Interpersonal violence in three Caribbean countries: Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago

Franc, Elsie Le; Samms‐Vaughan, Maureen; Hambleton, Ian; Fox, Kristin; Brown, Dennis

doi:10.1590/s1020-49892008001200005

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“…The current IPV was 27 % (Stockman et al 2014). In other Caribbean countries, high rates of physical IPV (45.3–50 %) and sexual IPV (52.8–72.6 %) have been reported (LeFranc et al 2008). A recent analysis of data on IPV from population-based surveys conducted in 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries reported substantial lifetime (13.4–17.2 %) and past year (6.5–12 %) prevalence of physical violence (Bott et al 2012).…”

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Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Campbell

Yarandi

et al. 2016

Int J Public Health

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Objectives Limited research following disasters suggests that internally displaced women are disproportionately vulnerable to violence and abuse. An interdisciplinary collaborative of researchers and practitioners in Haiti, the US Virgin Islands, and the US Mainland investigated gender-based violence (GBV) pre- and post-earthquake and health outcomes among Haitian women living in tent cities/camps following the 2010 earthquake. Methods A comparative descriptive correlational design using culturally sensitive and language appropriate computer-assisted interviews of 208 internally displaced women 2011–2013. Results Found high rates of violence and abuse both before (71.2 %) and after (75 %) p = 0.266, the earthquake primarily perpetrated by boy friends or husbands. Significantly more mental and physical health problems were reported by abused than non-abused women. The majority (60–78 %) of abused women did not report personal or community tolerance for violence and abuse, but acknowledged a community context of limited involvement. Conclusions Coordinated planning and implementation of needed interventions are essential to provide a balanced approach to the care of displaced women after natural disasters with sensitivity to the abusive experiences of many women both before and after the disasters.

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Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Campbell

Yarandi

et al. 2016

Int J Public Health

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“…In common with its West Indian neighbours, The Bahamas has not dissociated itself from its violent past. Violence in The Bahamas has continued to increase (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime & World Bank, 2007), most notably in the increasing number of people who suffer violent deaths each year (Le Franc, Samms-Vaughan, Hambleton, Fox, & Brown, 2008;Hanna, 2011). Even homicide rates in The Bahamas are 6.3 times higher than in the United States of America (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013), despite the United States of America being a country which is well-known for gun violence (National Institute of Justice, 2013) and high prison populations driven by violent crime (O'Hear, 2013).…”

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A Cross-cultural Comparison of Interpersonal Violence in the Lives of College Students from Two Colleges from The Bahamas and the United States of America

Fielding

Risley-Curtiss

Cronin

2015

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There is a dearth of studies that compare interpersonal violence cross nationally. This paper reports the findings of a cross-sectional study which compares and contrasts violence in the lives of 740 college students, as children and as adults, in The Bahamas and the United States of America. Overall, students in The Bahamas were subjected to more violence (more frequently spanked) than their American counterparts. Frequency of spanking when the student was a preteen and teenager were linked to anger outbursts in adulthood, and higher numbers of anger outbursts were linked with violent behaviours of students. Although Bahamian students were exposed to more violence than the American students, this did not result in Bahamian students being more violent than American students in interpersonal relationships. However, Bahamian students were more likely than American students to anticipate using corporal punishment on their children and to condone violence in marital relationships.

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“…Interestingly, familial victimisation was not related with greater acceptance of physical domestic violence. Although prior research exploring such a relationship is lacking, recent empirical evidence demonstrated low acceptance of wife beating among Caribbean women (Tran et al, 2016), in spite of the frequent occurrence of IPV in the region (Le Franc et al, 2008). One possible explanation of differential associations between child victimisation and attitudes towards domestic violence and violence against girls, is that the process of violence normalisation may apply across settings (i.e., violent treatment first experienced in the family is also accepted in romantic relationships) but not across victim types (i.e., abuse of girls does not expand into accepting marital abuse of women).…”

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“…Support for the supposition that pro-violence attitudes are contingent on context is provided by prior research demonstrating that general interpersonal violence and partner violence do not commonly co-occur (Le Franc et al, 2008) and that not all maritally violent men use violence outside the home (Anderson & Bushman, 2002;Holtzworth-Munroe & Meehan, 2004).…”

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Gender-Based Violence-Supportive Cognitions in Adolescent Girls and Boys: The Function of Violence Exposure and Victimization

Debowska

Boduszek

Jones

et al. 2017

J Interpers Violence

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Violence against women and girls is widespread in the Caribbean, which may be due to heightened acceptance of such acts in this specific social context. In spite of this, studies investigating attitudes towards violence and their correlates among participants drawn from the region are missing. In order to address this void in the literature, we examined associations between violence exposure and victimisation and two gender-based violence-related cognitions (attitudes towards male physical domestic violence and social norms regarding physical violence against girls) as well as general beliefs about violence, using structural equation modelling. Participants were a sample of adolescent girls (n = 661; M age = 13.15) and boys (n = 639; M age = 13.22) from two Eastern Caribbean countries, Barbados and Grenada, recruited from 10 primary schools, nine secondary schools, and two youth offender centres. In considering that girls and boys were previously demonstrated to differ in their experiences as well as tolerance of violence, structural models were specified and tested separately for the two sexes. Results indicated that violence victimisation was positively strongly associated with attitudes towards male physical domestic violence and social norms regarding physical violence against girls among boys. Increased violence victimisation among girls, in turn, correlated with increased acceptance of social norms regarding physical violence against girls, but this relationship was weak. Violence exposure did not have any significant associations with any of the attitudinal variables included in the study. We discuss the importance of these findings for the development of appropriate gender-based violence prevention strategies for youths from the Eastern Caribbean.

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Interpersonal violence in three Caribbean countries: Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago

Cited by 66 publications

References 40 publications

Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Violence and abuse of internally displaced women survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

A Cross-cultural Comparison of Interpersonal Violence in the Lives of College Students from Two Colleges from The Bahamas and the United States of America

Gender-Based Violence-Supportive Cognitions in Adolescent Girls and Boys: The Function of Violence Exposure and Victimization

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