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Overview

Walter S. DeKeseredy is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States and is primarily engaged in social sciences research with a focus on topics intersecting sociology, gender studies, and health.

Their research concentrates on a range of topics including:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Sex Work and Related Issues
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Main fields of study for their work include social sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, gender studies, health, nature and landscape conservation, and clinical psychology.

They have published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Rural Criminology
  • Violence Against Women
  • Critical Criminology
  • Dignity A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
  • Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Walter S. DeKeseredy include:

  • "Bringing Feminist Sociological Analyses of Patriarchy Back to the Forefront of the Study of Woman Abuse" (2020, Violence Against Women)
  • "Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Social and Legal Implications" (2021, Current Addiction Reports)
  • "Single, Repeat, and Poly Intimate Partner Violence Victimization among Women at a College Campus: Extending Research Through the Inclusion of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Examining Key Social Determinants for Intimate Partner Violence Prevention" (2021, Violence Against Women)
  • "Polyvictimization in a College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Community: The Influence of Negative Peer Support" (2020, Violence and Gender)
  • "A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Toward Solving the Linkage Problem" (2022, Critical Criminology)

Their frequent collaborators include Martin Schwartz, Martin D. Schwartz, James J. Nolan, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, and Andrea DeKeseredy.

Walter S. DeKeseredy has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. These include works published by University of Toronto Press, Rutgers University Press, and Bristol University Press eBooks. Specific titles include:

  • "Skating on Thin Ice" (University of Toronto Press, 2023)
  • "Dangerous Exits" (Rutgers University Press, 2020)
  • "Gender-based Violence and Rurality in the 21st Century" (Bristol University Press eBooks, 2023)

Best Publications

  • Woman Abuse on Campus: Results from the Canadian National Survey

    W DeKeseredy

  • Sexual assault on the college campus: The role of male peer support.

    Martin D. Schwartz;Walter S. DeKeseredy

  • Male peer support and a feminist routing activities theory: Understanding sexual assault on the college campus

    Martin D. Schwartz;Walter S. DeKeseredy;David Tait;Shahid Alvi

  • Measuring the Extent of Woman Abuse in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships: A Critique of the Conflict Tactics Scales

    Walter S. DeKeseredy;Martin D. Schwartz

  • Dangerous Exits: Escaping Abusive Relationships in Rural America

    Walter DeKeseredy;Martin Schwartz

  • Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women : The History and Verification of a Theory

    Walter S. DeKeseredy;Martin D. Schwartz

  • Understanding the Complexities of Feminist Perspectives on Woman Abuse A Commentary on Donald G. Dutton's Rethinking Domestic Violence

    Walter S. DeKeseredy;Molly Dragiewicz

  • The incidence and prevalence of woman abuse in Canadian university and college dating relationships

    Walter DeKeseredy;Katharine Kelly

  • Male peer support and woman abuse: An expansion of Dekeseredy's model

    Walter S. Dekeseredy;Martin D. Schwartz

  • Current Controversies on Defining Nonlethal Violence Against Women in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships Empirical Implications

    Walter S. DeKESEREDY

  • Masculinities and interpersonal violence

    Walter DeKeseredy;Martin Schwartz

  • Woman abuse : sociological perspectives

    W DeKeseredy

  • Separation/divorce sexual assault: The current state of social scientific knowledge

    Walter S. DeKeseredy;McKenzie Rogness;Michael D. Schwartz

  • The meanings and motives for women's use of violence in Canadian college dating relationships: Results from a national survey

    Walter S. DeKeseredy;Daniel G. Saunders;Martin D. Schwartz;Shahid Alvi

  • The Role of Profeminist Men in Dealing With Woman Abuse on the Canadian College Campus

    Walter S. DeKESEREDY;Martin D. Schwartz;Shahid Alvi

  • Feminist contributions to understanding woman abuse: Myths, controversies, and realities

    Walter S. DeKeseredy

  • Woman abuse: A sociological story

    Walter S DeKeseredy

  • Woman abuse in dating relationships: The relevance of social support theory

    Walter S. DeKeseredy

  • Male Peer Support and Woman Abuse: The Current State of Knowledge

    Walter S. Dekeseredy

  • Intimate Relationship Status Variations in Violence Against Women Urban, Suburban, and Rural Differences

    Callie Marie Rennison;Walter S. DeKeseredy;Molly Dragiewicz

  • Women's Fear of Crime in Canadian Public Housing

    Shahid Alvi;Martin D. Schwartz;Walter S. DeKESEREDY;Michael O. Maume

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin D. Schwartz
Martin D. Schwartz George Washington University
Daniel G. Saunders
Daniel G. Saunders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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