Violence against women
- Violence against women causes suffering and misery to victims and their families and places a heavy burden on societies worldwide. It mostly happens within intimate relationships or between people known to each other. Violence against women is a social construction based on a societal consensus about the roles and rights of men and women. Two prevalent forms of violence against women are physical and sexual victimization by an intimate partner, and sexual victimization outside intimate relationships. Explanations of why men engage in aggressive behavior toward women address different levels, including the macro level of society, the micro level of dyadic interactions, and the individual level of perpetrator characteristics. Prevention efforts are needed that address each of these levels.
| Author details: | Barbara KrahéORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.03.017 |
| ISSN: | 2352-250X |
| ISSN: | 2352-2518 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29279224 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Current opinion in psychology |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2017/03/31 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Release date: | 2022/02/09 |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 6 |
| Last Page: | 10 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
