Neighborhoods and intimate partner violence [[electronic resource] /] / Emily M. Wright

• Autore: Wright Emily M
• Pubblicazione: El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.82/92
• Soggetto topico: Intimate partner violence; Neighborhoods - Psychological aspects; Neighborhoods - Social aspects; Violence - Forecasting
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: The Importance of Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhoods; CHAPTER TWO: Individual- and Couple-Level Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence; CHAPTER THREE: Social Disorganization Theory; CHAPTER FOUR: A Multi-Level Investigation of Intimate Partner Violence and Neighborhoods; CHAPTER FIVE: Neighborhood Influences on Intimate Partner Violence; CHAPTER SIX: Theoretical and Policy Implications; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Wright uses data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to examine the effects of neighborhood structural characteristics and intervening social mechanisms of collective efficacy, social ties, culture, and disorder on intimate partner violence victimization among females. She finds that partner violence is not solely an individual-level phenomenon and that the mechanisms identified by social disorganization theory appear to explain neighborhood influences on intimate partner violence. In particular, neighborhood concentrated immigration, collective efficacy, social ties
• Titolo autorizzato: Neighborhoods and intimate partner violence
• ISBN: 1-59332-659-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807817003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)