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Leave or Stay?

Battered Women's Decision After Intimate Partner Violence

The University of South Carolina, jinseokk{at}gwm.sc.edu

Karen A. Gray

The University of South Carolina, Karen.gray{at}sc.edu

Battered women's reasons for staying with or leaving their male partners are varied and complex. Using data from the Domestic Violence Experience in Omaha, Nebraska, a discrete-time hazard model was employed to examine a woman's decision based on four factors: financial independence, witness of parental violence, psychological factors, and the police response to the domestic violence call. Findings regarding the first three factors are consistent with previous findings. However, a negative police response did not deter a woman from leaving, which is a different finding from previous studies.

Key Words: domestic violence • leaving • discrete-time hazard model

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 23, No. 10, 1465-1482 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260508314307


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