Niels Blom
Biographic Data
| ID | 223109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niels Blom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niels |
| FAMILY NAME | Blom |
| SIGNATURE | BLOM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0742-4554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Employment Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) is a global problem. Despite its prevalence, few studies have investigated the employment impact of IPVA, with existing studies spread across multiple disciplines including criminology, economics, and public health. This systematic review provided an overview of the main findings on the topic and identified research gaps and opportunities for future research. We conducted a systematic review and identifi…
Adolescent Domestic Abuse and Its Consequences
Purpose As a phenomenon, abusive behavior between adolescents in intimate relationships remains relatively invisible, due in part to the persistent yet unfounded assumption that domestic abuse is something that occurs between adults. This review investigates adolescent domestic abuse (ADA), by focusing on the impacts and risk factors for adolescents, particularly those under the age of 16, experiencing ADA. Methods We conducted a rapid systematic…
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence
This study explores the relationship between changes in neighbourhood characteristics and changes in violence rates across England and Wales from 2011 to 2021. Rising social disadvantage, particularly increased unemployment, poor health, lone-parent households, residential mobility and social housing, was significantly associated with rising violence. While overall ethnic heterogeneity was not linked to violence, increases in heterogeneity were m…
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Over the past two decades, offline stalking, a repeated pattern of behaviours which causes fear and distress, has been complemented through online and digital means. Within this study, we use nationally representative Crime Survey for England and Wales data from 2012 to 2020 to determine the prevalence of cyberstalking and ascertain how these experiences impact participants’ perceptions of the events. Our analysis, involving weighted and multinom…
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
The definitions and the methodology used in surveys to measure violence have implications for its estimated volume and gendered distribution. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) uses quite a narrow definition of ‘violence against the person’ which excludes crimes which are arguably violent in nature. This article expands the CSEW’s measurement of violence by regarding threats, robbery, sexual violence and mixed violence/property crimes …
(Mis)Representing Ethnicity in UK Government Statistics and Its Implications for Violence Inequalities
The question of how we measure, categorise, and represent ethnicity poses a growing challenge for identifying and addressing ethnic inequalities. Conceptual critiques and qualitative studies highlight the complexities and challenges of measuring ethnicity, yet there remains a lack of quantitative studies investigating the implications of these complexities for inequalities research. This paper addresses this gap by scrutinizing methodological pro…
Physical and Emotional Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Purpose Intimate partner violence and abuse has a detrimental impact on victim-survivors’ health and wellbeing. However, intimate partners include a range of different relationship types, which are rarely differentiated or contrasted in research. Here, we investigate whether different types of intimate partners commit different types of violence/abuse and whether the injury and wellbeing impact on victim-survivors varies by intimate partner relat…
Wage Effects of Couples' Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution
Specialisation and gender theories offer competing hypotheses of whether men's and women's wages rise or fall based on the couple's division of household unpaid and paid labour, and how effects differ across the wage distribution. We test division effects by analysing British panel data using unconditional quantile regression with individual fixed effects, controlling for own hours in housework and employment. We find only high-wage men's wages w…
Measures of Violence within the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Survey and the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Criminology has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data to examine the consequences of victimisation. However, recently, ‘Understanding Society’, the United Kingdom Household Panel Survey (UKHLS), began fielding a small battery of questions relating to violence experience. Here, we examined the strengths and weaknesses of these UKHLS measures with similar indices from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), a widely used and regarded …
The Concept and Measurement of Violence and Abuse in Health and Justice Fields
Violence reduction is a United Nations (UN) sustainable development goal (SDG) and is key to both public health and criminology. The collaboration between these fields has the potential to create and improve prevention strategies but has been hampered by the usage of different definitions and measurements. This paper explores the definitions and measurements of violence by the World Health Organization, UN, and Council of Europe to arrive at a ha…
So happy together … Examining the association between relationship happiness, socio-economic status, and family transitions in the UK
