Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Studies have shown that intimate partner violence rates are declining faster among Whites than minorities, and the rate for African Americans has not changed since the year 2003.This research looks at the victimization rates and the prevalence rates of intimate partner violence, using all forms of intimate partner violence as identified in the concatenated file of the National Crime Victimization Survey for the years 1992 to 2014.The NCVS samples about 90,000 households comprising nearly 160,000 people ages 12 and up.I hypothesis that when controls for social disintegration, measured by income, education, and never married, are added, the African American prevalence rate is equal or almost equal to that of Whites.The results show that when social disintegration is considered, racial and ethnic differences in intimate partner violence disappear, and the likelihood of experiencing intimate partner violence decreases as income increases.Those who finished high school are 1.5X more likely to experience intimate partner violence than those without a high school diploma.The results however, do not address the original question about changes in prevalence rates by race over time.Recently, African Americans have been hit twice as hard as Whites by the recovering economy, and if social disintegration accounted for the changing prevalence rates, some evidence should have appeared in this analysis.A possible next step could be to look at African American marriages.Recent studies have shown that black marriages are not working; African American women are half as likely as white women to be married, and more than three times as likely as white women never to marry.I would next like to thank my committee, Dr. Gordon Frissora and Attorney Patricia Wagner.Without their passionate participation, input, and encouragement this thesis could not have been successfully conducted.Finally, I must express my very profound gratitude to my parents, family,
Author: Jennifer M. Johnson
Institution: Youngstown State University
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2586550221