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Intimate Partner Violence and Future Calls for Law Enforcement Assistance: The Impact of the Victim's Race or Ethnicity and Perceptions of Previous Contact with Police

Hartsough, Molly
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6945-6079
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491517694572213

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2017, Master of Arts, University of Akron, Sociology.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) impacts thousands of American women every year. This study examines the effect of law enforcement training to improve police officers' attitudes towards victims, and the race or ethnicity of an IPV victim, on her willingness to involve police in future IPV assaults. I propose that higher satisfaction with past police attitudes leads to a higher willingness to involve police in future IPV assaults. I also propose that victims with higher levels of education and paid employment will be more willing to involve police. Data were collected from 547 IPV victims receiving assistance from service providers in New York and Texas. Logit regression was used to examine the relationship between satisfaction with past police attitudes, respondent’s education level, and employment status for the full sample. In addition, by adopting an intersectional analytical approach, I examine these variables using White-, Black-, and Latina-specific models. Results indicate that higher levels of satisfaction with past police attitudes increases an IPV victim’s willingness for future police involvement. The effects of the independent variables operate differently for White, Black, and Latina victims. This study suggests that general police training to develop more compassionate attitudes towards IPV victims does increase an IPV victims’ desire to involve police in the future, although there are variations by race and ethnicity. Social policy should consider how IPV victims are affected by intersections of gender, race or ethnicity, and social class.
Matthew Lee, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Kathryn Feltey, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Stacey Nofziger, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Criminology; Sociology; Womens Studies
Intimate Partner Violence; IPV; domestic violence; victimization; law enforcement; police; criminal justice; policy; race; ethnicity; intersectionality; sociology; inequality; criminology; victimology

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  • Hartsough, M. (2017). Intimate Partner Violence and Future Calls for Law Enforcement Assistance: The Impact of the Victim's Race or Ethnicity and Perceptions of Previous Contact with Police [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491517694572213

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hartsough, Molly. Intimate Partner Violence and Future Calls for Law Enforcement Assistance: The Impact of the Victim's Race or Ethnicity and Perceptions of Previous Contact with Police. 2017. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491517694572213.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hartsough, Molly. "Intimate Partner Violence and Future Calls for Law Enforcement Assistance: The Impact of the Victim's Race or Ethnicity and Perceptions of Previous Contact with Police." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491517694572213

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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