State contexts and the criminalization of marital rape across the United States

Jackson, Aubrey L.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.10.001

Cited by 21 publications

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“…The reason that gender equality can explain distinct outcomes, such as violence against women and state-sponsored formal social control against women (e.g., sentencing), is because structural inequality indicates a larger, ideological concept reflecting large-scale oppression of women. Thus, where women have more relative economic power, they may face less oppression (Jackson, 2015), both in the form of violence and formal controls.…”

Section: Structural Gender Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Gender Equality and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: A Test of the Ameliorative and Backlash Hypotheses

Nowacki

Windsong

2017

Feminist Criminology

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While previous research has examined gender disparities in sentencing, most explanations focus on individual-level differences. We argue that structural gender equality has an important influence on gender disparities as well. Drawing from previous research on victimization, we provide a test of the ameliorative and backlash hypotheses. Using federal sentencing data from 1999-2003, we demonstrate how measures of structural gender equality contextualize the relationship between gender and sentencing. Our analyses suggest that structural gender equality is important for understanding the relationship between gender and sentencing, but different measures of gender equality lead to distinct patterns.

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Section: Structural Gender Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Gender Equality and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: A Test of the Ameliorative and Backlash Hypotheses

Nowacki

Windsong

2017

Feminist Criminology

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“…Voith (2019) suggests that for future research, Bronfenbrenner's theory can be used to expand upon the influence of neighborhood economic capital on IPV to address issues such as what variables to use to define the concept of economic capital, or whether the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and IPV is linear (Benson et al, 2003). Jackson's (2015Jackson's ( , 2016 work on women's relative economic resources, and Xie, Heimer, et al's (2012) work on women's labor force participation might fit well within this theoretical perspective, and offer strong starting points for continued research.…”

Section: Theoretical Expansion: Ecological Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 92%

Neighborhoods and Intimate Partner Violence: A Decade in Review

Wright¹,

Pinchevsky

Xie

2021

Feminist Criminology

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We consider the broad developments that have occurred over the past decade regarding our knowledge of how neighborhood context impacts intimate partner violence (IPV). Research has broadened the concept of “context” beyond structural features such as economic disadvantage, and extended into relationships among residents, collective “action” behaviors among residents, cultural and gender norms. Additionally, scholars have considered how the built environment might foster (or regulate) IPV. We now know more about the direct, indirect, and moderating ways that communities impact IPV. We encourage additional focus on the policy implications of the research findings.

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Section: Gender Disorder and Harrassment In Public Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research at higher levels of aggregation, such as the city, state, or country, links women's aggregate socioeconomic resources to various outcomes that benefit women (Huber and Stephens 2000;Bolzendahl 2009;Jackson 2015;Yllö and Straus 1995;McCammon et al 2001;Yodanis 2004;Soule and Olzak 2006;Vieraitis et al 2008;Xie et al 2012). The neighborhood literature, however, largely has neglected the influence of women's collective resources.…”

Section: Gender Disorder and Harrassment In Public Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder

2017

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Research links neighborhood social disorder with poorer health. But factors beyond observed disorder may influence perceptions that social disorder is problematic. This study investigates whether women’s aggregate socioeconomic resources relative to men’s in the broader neighborhood context attenuate the extent to which more prevalent observed social disorder within the immediate residential neighborhood contributes to perceptions of more problematic social disorder. This attenuation likely is pronounced among women, for whom sexual harassment in public spaces is a more salient concern compared to men. Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, multilevel models analyze individual perceptions of problematic social disorder (N=3,107) regressed on the interactive effect of observed social disorder within the census block group (N=525) and women’s relative resources within the neighborhood cluster (N=80). The results show that women’s relative resources within the broader neighborhood context protect against women’s perceptions that typically undesirable neighborhood conditions are problematic.

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State contexts and the criminalization of marital rape across the United States

Cited by 21 publications

References 48 publications

Structural Gender Equality and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: A Test of the Ameliorative and Backlash Hypotheses

Structural Gender Equality and Federal Sentencing Outcomes: A Test of the Ameliorative and Backlash Hypotheses

Neighborhoods and Intimate Partner Violence: A Decade in Review

The Influence of Women's Neighborhood Resources on Perceptions of Social Disorder

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