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Estrangement, Interventions, and Male Violence Toward Female Partners

NCJ Number
171110
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1997) Pages: 51-67
Author(s)
D Ellis; L Wight
Date Published
1997
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This article attempts to integrate three relatively distinct lines of research on male violence towards intimate female partners.
Abstract
The study examined the relation between conjugal violence and estrangement and found them to be positively associated, but they could vary independently. The study also examined the association between estrangement and interventions. Estrangement was associated with private, private/public and mainly public interventions depending on the level of estrangement. High levels of estrangement were strongly but not invariably associated with ending the relationship. A review of the link between interventions and violence disclosed that interventions which empower battered female partners are most effective in ending male partner violence. Taken together, the findings tend not to support hypotheses derived from the theory of male proprietariness. The article makes several recommendations, including: social and economic policies that promote gender equality; criminal and civil justice policies that facilitate greater female victim control over processing; and police training in mediation. Notes, references

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