Family Abuse and Violence

Miller, JoAnn; Knudsen, Dean D.

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“…Rather than occurring as a single discrete incident, IPV generally manifests empirically as an ongoing pattern of interaction that includes—and sometimes culminates in—abusive or assaultive behavior (Tjaden & Thoennes, ). Miller and Knudsen () conceptualized this kind of violence as an “episode” (i.e., an incident) that emerges at an intersection of social structural, cultural, and social‐psychological factors that include gender scripts and normative expectations that are foundational to heteronormativity.…”

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Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

2019

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In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that shape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents of sexual victimization exhibit a range of types of sexual victimization experienced by transgender women in prison and reveal the centrality of relationships to their experiences of victimization. Findings from logistic regression models buttress the qualitative results, highlighting a factor that consistently and powerfully indicates vulnerability to sexual victimization is involvement in consensual sexual relationships with male prisoners. Together, the data demonstrate the prominence of intimate partner violence in prison, complicate the distinction between consent and unwanted sexual experiences in the lives of transgender women in prisons for men, and shine a light on the workings of gender in a total institution that privileges heteronormativity at the expense of the safety of transgender women in prisons for men. We discuss the implications of our findings in light of timely policy concerns.

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Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

2019

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“…Research on domestic violence has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Studies conducted in the United States have revealed new information about the frequency and severity of violence perpetrated against women by their partners, as well as the types of factors that place women at greater risk (see Holtzworth‐Monroe, Bates, Smutzler, & Sandin, 1997; Johnson & Ferraro, 2000; Miller & Knudsen, 1999, for reviews). One unresolved issue in the literature on domestic violence is the effect that women’s economic status, and specifically their participation in the labor market, has on their risk of violent victimization.…”

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Women’s Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

Villarreal

2007

J of Marriage and Family

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Findings from previous studies examining the relation between women’s employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the opposite relation or no relation at all. I propose a new framework in which a woman’s employment status and her risk of violent victimization are both influenced by the level of control exercised by her partner. Controlling men will actively prevent women from working and are also more likely to physically harm their partners. Using a statistical model in which the effect of omitted characteristics on women’s employment and their risk of violence are allowed to be correlated reverses the estimated association between employment and violence. The final results show that employment reduces women’s risk of violence. Data for the study are drawn from a sample of over 30,000 Mexican women in intimate relationships. The findings have broad implications given the increase in female labor force participation in many parts of the world.

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“…Our research hypothesis pertaining to personal power and reoccurring domestic violence was derived from the empirical studies that examine how levels of personal resources, or the control over resources, can empower victims to prevent repeated violence (see, e.g., Gelles, 1993;Jasinski, 2001c;Johnson, 1992;McCloskey, 1996;Miller & Knudsen, 1999;Teichman & Teichman 1989). Being employed outside the home is a social resource, whereas income advantage is an economic resource.…”

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“…We found that a victim's perception of personal power was negatively related to being married and to living with the suspect. The disadvantage of marriage for some domestic violence victims has been documented empirically by family violence researchers, and it is explained by criminal opportunity theory (McCloskey, 1996;Miller & Knudsen, 1999;Straus & Gelles, 1986). Domestic violence victims who are married to their offenders often have little control over economic and social resources.…”

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“…Social science theories of domestic violence tend to explain the reoccurrence or desistance of battery and threats of violence (Miller & Knudsen, 1999). Many feminist perspectives examine the consequences of patriarchy for women in general and for specific women within their intimate relationships (Dobash, Dobash, Cavanagh, & Lewis, 2000).…”

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An Arresting Experiment

Miller

2003

J Interpers Violence

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This study looks at the experiences and perceptions that domestic violence victims reported with Mills's power model. The victims' partners were the primary research participants in an arrest experiment. The following were empirically examined: the occurrence of violence following suspect arrest, victim perceptions of personal and legal power, victim satisfaction with the police, and victim perceptions of safety following legal intervention. Race and two victim resource measures (i.e., employment status and income advantage) explained variance in perceptions of independence. A police empowerment scale was used to measure legal power. It was found that arrest affected the probability of re-occurring domestic violence. Suspect arrest and the victim's perceptions of legal power were related to perceptions of safety following police intervention. The study concludes with some implications for domestic violence research, programs, and perspectives.

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Family Abuse and Violence

Cited by 10 publications

References 233 publications

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

Women’s Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

An Arresting Experiment

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