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    Intimate Partner Violence: Innovations in Theory to Inform Clinical Practice, Policy, and Research
    (2020-05-07) McLeod, David Axlyn; Havig, Kirsten; Natale, Anthony; Pharris, Angela
    Intimate partner violence (IPV) and intergenerational transmission of IPV in families are destructive social issues in need of considerable attention. Knowledge of the multi-level, complex causes, and consequences of IPV in the United States has increased significantly over the last two decades. Given these gains in learning, the authors’ aim here is to highlight recent critical and emerging theoretical perspectives on IPV. Frameworks included for application are intersectionality theory, historical trauma and decolonization, human rights, constructivist self-development theory, the posttraumatic growth paradigm, and adverse childhood experiences. This discussion will help to illuminate the dynamics of IPV that are actionable by practitioners using frameworks that promote cultural sensitivity, inclusion, and strengths-based practice with diverse populations. The authors discuss the scope of IPV while focusing on critical vulnerable people and exploring issues of relative privilege and oppression. Next, the authors review the historical body of theory informing understandings of IPV, and emerging theoretical frameworks on IPV. We offer conclusions throughout as they relate to the application of highlighted theories to IPV.
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    Sex Trafficking in Oklahoma: A look into Demand and the Online Networks of Commercial Sex Purchasers
    (2019-11-13) McLeod, David; McNiell, Madison
    “Human Trafficking" has become a buzzword which may conjure images of a girl in chains sitting in the corner of a room or action scenes of the popular movie Taken. Is this what human trafficking looks like though? What causes it? What contributes to it? This community report will attempt to answer these questions as they pertain to the state of Oklahoma and the common beliefs and misconceptions circling not only in the United States, but Oklahoma as well. Can the occurrence of human trafficking be summed up to highway systems and abductions from retail parking lots? According to Oklahoma’s Commission on the Status of Women , “Oklahoma’s central location is believed to play a major role in trafficking cases; with its three major interstate highways, I-35, I-40, and I- 44, Oklahoma cities are on major human trafficking routes throughout all ports, north, east, and west, providing a crossroads to human trafficking,” (Human Trafficking, 2017). In recent years facebook posts have gone viral describing individuals who have been “almost” human trafficked out of retail parking lots. This study will provide information to combat the mythology of those beliefs and to highlight the real factors that drive sex trade in Oklahoma.