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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457111603321

Autore

Resko Stella M. <1978->

Titolo

Intimate partner violence and women's economic insecurity [[electronic resource] /] / Stella M. Resko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-59332-551-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Disciplina

362.82/920973

Soggetti

Intimate partner violence

Women - Violence against

Abused women - Economic conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Universal risk ideology and intimate partner violence -- Women's economic well-being and intimate partner violence -- Theoretical perspectives on intimate partner violence -- Survey research on intimate partner violence -- "Fragile families" and intimate partner violence -- Male-to-female physical violence within urban families -- Male-to-female coercive control within urban families -- Conclusions and recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

Resko examines the relationship between women's economic wellbeing and intimate partner violence. Using data from the Fragile Families Survey, she examines hypotheses shaped by stress theory and social exchange theory and investigates racial and ethnic differences in these models. Her results support the notion that improving women's economic position can reduce intimate partner violence. Little evidence supported the backlash hypothesis, but in some situations men's poor performance in the labor force may be associated with an increased abuse. The strength of these results, however, differs a