Intimate partner violence perpetration among college students: The role of gender role and gendered violence attitudes

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-82

  Nabors, Erin L ^a   Jasinski, Jana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Attitudes toward intimate partner violence; Beliefs; Chivalry; College students; Dating violence; Domestic violence; Gender role acceptance; Intimate partner abuse; Perceptions; Relationship violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149330561     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085108325235     Document Type: Article

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