“Maybe She Was Provoked”: Exploring Gender Stereotypes About Male and Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence

Violence Against Women

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 89-113

  Scarduzio, Jennifer A ^a   Carlyle, Kellie E ^b   Harris, Kate Lockwood ^c   Savage, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

coercive control; gender symmetry debate; intimate partner violence

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OFFENDER; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PUBLISHING; STEREOTYPY; TERRORISM; THEORETICAL MODEL; VICTIM; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE; CRIME VICTIM; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXISM; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MALE; MASS MEDIA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEXISM; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996538129     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801216636240     Document Type: Article

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