Recent or Imminent Separation and Intimate Violence Against Women

A Conceptual Overview and Some Canadian Examples

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12435575
AutoresAysan Sev’er (University of Toronto, autor correspondente), Aysan Sev'Er (University of Toronto)
Ano1997
Volume3
Fascículo6
Páginas566-589
Data de publicação1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801297003006002
PMID12295554
OpenAlexW2138388663
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas51
Referências citadas35

The focus of this article is the link between recent or imminent separation and violence against female partners. First, various bodies of literature are reviewed to establish the fact that separation heightens the risk of violence. Second, the conceptual contributions of social learning and power and control theories are presented as they pertain to intimate violence against women. Third, an expanded version of the power-and-control model is used to underscore the violence proneness of separations, especially when the separations are initiated by women. To illustrate the expanded model, numerous Canadian examples are provided, drawn from interviews with divorced women, survivors of intimate violence, and news media reports. Finally, different strategies to break the cycle of violence, ranging from changing gendered attitudes and behavior to those that focus on incremental ways to reclaim one's freedom, are summarized

Criminology · Cycle of violence · Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Power (physics · Separation (statistics · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology