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NCJ 199709
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Concentrated Disadvantage, Economic Distress, and Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in
Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See
NCJ-199701)
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| Author(s):
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Michael L. Benson ; Greer L. Fox
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National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
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Rockville, MD 20849-6000
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Agency Summary |
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PDF |
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD |
| Publication Date:
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2004 |
| Pages:
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9 |
| Type:
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Studies/research reports |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Grant No.:
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98-WT-VX-0011 |
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Dataset may be archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
| Annotation:
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This study examined the influence of degrees of socioeconomic
disadvantage on violence against women in intimate relationships. |
| Abstract:
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The study involved a secondary analysis of data drawn from wave 1
(1988, n=13,007) and wave 2 (1994, n=10,005) of the National
Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), as well as from the
1990 U.S. Census. The variables abstracted from the NSFH for the
current analyses were grouped into three major categories:
indicators of conflict and violence in the couple; indicators of
the economic status of the couple; and individual-level,
couple-level, and household-level sociodemographic
characteristics. The control variables in the multivariate
analyses were household income-to-needs ratio, number of children
under age 18 in the household, age of primary respondent, race,
male drinking problems, and violence in wave 1. At the bivariate
level, neighborhood disadvantage was associated with the
increased prevalence and severity of intimate violence against
women. The rate of violence in disadvantaged neighborhoods was
8.7 percent compared with 4.3 percent in advantaged
neighborhoods. Similarly, the rate of serious violence, defined
as repeated violence or violence with injury, was more than twice
as high in disadvantaged compared with advantaged neighborhoods
(5.8 compared with 2.4 percent). The two indicators of economic
distress related to the risk of intimate violence against women
were the number of periods of increased male unemployment and
subjective feelings of financial strain. The effects of
concentrated disadvantage and economic distress remained
significant even after all the control variables were included in
the model. At both the aggregate and the individual levels,
socioeconomic disadvantage increased women's risk of intimate
violence. The findings thus confirm the importance of both
neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and individual-level
economic distress for the problem of violence against women.
Implications are drawn for researchers and for practitioners. 23
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| Main Term(s):
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Female victims |
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Economic influences ; Domestic assault ; Domestic violence causes ; Violence causes ; NIJ grant-related documents |
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