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Intimate Partner Violence: New Paradigms, Approaches and Perspectives
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Intimate Partner Violence: New Paradigms, Approaches and Perspectives

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Gender Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2649

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vithya Murugan

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College for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Interests: intimate partner violence; sexual assault; cultural competency; vulnerable populations of interpersonal violence (e.g., immigrant survivors, refugee survivors; South Asian survivors); gender empowerment; prevention and intervention development
Dr. Terri L. Weaver

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Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
Interests: interpersonal violence; physical and mental health sequelae; posttraumatic stress disorder; body image disturbance; depression as mental health outcomes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global phenomenon with far-reaching negative effects on individuals, families, and communities. IPV is perpetrated within a societal and cultural context.  Increasingly, paradigms for examining the dynamics of, responses to, and remedies for IPV acknowledge the importance of considering socioculturally aware ecological models. These models recognize the person in context and the ways in which multi-level environmental contexts influence outcomes. For example, scholars have recently called for the decriminalization of IPV, citing not only the lack of evidence for the criminal legal system in deterring or lowering rates of IPV but also the ways in which this system has instantiated harm. Specifically, extant research documents ways in which the criminal justice response to IPV has disproportionately and adversely impacted individuals and communities with historically marginalized identities, including individuals who are Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color, and LGBTQIA+.

This Special Issue aims to provide a state-of-the-art perspective on research that moves beyond traditional remedies, such as criminal justice responses. We are seeking innovative approaches to, remedies for, and paradigms of conceptualizing IPV using public health, economic, community, or other novel perspectives. Contributions may be empirical research papers, comprehensive reviews, or studies addressing theory-driven prevention or interventions approaches. Multidisciplinary and international perspectives are welcome.

Dr. Vithya Murugan
Dr. Terri L. Weaver
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intimate partner violence
  • public health
  • economic
  • community
  • ecological models

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Socio-Cultural Contexts for Normative Gender Violence: Pathways of Risk for Intimate Partner Violence
by Aimée X. Delaney
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(7), 378; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070378 - 27 Jun 2023
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Violent means of social control at both the micro- and macro-levels create norms of violence within societies that spill over into multiple domains as a reaction to a socio-cultural context of normative violence. This adverse effect may stem from normalized violence within both [...] Read more.
Violent means of social control at both the micro- and macro-levels create norms of violence within societies that spill over into multiple domains as a reaction to a socio-cultural context of normative violence. This adverse effect may stem from normalized violence within both families and communities and contribute to intimate partner violence (IPV). From a contextual-ecological model, this becomes a victimizing effect. This study tests the theoretical premise of Norms of Violence in order to reconceptualize IPV as a victimizing effect within a larger community framework. Using data from the International Dating Violence Study, this study explores the interaction of violent socialization at both the familial and communal level, controlling for other conditions that could contribute to a normative standard of violence. The results indicate the presence of polyvictimization: nations in which youth experience the highest levels of violent socialization from both their families and communities tend to have higher levels of IPV victimization. This relationship is stronger when social structures support normative violence as conflict resolution. For females, this relationship is further exasperated. Societies across the world, including those in which the context of violence is most prominent, can work towards eradicating the negative impacts of gender violence for individuals, their families, and the communities in which they live by addressing the normalization of violence. Full article
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