Male peer support and male-female dating abuse committed by socially displaced male youth : an exploratory sudy

Sinclair, Roberta

doi:10.22215/etd/2002-05166

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“…Some years ago we proposed a male peer support model of woman abuse, which has been tested many times on both college and community populations, including a national representative sample (Schwartz & DeKeseredy, 1997;Sinclair, 2002). This complex model starts with the proposition that the ultimate cause of woman abuse is societal patriarchy, and provides a corollary that more patriarchal men are more likely to be batterers.…”

Section: Male Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpersonal Violence Against Women

Schwartz

DeKeseredy

2008

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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Attempting to solve the problem of interpersonal violence by dealing with the private problems of individuals is a strategy doomed to failure. With high-level social forces combining to facilitate rape, abuse, and stalking, programs to end these problems must be painted with broad strokes. Male peer support is an important aspect of society giving permission to men to assault women or to encourage or ignore others who do so. Programs such as bystander education that encourage male leaders to speak out are essential. Schools and governments must put more money into education programs to protect youth. American society was outraged when a professional football player was accused of mistreating and killing fighting dogs. Hollywood, meanwhile, virtually cannot portray the mistreatment of animals. We need to move toward a society where the same level of outrage accompanies acts of interpersonal violence against women.

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Section: Male Peer Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpersonal Violence Against Women

Schwartz

DeKeseredy

2008

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…Moreover, young men’s perception that their men peers both engage in and support the use of sexual aggression (i.e., peer support for violence; PSV) (Strang & Peterson, 2013) may increase their own likelihood of perpetrating sexual violence. This pattern similarly holds for perpetration of non-sexual dating abuse (DeKeseredy & Kelly, 1993; Sinclair, 2002).…”

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confidence: 60%

Gender-equitable Attitudes, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Perceived Peer Acceptance of Violence among High School Students: An Examination of Gender and Athletic Involvement

Bogen

Mulla

Orchowski

2020

J Interpers Violence

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Adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) impacts approximately one-third of teens and is associated with myriad negative health outcomes. Studies on college men indicate that athletes hold less gender-equitable attitudes (GEA), greater rape myth acceptance (RMA), and higher perceived peer support for violence (PSV), and that these attitudes are associated with perpetration risk. However, research has yet to compare the prevalence of these attitudes across gender and athletic status among high school students. The present study addressed this gap by examining the direct and interactive effects of gender and athletic status on GEA, RMA, and PSV in a large sample of high school students living in the United States. Results showed that boys involved in athletics reported lower GEA, higher RMA, and higher PSV than girls involved in athletics and non-athletes. Findings demonstrate the importance of addressing attitudes associated with violent behavior among high school boys involved in athletics, in order to reduce risk of ARA.

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“…A few researchers have both used qualitative methods and left the college campus to study the relationship between male peer support and various types of woman abuse in urban areas of concentrated disadvantage (Anderson, 1999;Bourgois, 1995;Wilson, 1996). Sinclair (2002) found in a qualitative study that male peer support helped to explain woman abuse behavior among socially displaced youth in an eastern Ontario city. Furthermore, DeKeseredy and Schwartz (2002) offered a male peer support theory of woman abuse in public housing but did not gather any data specifically on this topic.…”

Section: Male Peer Support For Sexual Assaultmentioning

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Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault

DeKeseredy

Schwartz

Fagen

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Feminist Criminology

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. All of the names of women who participated in the study and who are quoted here have been changed to maintain confidentiality. Mandy Hall University of Hawaii-ManoaAlthough several studies find that the most dangerous part of an intimate relationship for women is when it breaks up, relatively few studies look at women who want to break up a relationship, are in the process of leaving, or who have left a relationship. This qualitative exploratory study looks at incidents of sexual assault committed by former husbands or cohabitants in the lives of rural women in Ohio. Male peer support, which has previously been examined only in studies of college men and men in urban areas, was a constant theme among this study's respondents, in addition to patriarchal control and the use of alcohol and drugs. These women suffered multiple serious sexual assaults and experienced other harms, including psychological assaults and the destruction of prized objects.

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Male peer support and male-female dating abuse committed by socially displaced male youth : an exploratory sudy

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Interpersonal Violence Against Women

Interpersonal Violence Against Women

Gender-equitable Attitudes, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Perceived Peer Acceptance of Violence among High School Students: An Examination of Gender and Athletic Involvement

Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault

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