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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Wife Beating"”.
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STABILITY AND CHANGE IN PATTERNS OF WIFE-BEATING: A SYSTEMS THEORY APPROACH
<p>This research is a longitudinal study of wife battering using a system's theory approach. Two types of longitudinal analyses are presented. The first is the analysis of retrospective data of histories of violent relationships. The second type of longitudinal analysis is the comparison of the …
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THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND WIFE-BEATING IN THE U S: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS
<p>The relationship between status of women and wife-beating has been the subject of some debate. It has been argued that sexual inequality is one of the central causes of wife abuse (Dobash and Dobash, 1980; Martin, 1976). On the other hand, some claim that the charges being brought about by the …
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Climate Variability Influences Women’s Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
… climate conditions on women’s attitudes towards wife beating. The demographic health surveys (DHS) dataset includes over 550,000 women in 38 countries, asked a series of wife beating justification questions in the domestic violence module. Using a linear probability model, we find prior year …
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A Comparison of depressed and nondepressed male batterers
… alcohol use, anger, anxiety, beliefs about wife beating, jealousy, marital satisfaction, couple differentiation, psychological violence, and physical violence. Results indicate that the depressed male batterers differ significantly from the nondepressed male batterers. Depressed batterers …
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Risk Factors for Sexual Coercion in Male Batterers
… level of alcohol use, anger, beliefs about wife beating, jealousy, dominance, depression, physical and psychological violence. Overall, 46.9% of the women reported that their partners were sexually coercive. Slightly over 46% of the women whose partners were severely violent reported that …
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Battered women: self-defence and provocation
… be unable to realise the extent of the problem. 'Wife beating' has always been deemed to be a personal, family problem, to be solved by the wife to the best of her abilities - it is seen as an internal family issue, not the business of neighbours or outsiders and certainly not within the purview …
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Intimate violence against women : a report on the incidence and correlates of intimate violence against women - an Mdantsane, Eastern Cape sample
… which perpetuate it. This study uses the words' wife abuse', 'wife beating', 'spouse abuse' and 'intimate violence' interchangeably to refer to violence towards women by their intimate male partners whether they qualify strictly as 'husbands' or not. The report starts with a brief review of …
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Reproductive health human rights : women's knowledge, attitude, and practices toward their reproductive health rights in Palestine
… study aimed to assess women's perception towards wife beating and the best marriage age for women. In order to achieve this purpose, a cross sectional study was conducted in 2006 at three clinics that provide Mother and Child Health Care in the West Bank. The clinics were located in the three …
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Dating Violence Attitudes, Experiences and Perceptions of Women in College: An Indian Context
… in one's family of origin, attitudes justifying wife beating, and problem behaviors associated with alcohol use. A significant negative relationship was found between anger management skills and the perpetration and victimization of violence in dating relationships. Finally, even though the rate …
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Assessment of the Determinants of Couples Decisions on Fertility Preference in Kishapu and Mvomero Districts,Tanzania
… ownership of property, attitudes towards wife beating, patriarchy, religion and ethnicity may affect couples decisions on the number of children they should have. The study used cross section study design and it involved 586 respondents (293 couples) from Kishapu and Mvomero districts …
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Police Workforce: Empirical Evidence from Gender and Children’s Desk Section in the Katavi Region
… of men caused by alcohol use, which cause wife beating, child abuse, divorce and marital conflict. Besides the participants reveal that the number of the workforce is not enough and the skills were not appropriate. Police gender desk is not well known to the majority, especially in rural …
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Nursing students' attitudes towards victims of domestic violence as predicted by selected individual and relationship variables
… Scale, and the Inventory of Beliefs about Wife-Beating. Data were collected via anonymous self-report questionnaires and analyzed through the use of correlation and hierarchical regression procedures. Nursing students with more egalitarian sex role beliefs and perception of control over …
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Training needs assessment of workers providing services to battered women
… women. Questions on sex role attitudes and the Wife-beating is Justified Scale (Saunders, Lynch, Grayson, & Linz, 1987) were included to measure workers' attitudes toward women and battering. A Pearson-product moment correlation found that levels of competence regarding knowledge and skills were …
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An exploration of cultural practices in relation to women’s social experiences in rural communities, a case study of King Cetshwayo District Municipality
… African rituals, traditional initiation, wife beating and polygamy on women which are cultural practices that the study paid focus on. These practices were explored within King Cetshwayo District Municipality (KCDM), KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa. The study set out to achieve six …
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An exploration of cultural practices in relation to women's social experiences in rural communities, a case study of King Cetshwayo District Municipality.
… African rituals, traditional initiation, wife beating and polygamy on women which are cultural practices that the study paid focuson. These practices were explored within King Cetshwayo District Municipality(KCDM), KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa. The study set out to achieve six …
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Factors that lead to low prosecution of wife battery cases in Lusaka Urban
… of domestic gender based violence in general and wife battery in particular. This motivation is against a backdrop of many cases of wife battery that do not get prosecuted despite being reported to the police. The study was limited to Lusaka urban district which is considered to be a boiling pot …
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Factors that lead to low prosecution of wife battery cases in Lusaka Urban
… of domestic gender based violence in general and wife battery in particular. This motivation is against a backdrop of many cases of wife battery that do not get prosecuted despite being reported to the police. The study was limited to Lusaka urban district which is considered to be a boiling pot …
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Domestication of the protocol to the African Charter on the rights of women in Africa: the Nigerian religio-cultural perspective
… promotion of inequality between husband and wife in marriage; religious silence on cultural specifications on demeaning widows' rites and rituals; discriminatory devolution of property; practice of female genital mutilation/ female circumcision; culture of wife beating; forced sexual …
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Nusyûz dalam kajian perbandingan fiqih Islami dan perspektif gender
… is clearl and explicite, moreover the nusyûzs of wife is almost all scholars agree to handle it which is accordance to the al-Qur’an surah an-Nisa’ 34. The husbanduses nusyûz to confine and marginalize his wife. On the contrary infact surah an-Nisa’ 128 explaines that his wife is only given two …