Sharma, Nitika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

college women; drug facilitated raps; incapacitated rape; intimate partner abuse; stalking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902986614     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838014520725     Document Type: Article

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