The help-seeking strategies of female violent-crime victims: The direct and conditional effects of race and the victim-offender relationship

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 967-990

  Kaukinen, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Police reporting; Race and the victim offender relationship; Women victims

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; CRIME VICTIMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 4243119549     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260504268000     Document Type: Article

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