The phrase "a study of abuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an examination or analysis of the topic of abuse in various contexts, such as social, psychological, or legal studies.
Example: "The researchers conducted a study of abuse to understand its impact on mental health."
Alternatives: "an analysis of abuse" or "an examination of abuse".
Craig Futterman, a clinical law professor at the University of Chicago, said a study of abuse complaints over the last five years showed that the odds were 2 in 1,000 that an officer charged with abuse would be disciplined.
Now The Tribe has a general release here, and UK film-goers up for a challenge can savour it: a silent movie, of a kind, at once brutally explicit and mysteriously opaque: a study of abuse, an essay in loneliness, a political allegory.
WCPO-TV in Cincinnati won for a study of abuses in the construction of a sports stadium.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School studied records from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Drug Abuse Warning Network, which is conducting a study of drug abuse for the federal Department of Health and Human Services.
Writing in The Times during the New York Film Festival, A. O. Scott described "The White Ribbon" as a "study of child abuse, class resentment and incipient fascism".
The Grierson award for best documentary went to the Oscar winner Alex Gibney, director and screenwriter of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a study of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
Indeed, self-government was only possible because citizens could argue themselves into founding the institutions that facilitated the changes that the facts warranted: an executive branch limited by a legislature and an independent judiciary, justified by a study of historical abuses by monarchs, for example.
In a study of why nurses abuse patients in South Africa, Jewkes, Abrahams and Mvo (32) report that humiliation and abuse of patients by nurses is both reactive and ritualized.
"The notion that the mind protects itself by banishing the most disturbing, terrifying events is psychiatric folklore," declares Richard J. McNally, a Harvard psychology professor who has conducted a six-year study of abuse victims and has written a book, Remembering Trauma, to dispel myths of memory repression.
To report findings from a study of anonymous disclosures of abuse experiences among a national sample of youth in Canada who participated in violence prevention programming.
In this article, outcome data from a study of a residential substance abuse treatment program for women and young children in rural South Carolina will be presented.
