Leading agencies in the domestic violence field, senior police officers and prosecutors believe the verbal intimidation, abuse and misogyny apparently treated as the norm in many school playgrounds are at the beginning of a spectrum of abuse suffered by girls and young women.
We know this can happen, but not if the domestic violence field remains so complacent.
The silence has had another devastating impact - stagnation in the domestic violence field.
The government needs to widen its focus to provide prevention education within the LGBTQI community, funding for further research and training of staff in the family violence field.
This presents a remarkable example of one common problem for the media violence field I refer to as the "Yes I said it/no I didn't" phenomenon.
We presented the domestic violence field with large-scale opportunities to bring together diverse stakeholders to jointly develop informed, coordinated strategies.
She has worked in the anti-sexual violence field for the past 20 years, including 13 years at the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, in policy, training and technical assistance positions.
In the same journal, the Ohio/Annenberg team commented on the new analysis by Markey and colleagues, claiming that neither they, nor anyone else in the media violence field were suggesting violent media is related to horrific acts of violence.
