Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Most research regarding intimate partner violence has focused on the individual-and couple-level predictors of violence between partners.Recent research endeavors, however, indicate that neighborhood characteristics may also influence intimate partner violence and may best be explored under the social disorganization tradition.Largely due to data limitations, previous analyses assessing potential neighborhood effects on partner violence have not used hierarchical statistical modeling, nor have they assessed the effects of social intervening mechanisms postulated under social disorganization to affect neighborhood crime.Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this dissertation addresses these shortcomings by using hierarchical statistical modeling to examine the effects of neighborhood structural characteristics as well as the intervening social mechanisms of collective efficacy, social ties, culture, and disorder on intimate partner violence victimization among females.Results indicate that partner violence is not solely an individual-level phenomenon, and APPENDICES Appendix A: Description of Measures ………………………………………………….. Appendix B: Random Coefficients Model Predicting the Prevalence of IPV …………..
Author: Emily M. Wright
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2597116901