The Need to Develop the Established Theory of Partner Violence Further

Lien, Marianne Inéz; Lorentzen, Jørgen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-03994-3_8

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“…Several theories have been discussed in the areas of gender, masculinity, power relations, and its association with spousal violence. Majority of the theories on such violence favoured women (Lien and Lorentzen, 2019;Jungari et al, 2020). In India, laws on spousal violence favour women due to the higher prevalence of women victims.…”

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Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: evidence from India

Chattopadhyay,

Kumar Sharma,

Vishwakarma

et al. 2023

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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As the proportion of women being victims of spousal violence in India is higher than men, laws are usually framed to safeguard women. However, men who have experienced physical spousal violence are not unheard of. The study aims to provide the nationwide prevalence of physical violence against husbands and the risk factors for such violence, using large-scale nationally representative ‘National Family Health Survey’ (NFHS 4) data. The study used descriptive, bivariate, logistic, and multilevel regression models with a random intercept clustering within states and households to explain the physical violence against husband. Sample size for the analysis was 62,716 currently married women aged 15–49 years. Findings revealed that in most of the states of India, physical spousal violence has increased over time. Behavioural characteristics like marital control, alcoholism, and childhood experience of parental violence have a consistent and strong role in explaining the experience of physical violence across states. With age, experience of violence against husbands increases. Differences in socio-economic characteristics do not have unidirectional effect on violence experienced by husbands across regions of India. Working women who are earning cash and having access to mobile phones perpetrate more physical violence in selected regions. Education shows a gradient on such violence perpetration, indicating that only after achieving a certain level of education, chances of violence reduce. Regionally contrasting social and economic risk factors in explaining violence strengthen the argument that violence is space and culture-specific, and development alone may not resolve violence unless the system is addressing the behavioural aspects. There is a need for supporting men experiencing domestic violence within the existing system facilities. Revisiting the present domestic violence laws and programmes for inclusivity is the need of the hour.

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Section: D) Laws On Spousal Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: evidence from India

Chattopadhyay,

Kumar Sharma,

Vishwakarma

et al. 2023

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…The topic of female‐initiated violence in a heterosexual relationship is one of the most sensitive topics in IPV. Research presents that even men who are economically and physically superior can be victims of violence by women (Lien & Lorentzen, 2019), implying that the patriarchal system may not fully explain IPV between different genders. However, regarding empirical research on females physically abusing their partners, there is a paucity of available qualitative research (Allen‐Collinson, 2009).…”

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Intimate Partner Violence in a Heterosexual Marriage: Case Study of a Korean Couple

Park

Sunghui

Park

2022

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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This study explores an abusive wife's symptoms and risk factors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a heterosexual relationship. A qualitative approach, using a conceptual cluster network, was used to analyse the family therapy case of a wife abusing her husband. Findings indicate that the wife's IPV‐related symptoms included victim mentality, despair, depression, insomnia, aggression, and the desire to divorce the husband. The wife's risk factors were present at the personal, family‐relational, and sociocultural levels. This study indicates that therapists counselling violent Korean couples may explore couples' communication styles, undifferentiation of self, transference, the culture of filial piety, and the influence of Confucian culture.

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Male victims of domestic violence among professional families: Shackled in masculinity

Mas'udah

2024

JSD

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Various acts of domestic violence are the reality that troubles family life in various social classes. This study seeks to investigate violence experienced by men among professional families and the causes of women to commit such act. This study deployed qualitative methods and conducted in-depth interviews of 53 informants. The finding of the study indicates that men not only experience single violence, but a variation of violence that occurred in professional families, such as physical, economic, verbal/psychological, and sexual violence. This study shows the triggers for women to commit violence against men among professional families are insecurity, jealousy, and inequality in socioeconomic status. Men are burdened with patriarchy and tend to be passive in reacting to the violence they experience. Masculinity makes male victims of violence suffer triple oppression: They become the victims; they are embarrassed because they get a negative stigma from the community for failing and not being able to lead their families; and when men become the victims, they ‘get punished’ because it is considered as ‘abnormal’ for men to become victims of violence. Men react to the violence committed by their wives by carrying out latent resistance, manifest resistance, and alienation.

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The Need to Develop the Established Theory of Partner Violence Further

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: evidence from India

Prevalence and risk factors of physical violence against husbands: evidence from India

Intimate Partner Violence in a Heterosexual Marriage: Case Study of a Korean Couple

Male victims of domestic violence among professional families: Shackled in masculinity

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