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Though there is substantial rationale to consider any association between spirituality and religion and intimate partner violence, research in this area is particularly lacking. African Americans are known to utilize religion and spirituality at significant rates to deal with adversity. Accordingly, any investigation of Black women's methods of contending with abusive relationships would be deficient if it did not include an examination of the women's use of ecclesiastical resources. Using 40 semistructured in-depth interviews with battered Black women, this article explores the participants' successes and discontent with religion and spirituality to escape abuse.

Using a national poll with a representative sample of Blacks (N ¼ 854), this article examined the experiences of those Blacks who believe that they had recently been treated unfairly by the police. More specifically, the research examined the role of gender in the perception of unfair treatment by the police. The results of the analysis from the full sample found that age (being older), region (being from the South), and being female decreased the likelihood of reporting having been recently treated unfairly by the police. To examine the differences between Black men and women, the authors conducted a split-sample binary logistic regression analysis. The analysis revealed that Black women who resided in the South were less likely to report experiencing unfair treatment by the police. For Black men, being older and having a higher income resulted in the reduced likelihood of the perception of having been treated unfairly. The implications of the research also are considered.

To determine the incidence of injury in aerobics classes in Perth, Western Australia, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 274 aerobics participants and 59 instructors at 20 aerobics centres. Questionnaires were returned from 86 per cent of instructors and 94 per cent of participants. Thirty-five per cent of instructors and 22 per cent of participants reported at least one injury caused or aggravated by aerobics in the previous 12 months. When hours of participation or instruction per year were considered, the injury incidence rate was 0.18 injuries per 100 hours for the instructors and 0.27 injuries per 100 hours for the participants. Instructors reported ankle/foot injuries (43.3 per cent) and shin injuries (23.3 per cent) most commonly while participants, particularly those in step classes, reported that the knee was injured most commonly. Injuries among aquarobics participants were low and were confined to the calf, ankle and foot.