Session: Speed Dating for Researchers I: Short Talks on Hot Topics in Violence & Resilience (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

The proliferation of scientific scholarship has many benefits, but it also creates challenges for researchers trying to keep up-to-date on the latest findings.  This will be one of two related sessions of 20X20 talks that bring together an experienced group of violence researchers.  Each researcher will highlight some of the most important findings from their empirical research programs from the last several years.  The presentations focus on "big picture" findings, including those that present new conceptual models, de-bunk widely held myths, present strengths-based alternatives to working with victims and perpetrators of violence, and offer provocative new avenues for increasing the impact of the field's efforts to prevent violence.  The presentations address health inequities, especially the disparities in outcomes among those exposed to violence compared to those who are not, but also differences in risk and protective factors among numerous vulnerable groups, including rural Appalachians, LGBT youth and young adults, inner-city youth, and substance-using youth.

Panel I will focus on risk and protective factors and a range of under-recognized or over-simplified risk and protective factors.  Liu and colleagues explore the influence of a group that has received surprisingly little attention in many violence prevention efforts:  parents and their role in preventing dating violence.  Low et al likewise take up the influence of parents and longitudinally examine the role of externalizing behaviors in the link between early violence exposure and later partner violence perpetration. Mitchell Lema and colleagues address widespread stereotypes about cyberbullying versus in-person bullying and help the field focus on the most distressing aspects of peer victimization. Sterzing et al. focus on microaggressions as part of the cumulative burden of victimization for individuals with LGBT identities and propose ways to incorporate multiple identities into a more comprehensive model of victimization. Temple and Choi address the intersecting vulnerabilities of alcohol use and intimate partner violence.  Although these are often treated as separate issues, they have many interconnections and effective prevention programming would benefit from addressing these links. Ybarra and Chen take up the issue of cyberbullying and the challenges of bringing theoretical consistency to the bullying literature as more victimization moves online.