The increases in cohabitation and in childbearing within cohabitation raise questions about who marries. Most studies have found that childbearing within cohabitation is associated with disadvantage; here, we examine the role of relationship happiness and whether it helps to explain this association. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-17), our competing risk hazard models follow respondents as they transition: (1) from cohabitation i…
Temporal Dimensions of Unemployment and Relationship Happiness in the United Kingdom
Here we study how unemployment is related to partner relationship happiness in the United Kingdom. We investigate multiple dimensions of unemployment-current unemployment, changes in unemployment, duration of unemployment, and past unemployment-each of which provides unique insights into how economic uncertainty can strain relationships. Not including these aspects potentially leads to an underestimation of the long-term effect of unemployment an…
Baanonzekerheid en tevredenheid met de partnerrelatie in Nederland
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia
ObjectiveThis study longitudinally investigated the associations between becoming a female-breadwinner household and changes in relationship satisfaction for men and women.BackgroundFemale-breadwinner households pose a fundamental challenge to gender norms, particularly in countries such as Australia with a strong male breadwinner culture. Despite an increase in their prevalence, the implications for relationship satisfaction is understudied. Hyp…
Couples' Job Insecurity and Relationship Satisfaction in the Netherlands
ObjectiveThe goal of this study is to estimate the effect of one's own and one's partner's job insecurity on relationship satisfaction, with attention to gender and educational differences in these effects. Second, we test whether the effects of individual job insecurity on individual relationship satisfaction depends on partner job insecurity.BackgroundResearch has established that job insecurity is negatively associated with relationship qualit…
Current and Expected Economic Hardship and Satisfaction With Family Life in Europe
This study investigated how people’s satisfaction with their family life is influenced by economic circumstances. Expectations were formulated that people who experienced or expected economic hardship would be less satisfied with their family life. Additionally, it was hypothesized that current and expected economic hardship would amplify each other’s consequences on satisfaction, and that current and expected economic hardship was more harmful f…
Couples' Division of Employment and Household Chores and Relationship Satisfaction
This article investigates associations between couples' divisions of time spent on employment and household chores and respondents' satisfaction with their partner relationship. Theoretical notions of specialization and equity were used to derive hypotheses. Specialization relates to differentiation in the content of tasks, whereas equity in hours indicates similarity in time devoted to family needs. We study direct effects of hours-equity and sp…
Ethnic health inequalities in Europe. The moderating and amplifying role of healthcare system characteristics
Media Exposure and Health in Europe
Ethnic health inequalities in Europe. The moderating and amplifying role of healthcare system characteristics
Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia
ObjectiveThis study longitudinally investigated the associations between becoming a female-breadwinner household and changes in relationship satisfaction for men and women.BackgroundFemale-breadwinner households pose a fundamental challenge to gender norms, particularly in countries such as Australia with a strong male breadwinner culture. Despite an increase in their prevalence, the implications for relationship satisfaction is understudied. Hyp…
Temporal Dimensions of Unemployment and Relationship Happiness in the United Kingdom
Here we study how unemployment is related to partner relationship happiness in the United Kingdom. We investigate multiple dimensions of unemployment-current unemployment, changes in unemployment, duration of unemployment, and past unemployment-each of which provides unique insights into how economic uncertainty can strain relationships. Not including these aspects potentially leads to an underestimation of the long-term effect of unemployment an…
Couples' Job Insecurity and Relationship Satisfaction in the Netherlands
ObjectiveThe goal of this study is to estimate the effect of one's own and one's partner's job insecurity on relationship satisfaction, with attention to gender and educational differences in these effects. Second, we test whether the effects of individual job insecurity on individual relationship satisfaction depends on partner job insecurity.BackgroundResearch has established that job insecurity is negatively associated with relationship qualit…
Current and Expected Economic Hardship and Satisfaction With Family Life in Europe
This study investigated how people’s satisfaction with their family life is influenced by economic circumstances. Expectations were formulated that people who experienced or expected economic hardship would be less satisfied with their family life. Additionally, it was hypothesized that current and expected economic hardship would amplify each other’s consequences on satisfaction, and that current and expected economic hardship was more harmful f…
Wage Effects of Couples' Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution
Specialisation and gender theories offer competing hypotheses of whether men's and women's wages rise or fall based on the couple's division of household unpaid and paid labour, and how effects differ across the wage distribution. We test division effects by analysing British panel data using unconditional quantile regression with individual fixed effects, controlling for own hours in housework and employment. We find only high-wage men's wages w…
