| Description |
1 online resource (x, 240 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Criminal justice: recent scholarship
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Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-237) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Intimate partner violence.
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Intimate partner violence. |
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Women -- Violence against.
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Women -- Violence against. |
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Abused women -- Economic conditions.
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Abused women -- Economic conditions. |
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Abused women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Intimate partner violence. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Resko, Stella M., 1978- Intimate partner violence and women's economic insecurity. El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010 (DLC) 2009041050 |
| ISBN |
9781593325510 (electronic book) |
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1593325517 (electronic book) |
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9781593323684 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1593323689 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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