Women’s Employment Status,Coercive Control,and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico

Findings from previous studies examining the relation between women’s employment and the risk of intimate partner violence have been mixed. Some studies find greater violence toward women who are employed, whereas others find the opposite relation or no relation at all. I propose a new framework in which a woman’s employment status and her risk of violent victimization are both influenced by the level of control exercised by her partner. Controlling men will actively prevent women from working and are also more likely to physically harm their partners. Using a statistical model in which the effect of omitted characteristics on women’s employment and their risk of violence are allowed to be correlated reverses the estimated association between employment and violence. The final results show that employment reduces women’s risk of violence. Data for the study are drawn from a sample of over 30,000 Mexican women in intimate relationships. The findings have broad implications given the increase in female labor force participation in many parts of the world.     

来自精神荒原的灵魂写实--奥康纳《好人难寻》的主题意义与宗教思想探讨

弗兰纳里·奥康纳是美国20世纪出色的南方女作家.她的极端的宗教观使其作品充满了浓厚的宗教气息和典型的南方乡土特色.其作品所宣扬的荒诞和异化的主题意义以及暴力和神灵顿悟的宗教思想在其短篇杰作<好人难寻>中体现得淋漓尽致.     

Reporting bad results: The ethical responsibility of presenting abused women's parenting practices in a negative light

The purpose of this paper is to present and analyse the ethical dilemmas involved in presenting research findings that describe abused women's parenting practices in a negative light. The study was based on data collected by in‐depth interviews for the purpose of examining the turning point among 20 Israeli abused women who refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while staying with the perpetrator. Overall the analysis indicated successful survival stories but the women's parenting practices became questionable. This raised dilemmas as to how to present such findings and what are the ethical implications related to interventions with abused women.     

樱花与刀：北野武和他的电影世界

作为日本著名导演,北野武在世界范围内广受关注。个性化的北野武电影在极端中徜徉,暴力死亡与温情幽默交相辉映,简单直白与特立独行相得益彰。本文通过对北野武人生经历、主要作品特点的梳理,力求在国民性和个性化之间解读北野武。     

Socioeconomic resources,gender traditionalism,and wife abuse in urban Russian couples

Until recently, Soviet data restrictions led to limited knowledge about wife abuse in Russia. This study adds to emerging research on Russian domestic violence by testing hypotheses derived from resource theory on the effects on wife abuse of husband's absolute resources versus spouses’ relative resources. Analysis of data from the 1996 National Survey of Russian Marriages (N= 664) shows support only for the influence of husband's absolute socioeconomic resources (education, employment status, and occupational rank). As in U.S. studies, intergenerational patterns of wife abuse and husband's alcohol use have notable effects on wife abuse. The findings suggest that although resource theory may partly explain wife abuse in urban Russia, spouses’ relative resources and husband's gender traditionalism currently have little influence.     

浅析家庭暴力及防治措施

家庭是社会的细胞,和睦、安宁、团结的家庭关系不仅是每个家庭成员人生幸福的重要内容,而且是社会和谐、稳定的基础。但在现实生活中,家庭暴力的存在侵扰着家庭的安宁和稳定,妇女又是家庭暴力的主要受害者。该文就家庭暴力的内涵、形成的原因以及《新婚姻法》对我国家庭暴力的救助措施和规定作了探讨,这对于反对家庭暴力,维护妇女权益有着积极的作用。     

暴力冲突:身份确立之途径——评品特戏剧《回家》

《回家》作为哈罗德.品特倍受注目的作品,展示了两性间权力冲突这一中心主题。追寻权力的过程,同时也是个人身份确认的过程。父权制社会中的女性作为“他者”的形象出现,她们的身份、欲望依赖于男性存在。分析了《回家》中女性面对男性暴力的应策,以及颠覆男权、肯定自我的过程,同时也指出女性在与男权抗争的过程中存在的局限性。     

家庭暴力立法研究

家庭暴力是发生在家庭成员间的一种违反法律与善良风俗的暴力行为,它已成为一个全球性的社会问题。在许多国家,防止家庭暴力的法律改革已经展开。在我国,解决家庭暴力的相关政策仅仅是一种高层次的伦理规范,而不是法律规范。家庭暴力纠纷案件的增多对现行法律体系提出了挑战。制定一部统一的反家庭暴力法,是促进我国法律体系的发展,进而实现我国法制现代化的时代使命;基于此,法院内部也应设立一个专门的解决家庭暴力纠纷的家事法庭,并构架起此领域的公正审判权,从而树立起司法权威,这是实现司法公正与正义的必然选择。家庭暴力立法与司法制度的发展,对法学研究也具有重要的制度价值。     

Effects of exposure to occupational violence and the mediating impact of fear

This paper examines the consequences of exposure to work-related violence and in particular, focuses upon the role of fear (of violence) as a mediating variable. The sample comprises UK public house licensees-individuals who manage public houses and hold the licence permitting the sale of alcoholic drinks on the premises. Questionnaires were sent to 479 licensees and a response rate of 51% was achieved. Each questionnaire measured exposure to a range of violent assaults, fear of violence, general well-being, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Based upon a final sample of 242 pub licensees, regression analyses showed that as the severity of the violence to which licensees were exposed increased, so fear of becoming a victim and symptoms of impaired well-being increased, while job satisfaction and organizational commitment decreased. Hierarchical analyses showed that fear of violence fully mediated the negative impact of exposure upon each of these other variables. It is argued that the management of fear appraisals should be integrated into organizational responses to work-place violence.     

Domestic violence and child protection: exploring the role of perpetrator risk assessments

This article explores the issue of severity in relation to domestic violence and provides a number of reasons for the necessary engagement by workers with such a contentious issue. The specific role that the assessment of the risks posed by the perpetrator which has now developed in some police forces in the United Kingdom is examined, and its relevance to child welfare intervention discussed. A range of factors are identified that heighten the risks of increased violence. These include prior sexual assault; stalking and controlling behaviour; substance misuse and mental‐health problems; separation and child contact disputes; pregnancy; escalation including the use of weapons and psychological abuse; attempts and threats to kill; child abuse; isolation and barriers to help‐seeking. The ways in which perpetrator risk assessment can be used to inform the filtering of referrals to the statutory child care agency, enhance multi‐agency working, provide a structure for the assessment of the perpetrator, enhance partnership‐working with survivors (usually women) and inform the protection strategies for workers are explored.