Book Reviews : When Battered Women Kill. By Angela Browne. New York: Free Press, 1987,228 pp., $9.95 (paperback). Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense and the Law. Cynthia K. Gillespie. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989, 252 pp., $29.95 (hardbound

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“…The main facets of the feminist theory of IPV involve sex differences in IPV and the use of control and power within relationships. According to feminist researchers (e.g., Dobash & Dobash, 1979;Browne, 1987) IPV is mostly perpetrated by men who (motivated by patriarchy) use their aggression to maintain power and control within the family structure. Patriarchal values may motivate some men's aggression towards their female partner but that is unlikely to be the case for most men or any women who also use control in their relationships -both in the presence or absence of IPV.…”

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Is the Presence of Control Related to Help-Seeking Behavior? A Test of Johnson’s Assumptions Regarding Sex Differences and the Role of Control in Intimate Partner Violence

Bates

Graham‐Kevan

2016

Partner Abuse

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Nicola (2016) Is the presence of control related to help-seeking behavior? A test of Johnson's assumptions regarding sexdifferences and the role of control in intimate partner violence. Partner Abuse, 7 (1). pp. 3-25.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2420/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form• a hyperlink/URL to the original Insight record of that item is included in any citations of the work • the content is not changed in any way• all files required for usage of the item are kept together with the main item file. You may not• sell any part of an item• refer to any part of an item without citation • amend any item or contextualise it in a way that will impugn the creator's reputation• remove or alter the copyright statement on an item.The full policy can be found here. Alternatively contact the University of Cumbria Repository Editor by emailing insight@cumbria.ac.uk. .2013-20 They, and other feminist researchers (e.g., Debbonaire & Todd, 2012;DeKeseredy, 1988DeKeseredy, , 2011Fagan & Browne, 1994;McHugh, Livingston & Ford, 2005;Pagelow, 1984;Schwartz & DeKeseredy, 2003;Ferraro, 2013) believe that IPV should be studied on its own and not The other influential approach to understanding IPV is family violence research (e.g. Straus, 1990;Steinmetz, 1978). This approach believes that patriarchy and control are merely parts of a more complex set of reasons for the perpetration of IPV and takes a conflict approach in the belief that violence is used in response to situations where conflict has arisen rather than using it only as a tool for control (Graham-Kevan & Archer, 2005). Findings from Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979) data collected on the first wave of the National Family Violence Survey highlighted the existence of male victims, however the stigma attached to it prevented men from seeking help or reporting even the most serious incidents to the police (Steinmetz, 1978 , 2006).This approach specifically views and examines IPV in a gender neutral framework which is in direct contrast to the feminist approach which holds that IPV is a "gendered" crime. MS GellesThe gender-neutral surveying method of the CTS revealed the extent to which men were being aggressive to their female partners, but also, and more surprisingly, it found evidence that such violence was also bi-directional and female-to-male. Many studies within this field have now demonstrated that women are equally as aggressive to men if not more...

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Is the Presence of Control Related to Help-Seeking Behavior? A Test of Johnson’s Assumptions Regarding Sex Differences and the Role of Control in Intimate Partner Violence

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Graham‐Kevan

2016

Partner Abuse

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“…The male control theory of IPV, derived separately from feminist and evolutionary theory, predicts that there would be sex differences in IPVand the use of control tactics within relationships. According to feminist researchers (e.g., Browne, 1987;Dobash & Dobash, 1979;Saunders, 1986;Smith, 1990;Walker, 1989) IPV is mostly perpetrated by men who use their aggression to maintain power and control within the family structure. Male power is rooted in a patriarchal societal structure, which tolerates the use of violence against women as a tool for control (e.g., Pagelow, 1984).…”

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“…Again this is consistent with other evidence (Graham-Kevan & Archer, 2008, 2009Hill & Yasin, 2011;Próspero, Dwumah, & Ofori-Dua, 2009) using the same measure of controlling behavior. Felson (2002Felson ( , 2010) has been critical of feminist analyses (e.g., Browne, 1987;Dekeseredy, 2011) that claim IPV has a different etiology from other types of aggression. Such perspectives would predict no or low associations between IPVand aggression to samesex non-intimates.…”

