Self-Protective Behaviors and Injury in Domestic Violence Situations: Does it Hurt to Fight Back?

dc.contributor.advisorSimpson, Sally Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorWyckoff, Rachael Anneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:37:47Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:37:47Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-01en_US
dc.description.abstractRoutine activities theory has different implications regarding situational crime prevention when applied to domestic violence. Indeed, it is often impossible for the victim to make herself a less suitable target or increase capable guardians. Therefore, women sometimes engage in their own form of situational crime prevention; self-protective behaviors. However, relatively little is known empirically about self-protective behaviors, their prevalence, context, and link to victim injury. Using both quantitative and qualitative data from the Women's Experience of Violence (WEV) funded NCOVR project, I explored the phenomenon of self-protective behaviors in domestic violence situations to examine whether the use of self-protective behaviors impacts the probability and severity of subsequent injury. I found that forceful physical behaviors increase injury whereas both forceful and nonforceful verbal behaviors actually served as a protective factor against subsequent injury.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8192
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Criminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledself-protective behaviorsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddomestic violenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinjuryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledintimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledresistanceen_US
dc.titleSelf-Protective Behaviors and Injury in Domestic Violence Situations: Does it Hurt to Fight Back?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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