Community attitudes to domestic violence: Attributions of responsibility, and suggested punishments related to alcohol consumption and level of violence

Injunctive social norms of adults regarding teen dating violence

“…Previous studies have found victim and/or assailant ethnicity [58 -60], use of alcohol [58,61], and motivation or "provocation" for abuse [60,62] to be associated with beliefs about domestic violence. In contrast, the current findings suggest that after controlling for the effects of multiple contextual and demographic variables, these three variables do not have a significant impact on adults' norms about TDV.…”

Intimate Partner Violence: The Effect of Gender and Contextual Factors on Community Perceptions of Harm, and Suggested Victim and Criminal Justice Responses

“…Yet, the effect of the frequency of any form of IPV on community perceptions of IPV has not been adequately addressed. Much of the research use hypothetical scenarios in which a history of physical or verbal abuse is present (e.g., Feather, 1996;Ho & Venus, 1995;Lane & Knowles, 2000). In a study whereby frequency was manipulated, Sorenson and Taylor (2005) found that hypothetical incidents of male-perpetrated IPV involving the incident was more likely to be reported as illegal if it was the fifth time the incident occurred as opposed to the first time.…”

Counselors' Attributions of Blame Toward Female Survivors of Battering

“…Also shown to increase levels of blame are intimacy level of the relationship (dating vs. married; Langhinrichsen-Rohling et al, 2004;Willis et al, 1996), suggesting that women who are unmarried are blamed more than those women who are married; provocation by the victim (Harris & Cook, 1994;Pierce & Harris, 1993), where women who have done something to "provoke" the batterer are blamed more than those who did nothing to initiate the violence; and the victim's reaction to the abuse (Capezza & Arriaga, 2008), where women who do something to retaliate (such as yelling) are blamed at greater rates as well. Finally, severity of violence has shown to increase the amount of blame attributed to the abuser and decrease the blame placed on the survivor (Lane & Knowles, 2000;Pierce & Harris, 1993;Reddy et al, 1997;Witte, Schroeder, & Lohr, 2006). Following is an in-depth review of studies examining the influence of these factors on attributions of blame toward women who have been battered, as well as their methodological strengths and limitations.…”