The influence of gender and ethnicity on judgments of culpability in a domestic violence scenario

Violence and Victims

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-220

  Ferguson, Christopher J ^a   Negy, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BATTERED WOMAN; CRIME; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; JUSTICE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFENDER; PARTNER VIOLENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

EID: 4243195893     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.19.2.203.64103     Document Type: Article

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