Intimate partner violence and women's economic insecurity / Stella M. Resko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Resko, Stella M., 1978-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimate partner violence.

Women--Violence against.

Women.

Abused women--Economic conditions.

Abused women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781593325510

1593325517

OCLC:

773565173