The Social Dimensions of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study with Male Perpetrators

Gender violence is generally conceived as a phenomenon concerning only adults. Nonetheless, it is also perpetrated within teenagers’ relationships, as many empirical studies have shown. We therefore have focused our attention on a non-probabilistic sample consisting of 400 adolescents living in Naples (Italy), to study the association between sexism and the justification of violent attitudes. Generally, sexism is recognised as a discriminatory attitude towards people, based on their biological sex. However, it is conventional to talk about sexism as a prejudice against women. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) for adolescents was used to evaluate the two dimensions of ambivalent sexism, i.e., hostile sexism (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS). Moreover, the questionnaire regarding attitudes towards diversity and violence (CADV) was administered to assess participants’ attitudes towards violence. A Partial Least Square–Second Order Path Model reveals that girls’ ambivalent sexism is affected more by benevolent sexism than hostile sexism. On the contrary, among boys, hostile sexism has a higher impact. Finally, benevolent sexist girls justify domestic violence more than boys do.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

The Use of Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling to Understand the Impact of Ambivalent Sexism on Violence-Justification among Adolescents

Fasanelli

Galli

Grassia

et al. 2020

“…In Italy, among the 133 women killed in 2018, 81.2 percent were killed by a very close person and the term attributed to this crime is femicide [ 8 ], and Istat’s investigation [ 9 ] Stereotypes about Gender Roles and the Social Image of Sexual Violence presents data on the number of people reported, the victims of persecutory acts, abuse in the family, beatings, and sexual violence, but in the social reality of everyday life the phenomenon is actually still invisible [ 10 ]. In fact, most of the violence against women occurs in the home [ 11 ], causing physical, psychological and economic damage [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Downside: The Perpetrator of Violence in the Representations of Social and Health Professionals

Procentese

Fasanelli

Carnevale

et al. 2020

Gender-based violence is a widespread phenomenon and pandemic that affects women’s lives. Many interventions have been activated for perpetrators, but the dropout rate is still high. In order to draw up guidelines for responsibly and sustainably dealing with the phenomenon, this study is aimed at investigating the professionals’ perception of the perpetrator as a useful element in designing innovative intervention policies. Open interviews were carried out with welfare and health professionals and the Grounded Theory Methodology was used to analyze the collected data. These results detect attitudes of social health personnel and their feelings of impotence towards gender-based perpetrators because of the emergence of an inevitable repetitiveness of the violent behavior, as well as the “normality of violence” in a patriarchal culture and its “transversality”. This reflective knowledge allows for the opportunity to develop best transformative attitudes toward the phenomenon. According to the results, it is urgent to establish an active and convinced alliance with the healthy part of the man, through specific prevention paths, in order to activate an authentic motivation for change and its sustainability.

“…For many years, the problems deriving from the socio-cultural attitude wherein the main objective has been to maintain the integrity of the family have been underestimated, if not actually ignored [30,32,33]. Many epidemiological studies, especially over the last few years, have been conducted in order to investigate the diffusion of this phenomenon.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A female professional who is managing a perpetrator must not feel "disloyal" towards the female victim, but be aware that work with the man is necessary. Effective intervention for support is needed for the many situations that arise during the path from reporting the violence to overcoming it [32].…”

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“Kept in Check”: Representations and Feelings of Social and Health Professionals Facing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Napoli

Carnevale

Esposito

et al. 2020

Social and health professionals facing gender-based violence in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) express feelings and thoughts closely connected to their place of work and the users of their services. However, research on professionals’ reflexivity and their implications has not been closely investigated. Therefore, this article will describe representations of IPV among social and health professionals facing gender-based violence as well as their personal feelings in accomplishing their job. Fifty interviews with health and social professionals were analyzed using grounded theory methodology supported by Atlas.ti 8.4. Five macrocategories will describe this phenomenon, leading to the final explicative core category that summarizes professionals’ attitudes toward it. Being “kept in check” among partners, partners and families, services, and institutional duties is the core category that best expressed their feelings. Therefore, implications for services and training will be further discussed.