Measures of Violence within the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Survey and the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Criminology has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data to examine the consequences of victimisation. However, recently, ‘Understanding Society’, the United Kingdom Household Panel Survey (UKHLS), began fielding a small battery of questions relating to violence experience. Here, we examined the strengths and weaknesses of these UKHLS measures with similar indices from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), a widely used and regarded …
The Concept and Measurement of Violence and Abuse in Health and Justice Fields
Violence reduction is a United Nations (UN) sustainable development goal (SDG) and is key to both public health and criminology. The collaboration between these fields has the potential to create and improve prevention strategies but has been hampered by the usage of different definitions and measurements. This paper explores the definitions and measurements of violence by the World Health Organization, UN, and Council of Europe to arrive at a ha…
Couples' Division of Employment and Household Chores and Relationship Satisfaction
This article investigates associations between couples' divisions of time spent on employment and household chores and respondents' satisfaction with their partner relationship. Theoretical notions of specialization and equity were used to derive hypotheses. Specialization relates to differentiation in the content of tasks, whereas equity in hours indicates similarity in time devoted to family needs. We study direct effects of hours-equity and sp…
Adolescent Domestic Abuse and Its Consequences
Purpose As a phenomenon, abusive behavior between adolescents in intimate relationships remains relatively invisible, due in part to the persistent yet unfounded assumption that domestic abuse is something that occurs between adults. This review investigates adolescent domestic abuse (ADA), by focusing on the impacts and risk factors for adolescents, particularly those under the age of 16, experiencing ADA. Methods We conducted a rapid systematic…
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
The definitions and the methodology used in surveys to measure violence have implications for its estimated volume and gendered distribution. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) uses quite a narrow definition of ‘violence against the person’ which excludes crimes which are arguably violent in nature. This article expands the CSEW’s measurement of violence by regarding threats, robbery, sexual violence and mixed violence/property crimes …
Physical and Emotional Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Purpose Intimate partner violence and abuse has a detrimental impact on victim-survivors’ health and wellbeing. However, intimate partners include a range of different relationship types, which are rarely differentiated or contrasted in research. Here, we investigate whether different types of intimate partners commit different types of violence/abuse and whether the injury and wellbeing impact on victim-survivors varies by intimate partner relat…
Media Exposure and Health in Europe
Ethnic health inequalities in Europe. The moderating and amplifying role of healthcare system characteristics
Couples' Division of Employment and Household Chores and Relationship Satisfaction
This article investigates associations between couples' divisions of time spent on employment and household chores and respondents' satisfaction with their partner relationship. Theoretical notions of specialization and equity were used to derive hypotheses. Specialization relates to differentiation in the content of tasks, whereas equity in hours indicates similarity in time devoted to family needs. We study direct effects of hours-equity and sp…
Current and Expected Economic Hardship and Satisfaction With Family Life in Europe
This study investigated how people’s satisfaction with their family life is influenced by economic circumstances. Expectations were formulated that people who experienced or expected economic hardship would be less satisfied with their family life. Additionally, it was hypothesized that current and expected economic hardship would amplify each other’s consequences on satisfaction, and that current and expected economic hardship was more harmful f…
Baanonzekerheid en tevredenheid met de partnerrelatie in Nederland
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia
ObjectiveThis study longitudinally investigated the associations between becoming a female-breadwinner household and changes in relationship satisfaction for men and women.BackgroundFemale-breadwinner households pose a fundamental challenge to gender norms, particularly in countries such as Australia with a strong male breadwinner culture. Despite an increase in their prevalence, the implications for relationship satisfaction is understudied. Hyp…
Couples' Job Insecurity and Relationship Satisfaction in the Netherlands
ObjectiveThe goal of this study is to estimate the effect of one's own and one's partner's job insecurity on relationship satisfaction, with attention to gender and educational differences in these effects. Second, we test whether the effects of individual job insecurity on individual relationship satisfaction depends on partner job insecurity.BackgroundResearch has established that job insecurity is negatively associated with relationship qualit…
So happy together … Examining the association between relationship happiness, socio-economic status, and family transitions in the UK
The increases in cohabitation and in childbearing within cohabitation raise questions about who marries. Most studies have found that childbearing within cohabitation is associated with disadvantage; here, we examine the role of relationship happiness and whether it helps to explain this association. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009-17), our competing risk hazard models follow respondents as they transition: (1) from cohabitation i…
