Neighborhoods and Intimate Partner Violence.
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| Author / Creator: | Wright, Emily M. |
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| Imprint: | El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166699 |
| Summary: | 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 and satisfaction with police reduce violence between partners while concentrated disadvantage, legal cynicism, and physical disorder increase such violence. She demonstrates that social disorganization theory can be applied to non-street forms of violence, such as intimate partner violence. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593326593 1593326599 9781593324377 1593324375 |