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The relationship between communities and the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is an expanding area of global research. In Bangladesh, however, few researchers have examined community-level correlates of IPV against women. We addressed this gap in the l…

In the current study, which examines the relationship between schools' organizational climates and teachers' sense of efficacy, I developed a conceptual framework in which teachers' perceived collective efficacy (TPCE) was proposed to mediate the relationships between four dimen…

This study examined whether HIV/AIDS activities were more frequent among churches with needs and assets for HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Aba, Nigeria and whether this connection was mediated by collective efficacy. A cross-sectional design was used to obtain data in two ph…

Place-based criminology has a long history of examining the potential causes and correlates of criminogenic environments. This line of scholarship has been able to establish that crime, levels of social guardianship, and racial/ethnic groups are unevenly distributed throughout s…