Temporal Dimensions of Unemployment and Relationship Happiness in the United Kingdom
Here we study how unemployment is related to partner relationship happiness in the United Kingdom. We investigate multiple dimensions of unemployment-current unemployment, changes in unemployment, duration of unemployment, and past unemployment-each of which provides unique insights into how economic uncertainty can strain relationships. Not including these aspects potentially leads to an underestimation of the long-term effect of unemployment an…
Measures of Violence within the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Survey and the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Criminology has been hampered by a lack of longitudinal data to examine the consequences of victimisation. However, recently, ‘Understanding Society’, the United Kingdom Household Panel Survey (UKHLS), began fielding a small battery of questions relating to violence experience. Here, we examined the strengths and weaknesses of these UKHLS measures with similar indices from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), a widely used and regarded …
The Concept and Measurement of Violence and Abuse in Health and Justice Fields
Violence reduction is a United Nations (UN) sustainable development goal (SDG) and is key to both public health and criminology. The collaboration between these fields has the potential to create and improve prevention strategies but has been hampered by the usage of different definitions and measurements. This paper explores the definitions and measurements of violence by the World Health Organization, UN, and Council of Europe to arrive at a ha…
(Mis)Representing Ethnicity in UK Government Statistics and Its Implications for Violence Inequalities
The question of how we measure, categorise, and represent ethnicity poses a growing challenge for identifying and addressing ethnic inequalities. Conceptual critiques and qualitative studies highlight the complexities and challenges of measuring ethnicity, yet there remains a lack of quantitative studies investigating the implications of these complexities for inequalities research. This paper addresses this gap by scrutinizing methodological pro…
Physical and Emotional Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Purpose Intimate partner violence and abuse has a detrimental impact on victim-survivors’ health and wellbeing. However, intimate partners include a range of different relationship types, which are rarely differentiated or contrasted in research. Here, we investigate whether different types of intimate partners commit different types of violence/abuse and whether the injury and wellbeing impact on victim-survivors varies by intimate partner relat…
Wage Effects of Couples' Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution
Specialisation and gender theories offer competing hypotheses of whether men's and women's wages rise or fall based on the couple's division of household unpaid and paid labour, and how effects differ across the wage distribution. We test division effects by analysing British panel data using unconditional quantile regression with individual fixed effects, controlling for own hours in housework and employment. We find only high-wage men's wages w…
Employment Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) is a global problem. Despite its prevalence, few studies have investigated the employment impact of IPVA, with existing studies spread across multiple disciplines including criminology, economics, and public health. This systematic review provided an overview of the main findings on the topic and identified research gaps and opportunities for future research. We conducted a systematic review and identifi…
Adolescent Domestic Abuse and Its Consequences
Purpose As a phenomenon, abusive behavior between adolescents in intimate relationships remains relatively invisible, due in part to the persistent yet unfounded assumption that domestic abuse is something that occurs between adults. This review investigates adolescent domestic abuse (ADA), by focusing on the impacts and risk factors for adolescents, particularly those under the age of 16, experiencing ADA. Methods We conducted a rapid systematic…
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence
This study explores the relationship between changes in neighbourhood characteristics and changes in violence rates across England and Wales from 2011 to 2021. Rising social disadvantage, particularly increased unemployment, poor health, lone-parent households, residential mobility and social housing, was significantly associated with rising violence. While overall ethnic heterogeneity was not linked to violence, increases in heterogeneity were m…
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Over the past two decades, offline stalking, a repeated pattern of behaviours which causes fear and distress, has been complemented through online and digital means. Within this study, we use nationally representative Crime Survey for England and Wales data from 2012 to 2020 to determine the prevalence of cyberstalking and ascertain how these experiences impact participants’ perceptions of the events. Our analysis, involving weighted and multinom…
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
The definitions and the methodology used in surveys to measure violence have implications for its estimated volume and gendered distribution. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) uses quite a narrow definition of ‘violence against the person’ which excludes crimes which are arguably violent in nature. This article expands the CSEW’s measurement of violence by regarding threats, robbery, sexual violence and mixed violence/property crimes …
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)