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Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence

WRIGHT, EMILY M.

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2008, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education : Criminal Justice.
Most research regarding intimate partner violence has focused on the individual- and couple-level predictors of violence between partners. Recent research endeavors, however, indicate that neighborhood characteristics may also influence intimate partner violence and may best be explored under the social disorganization tradition. Largely due to data limitations, previous analyses assessing potential neighborhood effects on partner violence have not used hierarchical statistical modeling, nor have they assessed the effects of social intervening mechanisms postulated under social disorganization to affect neighborhood crime. Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this dissertation addresses these shortcomings by using hierarchical statistical modeling to examine the effects of neighborhood structural characteristics as well as the intervening social mechanisms of collective efficacy, social ties, culture, and disorder on intimate partner violence victimization among females.Results indicate 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 reduced violence between partners while concentrated disadvantage, legal cynicism, and physical disorder increased such violence. In all, this study demonstrates that social disorganization theory can be applied to non-street forms of violence, such as intimate partner violence.
Michael Benson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Francis T. Cullen, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pamela Wilcox, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
D. Wayne Osgood, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
173 p.

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  • WRIGHT, E. M. (2008). Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1213908411

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • WRIGHT, EMILY. Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1213908411.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • WRIGHT, EMILY. "Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1213908411

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)