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“…Specifically, it holds that men's violence to women arises from patriarchal values, which motivate men to seek to control women's behavior, using violence if necessary. Two further assumptions are that such values produce attitudes supportive of men's violence to women, and that IPV should be studied independently of general aggression research, since general models of aggression do not characterize this form of violence (e.g., Browne, 1987). In particular, men's control is viewed as resulting from patriarchal values (e.g., Dobash & Dobash, 1979) rather than as part of an interpersonal style that can exist in either sex (e.g., Connolly, Pepler, Craig, & Taradash, 2000).…”

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Testing predictions from the male control theory of men's partner violence

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Graham‐Kevan

Archer

2013

Aggressive Behavior

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The aim of this study was to test predictions from the male control theory of intimate partner violence (IPV) and Johnson's [Johnson, M. P. (1995). Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 282-294] typology. A student sample (N ¼ 1,104) reported on their use of physical aggression and controlling behavior, to partners and to same-sex non-intimates. Contrary to the male control theory, women were found to be more physically aggressive to their partners than men were, and the reverse pattern was found for aggression to same-sex non-intimates. Furthermore, there were no substantial sex differences in controlling behavior, which significantly predicted physical aggression in both sexes. IPV was found to be associated with physical aggression to same-sex nonintimates, thereby demonstrating a link with aggression outside the family. Using Johnson's typology, women were more likely than men to be classed as "intimate terrorists," which was counter to earlier findings. Overall, these results do not support the male control theory of IPV. Instead, they fit the view that IPV does not have a special etiology, and is better studied within the context of other forms of aggression. Aggr. Behav. 40:42-55, 2014.

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“…Ces motifs ne se reflètent toutefois pas dans les cas de meurtres du conjoint par sa femme. Les femmes qui tuent leur conjoint le font habituellement en situation d'autodéfense (bien que l'histoire anté-rieure de la victime et du meurtrier, ou les circonstances du meurtre ne soient pas nécessairement conformes à la notion juridique d'autodéfense), ou pour défendre leurs enfants (Bacon & Lansdowne, 1982 ;Bowker, 1983 ;Browne, 1987;Campbell, 1992;Dobash, Dobash, Wilson & Daly, 1992). Pour la suite de cet article, nous nous concentrerons sur la violence physique des conjoints contre leurs femmes, puisque les femmes sont la plupart du temps les victimes, et aussi parce que dans la majorité des cas, les conflits violents ne sont que le résultat d'une tendance plus marquée chez l'homme à réagir violemment.…”

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2005

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Two Statistics Canada data sources provide case information on violence against Canadian wives : the "Homicide Survey", an archive of all homicides known to police since 1974, and the 1993 national telephone "Violence against Women Survey". When combined with population-at-large information, these sources illuminate risk patterns for lethal and nonlethal violence, which are similar in most, but not all, particuliars. Rates of both lethal and nonlethal violence against wives vary in relation to age, registered versus common law status, separation, and autonomy-limitating behaviour by the husband. These risk patterns are discussed in relation to factors affecting the intensity of male sexual proprietariness. Risk patterns in Quebec parallel those for Canada as a whole in most, but not all, particulars.

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Book Reviews : When Battered Women Kill. By Angela Browne. New York: Free Press, 1987,228 pp., $9.95 (paperback). Justifiable Homicide: Battered Women, Self-Defense and the Law. Cynthia K. Gillespie. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989, 252 pp., $29.95 (hardbound

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Is the Presence of Control Related to Help-Seeking Behavior? A Test of Johnson’s Assumptions Regarding Sex Differences and the Role of Control in Intimate Partner Violence

Is the Presence of Control Related to Help-Seeking Behavior? A Test of Johnson’s Assumptions Regarding Sex Differences and the Role of Control in Intimate Partner Violence

Testing predictions from the male control theory of men's partner violence

La violence contre l’épouse, un crime passionnel

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