NCJ Number
177928
Journal
Aggression and Violent Behavior Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Dated: Summer 1999 Pages: 233-247
Date Published
1999
Length
15 pages
Annotation
With a view toward identifying future research directions in the field of dating violence, this literature review highlights a number of important research issues that require clarification and/or research replication.
Abstract
Since the 1980s a growing research literature on violence in dating relationships has emerged, raising concern about the extent of violence that occurs in campus dating relationships across the United States. Such research has extended the knowledge base, not only about the incidence and types of violence that are occurring, but also about consequences, contributing factors, and gender differences; however, there are a number of important research issues in the literature that require clarification and/or research replication. This review identifies and addresses these issues in three sections. The first section of the review examines methodological issues, which include definition, violence rates, and sampling. The second section addresses gender and violence, particularly the relationship of gender to perpetration, victimization, and attitudes. The final section examines theory, focusing on the relative support for social learning and feminist theories, which are the two major theories in the dating violence literature. The review concludes with a series of recommendations for further dating violence research, based on identified gaps in the current literature. 80 references