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Propensity to Report Intimate Partner Violence in Australia: Community Demographics

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title Propensity to Report Intimate Partner Violence in Australia: Community Demographics
 
Creator Signal, Tania
Taylor, Nicola
 
Subject Community level behavior analysis; Psychology; Sociology
family violence, reporting, propensity to report
 
Description Intimate partner violence (IPV) has devastating consequences both for the individuals involved and the community more widely. The role of the community in the prevention of IPV has been noted both in the literature and in recent initiatives within Australia. Contingency-specifying stimuli like community attitudes towards both IPV and women have been suggested to contribute to the prevalence of IPV. Logically the success of any community-based initiative to reduce IPV rests upon individuals of that community being willing to report such violence. As such, there is a need to determine which variables may influence an individual’s willingness to report IPV. The aim of the current study was to examine demographic and attitudinal variables to ascertain their relationship with propensity to report. A telephone questionnaire resulted in 1208 valid responses from members of the general community. Results showed a number of variables which were related with report propensity including gender, age, income level and awareness of whom to report such incidents to. These variables and their implications are discussed.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Contributor Centre for Social Science Research, CQU
 
Date 2008-06-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/1759
10.5210/bsi.v17i1.1759
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring/Summer 2008); 8-19
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/1759/2007