Intimate violence in families

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-305
Author(s):  
Nicola Graham-Kevan
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Violence

High and Low Neuroticism Both Predicts Reciprocal Intimate Violence Between Partners

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Eve Daspe ◽  
Yvan Lussier ◽  
Stephane Sabourin
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Violence

Structure and Dynamics of Escalation from the Batterer's Perspective

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Winstok ◽  
Zvi Eisikovits ◽  
Richard Gelles
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Related Cost ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Societal Reaction ◽  
Practical Implications

Most theories dealing with the escalation of intimate violence have examined the components of escalation, rather than the dynamic processes involved. This paper develops a theoretical model addressing the structure and dynamics of escalation. To develop the model, we studied the transition between nonviolent and violent realities of cohabitant couples from the male partner's perspective. A sample of 25 interviews was selected from a database consisting of 120 in-depth qualitative interviews that were collected for a larger study dealing with the experience of violence among cohabiting couples that remained together in spite of the violence. Sampling, data collection, and data analysis followed the principles of grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Findings indicate that the men interviewed perceive themselves as entitled and obligated to defend their dyadic existential frameworks, while recognizing the costs and benefits involved in the use of violence to achieve this end. These men tend to create the rules, judge when the rules are being infringed upon, and take steps to enforce the rules. Their evaluation of the extent of their control over their own actions and the related cost–benefit considerations are highly influential in their attempts to reestablish the lost balance in their dyadic life. The process of constructing a reaction to their partner's behavior consists of two distinctive but interrelated phases: (a) identifying an action by the partner and constructing it into being worthy of reaction; (b) constructing an appropriate reaction. Men's construction of the escalation process is not random or situational, but rather constructed within a set of personal, interpersonal, and socially recognized scripts that delineate the boundaries of the entire process. Theoretical and practical implications for assessing the risk of violence and subsequent societal reaction are suggested, as well as directions for future research.

scholarly journals Perpetration of Adolescent Dating Relationship Abuse: The Role of Conditional Tolerance for Violence and Friendship Factors

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1206-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Mumford ◽  
Bruce G. Taylor ◽  
Peggy C. Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
Friendship Groups ◽  
Adolescent Dating ◽  
Dating Abuse ◽  
Close Friendships ◽  
Group Characteristics ◽  
Adolescent Dating Abuse

Research has pointed to the salience of friendships in predicting abuse in adolescent dating relationships. The current study investigates the perpetration of physical and sexual dating abuse as predicted by individual conditional tolerance for dating abuse within the context of friendship behaviors and group characteristics. Using two waves of the National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV; N = 511 daters aged 12-18 years), we investigated the effects of baseline individual tolerance for hitting dating partners and friendship factors on perpetration of physical and sexual adolescent dating abuse (ADA) approximately 1 year later. Conditional tolerance for hitting boyfriends was associated with ADA perpetration in the absence of friendship characteristics. Daters who reported recent discussion of a problem with friends and female daters who named all-girl friendship groups were more likely to report ADA perpetration. Close friendships are an avenue for preventing ADA perpetration. Furthermore, ADA perpetration may be reduced by targeting conditional tolerance for violence particularly against male partners within female friendship groups.

Book Reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
International Social

Book reviews: Hugman, Richard, Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions (reviewed by Ramesh Mishra); Mullard, M. and P. Spicker, Social Policy in a Changing Society (reviewed by Ann Lavan); Lyons, K., International Social Work: Themes and Perspectives (reviewed by Paul Stubbs); Blakemore, Ken, Social Policy: An Introduction (reviewed by Jill Manthorpe); Smithies, Jan and Georgina Webster, Community Involvement in Health: From PAssive Receipts to Active Participants (reviewed by Pat Shannon); Davies, J., E. Lyon and D. Monti-Catania, Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (reviewed by Robert Harding); Bergen, Racquel Kennedy(ed), Issues in Intimate Violence (reviewed by Michael Crawford); Marmor, Theodore R. and Philip R. De Jong, Social Security and Affordability (reviewed by Dr. Gail Wilson); Chambon, Adrienne S.; Allan Irvine and Laura Epstein Eds., Reading Foucault for Social Work (reviewed by Bob Mulally)

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