|
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
|
Leave or Stay? Battered Women's Decision After Intimate Partner Violence
Jinseok Kim*
and
Karen A. Gray
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jinseok.kim{at}gwm.sc.edu.
 |
Abstract |
|---|
Battered womens 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 womans 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.
First published on February 28, 2008, doi:10.1177/0886260508314307
Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2008;23:1465.
A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2008

CiteULike Complore Connotea Del.icio.us Digg Reddit Technorati Twitter What's this?
|
|